posted Feb 5th, 2019 - Four teams had their own leaderboard for FAI/IPC's 4-way Women event at the Wind Games 2019, and they also placed very close to each other in the combined AAA Class rankings.

The NSL News introduced the winner of the separate event briefly on February 3rd, with Clementine Le Bohec in the lineup of the French female indoor B-Team. In fact, three of the reigning indoor and outdoor world champions in 4-way Women competed at the Wind Games, as Sophia Pecout and Christine Malnis joined forces once again with Julien Degen and Roy Janssen for the Weembi High Rollers.

They will continue to be separated until the outdoor season begins. Then they will get back together, with new member Gaelle Giesen and team videographer Julie Fournier in the lineup, and try to defend their top position in the female 4-way world. They will also train and compete together with the new French national 8-way team, which even has priority for the coming two years.

Sophia Pecout and Christine Malnis will compete with the Weembi High Rollers for France in 4-way Open at the FAI Indoor World Meet in April, while Clementine Le Bohec is going after the 4-way Women medals with the French indoor national team, Nemphys Weembi. Both teams will then be done with their 2019 indoor missions.

Wind Games 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		F,21,6	L,H,22,7	C,8,19	9,D,5	16,N,14	13,20,G	4,N,J,M	11,17,Q	3,O,K,E	A,12,2	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	33	37	31	50	31	26	46	34	39	27	354	35.4
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	29	33	26	47	31	28	44	32	34	29	333	33.3
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	28	34	28	46	29	25	37	30	31	26	314	31.4
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	31	29	27	39	26	24	39	29	32	24	300	30.0
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	29	29	23	41	27	26	37	27	35	24	298	29.8
6	Echochamber	SE	25	26	23	37	23	23	35	28	31	26	277	27.7
7	Nephtys Weembi	FR	25	26	21	36	23	21	35	25	31	20	263	26.3
8	NFTO	UK	24	26	25	30	21	19	33	24	30	21	253	25.3
9	Papea Masculino	ES	24	24	22	28	22	21	31	20	28	18	238	23.8
10	Team X	SE	23	23	22	29	21	16	32	22	26	21	235	23.5
11	Voss Vind Girls	NO	19	22	18	27	19	18	27	20	24	19	213	21.3
12	Out of the Blue Project 20+	NL	21	20	19	28	19	17	28	21	23	15	211	21.1
13	Alakran	ES	19	18	20	22	17	16	30	19	22	14	197	19.7
14	Barak	ES	19	21	15	26	19	13	23	17	19	16	188	18.8
15	Só Pressão	BR	21	16	17	21	19	12	25	16	21	17	185	18.5
16	Are We There Yet?	HU	17	21	15	25	19	16	22	14	21	14	184	18.4
17	Les Affranchis	FR	19	17	16	22	17	15	20	15	20	17	178	17.8
18	Windobona Angels	ES	12	19	13	23	15	14	27	17	18	13	171	17.1
19	Papea 1	ES	19	17	16	17	13	16	25	12	19	14	168	16.8
20	Chimera	UK	0	0	0	0	0	18	28	26	27	20	119	11.9

Nephtys Weembi - NFTO - Team X at the Wind Games 2019

One more female 4-way competitor placed herself ahead of the four 4-way Women teams on the combined leaderboard.

SDC Rhythm XP member JaNette Lefkowitz helped posting her team's new indoor record average of 29.8 in her inside center slot, and Rhythm finished in 5th place at Doug Barron's comeback meet.

Only one all-male team managed to separate the four 4-way Women teams in the middle of the Wind Games field. The male Papea lineup won the official Spanish indoor title with the team's new indoor record average. The official Spanish Indoor Nationals were a part of the Wind Games.

It was not too long ago when three of the four teams had their own previous 4-way Women leaderboard and competed for medals at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2018. In fact, NFTO, Nemphys Weembi and Team X were the three medal winners in Bahrain. Only the ranking order was different.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2018			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		K,17,J,21	4,H,F,11	18,L,16	5,M,O,C	N,8,P,19	6,9,10	D,12,15	Q,B,G,22	20,E,14	7,3,2	Total	Avg
1	NFTO	UK	27	26	20	37	25	23	22	29	22	23	254	25.4
2	France	FR	26	23	20	36	24	19	19	26	17	20	230	23.0
3	Team X	SE	24	26	18	31	22	21	16	27	20	19	224	22.4
4	China	CN	22	20	20	28	23	22	18	24	20	21	218	21.8
5	HF Chicks	CZ	25	23	15	26	23	21	17	24	21	21	216	21.6
6	Satori	UK	24	19	18	31	18	20	18	23	18	19	208	20.8
7	Zero-G	RU	22	22	17	27	20	20	16	22	16	20	202	20.2
8	Zephyrus	UK	12	12	10	16	13	12	10	17	11	13	126	12.6

NFTO had won the FAI gold medals in Bahrain with the same lineup that competed at the FAI World Meet 2018 a few weeks earlier. Catherine Anderson did not come back for the 2019 season, and Anna Hicks was not available for the Wind Games. Kate Lindsley and Julia Swallow took their slots in Spain, and NFTO finished with almost exactly the same meet average (25.3 - 25.4) as in Bahrain.

The French lineup was not the same either. Clementine Le Bohec did not compete with her world champion team in Bahrain, where Sophia Pecout and Christine Malnis won gold with the Weembi High Rollers over NMP PCH HayaBusa. Nemphys Weembi still had Camille Villanneau in the lineup. Clementine Le Bohec then joined Claire Victoire De Fleurian, Elise Poindron and Jessica Thebault at the Weembinamic 2018.

National coach Mathieu Bernier must have liked this lineup's performance at the Weembinamic, as he announced shortly after the event that this is the new French team in 4-way Women for the FAI Indoor World Meet in April.

He and Nemphys Weembi got their next promising results even sooner than they may have expected, with the 1st place over NFTO at the Wind Games. The British team now has little over two months with the complete lineup to turn the outcome back to the Bahrain results...