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Thermik Fair 2020

January 10, 2020, 8:06:28 EST

Thermik Fair 2020

Alex Ploner talk

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|PG

Regina Glas writes:

On Saturday, January 18th,  2020, the Thermik fair will take place in Stuttgart as part of the CMT. You can see the news in paragliding sport, flight instruments and accessories. But also in the hang gliding area there are highlights such as the  flight simulator with 3 D glasses and the lecture "silent about the Alps" by hang gliding flight world champion Alex Ploner and German Actor Steffen Wink. More info on www.thermikmesse.de

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Ploner

December 5, 2019, 7:46:58 MST

Ploner

The Champion

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|video

https://youtu.be/IIkirK-K6Dw

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020

Tue, Nov 26 2019, 7:28:57 am PST

25 Apr, 2020 - 01 May, 2020, Travesio/Meduno, Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/info/details__info

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy, at its 4th edition, is a FAI 2 competition (Hang Gliding class 1, class 5, Sport class) which takes place in a flight zone well known by European pilots. It is also part of the big flying area which have hosted the XXII Hang Gliding World Championship.

The flight area is mainly in the foothill but, depending on weather conditions, it is possible to fly also in the Alps and in the flatland. There are different takeoffs; two of them are in Slovenia and can be chosen in case of changeable weather.

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Alex Ploner »

November 21, 2019, 8:25:59 PST

Alex Ploner

In German

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|video

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2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

August 18, 2019, 5:18:48 pm CDT

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Final Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|competition|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Italian Open 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Europeans 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

Task 5:

# Name Glider Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER icaro laminar z9 1000
2 ANTON MORODER icaro 2000 laminar 13 933
3 VALENTINO BAU ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 925
4 LORENZO DE GRANDIS Icaro z9 915
5 TULLIO GERVASONI Wills Wing T3 879
6 MARCO LAURENZI Icaro Laminar 824
7 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 821
8 ROBERTO FERIGO moyes rx14 750
9 YEVGEN BUBLYK Aeros Combat GT 12.4 730
10 MYKOLA POLOVYY Aeros Combat 13.5GT 697

Final Results:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER icaro laminar z9 1000 1000 1000 744 1000 4744
2 MARCO LAURENZI Icaro Laminar 853 899 876 745 824 4197
3 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 853 816 848 700 821 4038
4 EVGEN LYSENKO Aeros Combat 12.7C 852 875 946 709 567 3949
5 Pedro L. Garcia Wills Wing T3 144 790 823 807 729 612 3761
6 ROLAND WOEHRLE Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 PRO 853 700 795 704 478 3530
7 LORENZO DE GRANDIS Icaro z9 560 455 840 703 915 3473
8 VALENTINO BAU ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 605 470 938 487 925 3425
9 VANNI ACCATTOLI Moyes rx4 pro 853 406 810 715 605 3389
10 TULLIO GERVASONI Wills Wing T3 847 406 835 178 879 3145

Almost a perfect score.

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

August 15, 2019, 5:56:41 pm CDT

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Montecucco

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|competition|Davide Guiducci|Italian Open 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Europeans 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ITA icaro laminar z9 1000 1000 1000 3000
2 EVGEN LYSENKO UKR Aeros Combat 12.7C 852 875 946 2673
3 MARCO LAURENZI ITA Icaro Laminar 853 899 876 2628
4 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 853 816 848 2517
5 PEDRO L. GARCIA USA Wills Wing T3 144 790 823 807 2420
6 ROLAND WOEHRLE GER Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 PRO 853 700 795 2348
7 TULLIO GERVASONI ITA Wills Wing T3 847 406 835 2088
8 VANNI ACCATTOLI ITA Moyes rx4 pro 853 406 810 2069
9 VALENTINO BAU ITA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 605 470 938 2013
10 ANTON MORODER ITA icaro 2000 laminar 13 771 452 766 1989

The competition lasts through the 18th.

2019 Worlds »

July 26, 2019, 12:13:01 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the last task on Friday

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Flavio Tebaldi|Gary Wirdnam|John Simon|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Last task:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar GER 02:55:12 925
2 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 02:50:17 911
3 Christian Ciech ITA 02:52:04 883
4 Gerd Doenhuber GER 03:05:26 866
5 Gary Wirdnam GBR 03:10:29 833
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 03:16:45 785
7 Filippo Oppici ITA 03:16:03 781
8 Glauco Pinto BRA 03:16:40 775
9 Alessandro Ploner ITA 03:16:58 771
10 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 03:17:13 765

Final Results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 8156
2 Christian Ciech ITA 8073
3 Primoz Gricar GER 7951
4 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 7635
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 7586
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 7463
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 7351
8 Grant Crossingham GBR 7219
9 Filippo Oppici ITA 7150
10 Gerd Doenhuber GER 7134

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/26/trionfo-azzurro-ai-mondiali-di-deltaplano-doppietta-nellindividuale-con-ploner-e-ciech-vittoria-nella-classifica-a-squadre-la-sesta-consecutiva/

The last task of the XXII Hang Gliding World Championships, which saw the triumph of the Azzurra expedition led by team leader Flavio Tebaldi both in the individual and team rankings, has just ended.

On the eve of the last task, Italy came from a "control" day, as explained by Tebaldi himself: "We are excited about the result achieved, it was not at all easy to place this one-two - it was our team leader. National - The first few days went just fine and we confiscated important points in view of the final rush that we knew to be dangerous because the opponents would have become familiar with the skies of Friuli Venezia Giulia and consequently they would have given us a hard time. With the advantage accumulated, on Wednesday we preferred to stay in the group in order not to risk, considering also the weather conditions and so we managed to impose ourselves with Ploner and Ciech in general, while in the fundamental team ranking was the contribution of everyone, including the boys that did not bring points but gave us an immense hand in terms of communication: victory is also due to them. I allow myself to make the media aware, because this is an amazing team, perhaps the most medal in the Italian scene, with ten world titles and six consecutive teams, eight individuals (if we count the four earned in the rigid wings) and five Europeans: I believe that these numbers and these guys deserve more respect and consideration".

Today's last scheduled task saw the riders travel 101 km, launching from Mount Cuarnan and then landing at the San Mauro airfield in Premariacco, a town near the enchanting Cividale del Friuli. For statistics lovers, the organizers in this world have succeeded in proposing three different take-offs and landings, thus being able to prepare days of competition with the highest competitiveness, with a weather that has almost always kissed Friuli Venezia Giulia and with a virtually unanimous consensus regarding the quality of the work performed.

Considering the serious risk of thunderstorms that were spreading from Cadore towards Carnia with possible involvement of the high Friuli plain even before evening (among other things with winds coming from different directions), the day's buoys were placed towards Spilimbergo, Cividale del Friuli and Osoppo, with a final landing as mentioned in Premariacco. Immediately after the start, a group of pilots preferred to go into the mountains to avoid being in trouble then; a second one instead, has taken the shortest and fastest way on the plain, going however in difficulty after a few kilometers. Finally, a handful of deltaplanists have decided to take advantage of the second start gate and we talk about the Italians Selenati and Ciech, Majors (USA) and Oliveira (BRA): risky decision considering the day but by real bold, hoping to be able to repeat what happened in task 5 with the victory of John Simon (USA), which took place using this tactic.

After just over 30' of the race, the task immediately made it clear to everyone that it would not be a final catwalk, with several pilots closing their world prematurely and among them also the Colombian fort Velez, landed while he was in sixth position. The leaders of the day, flying at a very good altitude above 1600m on average, was formed among others by Smith, Ruhmer, Peter Neuenschwander, Doenhuber and Gricar (with Germany therefore in full fight for the podium), with the Swiss who in short he managed to amplify his advantage over his pursuers proceeding at a rapid pace. Ruhmer found himself in difficulty at an altitude of 400m, finding a thermal not easy to turn and being thus forced to a rather long stop. For Italy, Ciech and Ploner preferred the risk share in the early stages, unlike Kato who found himself in great difficulty. Good race also for Brazil with Rocha, Sandoli and Pinto, present in the top ten and decided to take home the silver in the team standings.

With more than thirty drivers out of goal, the remainder took the leap to shift their trajectory from the plains to the mountains and someone has even trespassed into Slovenia desperately searching for thermals near the buoy near Cividale: Throssell and Mckay have so quickly climbed over all the drivers further south of them, proceeding more than 70km/h towards Osoppo, with the leading group led by Neuenschwander (in front practically throughout the race), Gricar, Doenhuber and Wirdnam. In the meantime, our Ciech and Ploner have come to light and especially for the Folgaria athlete (among his other victories we remember eight times Italian champion), the possibility of climbing over to General Ploner, having exploited the second start window.

At 20km from the finish, Neuenschwander stopped to regain altitude, aware of the fact that a stop would probably have allowed him to close the goal in first position and quickly gaining altitude and speed; Gricar tried to close the gap, thus re-proposing the challenge already experienced at the end of task 9, but finding Doenhuber with breath on his neck. At 5km from the goal, the Swiss had to beat around having too low a altitude, with Gricar at his heels with more than 800m of difference, ready to anticipate him right on top. Neuenschwander continued undaunted but lowered to 150m at 1.8km from San Mauro, hitting the last cylinder but landing incredibly: it was the first big error in the evaluation of the champion that didn't stop him from finishing second anyway. The task was won by the German Gricar, delayed by a few kilometers, who succeeded in bringing home heavy points for Germany together with his teammate Doenhuber. Third is our Ciech, who, starting with the second window, flew very well, but was unable to overtake his fellow countryman Alessandro Ploner, who thus took home the third individual world title after those of 2009 and 2011, with Italy manages to place also the strong Filippo Oppici in the top ten.

The Italian team:

2019 Worlds »

July 24, 2019, 1:26:35 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the eighth task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Ian Smith|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019|Zac Majors

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Task eight:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:00:09 977
2 Primoz Gricar GER 01:59:16 968
3 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 02:03:30 917
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:06:34 875
5 Roland Woehrle GER 02:06:43 870
6 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:07:16 864
7 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 02:06:55 857
8 Franz Herrmann SUI 02:07:34 847
8 Andrew Hollidge GBR 02:07:26 847
10 Daniel Velez COL 02:07:19 845

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/24/gricar-anticipa-ruhmer-a-pochi-chilometri-dal-goal-terzo-neuenschwander-italia-fuori-dalla-top-ten/

Greet the Alps that yesterday served as the backdrop for the “infinite” flight of the protagonists of the XXII edition of the Hang Gliding World Championships, the ninth task returned completely to Italy, with a length of 95.5 km to travel from Monte Valinis to Bordon.

The race direction opted for a flight day in the south-western area of Friuli Venezia Giulia, with buoys in Montereale Valcellina, Malnisio and Pian del Cansiglio before the long return to Bordano, anticipated by the last turning point near Buja.

The pilots were able to follow - at least in the initial phase - a line on the mountain ridges, which allowed quite high speeds at the expense of not too generous quotas (in general it flew at 5-600m, much lower than yesterday due to the lack of good thermals).

The first to cross the buoy near Montereale were the Swiss Peter Neuenschwander (author of a very interesting World Championship so far and currently sixth in the individual classification with 5807 points), Franz Hermann and Zac Majors (also yesterday brought to light in the initial phases), however, having to stop before the Piancavallo to take altitude, finding one of the best thermals of the day of about 4m/s.

Ruhmer, the Canadian Smith and also our young Laurenzi, then carried on trying to escape to the Pian del Cansiglio, deviating on the fastest trajectory over the plain, gaining about 3km on the pursuers but having then to make height and consequently re-enter on the own steps. The group formed by the Italians Ciech, Ploner, Oppici, the Brazilians Sandoli and Pinto, Neuenschwander and Ruhmer, managed to climb up to 500m, finding a good current above Castello di Aviano, with Laurenzi having to beaten but managing to recover soon afterwards and turning the buoy near the Piancavallo in the first positions at a reasonable speed.

In the long return to Buja, the competitors have in fact alternated the plain with the mountain, to find the right compromise that would guarantee them adequate speed and altitude without losing too much time. Meanwhile, yesterday's splendid winner Eduardo Oliveira was reported in difficulty, perhaps tried by the fatigues of task 8, which required considerable energy expenditure for all; even worse it went to the Italian Selenati, who played it all for opting for the second start, pulling as much as he could, but unfortunately landing beforehand: a praise, however, due to his resourcefulness.

In the vicinity of Meduno, Ruhmer and Laurenzi have chosen two slightly different trajectories but for both of them the first real moment of difficulty occurred in this world, desperately forced to look for altitude above Clauzzetto. Ruhmer managed to climb the 600m while Laurenzi, after having seriously risked landing outside the goal, entered an appreciable thermal. It went better to the pursuer group formed by Ciech, Kato, Ploner, Pinto, Velez and Oppici, who over Travesio, opting for a line on the ridges, have reached a safety altitude of about 1000m of altitude guaranteeing the possibility of flying calmly until next turning point and then aim directly at landing.

The turning point came a few kilometers later: while most of the pilots, once they gained altitude, deviated towards the south, Neuenschwander and Gricar preferred to continue turning a thermal, which led them to lengthen the route a bit, but allowing them to launch later a few minutes at crazy speed towards Buja's last buoy. On the way to Bordano, a few kilometers away as the crow flies, Ruhmer (who in the meantime had taken the reins of the "paying" group but about 200m above sea level against the Swiss-Austrian duo) was overtaken at more than 80km/h from Gricar, who has thus flown in goal by touching the ground of the landing field first, anticipating the same Ruhmer and Neuenschwander. "Tactical" day for Italy, with Ploner and Ciech respectively sixteenth and seventeenth: waiting for the publication of the official rankings, we will have to watch our back in the last task from Gricar, Alonzi, Crossingham and Neunschwander (these last four fighting for at least for the last step of the podium). Instead, the situation in the team standings should be calmer, where our Azzurri had 1922 points ahead of Brazil and 2326 of Germany ahead of today's task, now winner with Gricar and fifth with Woehrle. Here too the battle for third place is on, with Germany at 16828 points, Japan at 16447 points and Austria at 16387 points, obviously after this task.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 7385
2 Christian Ciech ITA 7190
3 Primoz Gricar GER 7026
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 6852
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 6724
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 6678
7 Grant Crossingham GBR 6634
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 6586
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 6454
10 Filippo Oppici ITA 6369

2019 Worlds »

July 23, 2019, 7:09:09 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the seventh task, day nine

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|photo|record|Suan Selenati|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019|Zac Majors

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Malcolm Brown writes:

Goal field at the Hang Gliding World Championships in northern Italy. I'm feeling tired after 5 hours flying and a 201km flight to goal. This probably ranks as one of my most memorable flights in 30 years of flying hang gliders. The mountains we flew over today are absolutely stunning. I had my doubts about coming here but I was so wrong.

Matjaz Klemencic writes:

Big task was called today at 200 km taking us from Cercivento north to Austria, over Greifenburg, then to Sillian and back to a bit further from Hermagor. I got to the takeoff where at briefing I noticed my Oudie didn't charge yesterday. I must have mistakenly put the cable in and it was 50% battery was ready for 200km. I managed to charge it a bit with power bank from Evan, thank you so much for that.

Since I was running around making this all happen I somehow managed to make a bigger start cylinder which put me back already at start. I flew quite good after and was with Manfred and rest of the gang after Greifenburg. Here the decision of the day was made as we flew over the valley into shitty area with slow speed and horrifying place to fly over so low. I lost the group and had scratched the ridge to get to the Sillian turnpoint.

Then I flew back to Lienz where I got to 3000m and the direct line was tempting again. I crossed the ridge at about 20 m and found out the landing areas are quite further out then expected. Quite some struggle but I made it out of the trap and went ridge racing towards Hermagor. I was too happy with the nice lift on the way and flew to easily only to find that last part is in complete shade and without any lift. I decked in at about 10k short.

Pilots took other lines that were far better today so I am once again not really happy with my performance. Every day I start good, fly a part with good gaggle but somehow I lose the tempo and get myself somewhere in some shitty place. At least I got my wing to climb well today finally, did some strange settings on my wing with turning things the opposite way it should be. Cost me quite some climbing during the race. Now resting time as tomorrow is yet another task.

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Eduardo Oliveira BRA 04:17:20 986
2 Grant Crossingham GBR 04:20:13 956
3 Primoz Gricar GER 04:21:40 938
4 Alessandro Ploner ITA 04:36:04 868
5 Filippo Oppici ITA 04:36:15 864
6 Genki Tanaka JPN 04:36:57 854
7 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 04:35:52 846
8 Mario Alonzi FRA 04:37:38 845
9 Christian Ciech ITA 04:39:46 842
10 Gerd Doenhuber GER 04:40:12 836

Eduardo, Grant and Primoz got way ahead of everyone else. Manfred landed out, or so the scoring says so. U have him landing at goal. Maybe he missed a turnpoint?

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/23/il-brasile-nella-task-piu-lunga-del-mondiale-suona-la-carica-con-oliveira-secondo-in-goal-crossingham-terzo-gricar/

"When the going gets tough the tough begin to play." In the aftermath of the extraordinary feat of the Italian Alex Ploner, who in fact dominated task 7 with a masterpiece of wit and tactical wisdom seasoned with a clear knowledge of the Friulian skies, the race direction opted for a task not only incredibly long (well over 200km) but even with a landing outside the Italian borders, in neighboring Austria. The dress rehearsals had already been staged a few days ago, with the turning point of task 4 - won from the Alto Cassino di San Cassiano - in the area of Caporetto, in Slovenia. The pilots unanimously asked to be able to engage in even more demanding flights and, once the weather allowed safety on all fronts, they were satisfied with a real mission to the limit of the impossible.

Before moving on to the story of the day, one can not but spend words of praise for Flyve, AeroClub Italia and AeroClub Lega Piloti, who with so many efforts have succeeded in giving to protagonists and enthusiasts something never experienced before even in the maximum expression of this sport , or the world championship competition. Absolute novelty also that concerning the take-off: the nearly 120 remaining in the race have "tasted" today another characteristic mountain of Carnia and precisely the Monte Crostis, Valsecca, in the municipality of Ravascletto, taking flight already from a very high altitude at 1900m . Another wonderful place from which they were able to admire a breathtaking panorama, an appetizer of an epic challenge that surely wrote a page about the history of hang gliding.

The Czech Dan Vyhnalik was among the first to come out in the direction of the first mark; the Dutch Tanzer together with the American Zac Majors, opted instead for a different trajectory. Selenati, after about twenty minutes of the race, took the reins of the flight with speeds that reached almost 90km/h and over, taking advantage of the positive effects of the mountain ranges of the district, trying to imitate yesterday's exploits of compatriot Ploner.

The Colombian Daniel Velez together with the Czech Peter Polach (who delighted the public during the daily live broadcast with live images from his hang glider), closed the gap in a short time, as Selenati was forced to stop to gain overtaken share from the big group positioned higher than him. Having left to make the difference and seek redemption, the strong Friulian had to surrender after a few kilometers, landing unfortunately out of goal. At the turning point in the area of Emberg, where practically everyone arrived following the optimized line, the first to turn was the Swiss Neuenschwander, followed by the Japanese Nagusa, Velez, Smith, Polach and also by our Christian Ciech, second in general individual at 168 points from compatriot Ploner.

Another Japanese person came to light shortly after and we talk about Minoru Kato: taking advantage of one of the classic flying styles of gliders called in technical jargon "a dolphin" (which allows not having to search for thermals flying in fact directed towards the goal at variable speed), was the first to gain the third buoy, followed by Polach, Klemencic, Gricar, Ruhmer, Ploner and the young but enterprising Manuel Revelli, later forced to abandon hostilities even before so many others, a clear sign of the great difficulties today. On the long journey to the cylinder including the area of Sillian, a municipality in the Upper Val Pusteria in East Tyrol, the group fragmented and Neuenschwander also opted for a very different line than the head line which instead preferred the trajectory more short.

Ciech, Ruhmer, Klemencic, Ploner, Oppici and the German Gerd Doenhuber composed the head of the race, advancing more than 90 km/h along the crest of the mountains. The Swiss, with great intuition, has accumulated more than 1000m of difference compared to the others, flying sent to over 105km/h and soon rejoining at the head of the race. As happened to Revelli, in the vicinity of this buoy even the strong Brazilian Glauco Pinto had to land, as did Selenati (see above) and Tanzer who had to say goodbye practically at the same time to dreams of glory.

Meanwhile, the splendid day allowed Markel Neiderman of Sweden to reach 4049m of altitude on his Combat GT, practically a record in this World Championship. A few dozen kilometers from the finish, the head of the race - who chose the optimized trajectory - was formed by the Japanese Kato and among others by the Brazilian Oliveira, by the English Crossingham, by the Germans Woehrle and Gricar, by the French Pollet and Alonzi and from our Oppici and Ploner.

Before the final sprint, at Hermagor (minus 25km on arrival), Gricar and Oliviera opted for full altitude (with thermals of even 6m/s); Minoru Kato together with Pollet, authors of a superlative performance up to that point, instead found themselves in great difficulty losing altitude and for the Japanese there was nothing to do but land before their due, when there was very little to the goal. The Brazilian has thus concluded in first goal after more than four hours of flight (entirely covered by the live broadcast on the official FB page), followed by Crossingham and Gricar. First of the Italians in goal Ploner (fifth) followed by Oppici: Brazil plays the charge and warns our National team, called to defend the 1825 points that separated it from the South Americans at the end of yesterday's task. There will be fun and the last two days of competition (we remind you that from tomorrow to tomorrow the final day of rest will take place and for this reason we invite you to follow the updates on the official FB page) will announce themselves not suitable for the faint of heart.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 6554
2 Christian Ciech ITA 6360
3 Primoz Gricar GER 6058
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 5977
5 Grant Crossingham GBR 5827
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 5807
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 5785
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 5701
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 5673
10 Yuji Suzuki JPN 5553

2019 Worlds »

July 22, 2019, 10:39:20 MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the sixth task, day eight

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|John Smith|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|weather|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:41:51 982
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:45:14 942
3 Filippo Oppici ITA 02:51:42 887
4 Primoz Gricar GER 02:52:15 886
5 Christian Ciech ITA 02:52:51 876
6 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:54:19 873
7 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:54:22 860
8 Dan Vyhnalik CZE 02:56:45 857
9 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 02:54:55 854
10 Daniel Velez COL 02:58:16 853

Alex hung with Christian and Manfred but always 1000' or so higher as they approached the second to last turnpoint. When the three of them out in front of all the other pilots headed toward goal (and the last little turnpoint) Christian was a bit too low as was Manfred. Alex with his extra altitude just kept going and was able to get there three to 1 minutes earlier. Extra altitude helps.

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Start from Mount Cuarnan and after a few kilometers, all the pilots have opted for the full altitude on the nearby and well-known Chiampon, an area that usually always gives very good thermals.

At the "ready to go" Peter Polach (Czech Republic), Mario Alonzi (Brazil), Daniel Velez (Colombia), Yuji Suzuki (Japan) and an Australian athlete, at important speeds already over 80 km/h. Selenati, as has often happened in these days from deep knowledge of the Friulian skies, has almost immediately set a different trajectory, followed also by other pilots.

Proceeding towards the first two buoys located in the area of Treppo Carnico and in that of Rigolato, a group including the Polish Przezdziak has managed to gain altitude, seizing a thermal with values higher than 7m/s able to lead them to almost 2800m of quote.

At the first turn point Arne Tanzer (the Dutch fort once again came to light) showed up; behind him, among others, Daniel Velez, John Smith (New Zealand), Galovec, Peternel and Klemencic for Slovenia and Gervasoni for Italy. Velez was able to immediately dig a discreet groove, taking the reins of the task in the direction of Rigolato, also flying over the "Kaiser" or the Monte Zoncolan, climbed yesterday by many indomitable cyclists participating in the Gran Fondo "Carnia Classic Fuji - Zoncolan".

In a real alpine flight, most of the pilots immediately understood how fundamental it was to continue to gain altitude: to confirm this, before flying over the Fella, several stopped to look for "breath" and at the top of the race the Austrian Ruhmer is brought along with Alonzi and Velez, with Ploner to lead the blue patrol.

In order to avoid unpleasant surprises, at Gemona, most have abandoned the shorter trajectory above the plain, thus flying over the Regional Natural Park of the Julian Prealps, following the ridge that develops for about 50km and that in favorable weather conditions such as those of today, allowed everyone to maintain a safety quota up to the cylinder placed near Slovenia. However, some of the men of the standings have tried to follow the low profile: among them the Slovenian Matjaz Klemencic, the Czech Peter Polach and the Polish Przezdziak, making it very difficult to continue.

In the skies between Nimis and Attimis, while some pilots were forced to land out of goal considering the very selective task (including Przezdziak himself), Italy took command of the flight thanks to Ciech and Ploner. The meteorological situation was fully captured by the leading group, which turned the last buoy a little further away than the optimized line but with stronger thermal guarantees and greater altitude. On the way back to Bordano, when there were only 20km to go, Ploner managed to get Ruhmer and Ciech off the ground by scoring first with a spectacular tack that sent shivers down the ground. Only the Austrian, detached by about 4 'resisted, because from the third onwards the detachments became heavy beyond 10', demonstrating the superlative task carried out by the South Tyrolean. Another Italian, Filippo Oppici, completed the podium with an excellent performance and the German Primoz Gricar came fourth, with Ciech delayed by the lack of "fuel" on the most beautiful but author of a splendid fifth place.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 5686
2 Christian Ciech ITA 5518
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 5511
4 Mario Alonzi FRA 5132
5 Primoz Gricar GER 5120
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 5034
7 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 4961
8 Suan Selenati ITA 4941
9 Grant Crossingham GBR 4871
10 Marco Laurenzi ITA 4837

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July 20, 2019, 10:34:21 MDT

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A flatland task for the fifth task on the sixth day

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The task:

But most pilots used the hills to find lift then scoot across the flats and back to the hills, showing that the "optimized" course is not necessarily the best course.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 John Simon USA 02:12:57 885
2 Arne Tanzer NED 02:25:32 880
3 Gerd Doenhuber GER 02:25:53 859
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 02:25:31 851
5 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:25:38 848
6 Daniel Velez COL 02:25:44 845
7 Minoru Kato JPN 02:27:28 835
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:27:12 831
9 Primoz Gricar GER 02:26:27 828
9 Christian Ciech ITA 02:27:18 828

John Simon took the second clock twenty five minutes after the 1:45 PM clock. He was 21st into goal.

Nene and Georg Schweier landed in the river bed just outside the goal cylinder getting within 90 and 40 meters respectively. They both made the end of speed section. Their distance points were very slightly less than those who made goal, but their speed points were reduced by 20 percent.

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After the grueling day yesterday (much appreciated by all the pilots also for the encroachment in Slovenia that gave them unique scenarios), today's task has developed from the Valinis mountain to the by now tested Bordano landing, with a covered length of almost 100km, practically all on the plain.

Three buoys are planned, with a sort of "zig zag": after taking off from Valinis, the pilots headed towards the area between Povoletto and Cividale del Friuli (a very large cylinder) and then headed towards Rivoli di Osoppo, Tarcento and finally return to Bordano at the landing field.

The start of today's task has been of fundamental importance since it causes a very different weather situation from yesterday (damp air in the lower layers has led to a reduction in the cumulative base altitude of 1500-1700m against even 2300m yesterday, not allowing pilots to develop immediately a lot of altitude as pointed out by Damiano Zanocco weather manager), the pilots immediately had to choose between the way of the plain (faster but very risky today) and the one that skirted the hills (longer but more likely to find thermal).

A group of about ten pilots opted for the "low street", but the choice was rather risky because after a few kilometers more than someone, including the New Zealander Matthew Barlow, they were forced to land early in the Buja area. The most correct intuition turned out to be that of the group of the best in the standings, with - among others - the Austrian Ruhmer (yesterday penalized for an early start), the Italians Ploner, Laurenzi and Ciech, the Slovenian Klemencic, who proceeded towards the first target at about 1000m altitude with a speed of 55 km/h. Among them were the two Japanese Tanaka and Sunama and the Brazilian top pilot Glauco Pinto, who went on to form the leading group together with the German Woehrle and Ruhmer himself.

In the return to Rivoli di Osoppo, the Dutchman Arne Tanzer, who in a previous task had given a hard time to his opponents, who has opted to fly over the flat area not without risks, forced to stop before reach the second buoy in a desperate search for altitude to continue his adventure. Even the Italian Suan Selenati chose this strategy, managing to maintain an altitude of 500m but still struggling to find altitude.

Pinto, Woehrle and Selenati have won it by turning around the second turn with the best time and continuing the race, or rather the flight, towards Tarcento after about an hour and forty minutes.

In fact, a situation has emerged with three groups: the one farther north that managed to make a great deal, the central one that touched the second mark in the first position and the one further south, which instead took longer to tack towards the last turn point. On the way to Tarcento, once it has gained enough altitude, the small group of Ciech, Ruhmer, Tanzer and Laurenzi veered towards the route chosen by Pinto, Woehrle and Selenati, in the hope of being able to proceed without the last obstacle. Further stops towards Bordano. Between Artegna and Magnano many pilots have benefited from the so-called "service pump", that is a very strong thermal that usually develops in these areas and that allowed the Colombian Daniel Velez to take the lead allatask towards the final part of the race, followed by Tanzer and the Italian Marco Laurenzi, once again among the leaders albeit at his second experience in a world championship, a high hopeful driver for our national team. The Austrian Ruhmer, the Italian Ploner, the Germans Gricar and Doenhuber and the same Laurenzi have embarked on a thrilling pursuit of Velez, with Ruhmer who hired a great duel with the Colombian at around 15km from the finish overtaking and counter-passing, managing to win and quickly gaining precious seconds.

The most beautiful surprise for the public was the group that presented itself above Bordano fighting for the success of the day, made up of more than ten hang gliders that at speeds greater than 100 km/h gave great excitement to the fans: the Dutch Tanzer and the Italians Laurenzi and Ploner were the first three pilots to touch the ground, under the watchful eyes of the team leader Flavio Tebaldi who thus demonstrated, once again if there was any need, the great technical skills capable of getting the off to the Azzurri in the various rankings.

Cumulative:

Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 4704
2 Christian Ciech ITA 4642
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 4569
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 4411
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 4259
6 Primoz Gricar GER 4234
7 Suan Selenati ITA 4191
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 4180
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 4123
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 4075

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July 19, 2019, 11:19:34 MDT

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Results from the fourth task

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Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 02:45:45 995
2 Christian Ciech ITA 02:47:56 964
3 Primoz Gricar GER 02:48:47 952
4 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 02:48:14 944
5 Glauco Pinto BRA 02:49:19 939
6 Mario Alonzi FRA 02:50:39 920
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 02:52:40 903
8 Genki Tanaka JPN 03:02:04 847
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA 03:02:06 846
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 03:02:14 842

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Tolmezzo, 19th July 2019

In the longest task of this world championship to date, Italy is still a team to beat. Great is the Brazilian Pinto who redeems the landing out of the third day.

After the stop imposed yesterday due to adverse weather that has actually anticipated the rest day (required by regulation after six consecutive tasks), the XXII World Championship of hang-gliding organized among others by Flyve, Aec Lega Piloti and AeroClub Italia is resumed today with the fourth task, which in the usual morning briefing saw the change of take-off location on Mount Cuarnan near Gemona del Friuli. For the landing instead, once again the Bordano airfield was confirmed, one of the many countries (together with Gemona of course) that on the evening of 6 May 1976 it was razed to the ground by the terrible earthquake, but like all Friuli knew be reborn in a short time and leave again.

Today's task was very demanding, at the moment the longest of the World Championship with almost 143km to go all in one go, with Italy called to defend first place in the team general with 8503 points (according to Brazil with 7746 and third Germany with 7367), as well as the individual where in the order Ploner, Ciech, Selenati and Laurenzi find themselves in the top five positions with a single “intruder” the never-Austrian Austrian Ruhmer, ninth in the FAI ranking and holder of ten world titles.

After the splendid departure from Cuarnan (admired by many people with the "upturned nose" from Gemona del Friuli), the first buoy a few kilometers away was that of Artegna, where our Ciech passed first and left behind the Slovenian Franc Peternel, the compatriot Ploner (second in the flight of debut and in that of the day before yesterday) and two other insidious pilots, like the German Gricar (winner of the second task) and the Swiss Neuenschwander (second Tuesday). The hang gliders continued to the turn point in Slovenia, near Kobarid: for the first time in the history of the World Championships, the race was partially carried out in a different state than the host one, surely due to the organization which it was well spent in order to reach this historic goal.

Polach (Czech Republic), Smith (New Zealand), Majors (USA) and another group managed to find an important thermal just a few kilometers from the turn point across the border; Cantesanu, the only Romanian in the race, has lost altitude instead by landing off goal. Behind this group, the excellent Italian (and Friulian) Suan Selenati quickly arrived; the choice of the group was instead to follow the mountain slope, a fitting decision because in a short time they were re-attached to the fugitives at an altitude of about 2000m of height and over 70km/h of speed.

In the return to Trasaghis, where the third buoy was placed, the leading trio was composed of Gricar, Ciech and Ploner, with Pinto, Ruhmer and Neuenschwander (very fast in the stretch in question) to chase. Most of the group even in this phase, preferred to follow the profile of the mountain, which guaranteed their quotas and speeds always worthy of respect.

Ruhmer first touched the third turn point; unlike the stretch carried out up to that moment along the mountain (continuous line with very high average speed), the path towards the last buoy located at 9km from Cividale del Friuli, flying over a hilly area, required an important mental strategy, where fundamental it was the evaluation of the lines: the development of the heaps and also the flight of the birds, were important references - as underlined by the "meteoman" Damiano Zanocco - transforming the competitive challenge into a real chess game.

Ruhmer continued taking altitude following a line able to make him bypass the plain, flying east and also Ciech, Ploner and Gricar, along with the Brazilian Pinto, opted for this choice. Neuenschwander instead chose the trajectory from Cuarnan (today's take-off site) towards the south, about 3 km from the other pilots, climbing well but not quickly and soon being overtaken by the first group just mentioned that in the meantime had reached almost more than 2000m.

Ciech, Ruhmer and Ploner once again composed the leading group flying at 2200m at about 85km/h "at full throttle" towards Cividale; in the Nimis area they found a thermal with good values (more than 4m/s) and took advantage of the full altitude. In the equally fast return to Bordano, Alex Ploner - thanks to a wonderful tactical choice that guaranteed him a stable speed towards landing more than 70 km/h without ever having to stop to resume altitude - he managed to take a good margin of advantage over Ciech and Ruhmer scoring first with a time of 02.45.46 anticipating the Austrian and his teammate, thus putting another important seal on both the individual journey and the Azzurri towards the final goal.

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Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 3856
2 Christian Ciech ITA 3814
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 3738
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 3560
5 Mario Alonzi FRA 3487
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 3473
7 Suan Selenati ITA 3448
8 Primoz Gricar GER 3406
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 3318
10 Grant Crossingham GBR 3260

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July 18, 2019, 8:09:35 MDT

2019 Worlds

The German version

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Thursday, July 18, 2019 - rest day The weather forecast is against a flight day, so the day was already canceled on Wednesday evening!

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - 3rd passage - 76 km with destination Bordano

Kajo reports: Flying is the best medicine This morning, no cock woke me, but my back pain. Damn, and I was hoping they would go away overnight. As the youngest member of the team, I feel very old now. But thanks to the loving care of Anna and Regina and with the support of various tablets, it has at least a little better.

Today the organizers wanted to see us on the mountain even earlier. After a surprisingly uneventful, already boring ride, we arrived more than punctual at the start. After the comfortable building a few umbrellas lulled low over the start. Well that did not look so outstanding. And why did we leave earlier? Over time, the conditions improved and it was a small 78 km task tender. You could either fly on direct route through the lowlands or took the detour via the supposedly faster mountains. Like almost everyone else, I opted for the direct route. The day got better with time and we were able to finish quickly.

After Primoz and Roland I came as the third German pilot to the finish and was thus able to make my contribution to the team ranking. To the delight of our driver, a short time later, the other three arrived. Every minute, almost 100 pilots flew to the finish and provided plenty of exciting landing approaches. Fortunately, the Landewiese is so big that you always find a gap between the other dragons.

Much to my relief, my back was much better after the flight. The mix of adrenaline and happiness hormones has probably worked wonders. At dinner (the Uli has conjured a delicious curry) we learn that tomorrow will not be flown. It is bad weather approaching and the organizers canceled the day tomorrow. So let's end the day with a glass of wine quite comfortably and make plans for our first rest day. Greetings from Tolmezzo Kajo.

All pilots are in the air. The time has been running since 14:15. We are just on a cappuccino to look at the live tracking, then go full throttle into the finish to Bordano. Yes, the distances to the starting place and back to the finish are not without!

Exciting finish: Alex Ploner ahead of Manfred Ruhmer and Marco Laurenzi. From us Primoz, Roland, Kajo, Jörg, Semo and Gerd are (in this order) in the finish. Today we were not among the fastest, but we'll see what's on the bottom of the list. Regina.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - Primoz wins the day's victory

Primoz reports: After the first task, I was not completely satisfied with my performance. It was clear, more determination was needed. Task 2 has brought better weather, base up to 2200m and good climbs. The route went back and forth along the hills, with a jump to the north and the goal in Bordano near Gemona.

My start this time was with the first group, although not the highest - homework !! With sparkling decisions, faster gliding and a little luck, I was able to gradually settle from the main pulp, but finally after the Gemona valley crossing. From there we had the lead with Christian. The turnaround behind Tolmezzo has proven to be quite complicated. But Christian seemed to know what he was doing, and in fact we were able to dig ourselves out of the vegetables. In addition, there was the Peter and has shown a great trail back. Straight to the lee of a rocky mountain.

The expected rodeo arrived, which I had survived best and was able to turn up with Peter. Christian stayed a bit deeper while searching for the thermals. At the penultimate turn, 15 km from the finish we met the Manfred, he flew his own route and has overtaken all. When he sees us, he is deep in the direction of the last turn, Peter and I have turned up at the point up to 1900 m, until the final approach calculator 8: 1 has shown. From there, gas was the best tactic. Greetings at home and keep your fingers crossed! Primoz.

3rd place in the team ranking, that's the result of today - yeahh! And thanks to Primoz, who won today's victory of the day ahead of Peter Neuenschwander and Manfred Ruhmer. Gerd flew in 9th place and Roland on rank 27. Kajo and Semo many at the end of the Talwind victim. Now the boys are going to eat pizza, they deserve it. Roland needs his daily Italian ice cream and kajo and I hold the position here at home. Kajo has to treat his lumbago, but he'll get it back tomorrow. I still have a lot to prepare for tomorrow.

Monday, July 15, 2019 - 86 km from Meduno to Bordano

Gerd reports: Airy Travel Day 1 Today the cock crowed early. The competition begins! Getting up at dawn and eating the meal so that we would not get hounded right at the beginning - at least that was the plan. Then we should make a little wrong decision regarding the route, we decided on the way over the highway. Already the driveway cost us the first minutes because of technical problems. This should have been against the time we wanted to leave the highway again, nor the lesser evil. After 25 minutes of waiting time and lane change in the back of our coach, the pilots were slowly nervous and showed, each in his own individual way, signs of mild restlessness. Our estimated time of arrival shifted noticeably in the direction of the planned race start. Arrived at the toll booth, this was then attached to his telephone set and not willing to grant us early passage. But this angered the driver of our coach a lot and he threw him unkind words to his ear. Since the latter was not able to speak the same language, luckily there were no further delays, and we were then able to continue our journey unmolested. The timetable should not turn out to be as strict as announced - despite globalization, Italy has fortunately been preserved. So we could start our intended hang glider flight as hoped with all others.

The weather conditions were not optimal, but despite shadows were updrafts available and you could work out with some initial effort a nice height, from which we began our breezy journey over 87km. The thermal conditions improved and our pack was on the journey at a considerable speed. That this should be better was clear in the further daily routine, as more and more showers poured in the area. Many dragons were able to master the way to the finish. Among them were Kajo, Semo (Georg), Roland, Primoz and myself from our German troupe. Brother Jörg, however, the rain played badly. The showers spread around him and prevented his further journey to the finish. Not only that, when folding his glider, the rain should anticipate the shower that was actually planned in our accommodation. Now that we have finished our supper and have taken our supper, we will lay down and wait for tomorrow's new day. Good night's sleep on all sides, Gerd.

Again we started this morning. First at 8:30 am Teamleaderbriefing, then briefly stopped by our landlady to pick up a modem and then quickly from the direction of Meduno. Our boys left before me, so I had to accelerate. Finally, we wanted to complete the sticker campaign for the leading edges today.

The organizers want to send us out early this morning, because it should overdevelop soon. Anna, Roland's partner drove me. Direct way is announced, which is 5 minutes faster than the highway, says the Navi. I hope I did not miss a speed camera and sometimes I looked aside to see if Anna still had color on her face. But she was brave. I gave gas. After 1:15 minutes arrived at the launch site, everyone was already there, but not our boys. Oh dear, which way have you taken the well? An hour later - finally, the bus turns the corner. It was probably an odyssey. The tolls on the highway did not work at all. Already at the ticket rent went nothing, then when paying at the toll booth… our so quiet driver Uli has probably been a little irritated and accused the quiet calling Mautstellenkassier as Grattler… Thank God he did not understand Bavarian Language, otherwise he would have kept the boys waiting longer.

But luckily the already started paragliders could only sink into the valley and the competition organizers were still waiting with the briefing. Everything in the time frame. At some point, the Meet Director finally called for the briefing: 86 km towards Aviano then the finish to Bordano. Everything was ratzfatz, our boys were fast in the air. This time I could not drive fast enough to get to the finish in time, then there were already about 30 pilots. Including Gerd, Roland, Semo and Primoz. Kajo hit hard and came soon afterwards and that with fancy Vario half way. Thankfully, there are the trackers that still record the track. Jörgi had to land in front of the finish. He took another involuntary shower in the pouring rain. Three Italians won the day today: Christian Ciech ahead of Alex Ploner and Suan Selenati. Greetings from Tolmezzo Regina.

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July 17, 2019, 10:23:51 MDT

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Day three results

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Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time km/h Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 01:45:52 39.3 993
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA 01:45:46 39.3 987
3 Marco Laurenzi ITA 01:46:46 38.9 953
4 Christian Ciech ITA 01:47:56 38.5 948
5 Suan Selenati ITA 01:48:14 38.4 942
6 Daniel Velez COL 01:48:45 38.2 928
7 David Brito Filho BRA 01:48:37 38.3 923
8 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 01:48:38 38.3 921
9 Arne Tanzer NED 01:50:29 37.6 898
10 Pedro L. Garcia USA 01:51:26 37.3 892

Italy, led by Flavio Tebaldi, is still confirmed as a team to beat, with four drivers scoring in the top five. Only the stainless Austrian Ruhmer resists.

Third task, particularly short, not easy due to the variable weather conditions that have caused difficulties for all the national teams, which have adopted various strategies to try to get by. A very different situation from yesterday, typical "pre frontal" with destabilization in the low strata and a cold disturbance coming from the Veneto region - as explained by the "meteoman" of the organization Damiano Zanocco - has meant that the plain is "awakened", allowing pilots at least partially to be able to risk even the fastest but also risky line.

Selenati immediately took altitude, moving after a few km from the start to more than 1000m, together with team-mate Ciech, Klemenich (SLO), Ruhmer (AUT), Garcia (ESP) and Polach (CZ), trying to exploit the plain towards the first of the two turning points of the day, located in the specific case near Cividale del Friuli, the splendid town founded by Giulio Cesare who became Lombard capital of Friuli in his time. The route then included the return flying over the hilly area of ??the middle Friuli also touching Mount Bernadia near Nimis (another place well known by local flight enthusiasts), before "touching" the second buoy near Gemona and landing as always in Bordano.

Few pilots chose the longest trajectory near the ridge, which allowed them to gain altitude faster but having to complete more kilometers to reach the first buoy in Cividale; only the Slovenian Stanislav Galovec dared to start from the third window made available by the organization, but found itself flying by itself without any reference.

At the first turning point came in the order Ruhmer (AUT), Ciech (ITA) and Sandoli (BRA), who anticipated Laurenzi (ITA), Glauco Pinto (the very strong reigning Brazilian champion with many records also on distance) and the Slovenian Matjaz Klemencic. Given the difficult weather conditions, some drivers had to "raise the white flag" landing well before reaching the goal: even Pinto himself had to surrender shortly after Cividale and this was the real coup of the day.

Misfortune also for the only woman in the race, the Japanese Sato, who suffered an accident "piercing" out of goal: immediate rescue operations taken from the operations center in Tolmezzo, where three people are constantly on the monitors and follow the pilots' tracks. In close collaboration with the Alpine Rescue Service, the athlete was reached and transported to the hospital for the necessary ritual checks; his condition does not cause concern and a good "good luck" prompt recovery has come from the whole movement.

Tanzer, class of '89, Dutch, then tried to escape while losing a bit of altitude; the "sail" was pursued by Ploner, Laurenzi, Ruhmer, Ciech and Selenati, who tried to fly as fast as possible to the second and final turning point, maintaining an average altitude of 1000 m which actually allowed them to reach Bordano in a short time. Not having to stop in search of thermals, on the landing field our Ploner champion, the Austrian Ruhmer, the excellent young promise of the flight (Flyve branded) Marco Laurenzi, Christian Ciech and the Suan Selenati from Friuli arrived which thus completed the masterpiece "made in Italy".

This is the ranking of the first drivers in goal. Once the scoring system has been developed that takes into account different variables, the final one will be published on this site: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results. On the official FB page of the event and on the website www.italy2019.com, the same will be done and specifically the evening will be published the provisional ranking of the day and the following morning instead, the general official one.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA 2861
2 Christian Ciech ITA 2850
3 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 2794
4 Suan Selenati ITA 2781
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA 2714
6 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 2570
7 Mario Alonzi FRA 2567
8 Tyler Borradaile CAN 2548
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 2522
10 Primoz Gricar GER 2454

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July 16, 2019, 4:02:38 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Worlds 2019

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Big river beds all around:

Malcolm Brown's LZ.

The results apparently aren't going to be published here: https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Now, instead of HTML they are publishing in PDF, which totally sucks.

Task 2:

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Task_2_Unofficial.pdf

1. Primoz Gricar (GER) 03.08.23
2. Peter Neuenschwander (SWI) 03.08.29
3. Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) 03.09.06
4. Christian Ciech (ITA) 03.12.33
4. Suan Selenati (ITA) 3.00.05
6. Alex Ploner (ITA) 03.13.48
7. Glauco Pinto (BRA) 03.14.07
8. Marco Laurenzi (ITA) 03.18.11
9. Gerd Doenhuber (GER) 03.18.41
10. Mario Alonzi (FRA) 03.18.41

Cumulative:

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Overall_Provisional_0716.pdf

I guess that they are just not interested in working with the press.

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/16/classifiche-aggiornamento-quotidiano/

Manfred took a course line all his own after the third turnpoint going far south of the optimized course line while almost everyone else went to the north of the line. This allowed him to jump into first place.

He was not high enough to sustain that position as Primoz and Peter got much higher behind him and we able to get to goal a little sooner.

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July 15, 2019, 2:20:51 pm MDT

2019 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jeff Chipman|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3|Worlds 2019|Yoko Isomoto|Yoko Sano|Zac Majors

Live broadcasts: https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

From the Italian team:

Christian Ciech 1, Alex Ploner 2, Suan Selenati 3, Marco Laurenzi 4, Filippo Oppici 6.

Felix Cantesanu at goal.

Apparently nearby storm cells and some rain on the course caused some pilots to land to be safe. Seventy five pilots in goal.

https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA 01:29:04 992
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA 01:29:46 977
3 Suan Selenati ITA 01:32:28 929
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA 01:37:09 886
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI 01:37:37 881
6 Manfred Ruhmer AUT 01:37:47 875
7 Filippo Oppici ITA 01:37:45 869
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA 01:38:03 867
9 Glauco Pinto BRA 01:38:00 864
10 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha BRA 01:38:41 862

Penalties:

Jeff Chipman 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Zac Majors 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Yoko Sano 100% 0 Airspace Infringement
Petr Polach 100% 0 Airspace Infringement

Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

Fri, Jun 7 2019, 8:16:20 am MDT

They flew one more day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Gary Wirdnam|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Suan Selenati|Trofeo Valerio Albrizio 2019|Tullio Gervasoni|Ubaldo Romano|Wills Wing T3

32nd Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

https://airtribune.com/xxxii-valerio-albrizio-trophy/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:22:23 103.4 989
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:22:22 89.9 987
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:22:48 97.7 964
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 02:36:28 93.8 846
5 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:40:24 92.8 811
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 02:41:40 90.4 794
7 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:39:32 57.9 787
8 Gary Wirdnam Icaro Laminar 02:40:58 74.8 786
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3C 144 C 02:52:46 67.9 717
10 Ubaldo Romano Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:52:51 67.7 714

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 2978
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 2915
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 2604
4 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 2548
5 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 2440
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 2261
7 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3C 144 C 2143
8 Gary Wirdnam Icaro Laminar 2139
9 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 2055
10 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 2018

Thanks to Tullio for this correction.

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32nd Valerio Albrizio Trophy

Sat, Jun 1 2019, 8:16:02 pm MDT

A two day competition

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Ubaldo Romano|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2019|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/xxxii-valerio-albrizio-trophy/results

Day 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:23:12 997
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:23:15 985
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:24:44 955
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:31:05 881
5 Konrad Baumgartner A-I-R Atos VQ 02:31:32 742
6 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:51:53 741
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:52:10 734
8 Ubaldo Romano Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:02:16 681
9 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 03:03:04 680
10 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 03:05:14 674

Day 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:00:18 992
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:03:29 943
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:12:18 843
4 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:11:27 838
5 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:12:22 823
6 Chrigel Kuepfer Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 T 02:16:11 801
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 02:16:12 787
8 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 02:18:06 772
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 02:19:31 752
10 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 02:21:09 747

Final results

# Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 1989
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1928
3 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 1793
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 144 1653
5 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 1584
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 1557
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 1467
8 Chrigel Kuepfer Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 T 1433
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 1426
10 Konrad Baumgartner A-I-R Atos VQ 1381

Why are the Italians always yelling on the internet? (All the pilot and glider names on their score pages are in all-caps.)

The top ten in the World

May 6, 2019, 7:36:38 EDT

The top ten in the World

As of May 5th.

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Quest Air|Steve Blenkinsop|Thomas Weissenberger

Rank Name Nation Points Rank/Ranking-points/Competition
1
 
Petr Benes
CIVL ID: 9764
 Czech Republic 339.1 3 97.8 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
7 88.4 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
4 78.8 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2019 Class 1
2 74.1 Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2018 - Italian Open Class 1
 
2
 
Christian Ciech
CIVL ID: 6034
 Italy 317.0 4 96.1 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
6 90.4 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
1 75.5 Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2018 - Italian Open Class 1
4 55.0 XXXI Valerio Albrizio Trophy Class 1
 
3
 
Jonny Durand Jnr
CIVL ID: 2231
 Australia 310.4 1 89.5 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2019 Class 1
12 78.7 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
18 73.8 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
1 68.4 2019 Quest Air Nationals (week 1) (pre-Worlds) Class 1
 
4
 
Oliver Chitty
CIVL ID: 39469
 United Kingdom 290.6 9 84.5 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
2 70.8 Dalby Big Air 2018 HG Class 1
1 68.9 2018 Canungra Classic Hang Gliding Competition Class 1
2 66.4 2018 UK Hang Gliding Nationals and Chabre Open Class 1
 
5
 
Alessandro Ploner
CIVL ID: 5724
 Italy 289.4 1 100.7 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
3 72.6 Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2018 - Italian Open Class 1
2 60.7 XXXI Valerio Albrizio Trophy Class 1
1 55.4 Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 Class 1
 
6
 
Thomas Weissenberger
CIVL ID: 7819
 Austria 288.0 7 91.1 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
8 86.4 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
3 57.8 XXXI Valerio Albrizio Trophy Class 1
2 52.7 Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 Class 1
 
7
 
Filippo Oppici
CIVL ID: 6295
 Italy 283.7 4 94.5 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
1 72.8 HG Brazil Open 2019 Round 1 Valadares
6 72.1 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2019 Class 1
8 44.3 XXXI Valerio Albrizio Trophy Class 1
 
8
 
Attila Bertok
CIVL ID: 5885
 Hungary 275.5 2 85.9 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2019 Class 1
1 72.9 Dalby Big Air 2018 HG Class 1
3 61.4 2018 Canungra Classic Hang Gliding Competition Class 1
4 55.3 2018 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships - Class 1
 
9
 
Dan Vyhnalik
CIVL ID: 6089
 Czech Republic 274.6 10 86.2 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
10 82.5 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
4 71.2 Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2018 - Italian Open Class 1
2 34.7 Low Tatras Cup 2018
 
10
 
Steve Blenkinsop
CIVL ID: 7701
 Australia 272.4 16 76.8 2018 Hang Gliding Pre Worlds
1 69.2 Dalby Big Air 2019 Class 1
7 68.8 Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2019 Class 1
24 57.6 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship
 

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Wed, May 1 2019, 8:28:52 pm EDT

Results for the final day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 03:02:25 995
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 03:02:34 988
3 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 03:03:17 951
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 03:08:05 936
5 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 03:19:13 853
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 03:20:58 839
7 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 03:23:02 829
8 Olav Opsanger Moyes Litespeed 03:27:16 810
9 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed 03:39:21 769
10 Andrew Hollidge Wills Wing T2C 03:42:04 757

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 1982
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 1925
3 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 1920
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T3 1841
5 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 1767
6 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 1556
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 1506
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed 1465
9 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 1428
10 Olav Opsanger Moyes Litespeed 1416

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Wed, May 1 2019, 8:29:58 am EDT

The weather turns

competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_5

Pilots are already on takeoff. Weather seems perfect today, so we expect to go in the air early in the afternoon for a consistent task.

Because pilots weren't assigned Flymaster trackers through Airtribune, live tracking on Airtribune doesn't work for this competition. Follow the pilots on the Flymaster web site.

The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636

You can see the Replay from yesterday here: https://airtribune.com/play/4032/2d at the two times faster speed (compared to the Flymaster web site). The Airtribune replay uses the IGC files found here: https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results. The Airtribune Replay user interface is vastly superior to the Flymaster Playback user interface. It does have a problem with screen clutter on cell phones.

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Tue, Apr 30 2019, 1:39:46 pm EDT

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/results

Task 2 (a 40 kilometer task starting at almost 4 PM):

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 01:11:30 389
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:13:12 370
3 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 01:13:40 367
4 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 01:16:06 362
5 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 01:16:17 352
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 01:16:27 350
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:19:07 342
8 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 01:24:04 328
9 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 01:27:09 317
10 Joost Eertman Icaro Laminar 01:27:58 315

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 982
2 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 965
3 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 932
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 923
5 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 920
6 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 900
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 853
8 Francois Isoard Aeros Combat 817
9 Joost Eertman Icaro Laminar 786
10 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed 770

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Tue, Apr 30 2019, 9:33:12 am EDT

Mostly canceled tasks

Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|video|weather

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_4

Wednesday is a possible recovery day due to all the bad weather.

Pilots are on the takeoff, we had rain during the morning but we plan a late task in the afternoon, when weather should improve enough for a go.

Pilots will have a briefing at 13:00

The first flying day: https://youtu.be/VPP3_Cdnou0

The task has started: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2636

Task has started for all classes. It's a 40 km task for class 1 and 5, and 15 km for Sport class.

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019

Sun, Apr 28 2019, 5:12:48 pm EDT

One task so far

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2019|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2019/blog__day_2

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat 01:22:01 637
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 01:23:18 612
3 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar 01:27:53 580
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 01:28:20 573
5 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed 01:28:29 569
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro Laminar 01:29:21 565
7 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 01:31:12 553
8 Andrew Hollidge Wills Wing T2C 01:32:22 546
9 Arturo Dal Mas Wills Wing T2C 01:34:44 539
10 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 01:33:55 538

Category 1 vs. Category 2 hang gliding competitions

September 13, 2018, 5:38:41 pm MDT

Category 1 vs. Category 2 hang gliding competitions

It is a matter of perceptions

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|CIVL|Wilotree Park|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

A few years ago Category 1 competitions were worth more than Category 2 competitions when counted in available WPRS points. This is no longer the case as a matter of preliminary valuation. All competitions are treated the same and their value to pilots based on the WPRS points that they could receive is determined by the ranking of the pilots attending the competition. Get a bunch of top ranked pilots to come to your competition and it becomes more valuable.

So how do you get the top ranked competition pilots to come to your competition, if you want to have a high valued competition?

FAI and CIVL control the names of all the competitions. You cannot name your competition the World anything or the Pan-American anything and still get CIVL sanctioning (and thereby WPRS points). Your national CIVL-recognized hang gliding association will most likely not allow you to use these names in your competition either, even without CIVL sanctioning.

But there is power in a name. For example, multiple time World Champion Alex Ploner attended (and won) the 2018 European Championships (not for the first time), but didn't attend the Friuli Venezia Giulia which served as the test competition for the 2019 Class 1 Worlds. By controlling the names, CIVL determines the perception that pilots have about the value of a specific competition.

So we have a little trick played on us and we play it on ourselves. We want to go to the competition with the best pilots so we go to the competitions with the fanciest names. We are even willing to pay quite a premium to attend these competitions. We expect them to attract pilots from far and wide.

That is not to say that, say the 2018 Big Spring Nationals, can't be just as competitive. After all, former World Champion Attila Bertok attended this competition, coming all the way from Australia. But then it may have been the fact that he had won the competitions there the three previous times he competed including the 2007 Worlds.

It is not only the pilots that perceive the value of these names. The town of Big Spring is very excited about the possibility of a 2020 Pan-American Championships. The mayor of Groveland would like some good news and is happy to support our efforts to get the 2020 Worlds to Wilotree Park and Sheets airfield just south of town.

Big Spring will bring $27,000 worth of services to support the 2020 Pan-American Games. They normally supply a very significant amount of services for the Big Spring Nationals, almost at this level. But we will be required to bring in CIVL officials at a cost of $19,000. So the costs are significant.

We will vigorously go after a major sponsor for each competition to help offset these costs. The names of the competitions should help us find sponsors.

We would love it to be the case that hang glider pilots could just agree to attend major competitions without having to pay additional costs and without the names to attract them.

The CIVL Bureau should be deciding on our bids between September 25th-29th.

You can find our bids here:

http://ozreport.com/docs/2020_Pan-American_Championships_bid.zip

http://ozreport.com/docs/2020WorldsatQuestAirbid.zip

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Oudie, Oudie, Oudie

August 16, 2018, 8:40:25 MDT

Oudie, Oudie, Oudie

The GPS smack down

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner

Tonino Tarsi writes:

Task 3 of the Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 was a photo finish one between Alex Ploner and Tom Weissenberg. As it was not clear who won the task the two pilots asked us to analyze all the tracks available. Both Alex and Tom own an Oudie and Alex also had a Compeo track log. The analysis we did was very tricky and this is intended to share the results and doubts left concerning the subject.

First, we calculated the score using the two Oudies (the pilots' primary instruments). Result was that Tom won by two seconds:

Tom: 15:43:11
Alex: 15:43:13

Then, we used both Flymaster tracks :

Tom: 15:43:14
Alex: 15:43:14

To add to the confusion we also imported Alex's Compeo track:

Alex: 15:43:16

According to our local rules (primary instrument is the pilot instrument, in this case the Oudies) Tom won the task.

Then we tried to compare Alex's tracks from the three sources we had: Compeo, Oudie, Flymaster tracker. Comparing Compeo and the Flymaster tracker resulted in very similar tracks with less than 10-20 meters maximum error, but comparing the Flymaster Tracker with the Oudie we got a lot of areas with very big errors (up to 300 meters). This looks very similar to the problem Tom had with his Oudie in Macedonia and it looks like Alex's Oudie suffers from the same problem.

If you want to analyze the problem here are the tracks : https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/tracks_oudie_FM.zip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olly_olly_oxen_free

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Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »

I guess they are not flying tomorrow or until next year

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018

August 13, 2018, 1:24:22 pm CDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php/it/competitions/classifiche-results

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_class1.html

https://airtribune.com/hang-gliding-russian-cup-2018/blog

Class 1:

# Name Glider Total
1 Alex Ploner Icaro 2000 Laminar 2792
2 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar 2759
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 2455
4 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 2320
5 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 2260
6 Evgen Lysenko Aeros Combat 12.4C 2196
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 2014
8 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 1718
9 Anton Moroder Icaro 2000 Laminar 13 1709
10 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 1705

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_sport.html

Sport Class:

# Name Glider Total
1 Sergio Conte Icaro 2000 MasteR 1994
2 Luca Belli Icaro 2000 Orbiter 1782
3 Wierzbowski Pawel Bautek FIZZ SE 1283
4 Andrea Fusi Icaro 2000 Orbiter 937
5 Fabio Caresi Icaro 2000 MastR 896

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2018/results/OVERALL_class5.html

Air ATOS class:

# Name Glider Total
1 Federico Baratto Air Atos vq race 2793
2 Daniele Bindi Air Atos VX 1840
3 Konrad Baumgartner Air Atos VQ 1293
4 Gorio Mandozzi Air Atos VR 591

Marco Laurenzi

Marco Laurenzi coming into goal on the last day. Looks like he got a new glider.

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »

August 13, 2018, 8:51:21 CDT

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018

It runs through the 16th, so after two tasks

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php/it/competitions/classifiche-results

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Alex Ploner Icaro 2000 Laminar 969 965 1934
2 Thomas Weissenberger Icaro 2000 Laminar 928 977 1905
3 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 864 886 1750
4 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 856 858 1714
5 Evgen Lysenko Aeros Combat 12.4C 900 764 1664
6 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 C 845 800 1645
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 883 545 1428
8 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro z9 542 615 1157
9 Anton Moroder Icaro 2000 Laminar 13 265 861 1126
10 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 676 433 1109

Photos:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Volo-Libero-Monte-Cucco-295306540593918/

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

July 20, 2018, 12:25:42 pm MDT GMT-0600

The last task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Corinna Schwiegershausen|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Flavio Tebaldi|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Thomas Weissenberger

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

The last task:

1 Durand Jnr, J 02:24:24
2 Ciech, C 02:31:24
3 Vyhnalik, D 02:32:03
4 Peternel, F 02:33:40
5 Woods, J 02:33:44
6 Hubbard, G 02:33:59
7 Moroder, A 02:34:07
8 Dönhuber, G 02:34:08
9 Wallbank, C 02:34:10
10 Pollet, C 02:34:12

Flavio Tebaldi writes:

After five worlds titles in a row, the Italian hang gliding team wins the fourth European title in a row. The Italian team has won all the category 1 competitions since 2008. Alex Ploner wins his second European Championship, after Kayseri 2012.

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Task 8:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Jonny Durand Jnr Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:24:23 1000
2 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 02:31:23 898
3 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:32:02 888
4 Franc Peternel Slo Wills Wing T2C 144 02:33:40 866
5 Gerd Dönhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 02:34:08 859
6 Anton Moroder Ita Laminar 02:34:06 858
7 Guy Hubbard Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:33:58 857
8 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:34:09 854
9 Anton Struganov Rus Moyes RX4 02:34:12 851
10 Josh Woods Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:33:43 850
10 Christian Pollet Fra 02:34:12 850

Final Results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 6871
2 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 6716
3 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 6563
4 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 6388
5 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 6208
6 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 6107
7 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 5956
8 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro 2000 Laminar 2018 5899
9 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 5880
10 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 5872

Team standing remains the same.

Corinna was the top female in 23rd.

Wolfgang Kothgasser was the top rigid wing pilot with Austria the top team.

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Thu, Jul 19 2018, 7:26:34 am MDT

Grant got his points

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Thomas Weissenberger

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Two Flymaster trackers quit broadcasting so those pilots weren't scoring originally, but now they have been. Grant Crossingham is now in second place:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 6052
2 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5917
3 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5714
4 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 5683
5 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 5592
6 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 5425
7 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5354
8 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 5209
9 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro Laminar 2018 5117
10 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4984

Task for Thursday cancelled due to strong wing and cloud cover. Here is Jörg Bajewski earning a few dollars on a day off so that he can pay for his ride home:

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Wed, Jul 18 2018, 7:34:36 am MDT

Tuesday, a different kind of task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|PG|Thomas Weissenberger|Yoko Isomoto|Yoko Sano

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Petr Benes down early. Alex Ploner out in the lead with Tom Weissenberger at 3:30 PM.

Alex out in front landed just before goal after a valiant effort. Tom Weissenberger wisely stayed back in the hills and worked slowly to get high enough to make it in way ahead of everyone else.

Carl Wallbank, and the two Czech's, Petr and Dan, came close to goal together, but Dan found a little something over the field that Carl and Petr landed in, and came in second.

Christian Ciech, after apparently flying a paraglider all day, just hung and hung in nothing getting further and further away from goal as Grant Crossingham, who was earlier with but below Christian, worked back in the hills even further downwind.

Then came four pilots who had been much further behind, Jonny, Corinna, Malcolm and Dave Mathews. Christian down 6.5 km out. Grant down. Dave down. Malcolm down. Jonny down a few feet from goal.

Corinna climbing near goal. Yoko climbing three kilometers further back. Corinna third into goal. Yoko lands near Jonny.

Petr Polách writes:

One of the worst conditions I have ever flown in. For the first time I am gonna fill in the task report with negative attitude. And I am not gonna fly in similar condition again.

At several places I had severe problems to keep the wing barely level. I couldn't even control my speed properly. It's only luck nobody got hurt. Peeople climbing severely, then falling five meters down in the gaggles. I only used full VG few times.

Can anyone explain how Thomas Weissenberger did the task so quickly?

So final thought: I like to push myself, but this was even beyond my personal limits.

1 Weissenberger, T 02:48:23
2 Vyhnalik, D 03:04:21
3 Schwiegershausen, C 03:37:11

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro Laminar 2018 02:48:22 888
2 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:04:20 839
3 Corinna Schwiegershausen Ger Moyes RX 3 03:37:11 796
4 Jonny Durand Jnr Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 763
5 Christian Preininger Aut Moyes Litespeed S3,5 756
6 Yoko Sano Jpn Wills Wing T2C 136 755
7 Petr Polách Cze Aeros Combat 13,5 GT 750
8 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 748
9 Malcolm Brown Gbr Wills Wing T2C 746
10 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 745

Two pilots are missing from this scoring, Grant Crossingham and Alexander Barvinskiy, both of whom were near goal. Since the scoring is being done mostly through the use of Flymaster trackers, there appears to be some issue with GPS coordinates. These lack of published results also affect the other standings.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 7 Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 745 6045
2 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 641 5715
3 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 462 5688
4 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 683 5588
5 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 651 5425
6 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 748 5349
7 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 0 5229
8 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 710 5203
9 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro Laminar 2018 888 5095
10 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 839 4967

The team standings remain the same.

Nine rigid wing pilots in goal. Austria barely leads Germany in the rigid wing team standings, Wolfgang Kothgasser is the overall leader after winning the seventh task, and four out of seven tasks.

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Sun, Jul 15 2018, 11:11:57 am MDT

Sunday, not a rest day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|video

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Benes, P
1 GRICAR, P 03:43:03
2 JNR, Jonny 03:35:42
3 WEISSENBERGER, T 03:56:09
4 03:56:12
5 CROSSINGHAM, G 03:56:28
6 DöNHUBER, G 03:56:58
7 PLONER, A 03:57:06
8 CIECH, C 03:57:07
9 UJHELYI, B 03:57:10
10 GARCIA, P 03:57:41
11 OPPICI, F 03:58:08
12 PETERNEL, F 03:58:19
13 GERVASONI, T 03:59:03

Primoz got out in front before the last turnpoint and found better lift a few kilometers in front of the main gaggle. Twenty seven in goal.

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Task 6 (Jonny took the second clock 25 minutes later):

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:43:02 942
2 Jonny Durand Jnr Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:35:41 928
3 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 03:56:11 879
4 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro Laminar 2018 03:56:08 878
5 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:56:27 874
6 Gerd Dönhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 03:56:57 861
7 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 03:57:06 860
8 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:57:06 859
9 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:57:09 852
10 Pedro L. garcia Usa T2C 144 03:57:40 848

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 5298
2 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5228
3 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 5225
4 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 5072
5 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 4904
6 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 4773
7 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 4758
8 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4597
9 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 4491
10 Gerd Dönhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 4468

Italians in first place 500 points ahead of the Czech team with the Brits still in third.

There is a report of a tumble today. Initially thought to be Marco Laurenzi on the Italian team. Results show him getting only 18.33 km. I could not get the Flymaster Live Tracking web site to playback Marco's flight.

Jonny at goal: https://www.facebook.com/Maverick1186/videos/10156492642984450/

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Sat, Jul 14 2018, 10:14:23 am MDT

Saturday

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Steve Blenkinsop

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Primoz took a track north of all the other pilots and caught up with Christian at the second to last turnpoint. Then while Christian slowly caught him on the final glide Primoz was able to come in at 80 mph over the ground to win by three seconds.

1 GRICAR, P 03:04:00
2 CIECH, C 03:04:03
3 PLONER, A 03:16:06
4 POLáCH, P 03:48:00
5 VYHNALIK, D 03:48:11
6 CROSSINGHAM, G 03:52:09
7 WOODS, J 04:08:11

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Christian landing at goal:

Christian landing at goal

Another tie for first place. Alex moves into first place overall.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Distance Total
1 Primoz Gricar Ger 03:03:59 124.24 991
1 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 03:04:02 124.24 991
3 Alessandro Ploner Ita 03:16:05 124.24 938
4 Petr Polách Cze Aeros Combat 13,5 GT 03:47:59 124.24 879
5 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:48:10 124.24 876
6 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:52:08 124.24 869
7 Josh Woods Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:08:10 124.24 847
8 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 120.94 795
9 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 116.72 769
10 Steve Blenkinsop Aus Moyes RX 3.5 113.58 756

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita 4439
2 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4354
3 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 4346
4 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 4244
5 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4220
6 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 4059
7 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 3931
8 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3887
9 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 3840
10 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3792

The Italian team is in first place, the Czech team is further back in second and the Brits close behind them.

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Fri, Jul 13 2018, 8:43:29 am MDT

Friday

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Davide Guiducci|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Flavio Tebaldi|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|video

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta: livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Flavio Tebaldi at goal waiting for Christian and Alex who are way out in front: https://www.facebook.com/flavio.tebaldi/videos/10215031767301662/

Balaz, Christian and Alex were together approaching goal and Balaz found a better line and Christian and Alex got too low 5 kilometers from goal. Balaz got to goal quite a bit early. Christian landed out 5 km from goal.

Ollie Chitty's video from the previous day: https://youtu.be/KOuqrWxBuDA

Video from Peter at goal: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2027951523929984/

1 UJHELYI, B 2:30:25
2 LAURENZI, m 2:38:15
3 CROSSINGHAM, G 2:40:36
4 PLONER, A 2:42:18
5 BENES, P 2:44:15
6 ZEISCHKA, J 2:44:31
7 KLEMENCIC, m 2:44:38
8 CHITTY, O 2:45:12
9 JNR, J 2:45:14
10 ÖKRöS, L 2:46:17
11 WALLBANK, C 2:46:57
12 OPPICI, F 2:51:05
13 PETERNEL, F 2:51:29
14 MORODER, A 2:52:12
15 GUIDUCCI, D 2:52:19
16 GALOVEC, S 2:53:23
17 MATHURIN, E 2:59:15
18 OPSANGER, O 3:00:25
19 DöNHUBER, G 3:00:45
20 PREININGER, C 3:00:55

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:30:24 983
2 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 02:38:14 890
3 Alessandro Ploner Ita 02:42:17 883
4 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:40:35 860
5 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 02:44:15 830
6 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:44:30 827
7 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 02:45:11 821
8 László Ökrös Hun Moyes RX 3.5 02:46:16 816
9 Matjaz Klemencic Slo Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:44:38 810
10 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:46:56 797

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 3686
2 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3654
3 Alessandro Ploner Ita 3501
4 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 3493
5 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3485
6 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 5 Pro 3361
7 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 3304
8 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 3266
9 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3201
10 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 3164

The Italian team has moved barely into the lead with the help from Filippo Oppici and Marco Laurenzi as Christian has landed out twice now. The top three spots are close with the Brits in third.

Wolfgang Kothgasser from Austria has three 1000 points days for the ATOS class and is in first with Tim Grabowski in second. The Austrian team is first overall (with top two scores counting each day).

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Thu, Jul 12 2018, 3:58:50 pm MDT

Thursday, day 3 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Thomas Weissenberger

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Results: http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

A tie for first place.

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Aut Icaro Laminar 2018 04:28:14 990
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro Laminar 2018 04:28:32 990
3 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 04:28:35 971
4 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 04:28:43 962
5 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:29:24 960
6 Carl Wallbank Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:29:31 954
7 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 04:29:33 951
8 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 04:29:34 948
9 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 5 Pro 04:29:46 946
10 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:29:47 943

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 2856
2 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 2716
3 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 2672
4 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2671
5 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2625
6 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 2623
7 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro Laminar 2018 2618
8 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes RX 5 Pro 2534
9 Vlastimil Bartas Cze 2510
10 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 2502

The Czech team continues to lead. Italy is second. Christian went down early

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Thu, Jul 12 2018, 7:22:54 am MDT

Thursday, day 3

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Tullio Gervasoni

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Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Jonny Durand, Olav Opsanger, and Guy Hubbard have already landed. Seventeen pilots are circling above them. Christian Ciech is in the lead with Alex Ploner just behind and high.

Alex is now in the lead by nine kilometers having reached the next turnpoint and headed out to the flats.

1 WEISSENBERGER, T 4:28:15
2 PLONER, A 4:28:33
3 TäNZER, A 4:28:36
4 BENES, P 4:28:44
5 CROSSINGHAM, G 4:29:25
6 WALLBANK, C 4:29:32
7 VYHNALIK, D 4:29:34
8 OPPICI, F 4:29:35
9 ZEISCHKA, J 4:29:46
10 UJHELYI, B 4:29:48
11 SARAF, A 4:30:03
12 GERVASONI, T 4:30:16
13 BARTAS, V 4:30:18
14 LAURENZI, m 4:30:50
15 CHITTY, O 4:32:40
16 PREININGER, C 4:35:18

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Wed, Jul 11 2018, 3:31:04 pm MDT

Wednesday, day 2 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar

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Results: http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/res

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 02:49:35 994
2 Josh Woods Aus Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:51:17 957
3 Petr Polách Cze Aeros Combat 13,5 GT 02:51:16 953
4 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:51:07 950
5 Alessandro Ploner Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 02:56:43 912
6 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 02:56:33 877
7 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 02:56:45 876
8 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 02:56:45 875
9 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros Combat 02:56:57 871
10 Filippo Oppici Ita Wills Wing T2C 144 02:57:16 865

So the current World Champion wins the day. The previous World Champion comes in sixth for the day. The multiple World Champion comes in fifth after leading almost the entre task.

The Czech team is leading the team standing with Italy well behind in second place.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 1894
2 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 1825
3 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 1765
4 Petr Polách Cze Aeros Combat 13,5 GT 1763
5 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 1749
6 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1728
7 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 1665
8 Arne Tänzer Ned Icaro 2000 - Laminar 1652
9 László Ökrös Hun Moyes RX 3.5 1643
10 Alessandro Ploner Ita Aeros Combat 1628

The current World Champion is in the lead slightly overall. The previous World Champion is in second place. And the previous multiple World Champion is in tenth. The Czech team has three of the four top spots overall.

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Wed, Jul 11 2018, 7:28:33 am MDT

Wednesday, day 2

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Facebook|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|video

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2149
2D/3D SPLIT beta livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2149

Looks like a better day:

Ploner in the lead.

Quite a race with Ploner out in the lead for almost the entire race but near the end he kept going and getting down to less than 800' 9 kilometers out he had to take a slow climb while 5 kilometers ahead of everyone else and came in 5 minutes behind them.

Peter's video at the goal: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2024497520942051/

1 BENES, P 02:49:36
2 VYHNALIK, D 02:51:08
3 WOODS, J 02:51:17
3 POLáCH, P 02:51:17
4 CIECH, C 02:56:33
5 PLONER, A 02:56:43
6 TäNZER, A 02:56:45
7 LAURENZI, m 02:56:46
8 GRICAR, P 02:56:58
9 OPSANGER, O 02:57:40
10 WALLBANK, C 02:57:54

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31st Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

Wed, Jun 6 2018, 7:27:03 am MDT

Three days in Italy

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Trofeo Valerio Albrizio 2018

Photos here.

Open class:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro 2000 Laminar 973 577 962 2512
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro 2000 Laminar 981 418 968 2367
3 Tom Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 788 522 862 2172
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1000 292 777 2069
5 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 696 398 870 1964
6 Luca Comino A.I.R. Atos VQ 817 397 739 1953
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 688 398 812 1898
8 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 144 910 192 773 1875
9 Ferdinand Spindler Icaro Laminar 669 410 785 1864
10 Walter Mayer Moyes Litespeed RX Pro 670 410 780 1860

Sport class:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Paolo Merisio Icaro 2000 Orbiter 431 0 356 787
2 Fabio Caresi Icaro 2000 Mastr 199 0 384 583
3 Sergio Conte Icaro 2000 Master 217 0 229 446
4 Luca Belli Icaro 2000 Orbiter 212 0 104 316
5 Elvio Demattio Icaro Orbiter 180 0 104 284

2018 Quest Air Nationals Series

Mon, Nov 27 2017, 7:14:35 am PST

The meet is over-subscribed

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Attila Bertok|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Davide Guiducci|David Gibson|Davis Straub|Derrick Turner|Dustin Martin|Filippo Oppici|Glen Volk|John Simon|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kevin Carter|Kraig Coomber|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Marco Laurenzi|Pete Lehmann|Primoz Gricar|Quest Air|Quest Air Nationals 2018|Robin Hamilton|Steve Blenkinsop|Thomas Weissenberger|USHPA|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors

The meet filled up in three days. We have 82 pilots registered. We are currently looking at expanding the number of pilots who can attend. Frankly we had no idea that this would happen so quickly. We have to follow the following USHPA rule:

All competitors should be registered on a first-come, first-served basis except during the first 30 days of registration, where 30% of the available places may be held for the top 20 NTSS and top 30 WPRS ranked pilots.

We'll use NTSS and WPRS rankings as of November 1st, 2017.

Pos Name
1 Zac Majors
2 Robin Hamilton
3 Bruce Barmakian
4 John Simon
5 Kraig Coomber
6 Dustin Martin
7 Larry Bunner
8 Derrick Turner
9 James Stinnet
10 Jd Guillemette
11 Davis Straub
12 Bill Soderquist
13 Kevin Carter
14 Patrick Pannese
15 David Gibson
16 Glen Volk
17 Kevin Dutt
18 Mick Howard
19 Krzysztof Grzyb
20 Pete Lehmann

WPRS

Rank Name CIVL ID
1 JONNY Durand 2231
2 ALESSANDRO Ploner 5724
3 FILIPPO Oppici 6295
4 THOMAS Weissenberger 7819
5 CHRISTIAN Ciech 6034
6 ALVARO Figueiredo Sandoli 5760
7 MARIO Alonzi 7043
8 ANDRE Wolf 5783
9 PETR Benes 9764
10 DAVIDE Guiducci 6142
11 MARCO Laurenzi 25161
12 DAN Vyhnalik 6089
13 DAVID Brito Filho 13846
14 CARLOS Niemeyer 6001
15 PETER Neuenschwander 398
16 GLEN Mcfarlane 17641
17 VALENTINO Bau 7889
18 GRANT Crossingham 6440
19 STEVE Blenkinsop 7701
20 PRIMOZ Gricar 7437
21 BALAZS Ujhelyi 5893
22 ATTILA Bertok 5885
23 ROLAND Wöhrle 7547
24 JOSH Woods 42097
25 RODOLFO Gotes 12376
26 ANTON Moroder 5842
27 TAKASHI Sunama 7755
28 ROBIN Hamilton 7536
29 GUY Hubbard 6467
30 OLAV Opsanger 7271

To secure a higher place in the order that pilots are chosen to participate in the competition, we need pilots to be confirmed. To be confirmed you need to register, fill out on-line and send in your correct waivers and medical form (use Adobe Acrobat DC - the free version, https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/faq.html), and pay the entry fee. See:

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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

August 18, 2017, 6:19:03 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 10, task 9 final results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Everyone at goal.

Task 9:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2c 01:53:15 933
2 Grant J Crossingham Moyes Rx3.5 01:53:23 927
3 Daniel Velez Wills Wing T2c 144 01:53:24 922
4 Roland Wöhrle Moyes Rx 3.5 01:53:31 919
5 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Rs 3.5 01:53:36 915
6 Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha Aeros Combat Gt 13.2 01:55:57 867
7 Fredy Bircher Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 02:04:14 852
8 Steven Blackler Moyes Rx 3.5 02:07:49 846
9 Dave Matthews Moyes Rx3.5 01:58:12 838
10 David Manuel De Almeida Brito Filho Wills Wing T2cx 01:58:45 836

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Petr Beneš Aeros Combat 14 7750
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 7700
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 7682
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 7628
5 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2c 7430
6 Mario Alonzi Aeros 12.7 Gt 7408
7 Jon Durand Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 7315
8 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli Wills Wing T2c-144 7312
9 Robin Hamilton Moyes Rx 3.5 7084
10 Petr Polach Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 6894

USA fourth by six points.

Zac Majors:

Penalized for dangerous approach and landing on the Esplanada north field. Left E,S,S, probably with no margin to reach the goal field, seen that since his glide from P55, and also when crossing the lake towards E.S.S., he had encountered unstable air, so after reaching E.S.S. he could either find lift or sink on his way to goal, and at that point he would have to perform an improbable 14.8 L/D to clear obstacles at the entrance of the goal field. Pilot proceeded on this dire situation and arrived at the goal area with no height to clear the power lines. Dived under them on high risk maneuver and crash landed.

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

August 18, 2017, 2:44:26 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Short task, Petr Benes wins the Worlds

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Jamie Shelden|Worlds 2017 Class 1

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2040

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.mx/2017/08/waiting-for-task-briefing-to-start.html

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Gerolf writes:

Just watched the last task of the Worlds via Flymaster live tracking, and could not believe what an unbelievable tactical plunder the great Italian team produced today. Holding the main gaggle back to fly the task on a later clock.

That opened up the opportunity for the Czech pilots, Benes and Vinhalik, to actually be successful if they could manage to eventually break away from the Italian pilots, Ploner and Ciech. And break away they did!

Now imagine, how much harder it would have been for Petr Benes to do this if Alex and Christian had taken the first clock and then there would be no one marking the thermals ahead over the last 50km? Unbelievable, truly unbelievable!

So, we can say the young Czech well and truly deserves the title: He cleverly launched one single, decisive attack and he managed to pull it off in style. Bravo!

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August 17, 2017, 6:11:32 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 9, task 8 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Worlds 2017 Class 1

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

No one in goal.

Name Glider Distance Total
Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 106.08 917
Josh Woods Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 101.70 894
Jon Durand Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 101.96 894
Jonas Lobitz Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 100.30 882
Roland Wöhrle Moyes Rx 3.5 99.99 881
Corinna Schwiegershausen Moyes Rx3 99.77 878
Attila Bertok Moyes Rx 5 Pro 99.56 877
Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 99.15 873
Mayer Walter Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 99.18 872
Petr Beneš Aeros Combat 14 99.11 872
Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 99.19 872

Cumulative:

Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 6986
2 Petr Beneš Aeros Combat 14 6980
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 6969
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 6927
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros 12.7 Gt 6619
6 Nene Rotor Wills Wing T2c-144 6566
7 Robin Hamilton Moyes Rx 3.5 6506
8 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2c 6497
9 Jon Durand Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 6493
10 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 6354

USA team in fourth, eight points behind Germany at 18922.

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

August 16, 2017, 7:07:41 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 8, task 7 results

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Thirty eight in goal. Mario lands short. Francoise only women at goal. Zac twelfth, Bruce fourteenth, Robin twenty first, three Americans at goal.

Task 7:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 02:46:48 975
2 Rodolfo Gotes Navarro Wills Wing T2c 144 02:48:34 969
3 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 02:48:23 951
4 Petr Beneš Aeros Combat 14 02:48:27 947
5 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 02:51:54 922
6 Attila Bertok Moyes Rx 5 Pro 02:49:42 912
7 Hiroshi Suzuki Icaro Laminar 13.2 02:53:02 879
7 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Rs 3.5 02:59:30 879
9 Gerd Dönhuber Moyes Rx 3.5 03:04:43 846
10 Roland Wöhrle Moyes Rx 3.5 03:05:31 843

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 6121
2 Petr Beneš Aeros Combat 14 6108
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 6096
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 Gt 6054
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros 12.7 Gt 5749
6 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2c 5745
7 Nene Rotor Wills Wing T2c-144 5720
8 Robin Hamilton Moyes Rx 3.5 5671
9 Jon Durand Moyes Rx 3.5 Pro 5598
10 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Rs 3.5 5486

Team USA in third place overall.

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

August 14, 2017, 6:17:10 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 6 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|John Simon|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Yoko Isomoto

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Distance Total
1 Tanaka Genki Aeros - Combat Gt 13.2 03:05:40 115.01 631
2 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros - Combat 13.5 Gt 112.22 560
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros - 12.7 Gt 107.09 547
4 Primoz Gricar Aeros - Combat 13.5 Gt 107.21 546
5 Roland Wöhrle Moyes - Rx 3.5 105.31 543
6 Bruce Barmakian Icaro - Laminar 13.2 104.38 540
7 Christian Voiblet Aeros - Combat12 99.91 522
8 Petr Beneš Aeros - Combat 14 94.50 504
9 Daimon Koji Aeros - Combat C 12.7 88.85 493
10 Petr Polach Aeros - Combat 13.5 Gt 80.34 460
11 Alessandro Ploner Icaro - Laminar Z9 78.45 454
12 Christian Ciech Icaro - Laminar 78.26 453
13 John Simon Aeros - Combat C 12.7 75.04 440
14 Carlos Roberto Salles Aeros Combat Gt 12.7 65.58 415
15 Miroslav Cap Willswing - T2c 64.03 413
16 Robin Hamilton Moyes - Rx 3.5 64.84 411

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros - 12.7 Gt 5241
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro - Laminar Z9 5170
3 Petr Beneš Aeros - Combat 14 5161
4 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros - Combat 13.5 Gt 5132
5 Christian Ciech Icaro - Laminar 5121
6 Primoz Gricar Aeros - Combat 13.5 Gt 4957
7 Filippo Oppici Willswing - T2c 4951
8 Nene Rotor Willswing - T2c-144 4921
9 Robin Hamilton Moyes - Rx 3.5 4858
10 Jon Durand Moyes - Rx 3.5 Pro 4826

The US has moved into fourth place, far behind Brazil and a little ways in front of Germany.

Corinna is the leading women in 58th place. Yoko is second behind here at 70th.

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August 13, 2017, 6:16:32 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 5, a slow day, results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors

The inversion took a long time to break so pilots didn't go until the third clock. The days end between 5 PM and 5:30 PM when the sun is very low on the horizon. Zac complains that pilot leave the early thermals too early when the lift decreases apparently forgetting about how they will soon be faced with much weaker thermals as they get near goal.

It took a little under 3:30 hours to do the task today for 132 km. Yesterday a task of about the same length took 2:20 hours. A very weak day.

I notice that there was a small penalty for not making goal (you get only 80% of your speed points, which in this case were very few). As long as you make the end of speed section. The penalty is the slight difference in your distance flown plus the 20% reduction in speed points.

There were very few leading point today, few speed points, and very few arrival position points. Distance was heavily counted. Thirty two pilots got to the end of the speed section.

One more day, then a rest day.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 03:22:40 39.3 227.5 40.6 982
2 ZAC MAJORS WILLSWING - T2C 03:22:47 37.3 225.1 37.9 975
3 NENE ROTOR WILLSWING - T2C-144 03:23:46 34.0 216.9 33.0 959
4 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 03:24:16 36.0 213.9 28.6 954
5 ANDRE LUIZ WOLF MOYES - RX 3,5 PRO 03:24:53 44.5 210.6 20.0 950
6 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 03:24:18 31.9 213.7 26.6 947
7 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 03:24:41 35.9 211.7 23.1 946
8 DAIMON KOJI AEROS - COMBAT C 12.7 03:24:42 34.8 211.6 21.5 943
9 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 03:25:00 35.1 210.1 17.4 938
10 CARLOS ROBERTO SALLES AEROS COMBAT GT 12.7 03:24:58 32.7 210.2 18.7 937

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 4716
2 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 4694
3 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 4668
4 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 4657
5 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 4619
6 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 4572
7 Nene Rotor WILLSWING - T2C-144 4550
8 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 4539
9 JON DURAND MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 4483
10 THOMAS WEISSENBERGER MOYES RS 3.5 4469

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August 12, 2017, 5:25:50 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 4, Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gordon Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors

Task 4:

# Name Glider SS Time Total
1 JON DURAND MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 13:45:00 02:20:48 1000
2 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 13:45:00 02:23:50 928
3 ATTILA BERTOK MOYES RX 5 PRO 13:45:00 02:26:03 920
4 TONY ARMSTRONG MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 13:45:00 02:26:23 919
5 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 13:45:00 02:26:29 908
6 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI WILLSWING - T2C-144 13:45:00 02:25:56 905
7 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 13:45:00 02:26:00 904
8 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 13:45:00 02:27:03 899
9 THOMAS WEISSENBERGER MOYES RS 3.5 13:45:00 02:28:10 895
10 ROBIN HAMILTON MOYES - RX 3.5 13:45:00 02:26:46 894
11 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 13:45:00 02:26:55 893
12 ZAC MAJORS WILLSWING - T2C 13:45:00 02:28:17 886
13 GORDON RIGG MOYES - RX3.5 PRO 13:45:00 02:28:49 867
14 PETR POLACH AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 13:45:00 02:32:59 842
14 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 14:00:00 02:26:02 842
16 PETER NEUENSCHWANDER AEROS - COMBAT 12.7C 13:45:00 02:33:18 840
17 PRIMOZ GRICAR AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 14:00:00 02:28:05 825
18 GRANT J CROSSINGHAM MOYES - RX3.5 13:45:00 02:36:20 815
19 GLEN MCFARLANE WILLSWING - T2C 144 13:45:00 02:36:40 814
20 CARLOS ROBERTO DE NIEMEYER SALLES AEROS COMBAT GT 12.7 13:45:00 02:36:26 811
21 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 14:00:00 02:29:31 809

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 3789
2 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 3778
3 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 3717
4 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 3714
5 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 3675
6 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 3626
7 ROBIN HAMILTON MOYES - RX 3.5 3598
8 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 3592
9 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI WILLSWING - T2C-144 3591
10 JON DURAND MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 3584

Looks like the Italians (other than Filippo) made a big mistake going on the second clock. Maybe they were low at the start of the first clock.

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August 11, 2017, 7:32:28 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|photo|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Task 3:

  Name Glider Time Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 02:48:24 996
2 ALVARO FIGUEIREDO SANDOLI WILLSWING - T2C-144 02:48:29 990
3 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 02:48:41 982
4 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 02:48:38 980
5 CHRISTIAN POLLET AEROS - 12.7 02:48:43 973
6 THOMAS WEISSENBERGER MOYES RS 3.5 02:49:22 968
7 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 02:49:18 966
8 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 02:50:46 952
9 SERGIO GALVAS WILLSWING - T2C 02:51:18 933
10 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 02:52:33 929

Zac was twelfth, Robin thirteenth, Derreck 26th, Bruce 32nd.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 2936
2 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 2905
3 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 2861
4 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 2824
5 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 2767
6 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 2727
7 ROBIN HAMILTON MOYES - RX 3.5 2704
8 PRIMOZ GRICAR AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 2693
8 RODOLFO GOTES NAVARRO WILLSWING - T2C 144 2693
10 MARCO LAURENZI ICARO - LAMINAR 14.1 2688

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August 11, 2017, 2:20:26 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 3

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Filippo Oppici|John Simon|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Yoko Isomoto

First - Alex Ploner, Second - Nene Rotor, Third - Mario Alonzi, Fourth - Christian Ciech, Fifth - Christian Pollet, Sixth - Filippo Oppici.

Zac, Derreck, Bruce, and Robin at goal. John Simon landed out just before goal. Yoko at goal.

Alex has reason to be happy:

Photo by Regina Glas.

Primoz, barefoot:

Photo by Regina Glas.

Yoko and team mates at goal:

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August 10, 2017, 6:43:35 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Worlds 2017 Class 1

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Task 2:

  Name Glider Time Total
1 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 02:20:54 988
2 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 02:21:20 972
3 PRIMOZ GRICAR AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 02:21:20 967
4 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 02:21:31 961
5 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 02:21:36 958
6 DAVID FILHO WILLSWING - T2CX 02:23:05 951
7 DAIMON KOJI AEROS - COMBAT C 12.7 02:21:55 950
8 PETR POLACH AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 02:21:51 947
9 ATTILA BERTOK MOYES RX 5 PRO 02:23:14 939
10 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 02:22:56 938

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 1940
2 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 1923
3 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 1881
4 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 1858
5 PRIMOZ GRICAR AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 1854
6 DAN VYHNALIK AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 1839
7 Petr Beneš AEROS - COMBAT 14 1815
8 GRANT J CROSSINGHAM MOYES - RX3.5 1802
9 DAVID FILHO WILLSWING - T2CX 1789
10 ROBIN HAMILTON MOYES - RX 3.5 1788

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August 10, 2017, 5:00:19 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day two, twenty five in the lead gaggle

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|calendar|Christian Ciech|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Worlds 2017 Class 1

The flying is about over for the day: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2040#

You can go on Replay. Takes a while to figure it out. Click the calendar, choose today, choose the time by clicking the clock symbol at the bottom of the calendar, subtract six hours.

Christian Ciech in first with Alex Ploner right behind him. And then Primoz and Filippo. Bunch of Italians clean up again today.

Christian landing and Alex coming in:

Christian Ciech landing, Alex Ploner coming in

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August 9, 2017, 7:16:13 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Filippo Oppici|Jamie Shelden|Primoz Gricar|Worlds 2017 Class 1

http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com.br/2017/08/worlds-day-1.html

A mid-air with a broken outboard leading edge. Pilot landed okay under canopy.

Live tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2040

http://eventos.cbvl.esp.br/en/21-fai-mundial-de-asa-delta-brasilia-2017#results

http://www.cbvl.esp.br/evento/resultado/117

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 ALESSANDRO PLONER ICARO - LAMINAR Z9 01:56:06 967
2 MARIO ALONZI AEROS - 12.7 GT 01:57:19 953
3 JON DURAND MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 01:59:46 937
4 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO - LAMINAR 01:59:13 934
5 CHRISTIAN POLLET AEROS - 12.7 02:00:12 907
6 TONY ARMSTRONG MOYES - RX 3.5 PRO 02:00:00 898
7 FILIPPO OPPICI WILLSWING - T2C 02:00:03 896
8 GLEN MCFARLANE WILLSWING - T2C 144 02:00:19 890
9 PRIMOZ GRICAR AEROS - COMBAT 13.5 GT 02:00:24 887
10 RODOLFO GOTES NAVARRO WILLSWING - T2C 144 02:02:15 881

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August 9, 2017, 1:43:54 pm MST -0600

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day one, many in goal

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Worlds 2017 Class 1

The flying is about over for the day: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2040

Launch:

Goal:

Alex Ploner in first to goal:

Moyes writes:

Perfect conditions at launch the whole field of 131 pilots off in about 45 minutes. Pumping day with many pilots at goal. Close finish with Alex Ploner 1st, Mario Alonzi 2nd, Christian Ciech 3rd, Jonny Durand 4th, Vibeman 5th, Glen McFarlane 6th.

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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship is open

Mon, Aug 7 2017, 6:32:41 pm MDT

Track the competition

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|CIVL|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|photo|Thomas Weissenberger|Worlds 2017 Class 1|Zac Majors

Elena at CIVL «Elena at CIVL» writes:

CIVL of FAI is glad to announce that Brasilia has opened the World Championship of 21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship. From August 6 till 19, 142 pilots from 29 countries will be competing in the skies of Brazil with flights between Formosa (GO) and the Federal District.

One of the favorites is current world champion Christian Ciech, winner of the Worlds at Valle de Bravo in Mexico in 2015. Other pilots also contenders for the title, are the top five in the ranking: Australian Jonny Durand, number one Pre-World Cup winner in 2016 in Brasilia, Brazilian André Wolf, Italians Filippo Oppici and Davide Guiducci, and Austrian Thomas Weissenberger.

Read the story and see photos of the opening ceremony here:

http://www.fai.org/civl-news/43341-event10516-brazil-hg2017-open

Subscribe to FAI CIVL on Facebook to get fresh news and live reportages from the Worlds.

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The would add other contenders at the very least, former World Champions, Alex Ploner and Attila Bertok, as well as Zac Majors, who just beat Christian in similar conditions at Dinosaur. Other USA team members, for sure. Perhaps Corinna, who just won the German Open.

2017 Italian Open »

July 28, 2017, 7:33:21 MST -0600

2017 Italian Open

Results from the second task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Italian Open 2017|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tullio Gervasoni

http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2017/task2.html

Task 2 on Thursday:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 ALEX PLONER ICARO LAMINAR 03:06:45 997
2 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO LAMINAR 03:14:08 949
3 VANNI ACCATTOLI MOYES RX4 03:42:04 876
4 VALENTINO BAU ICARO LAMINAR 14.1 03:43:57 859
5 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI ICARO LAMINAR 04:08:05 827
6 LUCA COMINO AIR ATOS VQ 03:12:14 813

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 ALEX PLONER ICARO LAMINAR 1000 997 1997
2 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO LAMINAR 872 949 1821
3 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI ICARO LAMINAR 965 827 1792
4 VALENTINO BAU ICARO LAMINAR 14.1 777 859 1636
5 LUCA COMINO AIR ATOS VQ 750 813 1563
6 Arne Tänzer ICARO LAMINAR 14.1 812 736 1548
7 JOCHEN ZEISCHKA MOYES LITESPEED RX4 839 676 1515
8 KARL REICHEGGER ICARO LAMINAR 728 748 1476
9 ANTON MORODER ICARO LAMINAR 815 630 1445
10 TULLIO GERVASONI WILLS WING T2C 144 723 621 1344

Two more days to go.

2017 Italian National Hang Gliding Championships

Tue, Jul 25 2017, 1:49:06 pm GMT

Interesting weather

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Italian Nationals 2017|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tullio Gervasoni|weather

Tullio sends from Tuesday (about 3 or 4 PM Italian time):

Rigid wings are scored with flex wings with a 15% penalty. I wonder if Gerolf would approve.

http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php

Sunday's results, Monday and Tuesday cancelled:

https://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/Cucco2017/task1.html

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alex Ploner Icaro Laminar 02:19:12 1000
2 Davide Guiducci Icaro Laminar 02:20:52 965
3 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 02:31:23 872
4 Jochen Zeischka Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:34:54 839
5 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 02:41:40 815
6 Arne Tänzer Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:39:42 812
7 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:46:21 777
8 Luca Comino Air Atos VQ 02:29:27 750
9 Anton Struganov Moyes RX4 02:52:40 742
10 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:53:15 734

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Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017

Wed, May 3 2017, 6:31:36 am MDT

Just finished

Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017|video

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No live tracking on Airtribune for this meet.

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Pre-Worlds Winners

September 5, 2016, 11:11:23 MST -0600

Pre-Worlds Winners

Jonny and the Italians

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr

http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-winners/

I’m pretty sure I can sing the Italian national anthem at this point. We’ve been hearing so much of it lately between their wins at the Europeans in Macedonia and now the team event here at the pre-worlds (not to mention the previous team and individual gold medals in both Valle de Bravo and Forbes). They did it again here in the team event – and without their two star pilots, Christian Ciech and Alex Ploner. With the two of them at worlds next year, I’m guessing they’ll be unbeatable. Perhaps only the Brasilians have a shot at them. The teams were neck-in-neck this year, thanks to strong flying by Nene Rotor (despite, and even after, his tumble), Glauco Pinto, Andre Wolf, and Carlos Niemeyer. The Aussies took third place.

2016 European Championships »

July 28, 2016, 3:48:23 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

Results from the eighth day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|European Championships 2016|Flytec 6030|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

Forty nine in goal. Zac bombs.

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA icaro laminar z9 02:32:30 993
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:32:33 982
3 Suan Selenati ITA WILLS WING T2C 02:33:06 979
4 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes RX3.5 02:33:42 959
5 Petr Benes CZE aeros combat 14.2 09 02:33:52 953
6 Davide Guiducci ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:34:18 935
6 Tom Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 TechnoraSpok 02:33:56 935
8 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros Combat 13,5 C 02:34:57 921
9 Antoine Boisselier FRA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 02:34:35 920
10 Jochen Zeischka BEL Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:36:06 914

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6574
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA icaro laminar z9 6561
3 Peter Neuenschwander SUI AEROS Combat C 6473
4 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes RX3.5 6393
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX5 6220
6 Petr Benes CZE aeros combat 14.2 09 6030
7 Suan Selenati ITA WILLS WING T2C 6010
8 Antoine Boisselier FRA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 5951
9 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 5931
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes RX4 5926

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A short task

Wed, Jul 27 2016, 3:13:37 pm MDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Christopher Friedl|European Championships 2016|Facebook|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Suan Selenati

After two non flying days a short task is called with iffy conditions. Many at goal:

Task 7 (rigids):

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christopher Friedl Aut A.I.R. Atos VR10 03:09:49 1000
2 Tim Grabowski Ger A-I-R Atos-VQ 03:11:55 949
3 Norbert Kirchner Ger Air VQ Race 03:12:35 939
4 Wolfgang Kothgasser Aut Air Atos Vqrace 03:15:57 911
5 Luca Comino Ita A.I.R. Atos VQ 03:17:42 850
6 Jochen Zeyher Ger A-I-R Atos Vqr 03:32:21 794
7 Dirk Ripkens Ger Air Atos Vqr 03:33:23 767
8 Arnold Nadlinger Aut Atos Vr 03:32:44 760
9 Paul Harvey Gbr Air Atos Vrs 03:32:25 748
10 Shogo Ota Jpn Air Atosvr 03:34:27 731

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Tim Grabowski Ger A-I-R Atos-VQ 5639
2 Wolfgang Kothgasser Aut Air Atos Vqrace 5524
3 Christopher Friedl Aut A.I.R. Atos VR10 5383
4 Naoki Itagaki Jpn Air Atos VQ Race 4823
5 Norbert Kirchner Ger Air VQ Race 4784
6 Walter Geppert Aut Atos VR10 4399
7 Carlos Punet Esp A.I.R. Atos Vrt 4284
7 Luca Comino Ita A.I.R. Atos VQ 4284
9 Dirk Ripkens Ger Air Atos Vqr 3567
10 Shogo Ota Jpn Air Atosvr 3554

Task 6 (60 in goal):

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:57:20 1000
2 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes RX5 01:57:51 952
3 Olav Opsanger Nor Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 01:57:58 949
4 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 14.2 09 01:58:03 941
5 Fredy Bircher Sui Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:58:41 933
6 Evgen Lysenko Ukr Aeros Combat GT 12.7 01:58:50 918
7 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 01:59:31 912
8 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro Laminar Z9 02:01:01 909
9 Petr Polach Cze Aeros Combat GT 13.5 02:00:58 893
10 Anton Struganov Rus Moyes Litespeed RX 02:01:44 885

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 879 742 996 981 994 1000 5592
2 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro Laminar Z9 915 940 969 982 853 909 5568
3 Peter Neuenschwander Sui Aeros Combat C 953 923 953 966 948 818 5561
4 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes RX5 954 719 880 973 985 952 5463
5 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX3.5 960 889 874 943 971 797 5434
6 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX4 802 886 887 734 913 866 5088
7 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 14.2 09 917 569 899 768 983 941 5077
8 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat 13.5 970 762 676 779 963 912 5062
9 Antoine Boisselier Fra Icaro 2000 Laminar 976 536 959 835 898 827 5031
9 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing T2C 772 961 798 787 855 858 5031

Zac came in eleventh.

2016 European Championships »

July 25, 2016, 8:10:08 MST -0600

2016 European Championships

After five tasks

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|European Championships 2016|Facebook|Jamie Shelden|photo|video

Rest day. The competition goes through Friday with awards on Saturday.

https://www.facebook.com/107783410722/videos/10153608250890723/

Photo by Jamie Shelden.

Apparently the launch was successful.

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July 24, 2016, 4:01:19 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

Day six, task five

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|competition|European Championships 2016|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|photo|Suan Selenati

Day five photos here. Regina's photos here.

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:56:13 994
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX5 03:56:29 985
3 Petr Benes CZE aeros combat 14.2 09 03:56:24 983
4 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes RX3.5 03:56:45 971
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 03:56:45 963
6 Franz Herrmann SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 03:57:32 958
7 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:57:41 956
8 Peter Neuenschwander SUI AEROS Combat C 03:58:26 947
9 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes RX4 04:05:38 912
10 Christian Baertschi SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 C 04:06:20 906

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander SUI AEROS Combat C 4742
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA icaro laminar z9 4657
3 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes RX3.5 4637
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4592
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes RX5 4511
6 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes RX4 4221
7 Antoine Boisselier FRA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 4203
8 Suan Selenati ITA WILLS WING T2C 4171
9 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 4150
10 Petr Benes CZE aeros combat 14.2 09 4136

Alex Ploner, two time world champion, dropped to second after arriving fourteen minutes behind Christian Ciech. He was the last one into goal and the only pilot from the second clock to make goal. Only seventeen pilots in goal.

One time world champion, Attila Bertok moved up from sixth to fifth after coming in second. The first five spots are pretty tight.

2016 European Championships »

Day five, task four for open class, five for rigids

Sat, Jul 23 2016, 3:22:45 pm MDT

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Aeronautic Innovation Rühle & Co GmbH|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Christopher Friedl|competition|European Championships 2016|Facebook|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

British Hang Gliding Team at Goal:

Class five results:

Task 5, day 5:

# Name Glider Time km/h Total
1 Tim Grabowski A-I-R Atos-VQ 02:41:53 54.3 1000
2 Wolfgang Kothgasser Air Atos Vqrace 02:46:34 52.8 926
3 Naoki Itagaki Air Atos VQ Race 02:50:52 51.4 882
4 Christopher Friedl A.I.R. Atos VR10 03:03:34 47.9 762
5 Walter Geppert Atos VR10 03:09:02 46.5 730
6 Norbert Kirchner Air VQ Race 03:09:48 46.3 717
7 Franco Laverdino A.I.R. Atos Vr 2016 03:09:51 46.3 711
8 Carlos Punet A.I.R. Atos Vrt 03:09:58 46.3 708
9 Patrick Chopard Lallier A-I-R Atos Vr 11 03:13:34 45.4 686
10 Paul Harvey Air Atos Vrs 03:25:01 42.9 615

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Wolfgang Kothgasser Aut Air Atos Vqrace 3871
2 Tim Grabowski Ger A-I-R Atos-VQ 3690
3 Naoki Itagaki Jpn Air Atos VQ Race 3676
4 Christopher Friedl Aut A.I.R. Atos VR10 3455
5 Norbert Kirchner Ger Air VQ Race 3153
6 Walter Geppert Aut Atos VR10 3056
7 Carlos Punet Esp A.I.R. Atos Vrt 3027
8 Patrick Chopard Lallier Fra A-I-R Atos Vr 11 2997
9 Luca Comino Ita A.I.R. Atos VQ 2781
10 Richard Herzog Aut Air VQ Race 2647

Class 1:

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar Z9 03:08:42 982
2 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:08:48 981
3 Attila Bertok Moyes RX5 03:08:59 973
4 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat C 03:10:28 966
5 Grant Crossingham Moyes RX3.5 03:11:02 943
6 Tom Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technoraspok 03:13:15 926
7 Doenhuber Gerd Moyes RX3.5 2015 03:16:42 900
8 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13,5°C 03:26:29 844
9 Antoine Boisselier Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:25:31 835
10 Franc Peternel Wills Wing T2C 03:34:18 790

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner Ita Icaro Laminar Z9 3806
2 Peter Neuenschwander Sui Aeros Combat C 3795
3 Grant Crossingham Gbr Moyes RX3.5 3666
4 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 3598
5 Franc Peternel Slo Wills Wing T2C 3544
6 Attila Bertok Hun Moyes RX5 3526
7 Endre Kovacs Hun Aeros Combat GT 13,5 3413
8 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros Combat 13,5°C 3391
9 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing T2C 3318
10 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun Moyes RX4 3309

Alex and Christian fly together and end up first and second. Finally the Moyes pilots remember what they are flying. Zac takes the third start time and doesn't go that far. Thirty seven pilots make goal.

2016 European Championships »

July 22, 2016, 5:18:55 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

1 second equals 10 points, the results from day four

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|European Championships 2016|Filippo Oppici|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

Third day in a row that a pilot flying a Wills Wing T2C wins the day. Wills, Icaro and Aeros dominate the top ten.

Day four:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Franc Peternel Wills Wing T2C 144 02:35:03 996
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:35:04 996
3 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:35:05 986
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T2C 144 02:35:08 980
5 Alessandro Ploner icaro laminar z9 02:35:38 968
6 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 02:35:49 964
7 Antoine Boisselier ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 02:36:01 958
8 Peter Neuenschwander AEROS Combat C 02:36:21 952
9 Petr Benes aeros combat 14.2 09 02:40:42 898
10 Zac Majors Wills Wing T2C 144 02:41:01 896

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander AEROS Combat C 2828
2 Alessandro Ploner icaro laminar z9 2823
3 Franc Peternel Wills Wing T2C 144 2755
4 Grant Crossingham   2726
5 Endre Kovacs Aeros Combat GT 13,5 2673
6 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 2617
7 Mario Alonzi AEROS AEROS 2593
8 Attila Bertok   2554
9 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13,5 C 2549
10 Suan Selenati WILLS WING T2C 2534

2016 European Championships »

July 21, 2016, 5:32:52 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|competition|European Championships 2016|Facebook|photo|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati

Suan first.

Wills Wing gliders piloted into first place two days in a row.

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

Second Task:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 03:06:15 961
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar z9 03:07:35 939
3 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat C 03:09:28 922
4 Endre Kovacs Aeros Combat GT 13,5 03:14:57 910
5 Franc Peternel   03:11:37 902
6 Grant Crossingham   03:12:22 888
7 Balazs Ujhelyi   03:12:33 885
8 Mario Alonzi Aeros 03:13:21 874
9 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13,5 C 03:37:21 775
10 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 03:40:24 759

Again no Moyes gliders claimed in the top ten. Zac doesn't make goal again. Thirty at goal. Fillippo barely short of goal.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander Aeros Combat C 1875
2 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar z9 1854
3 Grant Crossingham   1848
4 Endre Kovacs Aeros Combat GT 13,5 1818
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros 1765
6 Franc Peternel   1758
7 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 1733
8 Dan Vyhnalik Aeros Combat 13.5 1729
9 Primoz Gricar Aeros Combat 13,5 C 1696
10 Balazs Ujhelyi   1687

2016 European Championships »

July 20, 2016, 4:31:11 pm MST -0600

2016 European Championships

Zac bombs

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|competition|European Championships 2016|Filippo Oppici|PG|Primoz Gricar

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results

https://airtribune.com/hgeu2016/results/task1695/day/overall_c1

First task:

# Name   Nat Glider Time Total
1 Miroslav Cap M CZE Wills Wing T2c 01:51:03 982
2 Antoine Boisselier M FRA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 01:51:30 977
3 Dan Vyhnalik M CZE Aeros Combat 13.5 01:51:54 970
4 Grant Crossingham M GBR   01:52:07 960
5 Attila Bertok M HUN   01:52:19 954
6 Peter Neuenschwander M SUI AEROS Combat C 01:52:20 953
7 Filippo Oppici M ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 01:52:43 945
8 Primoz Gricar M GER Aeros Combat 13,5 C 01:52:54 921
9 Petr Benes M CZE aeros combat 14.2 09 01:54:38 916
10 Alessandro Ploner M ITA icaro laminar z9 01:54:48 915

Zac took the second start, which did not work out. Just outside the start cylinder apparently. A very tight finish, looking a lot like a paragliding competition in terms of how close the finishers are and with basically one start time.

Christian, 20th, and Ploner, 10th, as seen above. Wills Wing glider flown by the day winner. Vicki needs her pilots to get their Moyes gliders identified as no Moyes gliders show up on the list for the pilots in the top ten.

Sasha, top female, and only female actually listed as having scored.

Zac third at two day Austrian Open

July 10, 2016, 9:49:39 pm MST -0600

Zac third at two day Austrian Open

Manfred first and Alex second

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Blue Sky|Christian Ciech|competition|Icaro 2000|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Zac Majors

https://airtribune.com/austrianopen2016/results

Final:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 835 917 1752
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 890 848 1738
3 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 0 879 771 1650
4 Anton Moroder ITA icaro 2000 laminar 13 0 737 878 1615
5 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed Rx 0 735 839 1574
6 Joerg Bajewski DEU Wills Wing T2C 154 0 658 882 1540
7 Karl Reichegger ITA zero 9 14,1m² 0 613 883 1496
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 0 588 901 1489
9 Tschurnig Guenther AUT Icaro blue Sky 0 546 840 1386
10 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 0 495 887 1382

Ploner flying

May 31, 2016, 8:22:48 EST -0400

Ploner flying

Multiple viewpoints

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Facebook|video

https://www.facebook.com/107783410722/videos/10153490697620723/

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Ranking

October 2, 2015, 8:23:08 MST -0600

Ranking

WPRS is updated

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Bruce Barmakian|Christian Ciech|Chris Zimmerman|CIVL|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Dustin Martin|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|James Stinnett|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Larry Bunner|Oleg Bondarchuk|Robin Hamilton|Suan Selenati|USHPA|World Pilot Ranking Scheme|Zac Majors

USHPA ranking:

http://www.ushpa.aero/competition/ntss1/index.php

Pos Name Points
1 Zac Majors 2479
2 Bruce Barmakian 1982
3 Davis Straub 1958
4 James Stinnet 1908
5 Larry Bunner 1863
6 Dustin Martin 1738
7 Robin Hamilton 1607
8 Chris Zimmerman 1512
9 Matt Barker 1378
10 Krzysztof Grzyb 1360

CIVL ranking, USA:

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1&nation_id=235&

Rank Name Points
1
w: 3
Zac Majors
CIVL ID: 10613
295.7
2
w: 31
Robin Hamilton
CIVL ID: 7536
221.5
3
w: 47
James Stinnett
CIVL ID: 6603
188.1
4
w: 49
Michael Bilyk
CIVL ID: 30148
187.1
5
w: 50
Dustin Martin
CIVL ID: 6193
186.4
6
w: 51
Bruce Barmakian
CIVL ID: 8035
183.9
7
w: 60
Davis Straub
CIVL ID: 6143
171.9
8
w: 65
Larry Bunner
CIVL ID: 6925
163.9
9
w: 74
Matt Barker
CIVL ID: 19399
154.5
10
w: 77
Krzysztof Grzyb
CIVL ID: 6913
153.4

CIVL ranking:

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1&

Rank Name Points
1
Christian Ciech
CIVL ID: 6034
346.3
2
Jonny Durand
CIVL ID: 2231
326.2
3
Zac Majors
CIVL ID: 10613
295.7
4
Mario Alonzi
CIVL ID: 7043
294.2
5
Alessandro Ploner
CIVL ID: 5724
289.6
6
Elio Cataldi
CIVL ID: 6217
281.9
7
Balazs Ujhelyi
CIVL ID: 5893
279.7
8
Suan Selenati
CIVL ID: 15184
273.3
9
Pedro L. Garcia
CIVL ID: 9442
266.1
10
Oleg Bondarchuk
CIVL ID: 7273
263.4

Females:

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=326&ladder_id=1&female=1

Rank Name Points
1
o: 55
Alexandra Serebrennikova
CIVL ID: 30169
179.5
2
o: 73
Corinna Schwiegershausen
CIVL ID: 1377
154.7
3
o: 109
Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet
CIVL ID: 6325
135.0

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The pre-Europeans - day 3 »

August 20, 2015, 5:56:03 pm MDT

The pre-Europeans - day 3

Jochen wins the day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Blue Sky|competition|Davide Guiducci|Jamie Shelden|Marco Laurenzi|Pre-Europeans 2015|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

https://airtribune.com/play/926/2d

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/blog__day_3

Jamie's photo.

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/results

Task 3::

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jochen Zeischka Moyes RX 4 02:03:25 999
2 Anton Moroder Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:20:22 837
3 Marco Laurenzi Moyes RS 3.5 02:23:18 815
4 Suan Selenati WILLS WING T2C 02:31:28 781
5 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:32:35 762
6 Günther Tschurnig Blue Sky 02:33:33 754
7 Alessandro Ploner Icaro Laminar z9 02:39:04 722
8 Elio Cataldi Moyes RX 4 02:42:44 710
9 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:42:24 705
10 Balazs Ujhelyi Moyes RS 4 02:42:36 695

After three tasks:

# Name Glider Total
1 Elio Cataldi Moyes RX 4 2546
2 Suan Selenati WILLS WING T2C 2475
3 Balazs Ujhelyi Moyes RS 4 2438
4 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 2285
5 Tullio Gervasoni T2C 144 2273
6 Mario ALONZI Aeros Combat 12.7 C 2250
7 Piero Zin Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 2200
8 Marco Laurenzi Moyes RS 3.5 2150
9 Thibault Demange WILLS WING T2C 2145
10 Emmanuel FELIX FAURE Aeros Combat GT 13,2 2093

Dolomiti Open 2015 »

Sat, Jul 11 2015, 3:27:00 pm MDT

Christian Ciech wins

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Dolomiti Open 2015|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX

Task 5, last task

# Name Glider Time Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Alex Ploner Icaro Laminar 03:47:21 762.4 41.1 166.4 29.7 1000
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 03:57:59 762.4 36.1 132.7 16.9 948
3 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 03:59:43 762.4 31.9 129.1 9.8 933
4 Gunther Pfanzelter Icaro Laminar 03:59:46 762.4 31.0 129.0 6.8 929

Total:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 4783
2 Alex Ploner Icaro Laminar 4331
3 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 4130
4 Elio Cataldi Moyes Litespeed RX 3618
5 Gerd Donhuber Moyes RX 3.5 2015 3569
6 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 3535
7 Davide Guiducci Laminar 3494
8 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 3462
9 Gunther Pfanzelter Icaro Laminar 3392
10 Marco Laurenzi Moyes Litespeed Rs 3282

Once again, leading and arrival position points are just time/speed points. In this race numerous pilots who didn't make goal received leading points comparable to the fourth pilot into goal, but they were minimal. Distance points were a major factor as only four pilots made goal and time points made the difference between pilots making goal and those not making goal.

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Dolomiti Open 2015 »

July 10, 2015, 12:41:49 pm MDT GMT-0600

Dolomiti Open 2015

Italian Nationals 2015

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

Flavio sends:

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/falzes2015/

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO LAMINAR 02:59:09 462.3 81.2 324.8 58.0 926
2 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Laminar 03:03:36 462.3 54.3 285.0 50.9 853
3 KARL REICHEGGER ICARO LAMINAR 03:04:27 462.3 54.9 280.1 44.6 842
4 ALEX PLONER ICARO LAMINAR 03:26:07 462.3 16.5 192.5 39.0 710
5 GUNTHER PFANZELTER ICARO LAMINAR 03:33:27 462.3 17.3 169.4 29.8 679
6 GLAUCO PINTO ICARO LAMINAR 03:34:30 462.3 12.9 166.3 26.1 668
7 JOERG BAJEWSKI WILLS WING T2C 03:32:07 462.3 11.2 173.5 13.8 661
7 TULLIO GERVASONI WILLS WING T2C 03:35:32 462.3 12.6 163.2 22.9 661
9 MARCO LAURENZI MOYES LITESPEED RS 03:39:38 462.3 19.1 151.3 20.3 653
10 SUAN SELENATI WILLS WING T2C 03:46:36 462.3 8.6 131.9 18.1 621
11 ROLAND WOEHRLE MOYES RX 3.5 03:49:03 462.3 4.5 125.3 16.3 608
12 ACHIM VOLLMER AEROS GT13,2 03:49:38 462.3 4.6 123.8 14.9 606
13 HARALD WIELAND WILLS WING T2C 03:52:43 462.3 7.6 115.7 13.0 599
14 GERD DONHUBER MOYES RX 3.5 2015 03:52:48 462.3 2.2 115.5 12.4 592
15 CORINNA SCHWIEGERSHAUSEN MOYES RX3 03:54:13 462.3 3.4 111.8 12.0 590
16 FREDY BIRCHER MOYES LITESPEED RX3.5 04:02:44 462.3 6.9 90.3 11.8 571

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 CHRISTIAN CIECH ICARO LAMINAR 3840
2 ALEX PLONER ICARO LAMINAR 3328
3 KARL REICHEGGER ICARO LAMINAR 3199
4 SEPPI SALVENMOSER MOYES LITESPEED RX 3,5 2927
5 DAVIDE GUIDUCCI Laminar 2876
6 GERD DONHUBER MOYES RX 3.5 2015 2859
7 ELIO CATALDI MOYES LITESPEED RX 2851
8 SUAN SELENATI WILLS WING T2C 2828
9 ROLAND WOEHRLE MOYES RX 3.5 2804
10 MARCO LAURENZI MOYES LITESPEED RS 2791

Once again leading and arrival position points are just stand ins for time or speed points. All these pilots that made goal started at the same time. The pilots that didn't make goal and did get some leading points, got very few leading points. Certainly nothing that would have encouraged them to actually lead.

Dolomiti Open 2015 »

Wed, Jul 8 2015, 7:18:59 am MDT

Italian Nationals 2015

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Dolomiti Open 2015|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing T2C

Flavio sends:

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/falzes2015/

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Alex Ploner Icaro Laminar 02:23:25 447.9 96.6 386.5 69.0 1000
2 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 02:25:04 447.9 90.7 360.1 62.7 961
3 Marco Laurenzi Moyes Litespeed Rs 02:39:03 447.9 69.4 268.6 51.5 837
4 Seppi Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 02:39:10 447.9 68.0 268.0 46.7 831
5 Elio Cataldi Moyes Litespeed RX 02:39:25 447.9 69.2 266.7 42.2 826
6 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 02:42:42 447.9 68.9 250.9 38.2 806
7 Glauco Pinto Icaro Laminar 02:52:49 447.9 60.1 206.8 34.6 749
8 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 02:54:47 447.9 50.1 198.9 31.4 728
9 Gerd Donhuber Moyes RX 3.5 2015 02:54:50 447.9 50.4 198.7 28.5 726
10 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 02:55:25 447.9 54.7 196.4 26.0 725

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar 952 1000 961 2913
2 Alex Ploner Icaro Laminar 895 720 1000 2615
3 Seppi Salvenmoser Moyes Litespeed RX 3,5 982 682 831 2495
4 Elio Cataldi Moyes Litespeed RX 863 720 826 2409
5 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 815 729 806 2350
6 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 802 792 728 2322
7 Gerd Donhuber Moyes RX 3.5 2015 820 714 726 2260
8 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 834 787 580 2201
9 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 842 621 725 2188
10 Marco Laurenzi Moyes Litespeed Rs 463 825 837 2125

Basically a race start with only a couple of pilots taking the later two times. All these guys started at the first clock. Leading points? A forty point spread over the top 10, in which there was a 275 point spread for total points. The leading points were almost completely aligned with speed points (variances were small). So, in essence, leading points and arrival position points were just another version of time points.

Laminar at the bank

December 31, 2014, 7:44:39 EST

Laminar at the bank

Commercial

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Alex Ploner|Icaro 2000|video

http://www.icaro2000.com/News/Pictures/2014/Laminar-giallo-L.jpg

Icaro sends:

An important Italian bank asked us to make a full yellow hang glider to use in their advertisements. In their video you will see the hang glider only at the end and just for a few seconds. Anyway they chose the best available hang glider.

The video was made in the Italian Dolomites and the pilot is the former world champion Alex Ploner.

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2015 World Championships »

Mon, Dec 1 2014, 8:20:53 am PST

Eight pilots from the US

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Bill Soderquist|Bruce Barmakian|Krzysztof "Krys/Kris" Grzyb|Robin Hamilton|USHPA|World Championships 2015|Zac Majors

http://www.faihgworldmex.com/pilotlistmai_2015.php

pilot US NTSS ranking
Zac Majors 1
Mike Bilyk 2
Robin Hamilton 4
Bruce Barmakian 5
Krzysztof Grzyb 7
Matt Barker 9
Bill Soderquist 16
Derreck Turner 17

http://www.ushpa.aero/competition/ntss1/index.php

No Alex Ploner.

2014 Italian Nationals »

August 10, 2014, 9:00:53 CDT

2014 Italian Nationals

Final results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Italian Nationals 2014|Moyes Litespeed RX|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Website : VoloLiberoMonteCucco.it
Result on : http://goo.gl/I8foKj

Finals:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 ALEX PLONER ITA ICARO LAMINAR 4475
2 CHRISTIAN CIECH ITA ICARO LAMINAR 4311
3 SUAN SELENATI ITA WILLS WING T2C 3891
4 VALENTINO BAU ITA ICARO LAMINAR 14.1 3658
5 TULLIO GERVASONI ITA WILLS WING T2C 3502
6 ANTON MORODER ITA ICARO LAMINAR 3443
7 ROLAND WOEHRLE GER MOYES LITESPEED RX 3214
8 JOSEF BOSTIK CZE WILLS WING T2C154 3205
9 PEDRO L. GARCIA MORELLI ESP WILLS WING T2C P 144 3203
10 ELIO CATALDI ITA MOYES LITESPEED RX 3120

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Trofeo Carlo Zanchettin

May 28, 2014, 8:01:10 EDT

Trofeo Carlo Zanchettin

Manfred wins

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|video

Matthias Kurzthaler <<m.kurzthaler>> sends:

http://www.flafly.net/Flavios_web_site/Zanchettin_2014.html

1 MANFRED RUHMER ICARO LAMINAR Z9 1949
2 ALEX PLONER ICARO LAMINAR 1751
3 SUAN SELENATI WW T2C 1586
4 MATTIA GASPARINI AEROS COMBAT 13.5 GT 1578
5 FLORIAN GOSTNER ICARO LAMINAR 1575
6 MARCO LAURENZI MOYES LITESPEED RS 1516
7 GUNTHER PFANZELTER ICARO LAMINAR 1415
8 VALENTINO BAU ICARO LAMINAR 14.1 1239
9 ANTON MORODER ICARO LAMINAR 1186
10 DAVIDE FUMAGALLI ICARO LAMINAR 1161

https://vimeo.com/96527853

Livetracks:

Task I: http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/1368

Task II: http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/1409

http://www.matzeski.blogspot.co.at/2014/05/trofeo-carlo-zanchettin-2014.html

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Fly with Guido

April 17, 2014, 7:46:38 EDT

Fly with Guido

May 1st

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Flavio Tebaldi|video

Flavio Tebaldi writes:

Alex Ploner and Falken Club have organized, in Campo Tures, a day of flying in memory of Guido Ghermann.

https://vimeo.com/92125698

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Silently across the Alps

September 20, 2013, 8:35:58 MST

Silently across the Alps

Buddy film

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Jonathan Dietch

Jonathan Dietch <<nmerider>> writes:

Nice German language buddy film of Alex Ploner and Steffen Wink. From South Tyrol to the Chiemsee.

http://www.servustv.com/cs/Satellite/Article/Faszination-Heimat-011259524198246

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Good weather in ⁢Spain »

Mon, Aug 19 2013, 8:18:38 am MDT

For the Pre-Europeans

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|weather

http://www.arangoiti2014.com/

http://www.arangoiti2014.com/images/stories/Task7.html

http://www.arangoiti2014.com/images/stories/TotalresultsT1T2T3T4T5T6T7.html

Alex Ploner wins. Elio Cataldi second and Jochen Zeischka third.

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2013 Pre-Europeans »

August 13, 2013, 8:15:40 MDT

2013 Pre-Europeans

Ploner first

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Pre-Europeans 2013

The first day results here.

http://www.arangoiti2014.com/

Yesterday 13/08 a very tricky day. We started with South winds but the day quickly got covered with some rain showers in the area. We set an out an return along the south ridge, crossing later to the northern valley for the second turnpoint and goal at Lumbier´s airfield. No pilots in goal, Alex Ploner wins the day followed by Dan Vynalik, Antoine Boisselier and Anton Moroder.

Combats still flying in the pre-Europeans.

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Christian on fire

August 1, 2013, 8:45:12 CDT

Christian on fire

Wins

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi

Filippo Oppici <<oppicif>> writes:

I'd like to report what in my opinion is one of the strongest performance ever.

Christian Ciech has just won the Monte Cucco International Trophy for one point over Alex Ploner and with this victory he has won seven of the eight competitions that he has attended so far this year (he missed winning at the Worlds in Forbes in January). Seven in a row! He also won nineteen of the thirty two tasks flown in these competitions. I'm very proud of my long time friend and teammate.

http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/docs/trofeo2013/total.html

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 CHRISTIAN CIECH Icaro 2000 Laminar 979 983 0 384 2346
2 ALESSANDRO PLONER Icaro 2000 Laminar 963 998 0 384 2345
3 FLORIAN GOSTNER Laminar 599 711 16 606 1932
4 VALENTINO BAU   702 798 0 381 1881
5 MARCO LAURENZI RS3.5 704 656 45 475 1880
6 AIMARO MALINGRI Litespeed S 760 557 17 502 1836
7 KARL REICHEGGER zero 9 14,1m² 598 736 0 474 1808
8 VANNI ACCATTOLI T2c154 576 723 0 479 1778
9 MATJAZ KLEMENCIC Moyes Rx 580 883 0 226 1689
10 PAOLO ROSICHETTI   588 640 45 395 1668

http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/vlmc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=167

A total separation of six seconds over four days.

Filippo was third at the 2013 Worlds.

Scoring the Worlds

February 26, 2013, 8:45:28 EST

Scoring the Worlds

Does it matter what scoring system we use there?

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rob Kells|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

I can choose among a wide variety of scoring formulas in FS to score a given competition. At the Worlds in 2013 Wesley Hill used the GAP 2002 version of GAP 2011 which provides for 'leading' points and arrival position points and well as speed and distance points. Presumably the pilots were fooled into thinking that leading actually gave them valuable points seeing that GAP 2002 was being used as the scoring system. This is in contrast to the previous case (2012 Rob Kells) where I chose a competition that was originally scored using arrival time points.

Here are the results:

GAP 2002 OzGAP 2005 GAP 2000
1 Manfred Ruhmer 9010 Manfred Ruhmer 8939 Manfred Ruhmer 8911
2 Alessandro Ploner 8871 Alessandro Ploner 8840 Alessandro Ploner 8792
3 Filippo Oppici 8560 Filippo Oppici 8611 Filippo Oppici 8508
4 Attila Bertok 8531 Attila Bertok 8545 Attila Bertok 8479
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8249 Grant Crossingham 8374 Grant Crossingham 8213
6 Grant Crossingham 8242 Primoz Gricar 8240 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8191
7 Primoz Gricar 8171 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8234 Primoz Gricar 8151
8 Balazs Ujhelyi 8131 Balazs Ujhelyi 8195 Scott Barrett 8076
8 Scott Barrett 8131 Scott Barrett 8152 Antoine Boisselier 8063
10 Antoine Boisselier 8128 Antoine Boisselier 8140 Balazs Ujhelyi 8050
11 Jonny Durand 8069 Robin Hamilton 8044 Jonny Durand 7960
12 Robin Hamilton 8031 Jonny Durand 8018 Robin Hamilton 7916
13 Gerd Dönhuber 7888 Michael Friesenbichler 7884 Gerd Dönhuber 7801
14 Michael Friesenbichler 7878 Paris Williams 7883 Michael Friesenbichler 7762
15 Gordon Rigg 7854 Gerd Dönhuber 7820 Paris Williams 7745
16 Paris Williams 7842 Gordon Rigg 7778 Gordon Rigg 7714
17 Gary Wirdnam 7734 Gary Wirdnam 7718 Gary Wirdnam 7658
18 Christian Ciech 7641 Mario Alonzi 7683 Christian Ciech 7533
19 Carl Wallbank 7631 Christian Ciech 7614 Carl Wallbank 7516
20 Mario Alonzi 7584 Carl Wallbank 7611 Mario Alonzi 7516

The first four positions are the same and then we get into some swapping.

The full results are found here, here and here.

Setting the nominal distance, part 3. »

February 15, 2013, 8:04:06 PST

Setting the nominal distance

Going big

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|scoring|Scott Barrett

If you expect to set tasks at about 200 km, what should you set the Nominal Distance at?

Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Gnom = 20 the line above gives the relationship between the meet director's choice of nominal distance and the average distance required for full validity.

Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Dnom = 120 km, the chart below gives the relationship between the meet director's choice of percentage of pilots at goal and the required average distance flown for full validity:

Full Distance Validity also depends on what percentage of the pilots fly further than the minimum distance. Given the Dmax = 200 km, Dmin = 5 km, Dnom = 120 km, and Gnom = 20, we get the following relationship:

Looking at the 2013 Worlds:

If the nominal distance had instead of being set to 80 km had been set to 120 km, the Distance Validity would have still been at least equal to 1 each day, despite the fact that day five and six were stopped. So nether of us would have set the Nominal Distance long enough to differentiate between days where we went below average and those where we were above average.

If we had set the nominal distance to 180 km, we would have had an average flown distance of those flying further than the minimum distance of 130 km for the Distance validity to equal 1. We would have noted before the first task that we were probably setting the first task (and task 2, 3, and 5) at too short a distance. In addition, the second, third, fifth and sixth days would have been devalued. The fifth and sixth days because the task was stopped. The second and third because the tasks were called too short.

It was only after the fifth task that we started calling tasks long enough to get pilots to fly far enough to be completely valid assuming that pilots could in fact on average fly 180 km on an average day.

If we had set the nominal distance value equal to 180 km then these would be the Distance Validity values for each of the days:

The two days that were stopped are devalued the most, which is what we would hope for.

This would have been the results if we had chosen that 180 km as the Nominal Distance:

# Name
1 Manfred Ruhmer 8505
2 Alessandro Ploner 8389
3 Filippo Oppici 8090
4 Attila Bertok 8073
5 Primoz Gricar 7867
6 Grant Crossingham 7819
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 7785
8 Balazs Ujhelyi 7696
9 Scott Barrett 7694
10 Antoine Boisselier 7666
11 Jonny Durand 7615
12 Robin Hamilton 7604
13 Paris Williams 7515
14 Gerd Dönhuber 7456
15 Michael Friesenbichler 7440
16 Gordon Rigg 7402
17 Christian Ciech 7375
18 Gary Wirdnam 7306
19 Carl Wallbank 7172
20 Rohan Holtkamp 7169

You can find the actual results here or here.

Stopped tasks and more

February 6, 2013, 8:32:38 PST

Stopped tasks and more

If you don't like what happens to the scoring when tasks are stopped

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

Proposals for scoring stopped tasks here and lots more proposed scoring software changes.

Does it matter? Let's do a little comparison.

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Top twenty all days counting:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584


Not counting day 5, the day that Pedro protested:

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T5
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8101
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7963
3 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7812
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7694
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7654
6 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7553
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7546
8 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7394
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7351
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7324
11 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7296
12 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7265
13 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7215
14 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7181
15 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7120
16 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6996
17 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6951
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6946
19 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 6924
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6777


You can see my earlier comparison here.

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The 2013 Worlds imagined

January 23, 2013, 11:32:35 AEDT

The 2013 Worlds imagined

Without the stopped days and CTAF violations

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Top twenty all days counting:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584


What if we didn't count Task 6 which was stopped due to high winds and where CTAF violations occurred:

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T6
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8175
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8066
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7835
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7791
6 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7418
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7400
9 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7365
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7361
11 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7320
12 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7280
13 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7220
14 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7154
15 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7111
16 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7093
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7050
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7003
19 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 6993
20 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6976


Without Task 5 and Task 6 (both of which were stopped):

# Name Nat Glider Totals without T5 and T6
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 7266
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7265
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7158
4 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7076
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 6998
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6970
7 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6885
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 6735
9 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 6715
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 6581
11 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6516
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 6485
13 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6479
14 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 6420
15 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6386
16 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 6364
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6292
18 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6238
19 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6200
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6167


Primoz was a complete gentleman in all my interactions with him and I told him repeatedly how much I appreciated it. Obviously he suffered greatly from any errors that I made as the meet director calling tasks on days that later became too windy. Paris also would have done well without those days counting. Ironically, Pedro, who filed a complaint about Task 5, faired better when all the days were counted.

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January 18, 2013, 11:58:09 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Final results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Total:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 9010
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8871
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 8560
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 8531
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 8249
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8242
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 8171
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 8131
8 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 8131
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8128
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 8069
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 8031
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7888
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7878
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7854
16 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 7842
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 7734
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 7641
19 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7631
20 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7584

Teams:

# Name Total
1 ITA 26212
2 USA 26140
3 GBR 25215
4 AUS 24849
5 GER 24754

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5930
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4414
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3849

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January 18, 2013, 7:05:15 AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results from the last day

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

The last day:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:54:53 1000
2 Joerg Bajewski GER Wills Wing T2C 154 03:57:03 946
2 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:57:16 946
4 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:58:03 942
5 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:57:27 941
6 Matjaz Klemencic SLO Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:58:56 939
7 Anton Struganov RUS Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:57:58 926
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:59:07 915
9 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:59:39 911
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 04:01:52 896
11 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:05:18 885
12 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 04:10:10 859
13 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 04:10:12 858
14 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:08:07 851
14 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:08:39 851
16 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 04:14:49 841
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 04:12:40 825
18 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:16:16 807
19 Dave Matthews GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:16:25 801
20 Jochen Zeischka BEL Aeros Combat GT 13.5 04:18:23 796
21 Gijs Wanders NED Wills Wing T2C 154 04:20:39 783
22 Anthony Stephens GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:22:17 780
23 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 04:32:08 753
24 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 04:32:37 751
25 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 04:32:25 750
26 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:36:03 731
27 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 04:42:03 722
28 Péter Szász HUN Moyes Litespeed S3.5 04:42:19 710
29 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:46:19 696
30 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 04:45:31 692
31 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:54:46 680
32 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:53:14 676
33 Nils Aage Henden NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:51:26 671
34 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 04:54:16 667
35 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:52:52 665
35 Mitch Shipley USA Wills Wing T2C 144 04:48:18 665
37 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 05:07:57 646
38 Steve Blenkinsop AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 04:55:58 636
39 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 05:05:52 609
40 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro Laminar 14.1 05:21:30 567
41 Francis Gafner SUI Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 05:25:27 556
42 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:38:30 541

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January 17, 2013, 7:08:13 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Chasing Roos

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Carol Binder|Filippo Oppici|Flytec 6030|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

I get out to the goal line finish at the airfield at 5 PM. Will competitors make it around the 180+ km course (starting at the edge of the start cylinder) in three hours. The cu's were good at noon but they are gone near the goal and a good ways to the north at 5 PM and there is a head wind.

We hang out under the Red Bull tent until Vicki among forty people spots a glider on the horizon. I run out to the goal line with my lawn chair and set myself up right in the middle. Whoosh, and it is Lukas Bader across all by himself. A minute or so later it's Joergi, a one two finish for the German team like the one two finish yesterday for the Italians. Then right away it's Zac Majors, the first American in.

I go and talk to Zac as slowly a few other pilots come in one at a time sometimes two including Scott Barrett. Zac says that Christian left the thermal that Zac was in high, then later Alex Ploner left and then the thermal turned on to 1,100 fm and they circled up to 12,500'. Later Joergi told me that they had to be sure to stay below 14,000', the best conditions of the competition, even without the cu's.

Zav said that they went on final glide north of the Bogan turnpoint, which is 26 km out. We threw that turnpoint in to keep pilots out of the Parkes CTAF which was closed to us between 16:55 and 18:55 as there is a regional plane landing or taking off there at 17:55.

Zac said at two times he thought that he wasn't going to make it with his 6030 showing that he was making 3.4:1. And he just did make it.

Then Paris and Robin Hamilton come in together. I think Filippo comes in just before them or just after. Three Americans and one Italian in goal. The Americans needing 134 points per pilot to get first place. It looks like Filippo will take third place.

Robin says that he saw Manfred chasing Roos north up the course line. Kraig Coomber was way ahead of everyone, maybe 10 km ahead but pushed too hard and landed just north of Bogan turnpoint.

We keep waiting and then it's Manfred coming in with no on else around. We wait some more and I leave the goal line for the Red Bull tent, shade, and some Red Bull Cranberry favored to help write this article. Finally an Icaro glider is spotted in the distance. And soon Christian and Alex cross the line.

So Manfred has won the Worlds again. Alex likely second. The Americans and the Italians in a tight race for the first team place, with the British (with all their male pilots at goal) in third most likely. Attila was in but I didn't see Jonny.

Top Australian pilot - likely to be Scott Barrett.

The new World Champion (photo by Carol Binder):

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January 17, 2013, 7:05:39 AEDT

2013 Worlds

A very tight competition

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Kraig Coomber|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

Task 9:

1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 05:16:07 1000
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 05:23:15 956
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 05:36:06 905
4 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:36:58 901
5 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:37:22 898
5 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 05:37:31 898
7 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 05:39:36 885
8 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 05:40:37 879
9 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 05:39:42 875
10 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:47:33 863
11 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:46:09 862
11 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:46:10 862
13 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 05:47:04 860
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 05:48:37 856
15 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:48:58 854
16 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 05:53:30 849
17 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 05:50:28 848

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 8163
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 8148
3 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7820
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 7775
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 7705
6 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 7496
7 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7385
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7324
9 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 7277
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 7228
11 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 7227
12 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7185
13 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 7183
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 7168
15 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7166
16 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7040
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7020
18 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 7006
19 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 6977
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 6918

Team:

# Name Total
1 ITA 23874
2 USA 23464
3 AUS 22611
4 GBR 22577
5 AUT 22347

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5509
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4048
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3696
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 3316
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2919
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2198
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1179
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1123

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January 16, 2013, 10:15:17 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

We separate the pilots so that the 50 pilot gaggle is no more

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Rohan Taylor|Worlds 2013

An hour and fifty minutes between the first launch and the first start time. Thirty nine minutes between the last launch and the first start time. First launch at noon with plenty of cu's and good lift. Everyone takes the first start as the task is long.

Five hours and almost a half an hour later Christian Ciech crossing line after flying at a couple of feet off the ground all the way across the field from the fence. It's about five minutes before Alex Ploner comes in also low and fast. The Italians win the day. Gordon Rigg who left the last bit of lift comes in nxt having started over Manfred. Manfred lands short and Gordon just very short of the goal in the goal field.

It's a long wait for the next pilots. About sixteen in goal. Three Italians. Three Americans - Kraig, Robin, and Zac. Three Brits (if you include Gordon). Two Australians - Rohan and then Jonny. One French pilot - Antoine.

There are about fifty people on the goal line watching all this as the sun gets very low in the west. Many others at the aeroclub air conditioned building a few hundred yards behind the line. Pilots dive at us for fun and Jonny does a very low loop over the goal line and all of us.

Looks like there could be a very tight competition tomorrow.

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January 15, 2013, 11:11:55 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Kraig Coomber|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Robin Hamilton|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Task 8:

1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:53:56 997
2 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:54:19 983
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 03:54:21 979
4 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:54:23 975
5 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 03:55:22 962
5 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:55:25 962
7 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:55:28 960
7 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 03:55:28 960
9 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:55:31 947
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:55:34 946
11 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:55:39 945
12 Davide Guiducci ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:56:17 938
13 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 03:55:59 934
14 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 03:56:36 931
15 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:56:42 930
15 Matjaz Klemencic SLO Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:56:25 930
15 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:56:58 930
18 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:57:12 919
19 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:57:33 916
20 Joerg Bajewski GER Wills Wing T2C 154 03:57:34 912

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 7464
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 7192
3 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6922
4 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 6900
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 6856
6 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 6710
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 6676
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 6611
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6537
10 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 6491
11 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6490
12 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6462
13 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6381
14 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6369
15 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6336
16 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 6322
17 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 6317
18 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 6312
19 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 6303
20 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 6265

Teams:

  Name Total
1 ITA 21068
2 USA 21033
3 AUT 20372
4 AUS 20301
5 GBR 20148

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 5074
2 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3616
3 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3451
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2968
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2568
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1954
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1035
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1014

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January 15, 2013, 2:04:02 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The results from the seventh task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Tove Heaney|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Paris and Manfred tie for first place.

Task  7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:10:01 968
1 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:10:01 968
3 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 03:10:06 959
4 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:10:52 940
5 Christian Bartschi SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:10:54 936
6 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:10:56 933
7 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:12:17 915
8 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:12:51 906
9 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:09 893
10 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:14:10 891
11 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:47 880
12 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:14:49 877
13 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 03:15:07 872
14 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:16:58 856
15 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:18:34 837
15 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:30:20 837
17 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:19:28 827
18 Miroslav Cap CZE Wills Wing T2C 144 03:19:22 826
19 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 03:32:33 825
20 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:20:34 818

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 6467
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 6229
3 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5947
4 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5944
5 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 5934
6 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 5920
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 5787
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 5724
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5696
10 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5612
11 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5570
12 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 5543
13 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5463
14 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 5462
15 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5461
16 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 5460
17 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5445
18 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 5377
19 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 5376
20 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 5372

Teams:

# Id Name Total
1   ITA 18230
2   USA 18184
3   AUS 17662
4   AUT 17505
5   GBR 17418

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 4224
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 3058
3 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2951
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2726
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2266
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1782
7 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 1000
8 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 772

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January 14, 2013, 7:10:31 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The results from the sixth task

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Gordon Rigg|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Trent Brown|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

Chasing the English: http://pressbhgc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sunday-13th-january-2013-here-we-go.html

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Dist. Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 131,09 917
2 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 131,09 915
3 Lukas Bader GER Moyes Litespeed RS4 131,11 914
4 Adam Stevens AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 130,81 912
5 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 130,62 911
6 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 120,87 854
7 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,58 853
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 120,32 851
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,30 851
8 Conrad Loten NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,24 851
8 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,25 851
8 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 120,27 851
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 120,25 851
14 Max Turiaco BRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 120,16 850
14 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 120,22 850
16 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 119,48 840
17 Michael Friesenbichler AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 119,09 834
18 Robin Hamilton USA Moyes Litespeed RX4 119,02 832
19 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 118,93 830
20 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX4 118,72 826
20 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 118,72 826

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 5515
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 5358
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 5166
4 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 5101
5 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5054
6 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 5052
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 5047
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 5018
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 4950
10 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 4949
11 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4902
12 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 4855
13 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4778
14 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 4738
15 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 4725
16 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4723
17 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 4709
18 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4681
19 Gordon Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4672
20 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 463

Teams:

# Id Name Total
1   ITA 15621
2   USA 15519
3   AUS 15303
4   GBR 14999
5   AUT 14897

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 3542
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 2392
3 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2236
4 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 2143
5 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 2032
6 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1749
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 757
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 674

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January 13, 2013, 11:46:10 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The Task 5 results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Chisato Nojiri|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Jamie Shelden|Kathleen Rigg|Lisa Bradley|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Tove Heaney|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Dist. Total
1 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 156,38 916
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 154,94 911
3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 154,23 906
4 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 153,33 901
5 Petr Benes CZE Aeros Combat 09 14.2 153,31 899
6 Seppi Salvenmoser AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 152,43 897
7 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 152,33 894
8 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 152,10 893
9 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 152,06 892
10 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 151,96 891

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 4666
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 4513
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 4502
4 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 4361
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 4282
6 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4258
7 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 4210
8 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 4203
9 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 4175
10 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 4154

Team:

# Name Total
1 ITA 13265
2 SUI 12846
3 USA 12822
4 AUS 12625
5 AUT 12356
6 GBR 12346

Women:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Moyes Litespeed RX3 3200
2 Tove Heaney AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3 1813
3 Francoise Dieuzeide-banet FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1793
4 Chisato Nojiri JPN Aeros Combat 09 12.8 1496
5 Linda Salamone USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 1455
6 Kathleen Rigg GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 1434
7 Jamie Shelden USA Moyes Litespeed RX3 721
8 Lisa Bradley NZL Aeros Discus 12 506

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January 12, 2013, 4:57:05 AEDT

2013 Worlds

Results

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Task 4 results:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:11:56 954
2 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:12:22 947
3 Christian Zehetmair GER Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:12:24 942
4 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:12:54 936
5 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:13:32 930
6 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 03:13:22 928
7 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:13:35 924
8 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:13:39 920
9 Roland Wöhrle GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:13:51 917
10 Christian Bartschi SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:13:55 916
11 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:14:00 911
12 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 03:14:12 910
13 Shogo Ota JPN Aeros Combat 09GT 13.5 03:14:51 900
14 Davide Guiducci ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 03:15:00 898
15 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:15:02 897
16 Jonas Lobitz NZL Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:04 894
17 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:10 893
18 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:08:19 892
19 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 03:15:22 889
20 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:15:37 887

Cumulative:

# Name   Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 3755
2 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 3638
3 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 3634
4 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 3633
5 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 3609
6 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 3556
7 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 3472
8 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 3463
9 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3441
10 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3439
11 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 3400
12 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3394
13 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 3333
14 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3312
15 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3310
16 Gerd Dönhuber GER Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3273
17 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 3255
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 3158
19 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 3140
20 Gary Wirdnam GBR Icaro Laminar 13.7 3133

Teams:

# Name Total
1 ITA 10581
2 USA 10549
3 SUI 10303
4 AUS 10290
5 GER 9918

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January 11, 2013, 6:56:33 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

Pilots at goal

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Facebook|Flavio Tebaldi|Manfred Ruhmer|photo|Worlds 2013


Jim Prahl on the prowl.

More photos from the fourth task.

Flavio Tebaldi reports from goal Manfred Ruhmer in first, Alex Ploner fifth. I see all the Italians at goal.

Konrado reports many happy pilots at goal and Manfred winning the day:

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January 10, 2013, 11:06:33 pm AEDT

2013 Worlds

The third task, results

Akiko Suzuki|Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|Suan Selenati|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Worlds 2013|Zac Majors

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html

Results Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Zac Majors USA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:27:33 970
2 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 02:27:50 956
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:28:13 948
4 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 02:28:15 941
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 02:28:51 933
6 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros Combat 13.5 02:29:19 923
7 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 02:29:32 915
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 02:29:58 912
9 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 02:30:00 906
9 Carl Wallbank GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:30:06 906
11 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:30:35 898

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 2801
2 Attila Bertok HUN Moyes Litespeed S5 2724
3 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 2713
4 Paris Williams USA Aeros Combat GT 13.5 2708
5 Primoz Gricar SLO Aeros Combat 13.5 GT 2689
6 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 2685
6 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli ESP Wills Wing T2C 2685
8 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 2680
9 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 2672
10 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2548
11 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2541
12 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 2503
13 Antoine Boisselier FRA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2492
14 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2483
15 Suan Selenati ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2466
16 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2452
17 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 2405
18 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 2373
19 Kraig Coomber USA Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2348
20 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat 09 GT 13.5 2343

Teams:

1 USA 7954
2 ITA 7848
3 SUI 7700
4 AUS 7605
5 GBR 7231
6 AUT 7219
7 FRA 7177
8 GER 7123
9 JPN 6771
10 CZE 6765

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January 8, 2013, 7:15:42 AEDT

2013 Worlds

The first day results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Scott Barrett|video|Worlds 2013

Here

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 14 03:14:26 968
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 03:14:28 956
3 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes Litespeed RS4 03:14:36 950
4 Scott Barrett AUS Airborne REV 13.5 03:14:38 947
5 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 03:14:42 939
6 Christian Voiblet SUI Aeros Combat GT 13.5 03:20:40 936
7 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 13.2 GT 03:15:01 928
8 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 03:29:24 877
9 Rohan Holtkamp AUS Airborne Revolution 13.5 03:18:09 876
10 Franz Hermann SUI Aeros 13.5 03:29:27 868

Dave May's video from launch and landing on the first day:

http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/hg-world-championships

Grace interviews Alex Ploner, World Champion

January 5, 2013, 6:38:29 AEDT

Grace interviews Alex Ploner, World Champion

Two times now

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Manfred Ruhmer|weather

http://www.xcmag.com/2013/01/world-hang-gliding-championships-2013-alex-ploner-current-world-champion/

What was the most memorable task?

The second task was definitely something I won’t forget. I was in the lead and missed a ‘fly-through’ turnpoint, so I had to fly back 2km to make it and afterwards I had to push very hard to catch Christian in the lead and we were able to finish several minutes in front of the rest of the pack.

But the most memorable task for me is still the last task at the Worlds in Laragne in 2009. Going into the last task I was second and Manfred Ruhmer was in first. The task was a big triangle, 170km I think, the weather was very good, nice clouds around and a little north wind.

About 15 minutes after task start our team leader told the team that Manfred had landed – he’d bombed. I knew I only had to make goal, and that shouldn’t have been a problem on a day like we had, but those were the most difficult 150km of my life!