| Parachuting open accuracy landing at the World Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Ogata Athletic Field, Ōgata, Akita, Japan | ||||||||||||
| Date | 17–19 August 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 14 from 7 nations | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The open accuracy landing event at the 2001 World Games in Akita was played from 17 to 19 August. 14 parachuters, from 7 nations, participated in the tournament. The competition took place at Ogata Athletic Field in Ōgata . [1]
A total of nine rounds were contested. After sixth round six athletes were eliminated. In round seven athletes had to jump three times. The best four parachuters qualifies to the final rounds. Athlete with the lowest score is a winner.
| Rank | Nation | Athlete | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Sum | R7 | R8 | R9 |
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 |  Germany | Marco Pflüger | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
 |  China | Wang Jianming | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 |
 | Wei Ning | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.02 | |
| 4 | Zheng Hongyan | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.04 | |
| 5 |  France | Olivier Henaff | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.01 | ||
| 6 |  Slovenia | Irena Avbelj | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.04 | ||
| 7 | France | Philippe Valois | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.05 | ||
| 8 |  Czech Republic | Ivan Hovorka | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.20 | ||
| 9 | France | Valerie Vanhove | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | |||
| 10 | Slovenia | Borut Erjavec | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.15 | |||
| 11 |  United States | Cheryl Stearns | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.22 | |||
| 12 |  Poland | Monika Filipowska | 0.16 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.29 | |||
| 13 |  Japan | Katsuaki Nishi | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.35 | |||
| 14 | Kiyonori Yashiro | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.85 |
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