WATCH: Cleveland Native Wins Skydiving World Championships

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cavaliers are NBA champs, and the Indians are on the cusp of winning the Central Division and making the playoffs, and the Browns are not mathematically eliminated from the NFL playoffs just three weeks into the season. Cleveland is on a roll.

Add Cleveland native Andrew Starr's gold medal in 8-way formation skydiving at the 2016 World Parachuting Championships last week at Skydive Chicago to Cleveland's portfolio.

The World Championships drew more than 700 skydivers from 38 countries vying for the title of world champion in five different skydiving disciplines. In formation skydiving, teams of eight exit the airplane more than 2 miles above the ground and race against the clock to form a series of prescribed geometric formations in freefall before opening their parachutes. A videographer jumps with the team to capture the maneuvers for the judges on the ground.

Starr’s team, the U.S. Army Golden Knights, earned the prestigious opportunity to represent the United States at the World Championships at last year’s U.S. Parachute Association National Skydiving Championships. The team will return to the 2016 Nationals in late October at Skydive Arizona to defend its national champion title.

Starr, 31, has completed more than 6,000 skydives.

Check out the action in the video below:

About USPA

Founded in 1946 and celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the United States Parachute Association is a non-profit association dedicated to the promotion of safe skydiving nationwide, establishing strict safety standards, training policies and programs at more than 240 USPA-affiliated skydiving schools and centers throughout the United States. Each year, USPA’s 38,000 members and hundreds of thousands of first-time jump students make roughly 4 million jumps in the U.S. USPA represents skydivers before all levels of government, the public and the aviation industry and sanctions national skydiving competitions and records.

For more information on making a first jump or to find a skydiving center near you, visit www.uspa.org or call 800.371.USPA.

Photo by Chuck Aker