posted Nov 29th, 2023 - Norway has the most successful history of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) in Formation Skydiving competition. Three sets of bronze medals by the DeLand Norgies at the FAI world championships in 1999, 2001 and 2003 followed the two sets of Denmark's bronze medals in 1993 and 1995.

The world championship in Eloy 1993 was actually the most successful event for Scandinavia as a whole, with Denmark in 3rd place, Finland 4th, Sweden 5th. Each Scandinavian country was represented in 1993, as Norway finished in 18th place, and even Iceland had a national team on the 4-way leaderboard.

The DeLand Norgies competed regularly at events of the Florida Skydiving League, where they would meet other world class teams, such as Sebastian XL of Great Britain and DeLand Equanimity from South Africa, with Solly Williams and Gary Smith in the lineup.

Solly Williams later joined DeLand Majik, together with Gary Smith, and won the 4-way world championship title in Croatia 2004, with Joey Jones and Doug Park in the lineup. Solly Williams was already working intensively with the national 4-way teams from Norway as a coach at that time, which has continued into the present 4-way times.

FAI Outdoor World Championship 1993			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
1	France	FR	19	16	20	17	21	21	18	18	21	19	190	19.0
2	DeLand Vertical Air	US	20	18	18	16	21	19	15	15	21	19	182	18.2
3	Team DK	DK	18	16	18	11	19	19	13	16	21	18	169	16.9
4	Finland	FI	14	13	16	15	17	17	13	13	17	14	149	14.9
5	Sweden	SE	16	13	17	12	14	18	12	13	17	16	148	14.8
6	Germany	DE	15	13	14	13	16	17	13	13	16	15	145	14.5
7	Russia	RU	17	15	13	15	11	17	13	16	19	8	144	14.4
7	Endeavour	CH	16	14	14	12	15	14	11	15	17	16	144	14.4
9	Japan	JP	15	13	16	10	15	15	12	14	15	-	125	13.9
10	Austria	AT	14	13	14	11	15	14	13	13	17	-	124	13.8
11	South Africa	ZA	14	14	15	13	14	13	11	13	16	-	123	13.7
12	Great Britain	UK	14	10	14	13	14	12	12	13	18	-	120	13.3
12	Belgium	BE	11	12	14	12	15	15	12	15	14	-	120	13.3
14	Italy	IT	14	10	14	13	15	15	10	13	14	-	118	13.1
15	Australia	AU	13	11	12	13	14	13	12	13	12	-	113	12.6
16	New Zealand	NZ	13	10	12	8	13	12	12	13	-	-	93	11.6
16	Canada	CA	11	11	13	11	14	12	10	11	-	-	93	11.6
18	Norway	NO	13	5	12	9	14	13	10	12	-	-	88	11.0
19	Spain	ES	12	9	12	11	11	13	10	8	-	-	86	10.8
20	Netherlands	NL	10	9	10	8	10	10	9	10	-	-	76	9.5
21	Icelandair	IS	11	10	6	9	10	11	8	9	-	-	74	9.3
22	Croatia	HR	9	9	9	9	11	9	6	11	-	-	73	9.1
23	Hungary	HU	9	7	8	5	6	9	8	6	-	-	58	7.3
24	Israel	IL	7	0	4	2	7	7	6	5	-	-	38	4.8
25	Indonesia	ID	5	3	4	5	3	8	5	4	-	-	37	4.6
26	Ireland	IE	5	6	4	3	1	5	5	5	-	-	34	4.3
27	Latvia	LV	2	1	2	6	6	6	5	5	-	-	33	4.1
28	Turkey	TR	4	4	4	4	4	5	3	2	-	-	30	3.8
29	Taiwan	TW	1	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	-	-	7	0.9

The NSL News has been following the team development in Florida and Norway naturally, with DeLand resident Solly Williams as the connection. The Norwegian teams have been visiting Skydive DeLand for their winter and spring training camps regularly, which offered the opportunity for NSL News updates.

The coaching tradition continued with Norway's current national team, Agera, which was formed with the first lineup in 2019. Three of the original team members (Nadia Jorgenrud, Julian Frayne, Kjetil Viste Levik) are still training and competing for Agera and represented Norway at indoor and outdoor world championships and world cups, the last one in their home country at Skydive Voss in August.

Agera's new lineup with Amund Meyer in the tail slot, which DeLand Norgies' Carl-Erik Tuv was filling in Eloy 2022, left all other Scandinavian teams behind at the outdoor world cup. It was the second outdoor competition with the new lineup. Agera mentioned proudly during the NSL Live Talk conversation a few days ago that the new lineup had also defeated the DeLand Norgies for the first time at their national outdoor championship in July.

Agera's new lineup had represented Norway at the 4th FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship in Slovakia for the first time, as well, and they finished in 12th place. NSL Live Talk with Agera on April 28th introduced the new team member at the event site of the Hurricane Factory Slovakia.

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NSL Live Talk with Agera, Recorded on 28 November 2023

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23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving 2023			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		3,G,N,19		11,17,L		13,7,C		2,D,O,8		14,K,J,12		9,M,P,H		5,4,18		15,1,10		16,21,E		F,20,6		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	26		27		26		25		22		48	-1	22		21		25		25		267	26.7
2	France 4-way Open	FR	23		25	-1	26		24		19		45	-1	19		19		23		23		246	24.6
3	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	20	-4	20	-2	25		23	-1	18	-2	45		20		19		24		24		238	23.8
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	20	-1	22	-1	23		20		19		40		13	-4	17	-1	22		19	-4	215	21.5
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	18		17	-1	19	-2	19		17		38		16		17		18		18	-1	197	19.7
6	Airbus Illertissen Oceanside	DE	17	-1	18		20	-1	17		14		31	-1	15		15		18		18		183	18.3
7	Amnesya	IT	16	-1	17		19		17	-1	16		31	-1	15		14		18		18	-1	181	18.1
8	Papea	ES	14	-3	17	-1	18	-1	17		14	-1	32		14	-1	15		18		18		177	17.7
9	Qatar Cheetahs	QA	17		16		19		17		16		29		14		14		17		17		176	17.6
10	Out Of The Blue	NL	17		15	-1	18		16	-1	15		31	-4	14		13		16		18	-1	173	17.3
11	Agera	NO	15	-2	13	-2	16		18		12	-1	32	-1	13	-1	15		18		13	-4	165	16.5
12	Lightspeed XP	US	14		15	-1	17		15		12		30		13		13		15		17		161	16.1
13	Chaotic Motion VIXX	NL	15		13	-2	15	-3	16	-1	13		30	-1	12		11		15		18		158	15.8
14	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	15	-1	11	-4	16	-2	16		13	-1	32		14		10	-1	15	-1	14	-3	156	15.6
15	Qatar Lions	QA	0		14	-1	16		18		13	-2	31	-2	15		14	-1	14		17	-2	152	15.2
16	Aurora	SE	14		14		15	-1	13	-1	12		26		11	-1	13		13	-1	17		148	14.8
17	Sequenz	DK	14	-1	12		15	-1	12	-1	10	-1	24	-1	12		11		12	-1	13		135	13.5
18	LUX	NL	12		11		13		13		10		23		10		9		11		15		127	12.7
19	Whitefish	AU	11	-1	10	-1	14		13	-1	11		20	-1	9	-2	11		12	-1	15		126	12.6
20	ALIS	UA	11		10		9	-2	11		10		20	-1	9		9		10	-1	14		113	11.3
21	Grumsen	NO	12	-1	9	-1	12	-2	13		10		21	-3	7	-2	10	-1	10		8	-3	112	11.2
22	DNF	UK	11	-1	9		12		11		9		21		9	-1	9		8	-1	10	-2	109	10.9
23	4igami	NL	8		8		8		9	-1	8		14	-1	7		7		10		11	-1	90	9.0
24	4Reigners	UK	9		8		7	-1	9		7		16	-1	7		0	-10	8	-1	10	-1	81	8.1

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Agera - Aurora - Sequenz at the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving 2023

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The new lineup met some of their potential opponents in the competition for the 5th place behind the four current Formation Skydiving outdoor powerhouses (United States, France, Belgium, Qatar) in Slovakia (Echochamber from Sweden, Papea from Spain, Out Of The Blue from the Netherlands). Papea and OOTB followed up with the outdoor competition in Norway, where two other national teams battled for the same slot, Germany's Airbus Illertissen Oceanside and Italy's outdoor team Amnesya.

Four of the same national teams (Airbus, Amnesya, Papea, OOTB) placed ahead of Agera at the outdoor world cup in Norway, where Echochamber were not present. However, Agera's new lineup just started with outdoor training this year, and they have no doubt that they can catch up with the teams who are currently ahead of them.

One of the contenders for the 5th place in the world, which British team Chimera captured in Eloy 2022, is the German Airbus Illertissen Oceanside 4-way team, the country's national team since 2021. Their coach has been the same one that Agera is working with, Solly Williams, who enjoys the friendly rivalry between the two teams. Agera leave no doubt about their goal, as it is clearly stated in the team room at Skydive DeLand. Airbus outside center Thomas Mack's son Tim is currently spending more than half a year in DeLand. He and his father did not miss the message from Norway in the same team room that Airbus is using when they train in DeLand...

FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		20,16,B		P,D,21,13		17,K,11		E,A,19,22		2,9,M		C,14,F,12		3,6,18		4,10,1		8,Q,O,H		5,7,J		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	-1	28		27		27		31		23		21		20		32		31		261	26.1
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	20	-1	25	-2	21		23		28		20	-2	19		17		29		26		228	22.8
3	Qatar Tigers	QA	19	-2	23	-1	22	-1	21	-1	26		18		17	-1	17		28		28		219	21.9
4	France 4-way Open	FR	19		23	-1	22		23		27		20	-1	18		15	-1	20	-5	27	-1	214	21.4
5	Chimera	UK	16		21	-2	19		19	-1	18	-5	18	-1	16		14	-1	23	-1	24		188	18.8
6	Papea Masculino	ES	17	-1	20	-1	18	-1	21		21	-2	18		15		15		21	-1	20	-3	186	18.6
7	Echochamber Oceanside	SE	14	-1	21		19		19		20	-1	17		16		15		24	-1	20	-1	185	18.5
8	Airbus Oceanside Illertissen	DE	16		18	-2	19		16	-1	20	-1	13	-3	15		14		19	-2	22	-1	172	17.2
9	Agera FS 2022	NO	16		16	-2	17	-1	17		18	-1	15		15		13	-1	18	-3	21		166	16.6
9	4Astrophe	CA	15	-1	20		19		15	-2	21		15		15	-2	14		16	-3	16	-2	166	16.6
11	Out of the Blue	NL	16		16	-3	17		17		14	-2	17		12	-1	13	-1	21	-1	18		161	16.1
12	Ripper	AU	14	-1	16	-1	18		16	-1	21		15		12		10	-3	19	-1	19	-1	160	16.0
13	Sky4Four	PL	13	-1	14	-3	14		16		16	-2	12	-1	12		13		21		18	-1	149	14.9
14	HF Flying Circus	CZ	13		10	-7	16		15	-1	18	-2	12	-1	13		11	-3	16	-5	17	-1	141	14.1
15	Sequenz	DK	10	-2	16		15		14	-1	17	-1	12	-1	12		11	-1	17	-1	11	-3	135	13.5
16	INIT-Y	BR	12	-2	14	-1	14	-1	13	-4	16		11	-2	10	-3	12		17	-1	15	-3	134	13.4
17	HSV Red Bull Aerodynamix	AT	10	-2	16		14		15		15	-1	8	-3	9	-2	10	-1	15	-1	13	-1	125	12.5
18	Adventure Flyers	PY	9	-1	13		12	-1	11		16		11		10		9		14		14	-1	119	11.9
19	Equinox	LT	10	-1	12	-2	12		12	-1	13	-1	10		10		9	-1	12	-4	14	-1	114	11.4
20	Tina & The Dinosaurs	NZ	5		8	-1	4		9		9	-1	8		5		4	-2	10		8		70	7.0
21	La Playa	GT	2	-1	7	-2	5	-1	3	-3	7		5		3	-1	5		-		-		37	4.6

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Airbus Illertissen Oceanside - Agera at the 25th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships 2022

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Agera goals for 2024

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