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Did You Know...

... that SDC Rhythm XP's Christy Frikken is the highest-placing female 4-way competitor since 2010?

Mixed-gender lineup: Adventure Flyers from Paraguay
posted Aug 20th, 2021 - All four events at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving (4-way Open - 4-way Women - 4-way VFS - 8-way Open) have been using the same numbers and letters for their respective dive pools since the 4-way VFS teams added a few more random formations and blocks to reach the same number as the other three events (22 blocks - 16 random formations).

The dive pools are still different and create sequences with different maneuvers and inters, at least between VFS, 8-way and 4-way. However, the sequences are exactly the same and identical between 4-way Open and 4-way Women, which allows direct comparison between the teams and the scores on both leaderboards.

In fact, the NSL News has generated a combined leaderboard with all 4-way Open and 4-way Women teams together ever since the dive pools and sequences were synchronized. It happens usually only after FAI world meets or world cups and other international high-level events.

Most of the national championships do not separate the teams in 4-way Open and 4-way Women. The all-female lineups usually compete together with the 4-way Open Class teams, and they receive their recognition as the new national teams in this event during the award ceremonies, or afterward by their respective skydiving federation.


FAI Tanay Mondial 2020
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Open O,19,Q,5 17,B,E,P H,15,12 M,N,7,F K,L,C,4 J,18,16 Total Avg
1 NMP-PCH Hayabusa  BE  32    41 -1 23    43    30 -4 24 -1  193 32.2
2 SDC Rhythm XP  US  25 -2 35 -5 22    39    26 -4 22     169 28.2
3 Qatar Tigers  QA  24 -1 38 -2 19    34    26    19 -2  160 26.7
4 Aerodyne Cypres Lille  FR  23    33    19    32    24    21    152 25.3
5 Papea Masculino  ES  18 -2 27 -2 14    24 -4 19    16 -1 118 19.7
6 Kazakhstan  KZ  19 -1 23 -1 13    24 -1 17    15    111 18.5
7 Out of the Blue  NL  12 -2 25    15    23 -2 18    15 -1 108 18.0
8 Adventure Flyers  PY  12    15    11    14 -1 14    7    73 12.2
9 Indonesia  ID  3 -2 6 -1 1 -3 10 -4 1 -2 5 -1 26 4.3

Mixed-gender lineups in 4-way Open at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020
FAI 4-way Open Class silver: Christy Frikken with SDC Rhythm XP
There is always a certain number of female 4-way competitors as members of the 4-way Open Class and 8-way lineups, as well. There is no special recognition for these mixed-gender lineups or their positioning on the leaderboards.

This year, at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020, the number of 4-way Women teams on their own leaderboard and the 4-way Open Class teams with mixed-gender lineups were identical between these two categories. Four teams competed in 4-way Women, and four teams had female 4-way competitors in their 4-way Open Class lineups.

SDC Rhythm XP's inside center Christy Frikken won the title of the highest-scoring female 4-way competitor with the 2nd place in 4-way Open behind NMP PCH HayaBusa. That's the highest placement since Natasha Montgomery won FAI gold with DeLand Fire in 2006 and Eliana Rodriguez with Airspeed Odyssey in 2008.

Eliana Rodriguez also won FAI silver in 2010, and Christy Frikken is the next female 4-way Open Class competitor in 2nd place. Arianna de Benedetti (Italy 2006), Katie Woods (Canada 2014) and Laurence Herve (France 2016 and 2018) also won FAI bronze medals in the 4-way Open Class.


FAI Tanay Mondial 2020
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Open/4-way Women O,19,Q,5 17,B,E,P H,15,12 M,N,7,F K,L,C,4 J,18,16 Total Avg
1 NMP-PCH Hayabusa  BE  32    41 -1 23    43    30 -4 24 -1  193 32.2
2 SDC Rhythm XP  US  25 -2 35 -5 22    39    26 -4 22     169 28.2
3 Qatar Tigers  QA  24 -1 38 -2 19    34    26    19 -2  160 26.7
4 Aerodyne Cypres Lille  FR  23    33    19    32    24    21    152 25.3
5 Bubbles  RU  21 -1 33 -3 18 -1 33 -3 27    18 -2  150 25.0
6 Aerodyne Maubeuge  FR  24    27 -4 18    34    24 -2 21     148 24.7
7 Papea Masculino  ES  18 -2 27 -2 14    24 -4 19    16 -1 118 19.7
8 Kazakhstan  KZ  19 -1 23 -1 13    24 -1 17    15    111 18.5
9 Out of the Blue  NL  12 -2 25    15    23 -2 18    15 -1 108 18.0
10 No Mercy  PL  15    20 -1 11 -1 20 -2 16    11     93 15.5
11 Aviatrixx  US  15    25    13    14    0    12 -1  79 13.2
12 Adventure Flyers  PY  12    15    11    14 -1 14    7    73 12.2
13 Indonesia  ID  3 -2 6 -1 1 -3 10 -4 1 -2 5 -1 26 4.3

Combined 4-way Open/4-way Women leaderboard of the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020

France 4-way Open and 4-way Women at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020
Unprecedented: French 4-way Women team in Australia 2018
Laurence Herve had won two FAI gold medals in 4-way Women (2012 - 2014) before she was selected for the French 4-way Open Class team, where she won the two FAI world meet bronze medals.

The next French 4-way Women lineup (Clementine Praet, Pamela Lissajoux, Christine Malnis, Sophia Pecout, Michel Laynaud on camera) took it even further, after a 2nd place behind the Golden Knights in 2016. They won the world meet in 4-way Women two years later in Australia with an unprecedented 25.7 record average in this category. This was enough to place in 3rd place on the combined 4-way leaderboard, ahead of the French 4-way Open Class team (25.1) with Laurence Herve in the lineup.

French national coach Mathieu Bernier was hoping that his 4-way Women team would be able to maintain a scoring level high enough to defend the 4-way Women title successfully and focus only on 8-way training and competition. It was almost a Mission Impossible, with challengers like NFTO just waiting for an opportunity. However, his plan for the double-gold in 8-way and 4-way Women still almost materialized.

Mathieu Bernier and the 4-way Women team were not prepared enough to fend off the Russian challenge by Bubbles, and the French delegation eventually had to leave Russia without any FAI gold medals, one single point behind after seven rounds in 8-way, and two points behind after six rounds in 4-way Women. The French 4-way Open Class team finished in 4th place.


FAI World Meet 2018
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Open/Women 21,L,B,G 22,18,17 19,7,O J,16,12 10,A,D,15 Q,M,F,C,N H,20,P,13 6,14,11 E,2,5 4,1,3 Total Avg
1 NMP-PCH Hayabusa BE 32 21 27 24 22 62 22 20 27 22 279 27.9
2 Arizona Airspeed US 26 21 27 24 24 60 26 22 27 20 277 27.7
3 Aerodyne Weembi Girls FR 29 20 24 22 25 56 23 18 22 18 257 25.7
4 Aerodyne Realfly FR 29 19 24 23 24 52 20 17 24 19 251 25.1
5 Qatar Tigers QA 24 14 24 21 22 53 21 18 20 17 234 23.4
6 Echochamber SE 25 16 21 17 20 48 14 18 21 15 215 21.5
7 Amnesya IT 24 14 20 18 18 48 18 14 21 15 210 21.0
8 NFTO UK 20 15 22 19 18 38 18 17 19 16 202 20.2
9 Satori XL UK 21 14 21 19 19 37 19 17 18 16 201 20.1
9 Airheads CH 22 14 19 17 18 44 16 16 18 17 201 20.1
11 Evolution CA 21 13 22 18 15 43 15 15 19 15 196 19.6
12 Airbus FSZ Saar DE 21 14 17 17 16 45 15 14 18 15 192 19.2
13 Tanay Wolves RU 22 14 18 17 16 35 17 14 18 14 185 18.5
14 Rotor Out AU 21 13 18 14 16 32 13 13 18 14 172 17.2
15 Team X SE 17 10 18 16 14 36 15 13 18 12 169 16.9
16 Phoenix XP US 17 12 17 14 15 37 16 12 14 13 167 16.7
16 Boomerang Betty AU 19 11 18 14 15 32 15 13 17 13 167 16.7
18 CTR Optimum BR 19 10 17 15 13 31 14 14 18 13 164 16.4
19 Fuzion Voltige CA 17 9 18 14 15 34 14 13 14 13 161 16.1
20 Papea Masculino ES 17 13 18 13 13 28 14 14 13 12 155 15.5
21 Skynamite DE 19 12 16 14 14 27 13 12 15 12 154 15.4
22 Out of the Blue Project 20+ NL 16 11 13 14 15 28 15 15 14 12 153 15.3
23 Meraki ZA 14 11 14 14 13 28 12 12 14 12 144 14.4
24 New Zealand NZ 10 9 12 11 10 21 7 11 10 11 112 11.2
25 Paraguay PY 10 8 10 7 9 17 7 8 10 8 94 9.4
26 Cyprus CY 13 8 9 8 7 19 7 8 9 5 93 9.3

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