Svetlana Kapanina is a Russia

Russia

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n aerobatic pilot.

Biography

She started flying in 1988.
In 1995 she graduated from Kaluga

Kaluga

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 aeronautical technical school.

She is now living in Moscow

Moscow

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 with her husband and two children.

Achievements in aerobatics

Kapanina was World Aerobatic Champion in the women's category in 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, and 2005, and has won the title more times than any other pilot in the category.
Additionally, she was overall World Air Games

World Air Games

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 Champion in 1997 and 2001.

Together with Mikhail Mamistov

Mikhail Mamistov

Mikhail Mamistov, born 26 April 1961 in Leningrad, is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot.-Glider Aerobatics:He won the FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships 1995 and 1997, and the FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships 1996....

 and Oleg Spolyansky, she won the team gold medal in the 16th FAI European Aerobatic Championships 2008 in Hradec Králové

Hradec Králové

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 (Czech Republic). She placed fourth overall and was best female participant.

Awards

In 1997, she received the Paul Tissandier Diploma by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

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 (FAI). In 2005 she was awarded the Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen

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 Medal
and the Centenary Medal by the FAI.

See also

• Competition aerobatics
  Competition aerobatics
  Competition aerobatics is an air sport in which judges rate the skill of pilots performing aerobatic flying. It is practiced in both piston-powered single-engine airplanes and gliders....
  
  
• FAI World Aerobatic Championships
• FAI European Aerobatic Championships
  FAI European Aerobatic Championships
  The FAI European Aerobatic Championship is an aerobatic competition held biennially, alternating with the World Aerobatic Championship.- Individual winners:- Winners by teams :- Bibliography :* * - See also :*FAI World Aerobatic Championships...
  
  

External links

• Official website (Russian only)
• Aerobatics results, Svetlana Kapanina
• smugmug: article on Svetlana Kapanina to appears in Aero Australia Magazine #12
• Aerobatics website with Svetlana Kapanina videos

Videos

• http://www.baxterfield.com/images/Video/haute_voltige.wmv
• http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/Ryzg/418/