posted Aug 15th, 2022 - The 3rd place of the Norwegian team Thyra at the national championships last week was not only a successful start into outdoor competition for the young team. It is also great news for the 4-way Women event at the same time.

The NSL News mentioned in the update on August 11th that Norway is planning to bring a 4-way Women team back into international meet action, and probably soon. Thyra have an all-female lineup of young 4-way competitors who are launching the team career with a 10-point average after three heavier rounds with six blocks at the national championships.

Camilla Marnor and Christiane Wilhelmine Sorfjord Tuv, daughter of DeLand Norgies original member Carl-Erik Tuv, started together in the Volare lineup of the FS 2020 4-way project. They trained and competed together in 2019 and 2020 and have now joined forces with Kristina Aarvold and Julia Heimdall-Hansen for Thyra. Dennis Barstad was filming the team at the national outdoor championships.

Thyra started with 4-way competition at the national indoor championships in February this year, where the all-female lineup of the VossVind Girls placed second with a 19.9 average. VossVind Girls have represented Norway only at international indoor events in the past, last time at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019.

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Norway Outdoor Nationals 2022		1		2		3		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	H,1,P,12		F,N,6,B		2,21,3		Total	Avg
1	DeLand Norgies	17	-2	21		13		51	17.0
2	Agera FS 2022	17	-2	16	-3	13	-2	46	15.3
3	Thyra	10	-1	12		8		30	10.0
4	Utopia	8		10	-3	7	-1	25	8.3
5	Gloriasses	8		8	-3	6	-1	22	7.3

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Thyra at Norway's Outdoor Nationals 2022

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Norway played a major role in 4-way Women with the Norgie Girls when the new event was introduced by FAI/ISC in 2001. Ine Morch, Line Sovik, Trude Sviggum and Ditta Valsdottir, with Eric Taylor on camera, won silver medals at the first FAI World Championship in 4-way Women.

Kristin Opoien then replaced Line Sovik, and the new lineup (TNT) won the second set of silver medals two years later in Gap 2003. The Norgie Girls did not continue after the 2003 world meet, and Norway did not have a new team in 4-way Women for the next world championships in Rijeka 2004.

Trude Sviggum and Kristin Opoien, silver medal team mates in 2003, came back with a new 4-way Women lineup for the world meet in Gera 2006 (Anne Sofie Boe, Anne Simone Botten, Cathrine Lie Tunes). This lineup did not continue after the end of the 2007 season.

Original DeLand Norgies member Lise Nansen and Trude Sviggum then formed a 4-way Women team with two new and young competitors in 2008 (Ellen Burchardt, Kristine Willadsen), with Gudrun Rokne on camera. Fortitudo competed for Norway in Maubeuge 2008.

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FAI World Meet 2001			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		8,19,24	A,L,22,H	E,10,D,11	21,6,4	B,18,C,14	G,5,20	2,1,16	M,K,12,9	15,23,P	O,17,Q,N	Total	Avg
1	Synchronicity	US	13	13	13	12	14	14	15	16	13	24	147	14.7
2	TNT	NO	13	15	15	13	13	12	13	15	13	22	144	14.4
3	4 Pleasure	SE	13	15	14	13	14	14	14	15	12	19	143	14.3
4	V-Max	UK	9	15	14	12	14	14	13	16	13	21	141	14.1
5	Russia	RU	11	11	12	12	9	12	12	13	11	12	115	11.5
6	South Africa	ZA	12	12	11	9	11	8	11	13	10	16	113	11.3
7	Italy	IT	10	10	11	9	5	11	11	9	11	-	87	9.7
8	Parat	DE	8	10	8	7	9	9	9	9	6	-	75	8.3
9	Spain	ES	4	7	6	4	8	6	4	9	5	-	53	5.9
10	Austria	AT	6	4	5	4	3	6	5	7	6	-	46	5.1

Norway's attendance at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving in 4-way Women

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Lise Nansen stepped back after helping to launch Norway's new 4-way Women team, and Sissel Maria Finnseth took the open tail slot. The 2010 season was the starting point for Polaris, and this lineup would stay together for the next four years.

Polaris finished in 5th place at the world meet in Menzelinsk 2010 and moved to the bronze medal position two years later in Dubai 2012. Original Norgie Girls member Trude Sviggum was back up to a medal position for Norway eleven years after her first world meet in 2001.

Norway has missed every outdoor world meet in 4-way Women ever since. In fact, Norwegian 4-way Open Class teams have not attended any FAI outdoor world meets for an even longer time period. X3M4S Elements was the last one in Menzelinsk 2010.

Carl-Erik Tuv and the Norwegian skydiving federation decided to change this situation and launched the FS 2020 4-way project. The new project and national teams did not attend the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020, while at least Agera is ready to travel to Skydive Arizona this October. The new 4-way Women team may have to wait another two years, unless the federation decides to offer the team early world meet experiences on their way to potential new 4-way Women medals for Norway...

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FAI World Meet 2012			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		5,12,E	6,D,B,K	O,8,7	N,13,18	10,21,M	19,H,11	C,G,1,A	20,9,15	16,F,P,Q	2,J,4	Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders	FR	18	28	19	16	18	19	21	19	30	19	207	20.7
2	Golden Knights	US	19	27	21	15	18	19	21	17	26	18	201	20.1
3	Polaris	NO	15	25	19	14	16	16	21	15	21	16	178	17.8
4	Bodyflight Langar	UK	10	20	15	13	12	14	18	14	23	14	153	15.3
5	Sky & Sand	DE	13	17	13	10	13	13	16	11	21	12	139	13.9
6	Danish Divas	DK	10	16	14	10	13	12	16	13	19	13	136	13.6
7	Fire	SE	10	16	14	12	12	14	16	11	17	-	122	13.6
8	Valkyries	AU	12	16	14	12	10	13	14	11	19	-	121	13.4
8	China Women	CN	9	17	13	8	12	14	15	12	21	-	121	13.4
10	Illusions	RU	15	21	14	11	14	12	17	13	0	-	117	13.0
11	Fenix	BR	9	14	14	9	9	10	16	12	-	-	93	11.6
12	Dubai Asaar Ladies	AE	11	16	12	8	11	9	13	11	-	-	91	11.4
13	Crimson Fox	CA	11	14	13	8	11	9	12	10	-	-	88	11.0
14	New Zealand	NZ	7	7	7	4	7	6	3	4	-	-	45	5.6

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Polaris at the 4th DIPC 2013

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