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Red Bull Paper Wings is a worldpaper airplane championship which is held byRed Bull under the rules developed by the Paper Aircraft Association. From the late winter through spring,[when?] a series of qualifiers occur. The results of these qualifiers determine who will represent the national team in the world finals in May. The competition was first held in 2006. Contestants from over 99 countries from around the world qualified for the 2009 competition. The third Red Bull Paper Wings world finals took place on May 4–5, 2012. The final round of the competition takes place in Red Bull'sHangar 7 inSalzburg,Austria, and is monitored byGuinness Book of World Records officials.
The competition crowns champions in three categories: distance, hangtime, and aerobatics.[1]
The two-time defending champion of the Paper Wings Distance competition is Ronin Ivan fromSplit, Croatia.
Until the most recent competition in 2022, the United States has had 15 representatives (5 in each of the 3 disciplines: time aloft, distance, and aerobatics). In 2022, this number was reduced to 7 (3 in distance, 3 in time aloft, and 1 in aerobatics). In the United States, there are multiple local qualifiers which correspond to 1 of 3 regions: east, west, and south. Winners of local qualifiers will compete in a national final. The top qualifier for distance and time aloft from each national final will represent the United States in the world finals. As for aerobatics, participants are judged from a submitted online video. The participant with the most votes will represent the United States in the aerobatics category.
The next Red Bull Paper Wings championship will likely take place in 2025.
| Event | 1st place | 2nd place |
|---|---|---|
| Distance |  Jake Hardy |  Lazar Krstić |
| Hangtime |  Cameron Clark |  Vince Scholl |
| Aerobatics |  Kateryna Ahafonova |  Seng Fatt Beh |
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| Event | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | Lazar Krstić |  Yicheng Sun |  Abduaziz Omonillaev |
| Hangtime |  Rana Muhammad Usman Saeed |  Esteban Neira |  Dmitri Dimitrev |
| Aerobatics |  Seunghoon Lee | Seng Fatt Beh |  Taiga Kimura |
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