2nd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship

Nicola Scaife , 2014 and 2016 world champion in ballooning

The 2nd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship (German Second FAI hot air balloon - World Cup women ) found in 2016 in Birštonas ( Lithuania instead).

The second women's world champion was Nicola Scaife from Hunter Valley , Australia . The silver and bronze medals went to Ann Herdewyn from Belgium and Cheri White from the United States . Scaife won the first world championship in Leszno (Poland) in 2014 .

course

Agnė Simonavičiūtė, best Lithuanian

Start of the first competition ride

After the world championship in Leszno (2014) and three European championships , it was the fifth balloon sport event according to the FAI guidelines in which women competed for the title of the best hot air balloon pilot in the world and Europe.

The competition was held from July 5th to 10th, 2016. 41 balloonists from 19 countries around the world took part. The 2014 world champion entered the race with start number “1”. The medalists from Leszno Elisabeth Kindermann and Agnė Simonavičiūtė followed with the "2" and "2". One of the starting locations was the Pociūnai airfield. The morning of July 5th and July 10th were reserved for the general briefing, the opening event and the award ceremony in the Birštonas spa town. Due to the weather, only three of the nine planned trips could be carried out on five days of the competition. The fourth and last trip had to be canceled on July 9th due to an approaching weather front. The balloon fiesta with 16 balloons, however, could still be carried out successfully.

After the first run, the Russian Diana Nasonova was ahead of Scaife and Beata Choma from Poland. On the second run, Scaife took the lead from Choma and Ieva Šuopytė from the host country. Ewa Prawicka-Linke , the reigning European champion of 2015, could not make it into the medal ranks despite two wins in tasks one and five. On the third and final trip, Scaife extended their lead with a victory, Herdewyn won the last task and thus came second on the podium.

Elisabeth Kindermann from Austria came in seventh place, the Swiss Nicole Vogel in ninth and 24th. The German pilots Sylvia Meinl, Astrid Carl and Elise Kloss reached ranks 19, 20 and 27. The host Lithuanians Agnė Simonavičiūtė, Daiva Rakauskaitė, Ieva Šuopytė, Kristina Sūnaitienė, Miglė Vaitulevičiūtė and Rita Naujalienė came in fifth, sixth, ten, 22nd, 23rd and 32nd - Vogel, Kloss and Rakauskaitė also won the last race.

Day	journey	tasks	Remarks
5th July	1 - in the evening	3
July 6th	2 - in the morning	2
July 6th	0 - in the evening		Trip canceled
7th of July	0 - in the morning		Briefing & trip canceled
7th of July	0 - in the evening		Trip canceled
8th of July	3 - in the morning	5
8th of July	0 - in the evening		Trip canceled
July 9	0 - in the morning		Trip canceled
July 9	4 - in the evening		Trip aborted

Results

Birštonas venue (balloon photo)

This list shows the top ten female pilots.

rank	pilot	nation	Points	Task victories
1	Nicola Scaife	Australia	8713	2
2	Ann Herdewyn	Belgium	6992	1
3	Cheri White	United States	6680	1
4th	Ekaterina Larikova	Russia	6441
5	Agnė Simonavičiūtė	Lithuania	6433
6th	Daiva Rakauskaitė	Lithuania	6385	1
7th	Elisabeth Kindermann	Austria	6319
8th	Diana Nasonova	Russia	6314	1
9	Nicole Vogel	Switzerland	6290	1
10	Ieva Šuopytė	Lithuania	6187

Web links

• Side of the FAI
• Australia has a new two-time World Champion, hot air ballooning. (English)
• Photos of the award ceremony and the best ten pilots (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} 2nd Women Worlds - News & Schedule . (accessed on February 24, 2020)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Results - Women & Juniors. 2nd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship . (accessed on February 24, 2020)
3. ^ List of Pilots (Final Results). (accessed on February 24, 2020)