{"id":277876,"date":"2026-02-11T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:56:08","slug":"world-champion-wingsuit-skydiver-pierre-wolnik-dies-in-mont-blanc-parachute-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277876\/","title":{"rendered":"World champion wingsuit skydiver Pierre Wolnik dies in Mont Blanc parachute fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">The French Parachuting Federation announced his death on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Pierre Wolnik,\u201d the message read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPierre leaves behind the memory of a teammate whose presence will forever be etched in the hearts of his loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cToday, the entire sport parachuting community mourns and pays tribute to a young man renowned for his talent and his exceptional character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Wolnik won the world championship in 2022 and 2024 and was due to compete in this year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Although wingsuit fliers are known for base jumping, which is considered one of the most dangerous sports in the world, skydiving is usually relatively safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Depending on yearly variation, there is around 1 death per 200,000 to 400,000 jumps recorded in the US, according to the United States Parachute Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French Parachuting Federation announced his death on social media. \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we announce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,29160,6028,6179,7126,2837,121,12513,38117,4729,78,23902,156131,21524,111,139,69,5493,1523,156132,156129,93857,213,156128,156130,377],"class_list":["post-277876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-blanc","tag-champion","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-during","tag-fail","tag-failed","tag-frances","tag-highest","tag-in","tag-jump","tag-mont","tag-mountain","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-over","tag-parachute","tag-pierre","tag-skydiver","tag-sports","tag-wingsuit","tag-wolnik","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}