8th European and 5th Junior European Freefall Style & Accuracy Landing Championships: Day 4
Rambo the DZ cat finds another willing person to make a fuss of him! |
Monday, 24 August 2015: Day 4: A beautiful blue and cloudless sky greeted us this morning and by 07.50hrs the sound of the Antonov AN-2's radial engine indicated that Round 2 of Male Accuracy had recommenced.
LIVE Results on this link |
Yesterday's first round of Male Accuracy produced 19 dead centres from 64 jumpers amounting to a remarkable DC rate of 30%. This degree of precision stands to make it an exciting competition, in fact in Round 2, again there were another 19 dead centres - albeit not for the same competitors in the first round! At the conclusion of Round 2 we still had 8 competitors tying for 1st position. It's still early days yet - there are potentially another 8 rounds to complete.
The temperature is rising steadily, bringing with it a change in the canopy control conditions and as the day progresses, is likely to separate further the experienced from the not so experienced. In fact by the end of Round 3 in Male Accuracy the Slovenian competitor, Senad Salkic, had three DCs to his name, putting him in sole first position. Just to stamp his mark further - he maintained his position at the end of Round 4, with yet another DC!
17.04hrs We've certainly made up for lost time and so far we have achieved the following:
Male Accuracy | 6 rounds completed |
Female Accuracy | 1 round completed |
Jnr Male Accuracy | 1 round compldeted |
Jnr Female Accuracy | 1 round completed |
Male Style | Not started |
Female Style | 1.5 rounds completed |
Jnr Male Style | 2 rounds completed |
Jnr Female Style | 2 rounds completed |
Senad Salkic continues to hold onto his lead with his 6th dead centre in a row, but is being pressed by Russia's Dmitri Maksimov, who apart from a 2cm 1st round, is echoing Senad's DCs like for like. In joint second position isItaly's Francesco Gullotti. With a further 4 rounds to complete, it's anyone's guess how things will pan out.