posted Sep 15th, 2016 - The third finish of a Formation Skydiving event at the Mondial 2016 brought the third set of gold medals to the U.S. delegation.

Four more Golden Knights (Jen Davidson, Laura Davis, Dannielle Woosley, Scott Janise on camera) followed up on the record victory of the U.S. Army's 8-way team yesterday and won the 4-way Women competition, together with SDC Rhythm XP member JaNette Lefkowitz.

It was a horse race with the French Girls through eight rounds, and the U.S. team had the stronger finish, while the French team fell victim to bad injury luck, on top of the toughest battle with the strongest opponent.

FAI Mondial 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		12,A,16	18,15,0	1,F,E,C	17,B,14	10,2,20	21,11,G	J,5,19	L,M,K,7	D,8,4	3,13,Q	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	21	21	30	20(-2)	17	19	24	35	20	17	224	22.4
2	French Girls	FR	21	18	30(-1)	23	17	18(-2)	24	34	18	14	217	21.7
3	NFTO	UK	17	15	21	19	13	16	18	26	17	13	175	17.5
4	Montreal Fuzion	CA	18	15(-1)	19(-1)	16(-2)	14	16	17	25	17	14	171	17.1
5	Les Stunts	BE	15	14	20(-1)	16	11(-1)	13	16	24	15	13	157	15.7
6	Bellatrix	AU	13	12	20(-1)	16	12	13	15	22	13	14	150	15.0
7	Skymix	DE	13	11	15(-1)	15	12	13	14	23	12	12	140	14.0
8	No Mercy	PL	14	14	19(-1)	13(-1)	9	11(-1)	12	19	14	11	136	13.6
9	Infra Red Band	RU	15	12(-1)	16(-3)	13(-1)	9(-2)	11	13	17	14	10	130	13.0
10	CZ Ladies	CZ	11	11	14(-1)	13	9	10	12	19	9	10	118	11.8
11	Valkyria	DK	10	8	16	10	9	10	11	17	12	10	113	11.3

Sophia Pecout, 4-way Women world champion of 2014 and still in the tail slot for the French Girls, injured her shoulder in the middle of the last round, exactly after the 14th scoring point, and stopped performing to handle her critical situation.

She pulled her reserve, as she could not open the main parachute and then still landed safely. Fortunately, the visit to the nearest hospital confirmed that there is no serious shoulder injury. The 14-pointer in Round 10 does not reflect the great performance until the incident, even though it was already too late to catch up with the U.S. team.

The celebration in the landing area had to take place without Sophia Pecout, who was back later to congratulate. The 4-way Open Class teams will now try to finish their own meet this afternoon.