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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.

Another case at the European Championships of GPS disagreement?

Tue, Jul 17 2018, 6:03:13 am MDT

We should expect this

Another case

European Championships 2018|GPS|Roland Wöhrle

The Flymaster tracker track for Roland Wöhrle task 6, 2nd waypoint, shows him short of the cylinder:

But apparently as he was scored making the turnpoint. Perhaps his flight instrument showed him getting the turnpoint. Perhaps this track log was within the error band.

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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

Sat, Jul 14 2018, 8:32:53 am MDT

Saturday, Gerolf has a question about Friday

European Championships 2018

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

Gerolf writes:

Dear Organizers,

I would have a question concerning the live tracking: Yesterday, I watched the very exciting finish of Class1 where the leading pack all just made it around the last turnpoint and then into goal - all except Tom Weissenberger who just went about 150m shy of the turnpoint and while short cutting that turnpoint heading into goal.

We here in Austria were all confused and thought there might be an explanation, but when seeing the provisional scoring we found he was scored 3.5km short of goal - bummer, isn't it?

This morning I am checking again and - what a surprise - Tom is now scored as if he had made goal correctly. So, I am checking the playback thinking now there would be a possibly updated tracklog (and even made a screenshot as you can see below) - but even more surprise - Tom is still going wide around the turnpoint. So, now I am really curious, is there other evidence that could overrule the presented tracklog? I mean other evidence than arguing and threatening scorers.

This is the situation I am talking about. Aside of Tom's tracklog I also highlighted Balazs' and Carl's to show how much effort they have put into rounding the tp correctly. I am really curious on your answer because, Austrian or not Austrian, if you let things slide like this why bother with 3D tracklogs, live tracking or setting tasks at all.

Ivan Lukano writes:

He was scored from the tracklog from his backup instrument. Have in mind that backup instrument is actually the main instrument that pilots use for navigation and get info that they entered the cylinder. IGC file is available for everyone that has any doubts in scoring. As organizers we are completely impartial towards any competitor or country.

I think what he means by the backup instrument is your actual flight computer, not something stuck in your harness or wing. The main scoring is done off the Flymaster trackers which makes scoring vastly easier. Strange that they should have got it wrong.

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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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

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

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

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

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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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Tue, Jul 10 2018, 4:34:04 pm MDT

Tuesday, day 1

Christian Ciech|European Championships 2018|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2391
2D/3D SPLIT beta https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2391

Sasha's photos: http://sashaz.com/portfolio-type/photography/

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

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Laminar Icaro 2000 02:28:02 948
2 Petr Benes Cze Aeros Combat 02:32:02 900
3 Oliver Chitty Gbr Moyes RX5 Pro 02:46:44 895
4 Jonny Durand Jnr Aus Moyes Ls RX 3.5 Pro 02:47:08 888
5 Balazs Ujhelyi Hun 02:48:38 882
6 Gerd Dönhuber Ger Moyes RX 3.5 Technora 02:47:50 880
7 Christian Preininger Aut Moyes Litespeed S3,5 02:36:09 871
8 László Ökrös Hun 02:50:53 867
9 Jochen Zeischka Bel Moyes Litespeed RX 5 Pro 02:49:02 859
10 Benedikt Braun Sui Combat 12.7 C 02:52:03 851

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

Mon, Jul 9 2018, 7:46:02 am MDT

They start flying on Tuesday

Conrad Loten|European Championships 2018|photo

http://hgeu2018.mk/

HG Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

2D: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2391
2D/3D SPLIT beta: https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2391

German team news: here.

Czech team photos: here.

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championship

Fri, Mar 9 2018, 8:37:24 am EST

Going back to Macedonia

European Championships 2018|Facebook|photo

http://hgeu2018.mk/index.php/general-info

https://www.facebook.com/euhg2016/

https://www.fai.org/sport/hang-gliding?upcoming=1&f(0)=fai_event_year%3A2018

http://xcmag.com/event/european-hang-gliding-championships-2018/

http://bhgcomps.uk/content/20th-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship

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2018 European and World Championships

Mon, Aug 14 2017, 9:00:47 am MDT

Back to Krushevo, Macedonia.

European Championships 2018|Worlds 2018|CIVL

Elena at CIVL «Elena at CIVL» writes:

CIVL would like to remind you that the dates for Hang Gliding Class 5 Worlds 2018 have been changed. The 8th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championship will be run along with the 20th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship in Krushevo, Macedonia. The dates for both championships are July 8 till 21, 2018.

Announcement: http://www.fai.org/civl-news/42970-hgworlds2018-class5-krushevo

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