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World Hot Air Ballooning Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ9680979 ↗
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The World Hot Air Ballooning Championships are the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Hot Air Balloon Championship and the FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship. These biennial events for hot air ballooning are conducted under the direction of the FAI Ballooning Commission (CIA or Comité International d'Aérostation).

Championships

FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship

Team competition (since 2018)

FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2024 World Championships (excluding team competitions).

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This entry incorporates text from “World Hot Air Ballooning Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.