TV to Cover World Parachuting Championships 'Mondial 2003'

Under the title of "Mondial 2003", five World Parachuting Championships will be held from 7 to 14 September 2003 at Gap-Tallard, in the French Alps. As the Organizers will provide daily TV coverage, FAI invites its Members, Media and TV Representatives to contribute to a wide distribution of these spectacular images.

What is Mondial 2003? Everything Skydiving!

On the same airfield, the best parachutists from 40 nations worldwide will compete in the following five different FAI-sanctioned competitions (see FAI Sporting Calendar) :

• 10th World Parachuting Championship in Canopy Formation
  Team members compete under open canopies. Once out of the aircraft, they deploy their parachutes immediately and proceed to build different formations by linking together. They connect by putting their feet on another parachute, in the parachute lines or on another jumper's body.
• 2nd World Parachuting Championship in Freeflying
  Freeflying, the ultimate in creative freefall, is one of the latest events in sport parachuting and the only one to incorporate all dimensional axes during the freefall part of a parachute jump. The teams consist of three athletes, two freeflyers and a camera-flyer, who also contributes to the team's sporting performance. Judges score the team for both technical skill and artistic merit.
• 27th World Parachuting Championship in Freefall Style and Accuracy Landing
  Freefall Style is an individual discipline where the athlete performs a prescribed sequence of maneuvers in freefall as precisely as possible against the clock, rotating around different body axes, performing turns and loops and using both physical strength and aerodynamic forces. Accuracy Landing is also an individual discipline where the athlete has to steer his parachute to a precision landing on the 3 cm target in the center of an electronic measuring device.
• 4th World Parachuting Championship in Freestyle Skydiving and Skysurfing
  The objective of Freestyle Skydiving is to record a sequence of free or compulsory moves and poses in freefall during a limited working time; the teams consist of a performer and a freefall camera-flyer. Skysurfing is virtually identical to Freestyle Skydiving, except that a board is attached to the athletes' feet.
• 15th World Parachuting Championship in Formation Skydiving
  The teams consisting of 4, 8 or 16 members and a freefall camera-flyer have to perform, during a limited working time, a sequence of formations and transition maneuvers, and repeat this sequence as many times as possible during the working time.

FMI: www.mondial03.com; www.fai.org