2016 in air sports

  • March 9 – 16: 2016 Paragliding World Cup Brazil in Brazil Castelo
    • Overall winner: Spain Félix Rodriguez (4450 points)
    • Women's winner: Japan Keiko Hiraki (4066 points)
  • June 4 – 11: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - Italy in Italy Gemona del Friuli
    • Overall winner: Germany Andreas Malecki (1463 points)
    • Women's winner: Italy Silvia Buzzi Ferraris (1345 points)
  • July 2 – 9: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - Portugal in Portugal Serra da Estrela
    • Overall winner: Brazil Donizete Baldessar Lemos (2447 points)
    • Women's winner: Japan Keiko Hiraki (2172 points)
  • September 3 – 10: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - France in France Saint-André-les-Alpes
    • Overall winner: France Maxime Pinot (2184 points)
    • Women's winner: United Kingdom Kirsty Cameron (1496 points)
  • October 1 – 8: 2016 Paragliding World Cup (final) in Réunion Saint-Leu
    • Overall winner: Switzerland Michael Küffer (2832 points)
    • Women's winner: Poland Klaudia Bulgakow (2259 points)

Paragliding Accuracy World Cup

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  • May 5 – 8: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #1 in Montenegro Berane
    • Overall winner: Serbia Goran Đurković
    • Women's winner: Serbia Tamara Kostić
  • May 10 – 15: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #2 in Albania Vlorë
    • Overall winner: North Macedonia Mile Jovanoski
    • Women's winner: Serbia Tamara Kostić
  • August 5 – 7: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #3 in Indonesia Lombok
    • Overall winner: Indonesia Permadi Chandra
    • Women's winner: Thailand Nunnapat Phuchong
  • August 11 – 15: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #4 in Chinese Taipei Taitung County
    • Overall winner: China Zhifeng Zhu
    • Women's winner: Thailand Nunnapat Phuchong

International and Continental events

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  • May 27 – June 3: 3rd FAI Asian Paragliding Accuracy Championship in Kazakhstan Taldykorgan
    • Overall winner: Thailand Tanapat Leangaiem
    • Teams winner:  China
  • July 10 – 17: 5th FAI European Paragliding Accuracy Championship in Lithuania Paluknys
    • Men's winner: Slovenia Matjaž Sluga
    • Women's winner: Serbia Tamara Kostić
  • July 16 – 23: XXXIII Guarnieri International Trophy - Pre-World 2016 in Italy Pedavena
    • Overall winner: Italy Federico Nevastro
    • Women's winner: France Seiko Fukuoka-Naville
  • August 8 – 20: 14th FAI European Paragliding Championship in North Macedonia Kruševo
    • Overall winner: France Honorin Hamard
    • Women's winner: France Seiko Fukuoka-Naville
    • Teams winners:  France (Honorin Hamard, Julien Wirtz, Maxime Pinot, Pierre Remy, Alexandre Jofresa, Seiko Fukuoka-Naville)
  • August 26 – September 4: 2nd FAI World Paragliding Championships in France Montmin / Doussard
    • Men's winner: France François Ragolski
    • Women's winner: Austria Christina Kolb
  • January 15 – 17: Para-ski World Cup #1 in Austria St Johann im Pongau/Alpendorf
    • Men's winner: Slovenia Ule Uroš
    • Women's winner: Austria Magdalena Schwertl
    • Junior mix winner: Austria Sebastian Graser
    • Master mix winner: Austria Alic Gernot
    • Overall teams winners:  Austria
  • February 19 – 21: Para-ski World Cup #2 in Germany Unterammergau
    • Men's winner: Austria Sebastian Graser
    • Women's winner: Austria Magdalena Schwertl
    • Junior mix winner: Austria Sebastian Graser
    • Master mix winner: Italy Marco Valente
    • Overall teams winners:  Austria
  • March 4 – 6: Para-ski World Cup #3 in Czech Republic Vrchlabí/Krkonoše
    • Men's winner: Italy Alessandro Di Prisco
    • Women's winner: Austria Magdalena Schwertl
    • Junior mix winner: Austria Sebastian Graser
    • Master mix winner: Italy Tomas Saurer
    • Overall teams winners:  Slovenia
  • no date set from #4 Para-ski World Cup in Slovenia Srednja Vas v Bohinju
  • July 17 – 29: 40th CISM World Military Parachuting Championship in Russia Kubinka
    • Individual Accuracy winners: Russia Dmitrii Mastafanov (m) / Russia Olga Lepezina (f)
    • Individual Style winners: Czech Republic Libor Jirousek (m) / Russia Olga Lepezina (f)
    • Overall Results winners: Russia Dmitrii Mastafanov (m) / Russia Olga Lepezina (f)
    • Junior Individual Style winners: Russia Andrey Izimetov (m) / France Léocadie Ollivier de Pury (f)
    • Junior Individual Accuracy winners: China Gao Tinabo (m) / Belarus Darja Shastakovich (f)
    • Junior Overall Results winners: China Gao Tinabo (m) / Belarus Darja Shastakovich (f)
    • Formation Skydiving winners:  Belgium (m) /  France (f)
    • Team Accuracy winners:  Hungary (Tamas Banszki, Szaboles Gal, Gabor Hirschler, Tamás Varga, István Asztalos) (m) /  Belarus (Nataliya Nikitsiuk, Yuliya Fiodarava, Aksana Famina, Natalia Zimina, Valeryia Osipava) (f)
    • Teams Overall Results winners:  Russia (m) /  Russia (f)
  • August 20 – 27: 6th FAI World Canopy Piloting Championships in Canada Farnham
    • Overall winner: United States Christopher Bobo
    • Accuracy winners: United States Curtis Bartholomew & France Eric Philippe
    • Distance here was cancelled
    • Speed winner: United States Christopher Bobo
  • September 11 – 20: 2016 FAI World Parachuting Championships - Mondial in United States Chicago
    • Freefall Style winners: Czech Republic Libor Jirousek (m) / Russia Olga Lepezina (f)
    • Speed Skydiving winner: Sweden Henrik Raimer
Accuracy Landing
    • Individual Accuracy Landing winners: Slovenia Uroš Ban (m) / Belarus Nataliya Nikitsiuk (f)
    • Junior Individual Accuracy winners: Austria Sebastian Graser (m) / China Tiantian ZHAO
    • Team Accuracy Landing winners:  Slovenia (m) /  China (f)
Formation Skydiving
Artistic Events
    • Artistic Freefly winners:  Russia 1
    • Artistic Freestyle winners:  France 2
Canopy Formation
    • 2 Way Sequential winners:  France 1
    • 4 Way Sequential winners:  Qatar
    • 4-Way Rotation winners:  France
  • October 11 – 16: 2nd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving in Poland Warsaw
  • November 3 – 6: 1st FAI World Wingsuit Performance Flying Championships in United States Zephyrhills, Florida
    • Winner: United States Chris Geiler
  • June 9 – 18: 2nd FAI European Paramotor Slalom Championships in Spain Bornos
    • PF1 Class winner: France Alexandre Mateos
    • Trike Class winner: France Alexandre Mateos
    • Racing teams winners: France (Alexandre Mateos, Nicolas Aubert, Jérémy Penone, François Blanc)
    • Nations winners: Poland (Bartosz Nowicki, Wojtek Bógdał, Marcin Bernat, Paweł Kozarzewski, Piotr Ficek, Szymon Winkler, Krzysztof Romicki)
  • August 20 – 27: 15th FAI World Microlight Championships in United Kingdom Popham Airfield
  • August 20 – 27: 9th FAI World Paramotor Championships in United Kingdom Popham Airfield
  • July 16 – 30: 19th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship in North Macedonia Kruševo
    • Winner: Italy Christian Ciech
    • Team winners:  Italy (Christian Ciech, Alessandro Ploner, Suan Selenati, Filippo Oppici, Tullio Gervasoni)
  • July 17 – 30: 7th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championship in North Macedonia Kruševo
    • Winner: Germany Tim Grabowski
    • Team winners:  Austria (Christopher Friedl, Wolfgang Kothgasser, Walter Geppert)
  • January 23 – 30: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #1 in Chile Vitacura
    • Winner: Chile Carlos Rocca
  • April 17 – 23: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #2 in Spain Cerdanya
    • Winner: France Louis Bouderlique
  • May 1 – 8: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #3 in Russia Usman
  • May 14 – 21: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #4 in Italy Varese
    • Winner: Austria Peter Hartmann
  • June 4 – 11: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #5 in France Rennes
    • Winner: France Louis Bouderlique
  • June 18 – 25: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #6 in Austria Niederöblarn
    • Winner: Slovenia Boštjan Pristavec
  • July 9 – 17: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #7 in United Kingdom Bicester
    • Winner: Germany Jan Omsels
  • July 24 – 31: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #8 in United States Ionia
    • Winner: Canada Jerzy Szemplinski
  • August 6 – 13: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #9 in Germany Ebersbach-Musbach
    • Winner: Germany Matthias Sturm
  • November 5 – 12: 7th FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix Championship in South Africa Potchefstroom
    • Winner: Germany Holger Karow

International Championships

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  • July 30 – August 13: 34th FAI World Gliding Championships in Lithuania Kaunas
    • Standard class winner: France Louis Bouderlique
    • Club class winner: Germany Jan Rothhardt
    • 20 metre Multi-Seat class winners:  France (Duboc & Aboulin)
  • September 4 – 9: 20th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Portugal Santa Cruz
  • February 24 – 29: 3rd FAI European Hot Air Airship Championship in Germany Rottach-Egern
    • Winner: Switzerland Jacques-Antoine Besnard (6875 points)
  • June 24 – July 4: 3rd FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Lithuania Marijampole
  • July 5 – 10: 2nd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Lithuania Birštonas
    • Winner: Australia Nicola Scaife (8713 points)
  • July 21 – 24: 2016 Luxembourg Balloon Trophy in Luxembourg Mersch
    • Winners: 1. Germany Sven Göhler, 2. Australia Matthew Scaife, 3. Belgium David Spildooren
  • September 15 – 24: 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett in Germany Gladbeck
    • Winners:  Switzerland 1 (Kurt Frieden & Pascal Witpraechtiger)
    • 2nd place:  Switzerland 2 (Nicolas Tièche & Laurent Sciboz)
    • 3rd place:  Spain 1 (Anulfo Gonzalez & Angel Aguirre)
  • October 30 – November 7: 22nd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Japan Saga
    • Winner: United States Rhett Heartsill
  • May 28: 2016 Sky GP in South Africa Durban
    • Winner: South Africa Patrick Davidson
  • July 20 – 30: 7th FAI World Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships in Hungary Matkopuszta
    • Winner: Sweden Sebastian Jansson
    • Team winners:  Hungary (Dávid Józsa, Miklós Hoós, Péter Szabó)
  • July 20 – 30: 19th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships in Hungary Matkopuszta
  • August 4 – 14: 12th FAI World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Poland Radom
    • Winner: France Loïc Lovicourt
    • Teams winners:  France (Loïc Lovicourt, Romain Vienne, Benoît Faict)
  • August 20 – 27: 20th FAI European Aerobatic Championships in Czech Republic Moravská Třebová
  • April 11– 16: 2016 FAI F1D World Championships for Free Flight Indoor Model Aircraft in Romania Slănic
    • Senior Individual winner: United States Yuan Kang Lee
    • Senior Teams winners: Hungary (Istvan Botos, Dezso Orsovai, Zoltan Sukosd)
    • Junior Individual winner: Romania Călin Bulai
    • Junior Teams winners: Ukraine (Vladyslav Klymenko, Iurii Vytko, Denis Zhariy)
  • May 7 – 13: 2016 FAI F2 World Championships for Control Line Model Aircraft in Australia Perth
    • F2A winner: United Kingdom Paul Eisner
    • F2B winner: United States Orestes Hernández
    • F2C winners: Australia (Robert Fitzgerald & Mark Ellins)
    • F2D winner: Ukraine Illia Rediuk
  • July 20 – 24: 2016 FAI F1E European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Romania Turda
    • Winner: Poland Franciszek Kanczok
    • Teams winner:  Poland
  • July 22 – 31: 2016 FAI F3 European Championships for Model Helicopters in Poland Włocławek
  • July 29 – August 6: 2016 FAI F3A European Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Germany Untermünkheim
  • July 30 – August 6: 2016 FAI F3J World Championship for Model Gliders in Slovenia Vipava
    • Senior winner: Croatia Arijan Hucaljuk
    • Junior winner: United States Dillon Graves
    • Senior Teams winner:  Germany (Manuel Reinecke, Dominik Prestele, Ryan Höllein)
    • Junior Teams winner:  Germany (Max Finke, Jan Christoph Weihe, Felix Parsch)
  • August 1 – 7: 2016 FAI F1 Junior World Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in North Macedonia Prilep
    • F1A winner: Russia Mickail Lomov
    • F1B winner: Ukraine Dmytro Merzilakov
    • F1P winner: Poland Daniel Bogomaz
    • F1A Teams winner:  Poland
    • F1B Teams winner:  Russia
    • F1P Teams winner:  Russia
  • August 13 – 20: 2016 FAI F1 European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Serbia Aradac/Zrenjanin
    • F1A winner: Slovenia Roland Koglot
    • F1B winner: Russia Aleksey Burdov
    • F1C winner: Russia Artur Kaitschuk
    • F1A Team winners:  France
    • F1B Team winners:  Russia
    • F1C Team winners:  Poland
  • August 13 – 20: 2016 FAI F5 World Championships for Electric Model Aircraft in Italy Lugo
    • Winner: Austria Johannes Starzinger
    • F5D winner: Czech Republic Tomáš Andrlík
    • Team winners:  Austria (Johannes Starzinger, Karl Waser, Franz Riegler)
    • Team F5D winners:  Czech Republic
  • August 20 – 28: 2016 FAI F4 World Championships for Scale Model Aircraft in Romania Ploiești
  • August 22 – 30: 2016 FAI S World Championships for Space Models in Ukraine Lviv
    • Winner: United States Robert Kreutz
    • Team winners:  Ukraine
  • October 1 – 8: 2016 FAI F3A Asian-Oceanic Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Chinese Taipei Taichung
    • Winner: Japan Onda Tetsuo
    • Junior winner: Japan Minemura Shoutaiou
    • Team winners:  Japan
  • October 2 – 8: 2016 FAI F3 World Championship for Model Gliders in Denmark Hanstholm
    • Senior winner: Croatia Arijan Hucaljuk
    • Junior winner: United States Dillon Graves
    • Seniors Team winners:  Germany
    • Juniors Team winners:  Germany