australian athlete wins wingsuit flying world championships speed race
2024-09-18
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changsha, september 18 (xinhua) -- the final of the "big loop race" of the 10th world wingsuit flying federation wingsuit flying world championship was held in tianmen mountain scenic area, zhangjiajie, hunan province on september 18. australian athlete tashi paul munro won the championship with a score of 24.703 seconds, while south african athlete jean-jacques wallis and norwegian athlete joachim lierhaugen won the second and third place respectively.
australian player tashi paul munroe competes on september 18. photo by xinhua news agency reporter chen sihanthe eight athletes who entered the speed race finals took off from the top of yuhu peak in tianmen mountain at an altitude of 1,458 meters, then turned in the airspace in front of tianmen cave, passed through the flag gate erected below the tianmen cave square, turned and flew into the canyon, and ended the timing with the tianmen mountain cableway cable as the finish line, finally completing the competition route with a vertical drop of 990 meters and a straight-line distance of about 1.3 kilometers.
after two rounds of fierce competition, monroe, who entered the finals as the first in the preliminaries, won the championship with his outstanding performance. he participated in the competition for the first time and showed his professional athletic ability with a "zero-defect" flight. he said that participating in this competition has been his dream for many years, and he was very happy to have achieved a fairy-tale-like result in his first visit to tianmen mountain.
australian player tashi paul munroe competes on september 18. photo by xinhua news agency reporter chen sihanthis is wallis' third time to compete in tianmen mountain. he won the runner-up in the sprint race in 2023 and ranked second with a score of 24.766 this time. the third place winner, lehrhaugen, is 28 years old and the youngest player in this event. this is his first time to compete in china and his score is 25.226.
the wingsuit flying world championships will start on september 16 and last for four days. the final of the precision target shooting competition will be held next, where "human arrows shoot through targets".
