Fasten Your Seatbelt
World Final 2012
Fasten Your Seatbelt
23. 04. 2012
Paper Plane Pilots from 70 countries will participate at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final on May 04-05 in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria. The chosen few charged with the honour of representing their country at the World Final showed their mad paper skills at 600 worldwide Qualiflyers, against 35,0000 competitors. The tried-and-tested formula from the World Finals in 2006 and 2009 is set to rock Austria for a third time as the finalists do battle in three disciplines: Longest Distance, Longest Airtime, and Aerobatics.
The event begins on Friday 4 May with the pre-elimination round in the category Longest Distance and continues on Saturday with the pre-eliminations in the categories Longest Airtime and Aerobatics. The super final in all three disciplines will take place on Saturday evening, with the winners crowned Red Bull Paper Wings World Champion 2012.
Pilots
Longest airtime Qualiflying
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAOHIRO KANOMATA | JPN | 16.74 sec | ||
  | 2 | Rasif Rustamov | AZE | 13.65 sec | |
| 3 | Sarah Jaeger | SUI | 12.70 sec | ||
| 4 | Konrad Zasztowt | POL | 12.40 sec | ||
  | 5 | Vadim Oleg Axentii | MDA | 11.89 sec | |
  | 6 | Gökhan Emiroglu | TUR | 11.66 sec | |
| 7 | Ivan Arenas | PER | 11.25 sec | ||
  | 8 | Kevin Maghami | USA | 11.20 sec | |
| 9 | David Šimunov | HRV | 10.90 sec | ||
| 10 | Ridvan Kaya | TUR | 10.80 sec | ||
| 11 | Jakub Roleček | CZE | 10.75 sec | ||
| 12 | Laurentiu Dan | ROU | 10.72 sec | ||
| 13 | Elie Chemali | LBN | 10.68 sec | ||
| 14 | Gokhan Emiroglu | TUR | 10.68 sec | ||
  | 15 | Luan Goes | BRA | 10.59 sec | |
| 16 | Marek Bełz | POL | 10.56 sec | ||
| 17 | Taha Siraji | KSA | 10.50 sec | ||
| 18 | Wojciech Ignasz | POL | 10.31 sec | ||
| 19 | Fabricio Monteiro | PRT | 10.03 sec | ||
| 20 | Lasha Sepiashvili | GEO | 10.02 sec | ||
| 21 | Atanas Zgurev | BGR | 10.00 sec | ||
| 22 | 柏陽 蘇 | TPE | 10.00 sec | ||
| 23 | Kevin Nikolić | HRV | 9.97 sec | ||
| 24 | Juan Camilo Bedoya | COL | 9.94 sec | ||
| 25 | Danilo Augusto Bovello | BRA | 9.90 sec |
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Largest distance Qualiflying
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 1 | Mike Opland | USA | 57.91 m | |
| 2 | Mouhanad Adbulrahman | QAT | 50.00 m | ||
  | 3 | Ryan Jantz | USA | 45.42 m | |
  | 4 | Jack Hart | USA | 45.11 m | |
  | 5 | Joshua Stewart | NZL | 43.60 m | |
| 6 | Filip Duvnjak | HRV | 41.96 m | ||
  | 7 | Ben Bowen | USA | 41.15 m | |
| 8 | Etibar Akbarov | AZE | 41.10 m | ||
  | 9 | Tomáš Beck | CZE | 40.50 m | |
| 10 | Saif Obeidat | JOR | 40.00 m | ||
| 11 | Iliya Uzunov | BGR | 40.00 m | ||
  | 12 | Selman Aydin | TUR | 39.88 m | |
| 13 | Premanjana Weltmer | USA | 39.47 m | ||
| 14 | Rafael Novoa | ESA | 38.90 m | ||
  | 15 | Rahim Shukurov | AZE | 38.50 m | |
| 16 | Stanley Hall | USA | 37.31 m | ||
  | 17 | James Please | GBR | 37.10 m | |
| 18 | PETER FEDOR | SVK | 37.00 m | ||
| 19 | Matthew Stambaugh | USA | 36.67 m | ||
| 20 | Boris Ivkić | HRV | 36.51 m | ||
| 21 | John Yetimoglu | USA | 36.42 m | ||
| 22 | Sean Hopson | USA | 36.27 m | ||
  | 23 | Bogdan Turcu | ROU | 36.02 m | |
| 24 | Veselin Ivanov | BGR | 36.00 m | ||
| 25 | Camilo Moncano | COL | 35.70 m |
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Aerobatics Qualiflying
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleksey Lakhmenev | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 2 | Володимир Ішутов | UKR | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 3 | Roman Semenov | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 4 | Marta Penas | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 5 | Dawid Kosmalski | POL | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 6 | Josip Medić | HRV | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 7 | Dmitry Zalitsaev | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 8 | David Gagne | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 9 | William Murphy | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 10 | Selman Aydin | TUR | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 11 | Thomas Kriebernegg | AUT | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 12 | Ekaterina Vyukhina | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 13 | Adam MacKenzie | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 14 | Martin Flüeler | SUI | 30.00 Pt | ||
  | 15 | Keaton Wheeler | USA | 30.00 Pt | |
| 16 | Mikhail Safin | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 17 | Alfredo Ramirez | COL | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 18 | Євген Ляшенко | UKR | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 19 | James Bacik | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 20 | Haider Alzubaidy | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 21 | Anatol Prlicek | AUT | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 22 | Łukasz Rękas | POL | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 23 | Sergey Avakyants | RUS | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 24 | Soham Gupte | USA | 30.00 Pt | ||
| 25 | George Ciupe | ROU | 30.00 Pt |
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Longest airtime National final
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 1 | Georgi Nyagolov | BGR | 15.82 sec | |
  | 2 | 柏陽 蘇 | TPE | 11.33 sec | |
| 3 | Stoyan Vasilev | BGR | 10.00 sec | ||
  | 4 | Youssef Felemban | KSA | 9.47 sec | |
  | 5 | Petar Bišćan | HRV | 9.38 sec | |
  | 6 | Erick Aguilera | PAN | 9.22 sec | |
  | 7 | Håkon Egeland | NOR | 9.22 sec | |
  | 8 | Анатолій Цирдя | UKR | 9.20 sec | |
  | 9 | Ladislav Gánovsky | SVK | 9.18 sec | |
  | 10 | Ulrich Tesarik | AUT | 8.60 sec | |
  | 11 | 新堯 尹 | TPE | 8.50 sec | |
  | 12 | Πέτρος Γαρυφαλάκης | GRC | 8.14 sec | |
| 13 | Kristoff Kuouri | JAM | 7.50 sec | ||
  | 14 | 成淵 賴 | TPE | 7.40 sec | |
  | 15 | Emīls Polis | LVA | 7.40 sec | |
| 16 | Tadej Holler | SVN | 7.31 sec | ||
  | 17 | Robi Fišer | SVN | 7.31 sec | |
| 18 | Atanas Vladimirov | BGR | 7.00 sec | ||
| 19 | Jakob Jug | SVN | 6.97 sec | ||
| 20 | Alberto Lizano | CRI | 6.86 sec | ||
  | 21 | Albertv Hovhannisyan | ARM | 6.63 sec | |
| 22 | Taha Siraji | KSA | 6.54 sec | ||
| 23 | Denis Zemljič | SVN | 6.03 sec | ||
| 24 | Juan Nolasco | PER | 5.70 sec | ||
| 25 | Ahmad Al Tayeb | KSA | 5.53 sec |
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Largest distance National final
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 1 | Veselin Ivanov | BGR | 56.00 m | |
  | 2 | Marius Dietrichson | NOR | 43.56 m | |
  | 3 | Boris Ivkić | HRV | 37.46 m | |
| 4 | Julio Ravines Villanueva | PER | 36.00 m | ||
  | 5 | Armen Hayrapetyan | ARM | 34.80 m | |
  | 6 | Kristaps Briedis | LVA | 34.80 m | |
  | 7 | Udo Kozian | AUT | 34.00 m | |
| 8 | Kristoff Kuouri | JAM | 32.61 m | ||
  | 9 | Jozef Belokostoský | SVK | 32.52 m | |
| 10 | Nikola Romanov | BGR | 32.00 m | ||
  | 11 | Uroš Cankar | SVN | 31.03 m | |
| 12 | Angel Pavlov | BGR | 31.00 m | ||
  | 13 | Γρηγόρης Αγγελόπουλος | GRC | 29.88 m | |
  | 14 | 冠文 蘇 | TPE | 29.30 m | |
| 15 | Nejc Mežnar | SVN | 27.13 m | ||
  | 16 | Amr Al Sabban | KSA | 25.60 m | |
  | 17 | Galo Velásquez | PAN | 24.78 m | |
| 18 | Andrej Godnjanec | SVN | 24.50 m | ||
| 19 | Robi Fišer | SVN | 23.97 m | ||
| 20 | Amrit Ramkissoon | TRI | 23.77 m | ||
| 21 | Yeider Sánchez | CRI | 19.95 m | ||
  | 22 | Марко Романко | UKR | 18.22 m | |
| 23 | Nadim Khan | KSA | 14.40 m | ||
| 24 | Vid Vranjek | SVN | 8.74 m | ||
| 25 | Sanaa Farouki | KSA | 8.00 m |
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Aerobatics National final
| Rank | Name | Country | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | 1 | Miroslav Beka | SVK | 30.00 Pt | |
  | 2 | Володимир Ішутов | UKR | 29.00 Pt | |
  | 3 | Joži Petelinek | SVN | 28.00 Pt | |
  | 4 | Thomas Kribernegg | AUT | 28.00 Pt | |
| 5 | Keron Granger | TRI | 28.00 Pt | ||
  | 6 | Doaa Mufti | KSA | 27.00 Pt | |
| 7 | Julio Cisneros | CRI | 27.00 Pt | ||
  | 8 | Josip Medić | HRV | 27.00 Pt | |
  | 9 | Anna Hunanyan | ARM | 27.00 Pt | |
  | 10 | Vladislavs Lapinskis | LVA | 27.00 Pt | |
  | 11 | Boris Sanchez | PAN | 26.00 Pt | |
  | 12 | Αντώνης Μίζερος | GRC | 26.00 Pt | |
  | 13 | Per Melander Often | NOR | 26.00 Pt | |
| 14 | Matic Kašnik | SVN | 26.00 Pt | ||
| 15 | Firas Mufti | KSA | 26.00 Pt | ||
| 16 | Nika Eterovič | SVN | 24.00 Pt | ||
  | 17 | 柏丞 柳 | TPE | 23.00 Pt | |
| 18 | Vid Vranjek | SVN | 23.00 Pt | ||
| 19 | Jim Perez Carvajal | PER | 23.00 Pt | ||
| 20 | Nejc Mežnar | SVN | 23.00 Pt | ||
| 21 | Malik Atef | KSA | 20.00 Pt | ||
| 22 | Abdulkareem Ojaimi | KSA | 19.00 Pt | ||
  | 23 | 傑安 楊 | TPE | 17.00 Pt | |
  | 24 | 翰 錢 | TPE | 17.00 Pt | |
| 25 | Orlando Johnson | JAM | 15.00 Pt |
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