{{Infobox tournament | name = The WindGames | image =The_Wind_Games_2018_Banner.jpg | caption = | sport =Indoor skydiving | location =Empuriabrava, Spain | start_date = <!-- or | date = or | month_played = --> | end_date = <!-- or | month_played = --> | established = 2014 | defunct = |broadcast={{YouTube|c=WINDOORREALFLYEMPURIABRAVA_1}}|website={{URL|https://www.windoor-realfly.com/en/windgames}}| number = | format = }}
The '''WindGames''' (formerly '''The Wind Games''') are annual indoor skydiving competitions hosted by Windoor, an operator of vertical wind tunnels.
== History == The first WindGames event took place in 2014 at Windoor's indoor skydiving facility in Empuriabrava, Spain, where every event has been held since. The WindGames includes Vertical Formation Skydiving, 4-way Formation Skydiving, 2-way Dynamic, 4-way Dynamic, Solo Speed, Freestyle and Freestyle Junior.<ref>{{Cite web |date= 27 June 2024|title=The WindGames |url=https://www.windoor-realfly.com/en/windgames/ |access-date=10 October 2025 |website=Windoor Realfly}}</ref>
In January 2016, The WindGames became the first major international competition to mandate a routine performed to music in their first Freestyle event.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=The musical rounds at the 3rd edition of the Wind Games catapulted tunnel flying into the public eye. |url=https://www.skydivemag.com/new/2016-01-28-the-big-bang/ |website=SkydiveMag |date=28 January 2016 }}</ref> This integration of music is credited with transforming the discipline; within 36 hours, the performances from the event went viral, bringing the sport to a mainstream audience for the first time.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dawn |first=Randee |title=Wind Games winner will blow you away with astounding aerial dance moves |url=http://www.today.com/news/wind-games-winner-will-blow-you-away-astounding-aerial-dance-t69111 |work=Today |date=26 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Maja Kuczynska: mucho más que un fenómeno viral |url=https://www.mundodeportivo.com/ocio/20160622/402684038898/maja-kuczynska-video-facebook-wind-games-2016-empuriabrava-windoor-wave-club.html |access-date=15 January 2026 |agency=Mundo Deportivo}}</ref> The format's impact continued in subsequent years, as a new generation of flyers achieved similar viral success and maintained the sport's visibility in the public eye.<ref>Henrik Brandt, [http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/wind-games-indoor-skydiver-goes-9767962 "Wind Games: Indoor skydiver goes viral with incredible freestyle routine"], ''Daily Record'', 6 February 2017 (video).</ref><ref>James Dator, [https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/2/7/14538810/wind-games-sport-windtunnel-video "Wind Games is the dopest, most beautiful sport you probably haven't heard of"], ''SB Nation'', 7 February 2017.</ref>
After an extended pause in events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The WindGames resumed in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Santos |first=Paulinha |date=19 September 2023 |title=The Return of the Wind Games! |url=https://www.skydivemag.com/new/the-return-of-the-wind-games/ |access-date=11 October 2025 |website=skydivemag.com}}</ref>
== Events == {| class="wikitable" !Year !Date !City !Videos |- |2014 |17–18 January |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrhnRTKOmRU] |- |2015 |23–24 January |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava | |- |2016 |21–23 January |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRyHcwqieNiI_p6vZoNn0tQpJCWzizFs&si=xN8844wkohS-SNWe] |- |2017 |3–4 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRyHcwqieNhvxpCx-fxx9xb54wlyLLfL] |- |2018 |1–3 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava | |- |2019 |31 January – 2 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRyHcwqieNgtQj3SxX2fHQjO5JUA4fbb] |- |2020 |30 January – 1 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/@thewindgames3055/playlists] |- |2024 |23–24 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGnrHXL3K4][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTz-X0B1Cw] |- |2025 |30 January – 1 February |{{Flag icon|Spain}} Empuriabrava |[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRyHcwqieNjWvFfop4DzmKR4urwa88YD] |}
== Medalists ==
=== Vertical Formation Skydiving === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 |Team 4 Speed |Transfert |Element |- |2015 |Avalon Realfly Sion | | |- |2016 |SDC Core |Avalon Realfly Sion |Transfert |- |2017 |SDC Core |Amudy |Flyspot Definition |- |2018 |SkyRiders |Esercito |4 amigos |- |2019 |Italy VFS Team |SkyRiders Flyspot VFS |Ycaro Speed |- |2020 |Full Speed |Esercito |Windoor Team |- |2024 |Windoor barcelona |Vertical Storm |Top Top Quality |- |2025 |Flyspot Synapses |VFS Warriors |Grip |}
=== 4-way Formation Skydiving === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Arizona Airspeed | |- |2015 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Arizona Airspeed |Gavroche |- |2016 | | | |- |2017 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Weembi Lille |Realfly Sion |- |2018 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Arizona Airspeed |Realfly Sion |- |2019 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Weembi High Rollers |Arizona Airspeed |- |2020 |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Arizona Airspeed |SDC Rhythm XP |- |2024 |Aethers Medjay |Qatar Tigers |NFTO |- |2025 |Aethers Medjay |NMP PCH HayaBusa |Tunnel Vision |}
=== 2-way Dynamic === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 | | | |- |2015 | | | |- |2016 | | | |- |2017 |Windobono |Hurricane Factory |Windoor Warriors |- |2018 |Vipers |Windoor GB |Aspire |- |2019 | | | |- |2020 | | | |- |2024 |Fanatics |Dodos |Eaglets |- |2025 |2WD Windoor |Windoor's Warriors Eaglets |Siro Gravity Windwerk |}
=== 4-way Dynamic === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 | | | |- |2015 | | | |- |2016 | | | |- |2017 |Windoor D4W |Friends 4 Eva |Guns & Waffles |- |2018 |Nemesis |Windoor Vengadores |Windoor Fighters |- |2019 | | | |- |2020 | | | |- |2024 |Kings of the Sky |Windwerk |Eaglets Fanatics Arena |- |2025 |Windoor Empuriabrava |Kings of the Sky |Guardians of the Galaxy |}
=== Solo Speed === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 | | | |- |2015 | | | |- |2016 | | | |- |2017 |Kyra Poh |Cesar Rico |Jamie Arnold |- |2018 |Cesar Rico |Andrzej Soltyk |Noah Wittenburg |- |2019 | | | |- |2020 | | | |- |2024 |James Rogers |Adrien Gallot |Lewis Hard |- |2025 |Adrien Gallot |Lewis Hard |Cesar Rico |}
=== Freestyle === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 | | | |- |2015 | | | |- |2016 |Leonid Volkov |Maja Kuczyńska |Guillaume Boileau |- |2017 |Kyra Poh |Jakub Harrer |Maja Kuczyńska |- |2018 |Kyra Poh |Kaleigh Wittenburg |Maja Kuczyńska |- |2019 | | | |- |2020 | | | |- |2024 |James Rogers |Evelina Kalugina |Daphny Morali |- |2025 |Daphny Morali |Harrison Noel Murdock |Johannes Heptner |}
=== Freestyle Junior === {{Incomplete list|date=October 2025}} {| class="wikitable" !Year ! style=background-color:gold | Gold ! style=background-color:silver | Silver ! style=background-color:#c96 | Bronze |- |2014 | | | |- |2015 | | | |- |2016 | | | |- |2017 | | | |- |2018 | | | |- |2019 | | | |- |2020 |Sydney Kennett |Kai Minejima Lee |Mate Feith |- |2024 |Sofiya Korkhina |Fuyuki Kono |Tacy Giacometti |- |2025 |Julia Schweizer |Melania Bociaga |Uliana Volynets |}
== See also == * Bodyflight * Indoor freestyle skydiving * Lise Hernandez Girouard
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == *Results (2014) *Results (2015) *Results (2016) *Results (2017) *[https://www.indoorskydiving.world/worlds-fastest-flyers-at-the-wind-games-2018/ Results (2018)] *[https://archive.intimescoring.com/InTime/InTimeMeetDetails.aspx?CID=38&DBID=1101&MID=28&IT=1 Results (2019)] *Results (2020) *[https://www.skydivemag.com/new/wind-games-2024/ Results (2024)] *[https://paramag.fr/a-windoor-empuriabrava/ Results (2025)]
Category:Annual sporting events Category:Recurring sporting events established in 2014 Category:2014 establishments in Spain