24-01-2016

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Where is the Next World Championship?

Where is the Next World Championship?

The IPC Plenary meeting in Frankfurt has just wrapped and big news is coming out of the results! Earlier this month we posted what the agenda topics would include and we are now happy to announce the outcome of the hard work of the IPC delegates and committee members. One of the many decisions to be made at meeting was the appointment of the host tunnel for the 2016 World Cup and 2017 World Championship.

The voting process, as taken from the IPC website:

Mohammed Al-Delayel, then presented the work of the Indoor Skydiving Working Group and he started by thanking the Czech Republic for their excellent competition during 2015.  He then asked for a vote from the floor to be changed from a Working Group to a Committee - the vote was unanimus in its support. He then presented his proposed committee.   there are two bids on the table for 2016 (Belgium withdrew their bid for 2016).  Ron did explain the bids as she had done most of the work on them.  She was asked to present all the bids including those for 2017 which she did.  There were several questions from the floor which were answered by the committee. 

Graeme then asked for a vote on the bids for 2016 and as a secret ballot had been called for Graene asked delegates to write either Poland or Slovakia.

The vote was taken and Poland was the winner. 

We then moved to the vote for 2017 between all four bids, as the committee did not put the bid from Germany forward as the tunnel was not yet built.  Poland announced that they were withdrawing their bid for 2017.  So we then have the choice between Belgium, Canada and Slovakia. 

Canada won. 

Graeme was then asked to read out the results 32 - 10 for 2016 : and for 2017 Canada 18, Slovakia 15, Belgium 8 and 1 spoilt vote.

Congratulations to Flyspot Poland and Skyventure Montreal!

We look forward to the 2016 World Cup in Warsaw October 11-15 and the 2017 World Championship in Montreal October 17-23!

Two IBA representatives, Chris Dixon (a member of the Indoor Working Group) and Wayne Loxton, the Development Director of the IBA, attended the meeting and a recount of their experience along with all of the updates to the rules and governance of Indoor Skydiving, will be posted shortly. Stay tuned!

For a full wrap-up of the entire meeting, check out the IPC blog.

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