Minjae Kim wins MultiGP World Cup at International Open
A final-lap video crowned Minjae Kim at the sport’s biggest stage, after the World Cup Finals in Muncie drew 200 pilots from 13 countries.
The World Cup title was decided on the last lap, and that is exactly how Minjae Kim became the face of the 2026 International Open. MultiGP closed the event with a celebratory final-lap video naming Kim the new champion, turning the finish into more than a race result and into a statement about where FPV drone racing is headed.
The decisive run came during the World Cup Top 64 Finals on June 13 at AMA Headquarters in Muncie, Indiana, the centerpiece of a June 10-14 International Open that MultiGP billed as the world’s largest drone racing event. The scale mattered as much as the trophy. About 200 pilots from 13 countries were expected to compete, and the finals were staged as a live spectacle, with spectators welcomed June 12 and 13 and the World Cup Finals set for 6:00 p.m. Saturday.
Kim’s own message matched the weight of the moment. He said he had taken first place at the 2026 MultiGP World Cup IO and that the win felt like the payoff for hard work. That framing fit the way MultiGP presented the championship: not as a routine season finish, but as the culmination of a long, high-pressure run through the sport’s marquee international meet.
For MultiGP, the result also reinforced why the International Open sits at the center of its competitive calendar. The organization says it has more than 30,000 registered pilots and 500 active chapters worldwide, and the International Open functions as the annual place where that network converges under the biggest spotlight. In that setting, the World Cup title carries the weight of a true global proving ground, especially when it is settled in a final-lap moment rather than by a slow accumulation of points.
Kim now joins a championship lineage that includes Yuki Hashimoto in 2025, Illian Rousseau in 2024 and 2023, Min Chan Kim in 2022 and Evan Turner in 2021 on MultiGP’s Wall of Fame. That history gives this year’s win broader meaning: the International Open did not just produce another champion, it confirmed again that the World Cup remains the sport’s most visible test of pace, control and nerve.
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