posted Aug 19th, 2016 - The Sun Path Products NSL News now follows up with the introduction of the field in 4-way Women at the Mondial 2016, and the team situation is quite similar compared to the 4-way Open Class. There is only one team that competed with the same lineup at the previous world meet in Prostejov 2014, the Czech Ladies.

The Czech Ladies will not be involved in the race for the medals in this 4-way category, and the new mix of lineups is only affecting the previous medal winners and the new medal contenders.

The French Girls are back with two reigning world champions in 4-way Women (Christine Malnis, Sophia Pecout), while SDC Rhythm XP member JaNette Lefkowitz has replaced Angela Nichols for the Golden Knights. Kaizen is not the British national team any longer, and Canada's Fuzion lineup has Renee Point as the newest member. Infra Red Band (Russia) and Les Stunts (Belgium) have different lineups, as well.

FAI Mondial 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	French Girls	FR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
2	Golden Knights	US	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
3	NFTO	UK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
4	Parachute Montreal Fuzion	CA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
5	Infra Red Band	RU	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
6	Les Stunts	BE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
7	Bellatrix	AU	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
8	CZ Ladies	CZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
9	Valkyria	DK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
10	No Mercy	PL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
11	Skymix	DE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0

Bellatrix compete for Australia this time, while United Arab Emirates (Dubai Asaar Ladies) and Lithuania (SolarFlakes) have not registered teams for the Mondial 2016.

Denmark, Poland and Germany did not have teams in Prostejov 2014. No Mercy is the first team from Poland competing at a World Championship of Formation Skydiving in 4-way Women. Denmark and Germany both had teams at earlier world meets and just missed the event in Prostejov 2014.

Germany's lineup is only a temporary one for the Mondial 2016, with two members of the all-female Skyfall team (Sarah Mertes, Stephanie Meyer) and two AtomiX YUU members (Andrea Kleinschmidt, Janine Tillenburg).

Prostejov 2014			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		E,3,C,5	F,6,D,21	19,H,2	M,4,1	O,14,A,P	8,J,16	7,11,12	22,20,15	17,G,18	13,B,9	Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne French Girls	FR	21	25	22	20	27	21	18	17	19	24	214	21.4
2	Golden Knights	US	22	25	21	21	23	18	16	15	19	24	204	20.4
3	Kaizen	UK	15	20	16	18	19	14	14	13	15	17	161	16.1
4	Fuzion	CA	17	16	17	15	16	14	11	12	13	16	147	14.7
5	Infra Red Band	RU	12	12	14	15	16	16	13	9	14	11	132	13.2
6	Les Stunts	BE	14	14	13	14	16	13	8	11	10	12	125	12.5
7	Sistermatic	AU	11	13	11	9	13	9	9	9	9	-	93	10.3
8	CZ Ladies	CZ	10	10	10	7	12	8	11	7	8	-	83	9.2
9	SolarFlakes	LT	7	10	10	10	8	7	9	7	8	-	76	8.4
10	Dubai Asaar Ladies	AE	13	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	24	2.7

The Golden Knights are now in a similar situation, as JaNette Lefkowitz will fill the outside center slot only until Round 10 or 11 at Skydive Chicago. Then she will go back to her own team and get ready to challenge Arizona Airspeed at the USPA Nationals 2016.

The Sun Path Products NSL News discussed JaNette Lefkowitz' very special situation in a live conversation with her this week. She is very much enjoying her current double duties and switching back and forth between inside and outside center. She has been Rhythm's outside center for many years and switched to inside center when the new Rhythm lineup started training this year.

She has an extremely busy agenda until the Mondial 2016, as her own team has continued while she has been training with the Golden Knights and working on a new project that aims at introducing more women to skydiving. The new Rhythm lineup will have completed approx. 900 training jumps at the time of the national championships. However, the Mondial 2016 has high priority, as well, and JaNette Lefkowitz is the first current Rhythm member competing at a world championship. Former Rhythm members Chris Farina and Thiago Gomes have done it, and Mikhail Markine is still the official Airspeed alternate. None of them has won a world meet gold medal yet...