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Did You Know...

... that France has a new indoor and outdoor lineup in 4-way Women?

4-way Women medals at FAI world meets since 2001
posted Jan 23rd, 2022 - The NSL News continues with the topic of 4-way Women competition, where the most recent updates covered the change in the lineup of XPG4, the U.S. national team in this FAI/ISC category.

Any U.S. team in any of the three traditional Formation Skydiving events since 2001 (4-way Open, 4-way Women, 8-way) is naturally a medal contender at world meets and world cups, even though the U.S. delegation missed medals in 4-way Women by a hair and after a rules drama at the last two world meets in Australia 2018 and Tanay 2021. Elsinore Select was the third U.S. team missing the bronze medals after a jump-off with Russia in Germany 2006.

U.S. 4-way Women teams have won three sets of gold medals, three more sets for 2nd places, and bronze medals twice since the introduction of the event at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving in 2001.

France joined the new event with a 2-year delay and sent the first 4-way Women team to the world meet in Gap 2003, where they finished in 5th place. It was the only time in French 4-way Women history without medals in this category. France is in fact the most successful nation in 4-way Women with four sets of gold medals.


FAI Outdoor World Meet 2003
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Women 1,11,12 M,J,E,10 K,16,6 13,14,5 D,22,4 9,C,Q,N F,19,21 2,20,L 18,B,3 8,P,7 Total Avg
1 V-Max  UK  11 19 15 15 14 28 17 15 16 15 165 16.5
2 Norgie Girls  NO  11 20 17 15 14 24 19 12 12 18 162 16.2
3 Synchronicity  US  9 19 14 14 12 22 17 14 16 16 153 15.3
4 Kewara  IT  11 15 14 14 14 22 16 14 13 15 148 14.8
5 France  FR  11 17 15 13 12 22 17 13 11 - 131 14.6
6 Chicas  DE  9 12 10 10 11 16 12 10 10 - 100 11.1
7 Belgium  BE  9 14 10 10 12 8 7 7 7 - 84 9.3
8 Finland  FI  7 7 9 8 8 12 7 9 8 - 75 8.3

Nephtys Weembi at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019
The French 4-way Women team of the last two years was expected to defend the gold medals of Australia 2018 successfully at the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020, and they were surprised and upset by a very strong Russian team, the Bubbles, who won the first 4-way gold medals for their country.

French national coach Mathieu Bernier now informed the NSL News that Sophia Pecout and Christine Malnis, both 4-way Women world champions of 2014 and 2018, will neither continue with the French national team in 4-way Women nor in 8-way.

However, he said that he has already rebuilt the national team with returning members Pamela Lissajoux and Gaelle Giesen, plus two members of the Nephtys Weembi (Elise Poindron, Jessica Thebault), the still reigning 4-way Women indoor world champions of 2019.

Pamela Lissajoux was in the 4-way Women lineup who won FAI silver in Ottawa 2016, gold in Australia 2018 and silver again last year in Tanay. She did not train and compete in 8-way, where Mathieu Bernier took her slot. Gaelle Gisen was the 4-way Women alternate in Australia 2018 and joined the 4-way Women and 8-way lineups both in 2019.


FAI Indoor World Meet 2019
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Women M,K,D,14 Q,4,5 P,E,9,15 3,N,G,2 6,1,8 F,12,11 13,22,J H,L,B,18 O,20,A,17 21,7,19 Total Avg
1 Nephtys Weembi  FR  34    27    35    25    23    25    23    33 -1 31    24     280 28.0
2 NFTO  UK  34    26 -1 34    28 -1 23    24    24    34    28 -1 23 -2  278 27.8
3 XPG4  US  34    26    33    24    21 -1 24    24    28 -4 25    23     262 26.2
4 Bubble Hubble  RU  29 -2 25 -2 33    24 -1 22    23    22    31    25    21 -2  255 25.5
5 China  CN  31 -3 26 -1 31    22 -2 23    24    22 -1 30 -3 22 -3 23 -2  254 25.4
6 Team X  SE  26    25    28 -1 24    20    22    23    28 -1 24    23     243 24.3
7 No Mercy  PL  29    22    25 -1 21    19    17 -1 21    23 -5 20 -1 22     219 21.9
8 Skynamite  DE  28 -1 20 -2 26    20    17 -1 17 -2 19    26    18 -2 19 -2  210 21.0
9 Voss Vind Girls  NO  27 -2 22    24 -1 18 -1 18    19    20    23 -1 19 -1 19     209 20.9

Nephtys Weembi at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 - Espoir Saumur Weembi at the French Outdoor Nationals 2021
New French 4-way Women indoor and outdoor lineup for 2022
The complete new French 4-way Women lineup grew out of the B-teams in the past. Pamela Lissajoux and Gaelle Giesen both spent some time in the Espoir Saumur Weembi lineups before they were selected for the national 4-way Women team.

Elise Poindron and Jessica Thebault were team mates in the same B-team for outdoor training and competition, and they won the indoor world championship title in 2019 together with Claire Victoire De Fleurian and Clementine Le Bohec. Pamela Lissajoux substituted for Jessica Thebault at Weembi 2019 who was injured at that time.

National coach Mathieu Bernier said that the new French national team in 4-way Women will represent the country at indoor and outdoor competition both, and B-team videographer Matthieu Roux will be filming the team for outdoor training and competition.

It is almost exactly the lineup of the defending indoor world champions, Nephtys Wembi, who will try to defend the title in April in Charleroi, only with Gaelle Giesen replacing Clementine Le Bohec. The indoor training has begun, and the same lineup will then switch to outdoor training for the world meet in Eloy in October.

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