US Team Gets Top Spot In 4-Way Female Rankings

The USA tops the International Parachute Championships' (IPC) ranking in the "4-way Female" category with Norway coming second. Despite their success in Dubai, France stayed in the number 3 position.

In 4-way open the consistency of the Belgium team elevated them to 1st place with France slipping into 2nd and Russia retaining their 3rd position. The U.S. paid the price of not entering all official events. This year the success of the Mondial in Dubai propels 11 new countries into the ranking lists:  Qatar, UAE, Spain, Morocco, Singapore, Ireland, Argentina, Columbia, Oman, Thailand and Equador.

Both 8-way and VFS saw no change in the status quo with France, Russia and USA retaining their 1,2,3 ranking in 8-way and France, Great Britain and Belgium 1,2,3 in VFS. However with 19 countries entering the 8-way competition for the first time Singapore, Canada, Austria, Brazil, UAE, and Quatar appear in the ranking lists for the first time, as do Australia and Sweden in the VFS (Vertical Formation Skydiving) listing. 

Following the Dubai Mondial 2012 the latest ranking lists have been created using a base figure of 250 as opposed to the 100 used previously. This is due to the high number of participants, particularly in the Accuracy Landings event.

The ranking lists are calculated over a 4 year period, with the points for the year of the last competition counted at 100%; the previous year 75%; year 3, 50% and the 4th year 25%

The high level of participation in Dubai increased the number of NACs placed in the ranking lists.

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