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The final CF scores at the British Armed Forces Parachute Championships are shown below.  There was only a rotations event.

Rotations Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Jump Off Posn (Open) Posn (BAFC)
Italian Army 18 18 18 19 n/a 1 n/a
Red Devils 2 3 3 3 n/a 4 3
Golden Lions 4 2 3 4 2 3 2
Wrap 2 2 4 5 6 2 1

*BAFC is British Armed Forces ChampionshipsTeam Wrap attempting to have one!

The Italian Army team have won the CF event (rotations only), currently being placed third in the world.  Wrap, a scratch team came back and won the BAFC event with a team member that got his CF Grade 1 during the competition.  The Golden Lions took the cutaway competition with a double cutaway on round one  and their canopies landing in the power lines cutting off the power supply for a few hours!


Team X have put themselves through a rigorous training programme this year and so far have conducted two training camps at Cahors, France and Langar, UK with 5 times World Champion coach Vincent Ferrer and a number of training weekends at Langar, Netheravon and Moorsele, Belgium.

The Team have just finished competing at the British National Parachute Championships.  They took the gold medal in their event; 4 Way Sequential  and additionally took the gold in the rotations.  On top of this team members took medals in the team accuracy, style and overall placings as the scores below highlight.

CF scores:

Rotations Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
Team X 7 7 4 6 8 9
CF Focus 6 7 6 4 8 6
Spitfires* 2 2 2 2 4 2

*Spitfires are intermediate.

Sequential Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
Team X 3 4 4 3 4 4

Overall the meet was a success and the team will no go on to represent Great Britain at the World Air Games in 2001 held in Spain.


The Classic Nationals were held at the same time and the scores for that are below:

Style (5 rounds)

Men

Times

Carl Williams 51.47
Alastair Macartney 52.40
Dave Ballard 53.13
Graham Pemberton 62.07
Jay Traisnel 70.51
Glen Stephenson 74.99
Nicky Johnson Withdrawn

Women Times
Katherine Andrewes 49.84
Debbie Curtis 50.64
Esther Reynolds 54.23

Accuracy

  Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8  Rd 9  Rd 10
Dave Ballard 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0.01 0 0.03 0.05
Carl Williams 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.06 0 0.01 0.01 0 0.02 0.01
Nicky Johnson 0 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.02 0 0.04 0.02 0.04 0.03
Jeff Chandler 0.06 0.01 0.04 0.02 0.02 0 0.02 0 0.03 0.01
Tim Andrewes 0.08 0.02 0.06 0.01 0.03 0 0.01 0 0.04 0.01
Kath Andrews 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.07 0.01 0.04 0.03
Debbie Curtis 0.16 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.02
John Page 0.06 0.05 0.07 0.09 0.06 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.03 0.03
Esther Reynolds 0.16 0.06 0.02 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.06 0.06 0.02 0.06
Andy Bremner 0 0.16 0 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.10 0.11 0.16 0.16
Andy Paddock 0.04 0.03 0.16 0.08 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.14 0.01 0.02
Graham Pemberton 0.05 0.16 0.04 0.10 0.03 0.08 0.14 0 0.05 0.07
Glen Stephenson 0.10 0.11 0.05 0.14 0.05 0.13 0.01 0.04 0.02 0
Jules Ballard 0.01 0.07 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.08 0.04 0.01 0.07 0.05
Tracy Harrison 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.09 0.15 0.13 0.16 0.05 0.04 0.04
Rudra Sahi 0.16 0.16 0.05 0.16 0.01 0.16 0.05 0.16 0.09  
Alastair Macartney 0.14 0.11 0.14 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.01 0.16 0.05  
Ian Macdonald 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.01 0.15 0.14  
Jay Traisnel 0.16 0.16 0.16 0.14 0.15 0.09 0.16 0.13 0.08  

The team event finished with Millennium Doom, H Troop and then Silver Stars getting the medals.

 

 

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