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Did You Know...

... that Black Cat will defend the Russian double gold successfully?

Black Cat at the Russian Nationals 2016
posted Sep 28th, 2016 - It is past half time in the 4-way competition of the Russian Nationals 2016, and all ten rounds will most likely be completed on Wednesday. The beautiful fall weather in Siberia made it easy for the host to get the two traditional Formation Skydiving events done within four days, while keeping them separated from each other.

The same three Black Cat members who competed in both events at the FAI Mondial 2016 (Valentin Ilin, Vasily Korotkov, Evgeny Stashchenko) will once again collect two gold medals for their double duties, as they did last year.

This is still a special occasion, even for Vasily Korotkov and Evgeny Stashchenko, who have pretty much won anything there is to win, and that not only in Russia.

Russian Nationals 2016
1234567891011TotalAvg
Rank4-way OpenE,21,7F,1,D,KG,8,C,JH,19,3Q,4,115,22,B15,10,O18,20,AM,12,L,913,P,214,16,NTotalAvg
1Black Cat2527252320 (-2)22-----14223.7
2Barguzin262321191917-----12520.8
3DOSAAF222019211414-----11018.3
4XO Team202219151714-----10717.8
5Tanay Wolves191918151513-----9916.5
6DZ Grozniy152116171612-----9716.2
7Tanaiski Prianik151715141313-----8714.5
8Girls131813121413-----8313.8
9UFO3----------33.0
8-way team mates Andrey Barabash and Dmitry Samokhval with Tanaiski Pryanik
All other Tanay 8-way members are also competing in 4-way this week. Vladimir Arutunov and Sergey Yalpaev are in 3rd place after Round 6 with DOSAAF. Alexander Tychinskiy is in 5th place with the Tanay Wolves, who battle with Russia's national team in 4-way Women, DZ Grozniy, formerly known as Infra Red Band.

Host Andrey Barabash competes with a local pickup team, Tanaiski Pryanik, and the lineup includes his 8-way team mate Dmitry Samokhval.

Valeriy Gredasov is the only Black Cat member who was not competing in 8-way. He is the youngest and newest Black Cat member after joining the team in 2014, and he is focusing on his challenging inside center job with the three world class 4-way and 8-way competitors.

Black Cat is planning to give Valeriy Gredasov the full slot next year and train more often. He has shared it with Alexander Kvochur since he joined the team and was the alternate at the major events.

One round for Valeriy Gredasov at the World Air Games
He got his first international showing at the 5th Dubai International Parachuting Championship where Black Cat finished in 4th place with a 20.5 average. He was also in the Black Cat lineup at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2015 (21.8) before Alexander Kvochur helped to win the silver medals at the FAI World Cup 2015.

Valeriy Gredasov was back in the lineup a week later to win his first national gold medal in Kolomna and then traveled to the FAI World Air Games 2015 as the alternate. However, he took the inside center slot from Alexander Kvochur once in Round 10 (11,20,3) and Black Cat finished only one point behind Arizona Airspeed (20 - 19). Now he is on his way to defend the Russian 4-way title successfully...

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