Qatar’s skydiving team to compete in World Parachuting Championships in Russia

The Qatari skydiving team of the Joint Special Forces' Qatar Air Sports Committee will compete in the World Parachuting Championships featuring 30 countries, which will be hosted in Russia from August 10 to 21, 2021.

Four teams from Qatar are competing in the tournament: a 4-way parachuting team, an Al Hadaf team, a competition team, and an 8-way team.

The Qatari parachute squad is one of the greatest in the world and the world's largest nighttime parachute formation team.

The team has put on excellent air show formations and is predicted to do well at the 2021 World Parachuting Championships.

This competition takes place before the CISM World Military Parachuting Championship (WMPC), which will be held in Doha from November 15 to 30.

Qatar's preparations for the world championship in Russia are already complete. Hamad Al Marri, Rashid Al Kubaisi, Fahd Al Shammari, and Abdulaziz Al Shammari, Qatar's four-man parachuting team, have attended two training camps in the Czech Republic and Germany.

Rashid Al Marri, Mohammed Al Braidi, Abdulaziz Ahmed, Khalid Mohammed Shaja, Mishaal Al Qaoud, Mohammed Al Attas, Mohammed Al Hajri, Saleh Al Abidi, and Mohammed Al Kuwari are among the members of the Al Hadaf team that have established a training camp in Slovenia.

The competition team, led by Mansour Al Korbi, also planned an outdoor camp in Chicago. Ali Hamad, Abdullah Hani, Saeed Al Kuwari, Hassan Al Maliki, and Saleh Al Kuwari make up the 4-way team (rotation), while Abdulaziz Zubaidi, Salman Al Sharshani, and Ahmed Al Yafei make up the first sequential team.

Moreover, Obaid Al Marri, Abdulaziz Al Korbi, and Abdullah Al Nabit are featured in the second sequential team.

The eight-person team set up camp in France and Spain. Abdullah Al Hammadi, Ghanem Al Kubaisi, Abdulaziz Al Mutawa, Bilal Al Hajjaj, Abdullah Al Khawar, Khalifa Al Ali, Saad Al Ali, Salem Al Sunaid, and Mohammed Shams are among the members of the team.