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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Thu, Jul 21 2022, 6:20:25 pm GMT

Eighth task - 167 km

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Longer but faster. 2:47 vs. 3:30 yesterday. 73 in goal. Everyone home before 6 PM.

Task 8:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Jochen Zeischka AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:46:45 1000.0
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:47:48 980.2
3 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:47:58 976.7
4 Peter Neuenschwander CHE Aeros Combat C 02:49:10 963.7
5 Franz Herrmann CHE Aeros Combat C 02:49:46 958.7
6 Arne Tanzer NLD Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:52:09 940.3
7 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:53:21 930.7
8 Joost Eertman NLD Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:54:06 920.8
9 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 02:55:35 907.7
10 Roland Wöhrle DEU Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:55:27 905.3

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7697.0
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 7456.0
3 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 7150.0
4 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 7117.0
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 7037.0
6 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 6921.0
7 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6802.0
8 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 6689.0
9 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 6631.0
10 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 6595.0

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Wed, Jul 20 2022, 6:14:06 pm GMT

Seventh task - 152 km

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Again another incremental (20 km) increase in the task length from the preceding day. 55 pilots in goal with Mario Alonzi last into goal at 5:47 over two hours later than Christian.. Christian and Alex were on final glide with Christian higher and going faster when Alex stopped to work some lift thinking perhaps that he wasn't going to make it after all.

Pedro 6th, with pilots clumped together. Petr Polach was out in front but had to find some lift in the last cylinder to be able to make it in fourth ten minutes behind Christian.

Task 7:

# Name Nat Glider Time Lead.
Points
Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:29:32 81.2 975.3
2 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:39:06 105.9 936.5
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:35:48 83.7 936.4
4 Franz Herrmann CHE Aeros Combat C 03:38:21 85.8 922.9
5 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 03:39:51 79.6 903.8
6 PEDRO L. GARCIA USA Wills Wing T3 03:40:22 79.6 898.7
7 Roland Wöhrle DEU Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 03:55:57 83.7 833.6
8 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 03:56:29 83.5 828.8
9 Jiri Gut CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:56:46 71.8 813.5
10 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 03:56:58 72.2 810.8

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6717.0
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 6479.0
3 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 6275.0
4 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 6263.0
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 6130.0
6 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 6047.0
7 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5931.0
8 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5770.0
9 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 5758.0
10 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5757.0

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Tue, Jul 19 2022, 7:03:11 pm GMT

Sixth task - 135 km

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Tasks getting a bit longer. 58 pilots in goal. Pilots back after 6 pm. Jocken was in first place 22 km out, but on his own and didn't get the last thermal that he needed, while those just behind him stuck together.

Task 6:

# Name Nat Glider Time Lead.
Points
Total
1 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:09:15 106.2 989.4
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:08:56 92.0 984.2
3 Walter Mayer AUT Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 03:08:58 86.8 975.6
4 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:09:24 94.7 971.4
5 Pedro L. Garcia USA Wills Wing T3 03:09:16 87.7 968.1
6 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:09:32 94.7 967.7
7 Juri Bressanello ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:09:49 90.7 959.1
8 Franz Herrmann CHE Aeros Combat C 03:09:53 90.2 955.8
9 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 03:10:01 85.5 947.8
10 David Gregoire FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:10:25 90.6 945.8

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5781.0
2 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5524.0
3 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5504.0
4 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 5447.0
5 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5359.0
6 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 5319.0
7 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 5285.0
8 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Aeros Combat C 12.7 5226.0
9 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 5173.0
10 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 5062.0

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Mon, Jul 18 2022, 6:34:43 pm GMT

Fifth task - 110 km

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

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Shorter task. 80 pilots in goal. Corinna and Gordon didn't fly. Pilots back before 6 pm.

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:11:27 1000.0
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:11:56 982.4
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:12:13 971.3
4 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 02:12:50 962.2
5 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:13:00 961.1
6 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:12:54 957.8
7 Jochen Zeischka AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:13:31 955.1
8 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:14:10 940.0
9 Franz Herrmann CHE Aeros Combat C 02:15:36 931.8
10 Akira Nagusa JPN Wills Wing T3 02:16:32 931.2

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4810.0
2 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 4670.0
3 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4534.0
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4520.0
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 4456.0
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 4419.0
7 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 4383.0
8 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 4337.0
9 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Aeros Combat C 12.7 4320.0
10 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 4205.0

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Sat, Jul 16 2022, 7:04:05 pm GMT

Fourth task - 200 km

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

Live tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=4489

Task 4:

21 in goal. Jonny Durand, the second to last pilot in goal at 6:53 PM. Pedro Garcia, the closest pilot to goal to not make it in. Launch open at noon. Pilots in the air for over 6 hours.

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 04:42:21 1000.0
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 04:47:10 974.3
3 Franz Herrmann CHE Aeros Combat C 04:52:33 949.3
4 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 04:53:14 944.7
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 04:56:32 934.3
6 Peter Siess AUT Wills Wing T3 04:59:43 914.3
7 Joost Eertman NLD Icaro 2000 Laminar 05:01:43 901.9
8 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Icaro 2000 Laminar 05:03:25 900.5
8 Arne Tanzer NLD Icaro 2000 Laminar 05:02:47 900.5
10 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 05:16:41 871.2

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3844.0
2 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 3811.0
3 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3589.0
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3566.0
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 3534.0
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 3530.0
7 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 3520.0
8 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Icaro 2000 Laminar 3491.0
9 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 3440.0
10 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 3405.0

From Regina Glas. Tomorrow a rest day with strong winds in the forecast.

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Sat, Jul 16 2022, 12:24:06 am GMT

Third task

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Peter Neuenschwander CHE Aeros Combat C 03:04:34 1000.0
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:06:11 981.7
3 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 03:06:45 975.9
4 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:07:14 970.2
5 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 03:08:24 955.3
6 Jochen Zeischka AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:12:58 931.0
7 Roland Wöhrle DEU Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 03:19:34 885.7
8 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 03:25:25 854.2
9 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:27:12 848.4
10 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:28:36 836.4

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2869.0
2 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 2811.0
3 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 2717.0
4 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 2698.0
5 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2695.0
6 Filippo Oppici ITA Wills Wing T3 2694.0
7 Jochen Zeischka AUT Icaro 2000 Laminar 2676.0
8 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2655.0
9 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 2654.0
10 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 2648.0

170 km task, 74 pilots in goal. Task deadline is now moved to 8 PM. Last pilot in goal at 6:29 PM.

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Thu, Jul 14 2022, 6:20:29 pm GMT

Second task

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Lead.
Points
Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:49:11 96.7 995.6
2 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 02:50:06 92.0 979.5
3 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 02:50:59 101.1 979.3
4 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:53:23 91.8 946.5
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 02:53:58 94.3 943.0
6 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:52:44 77.9 942.3
7 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:52:48 78.3 939.3
8 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:54:07 82.9 928.2
9 Steve Docherty AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:56:44 99.8 919.9
10 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:55:07 77.0 914.4

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T1 T2 Total
1 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 948.3 942.3 1891.0
2 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 892.0 995.6 1888.0
3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 923.7 943.0 1867.0
4 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 930.3 928.2 1859.0
5 Primoz Gricar DEU Aeros Combat GT 855.6 979.5 1835.0
6 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 906.8 914.4 1821.0
7 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes Litespeed RX 4 Pro 832.4 979.3 1812.0
8 Petr Polach CZE Icaro 2000 Laminar 859.4 946.5 1806.0
9 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 957.3 836.2 1794.0
10 Steve Docherty AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 872.8 919.9 1793.0

Steve Blenkinsop last into goal at 6:44 PM, 16 minutes before the close.

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Wed, Jul 13 2022, 5:33:33 pm GMT

First task

European HG Championships 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship/results

# Name Nat Glider Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 David Gregoire FRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:57:47 83.9 446.0 79.6 970.6
2 Jon Durand AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:00:27 100.1 420.8 75.3 957.3
3 Grant Crossingham GBR Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:00:15 87.4 422.4 77.4 948.3
4 Lorenzo De Grandis ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:01:57 86.6 409.5 73.1 930.3
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros Combat C 02:02:48 88.1 403.4 71.1 923.7
6 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:05:28 91.4 385.2 69.1 906.8
7 Alessandro Ploner ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:07:56 96.3 369.4 65.2 892.0
8 Gerd Dönhuber DEU Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:07:02 87.3 375.1 67.1 890.6
9 Pedro L. Garcia USA Wills Wing T3 02:08:39 93.5 364.9 59.8 879.3
10 Trent Brown AUS Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:08:05 80.9 368.4 63.3 873.7

Australian team is first in the European Championships.

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2022 European Hang Gliding Championship »

Thu, Jul 7 2022, 8:35:46 pm GMT

July 10th through 23rd

European HG Championships 2022

https://www.italy2020.eu/en/

The maximum number of pilots in the championship is 130 (125 European pilots + 5 non-European wild cards pilots).

The maximum number of pilots constituting a national team is 6.

The maximum number of pilots that may be entered by a NAC is unlimited.

https://civlcomps.org/event/21st-fai-european-hang-gliding-class-1-championship

Pedro Garcia is the only US pilot flying in the competition.

The Australian team:

Twenty one Italians. No indications yet of who is on the various teams and who is flying as individuals.

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2022 German Open »

Sat, May 28 2022, 2:03:33 pm MDT

Last day, fourth task results

German Open 2022

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2022

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-T4.html

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Gerd Dönhuber GER Laminar 14.1 02:44:31 999.9
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 02:45:09 889.2
3 Jochen Zeischka BEL Laminar 14.8 02:59:18 879.7
4 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 02:59:23 812.3
5 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 02:59:31 806.5
6 Manuel Revelli ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 03:00:55 791.8
7 Davide Guiducci ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 03:02:47 780.5
8 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX Technora 4 03:19:40 722.9
9 Anton Moroder ITA Laminar 13 / ST 03:16:09 720.4
10 Roland Wöhrle GER Litespeed RX Technora 3.5 03:17:16 714.3

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-OV.html

Final:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 880.2 905.6 35.4 812.3 2634
2 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 905.9 846.1 45.6 806.5 2604
3 Gerd Dönhuber GER Laminar 14.1 742.1 635.5 21.2 999.9 2399
4 Manuel Revelli ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 865.3 646.9 22.9 791.8 2327
5 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX Technora 4 793.2 651.0 42.8 722.9 2210
6 Benedikt Braun SUI Combat 12.7 C 1000.0 482.5 42.8 682.3 2208
7 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Combat 12.7 C 855.5 709.1 33.0 593.1 2191
8 Petr Polach CZE Laminar 14.8 552.0 833.9 29.6 711.2 2127
9 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Combat 12.7 C 822.6 807.9 30.9 388.0 2049
10 Jochen Zeischka BEL Laminar 14.8 781.7 305.6 30.3 879.7 1997

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2022 German Open »

Sat, May 28 2022, 9:42:31 am MDT

Fifth day, third task results

German Open 2022

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2022

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-T3.html

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Distance Total
1 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 23.86 45.6
2 Benedikt Braun SUI Combat 12.7 C 21.50 42.8
2 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX Technora 4 21.57 42.8
4 Georg Schweier GER T2C 144 19.18 39.5
5 Corinna Schwiegershausen GER Litespeed RX Technora 3 16.38 36.1
6 Christian Preininger AUT Combat 12.7 C 16.14 35.9
7 Davide Guiducci ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 15.89 35.5
8 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 15.82 35.4
8 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro Laminar 15.87 35.4
10 Sander van Schaik NED Laminar Z9 14.8 14.96 33.9

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-OV.html

Cumulative:

# Id Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 24 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 880.2 905.6 35.4 1821
2 6 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13,5 09 GT 905.9 846.1 45.6 1798
3 3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Combat 12.7 C 822.6 807.9 30.9 1661
4 31 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Combat 12.7 C 855.5 709.1 33.0 1598
5 5 Manuel Revelli ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 865.3 646.9 22.9 1535
6 18 Benedikt Braun SUI Combat 12.7 C 1000.0 482.5 42.8 1525
7 26 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX Technora 4 793.2 651.0 42.8 1487
8 19 Marco Gröbner GER Litespeed RX Technora 3.5 719.2 709.8 20.5 1450
9 12 Petr Polach CZE laminar 14.8 552.0 833.9 29.6 1416
10 29 Gerd Dönhuber GER Laminar 14.1 742.1 635.5 21.2 1399

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2022 German Open »

Thu, May 26 2022, 4:30:26 pm MDT

Fourth day, second task results

German Open 2022

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2022

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-T2.html

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 01:35:49 905.6
2 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 01:38:06 846.1
3 Lorenzo de Grandis ITA Laminar 13 Z9 01:38:48 842.3
4 Petr Polach CZE laminar 14.8 01:38:06 833.9
5 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Combat 12.7 C 01:39:59 807.9
6 Robert Kulhanek CZE Icaro Laminar 14.1 01:40:18 806.5
7 Marco Gröbner GER Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:54:37 709.8
8 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Combat 12.7 C 01:54:31 709.1
9 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX TECHNORA-4 02:03:21 651.0
10 Christian Preininger AUT Combat 12.7 C 02:03:23 647.2

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 880.2 905.6 1786
2 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 905.9 846.1 1752
3 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Combat 12.7 C 822.6 807.9 1631
4 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Combat 12.7 C 855.5 709.1 1565
5 Manuel Revelli ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 865.3 646.9 1512
6 Benedikt Braun SUI Combat 12.7 C 1000.0 482.5 1483
7 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX Technora 4 793.2 651.0 1444
8 Marco Gröbner GER Litespeed RX Technora 3.5 719.2 709.8 1429
9 Petr Polach CZE Laminar 14.8 552.0 833.9 1386
10 Gerd Dönhuber GER Laminar 14.1 742.1 635.5 1378

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2022 German Open »

Wed, May 25 2022, 1:12:51 pm MDT

Second day, first task results

German Open 2022

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/german-open-2022

https://www.dhv.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/2022/05/German_Open_HG_2022/GO2022HG-C1-O-T1.html

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Benedikt Braun SUI Combat 12.7 C 02:59:36 1000.0
2 Primoz Gricar GER Combat 13.5 09 GT 03:06:04 905.9
3 Alessandro Ploner ITA Laminar Z9 14.1 03:11:40 880.2
4 Manuel Revelli ITA Icaro Laminar 13.2 03:13:25 865.3
5 Dietmar Tschabrun AUT Combat 12.7 C 03:14:31 855.5
6 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Combat 12.7 C 03:17:16 822.6
7 Walter Mayer AUT Litespeed RX 03:24:28 793.2
8 Jochen Zeischka BEL Laminar 14.8 03:25:13 781.7
9 Gerd Dönhuber GER Laminar 14.1 03:33:57 742.1
10 Peter Siess AUT T3 144 03:36:25 735.5

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Kobala Open 2021 »

Tue, Aug 17 2021, 9:29:24 am MDT

Tolmin, Slovenia

Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar

competition|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar

competition|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar

https://airtribune.com/kobala-open-2021/results

Task 1 (August 16th):

1 Primoz Gricar Combat 13.5 GT 01:33:23 1000
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 12.7c 01:34:09 967
3 Robert Kulhanek T2C 01:34:26 946
4 Vlastimil Bartas Combat 01:35:01 931
5 Ujhelyi Balázs RX 3.5 Pro 01:35:04 921
6 Jiri Gut Icaro Laminar 13.2 01:36:10 902
7 Petr Polach Litespeed RX4 Pro 01:35:14 825
8 Franc Peternel RX 3.5 Pro 02:03:19 747
9 Laszlo Okros Litespeed RX 3.5 02:23:00 618
10 Jure Becan Litespeed RX 3.5 02:22:37 562

Unclear why Petr got zero leading points.

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The 2020 French Nationals Open »

August 12, 2020, 6:14:32 pm MDT

The 2020 French Nationals Open

Day 3 Results

Christian Pollet|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

Competition web site (in French): https://championnatdefrancedelta2020.blogspot.com/?m=1

Live tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3284

Results:  https://delta.ffvl.fr/content/r%C3%A9sultats-des-comp%C3%A9titions-2020

Task 3:

# Name Glider Distance
[km]
Total
1 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Laminar 99.71 858.2
2 Jean-daniel KUGLER Aeros Combat 12.4 C 90.79 805.9
3 Manuel Revelli Laminar 82.40 760.0
4 Mario ALONZI Aeros Combat C 80.28 743.7
5 ATAULFO J FERNANDEZ MONTERO Wills Wing T2C 79.87 741.5
6 Christian POLLET Aeros Combat C 80.15 740.3
7 pieter speeleveld Wills Wing T2 77.32 709.8
8 Tao LE Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 75.52 689.6
9 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 58.49 583.6
10 Robert Kulhanek Wills Wing T2C 55.11 560.1

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Mario ALONZI Aeros Combat C 2660
2 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Laminar 2645
3 Manuel Revelli Laminar 2557
4 Christian POLLET Aeros Combat C 2426
5 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 2352
6 Jean-daniel KUGLER Aeros Combat 12.4 C 2339
7 ATAULFO J FERNANDEZ MONTERO Wills Wing T2C 2324
8 Laurent THEVENOT Aeros Combat GT 2265
9 Tao LE Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 2248
10 DAN VYHNALIK Aeros Combat C 12.7 2217

The 2020 French Nationals Open »

August 11, 2020, 9:26:17 pm MDT

The 2020 French Nationals Open

Day 2 Results

Christian Pollet|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

https://delta.ffvl.fr/content/résultats-des-compétitions-2020

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat GT 02:55:50 1000.0
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat C 02:56:43 977.1
3 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 03:12:57 858.9
4 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Laminar 03:20:33 820.8
5 Manuel Revelli Laminar 03:20:06 811.8
6 DAN VYHNALIK Aeros Combat C 12.7 03:28:13 760.7
7 pieter speeleveld Wills Wing T2 03:27:59 750.7
8 Robert Kulhanek Wills Wing T2C 03:30:35 732.5
9 ATAULFO J FERNANDEZ MONTERO Wills Wing T2C 03:28:47 724.0
10 Tao Le Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 03:32:16 716.8

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat C 1917
2 Manuel Revelli Laminar 1797
3 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Laminar 1787
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX 1768
5 Laurent Thevenot Aeros Combat GT 1754
6 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 1686
7 DAN VYHNALIK Aeros Combat C 12.7 1676
8 Robert Kulhanek Wills Wing T2C 1607
9 ATAULFO J FERNANDEZ MONTERO Wills Wing T2C 1583
10 Tao Le Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 1559

The 2020 French Nationals Open »

Mon, Aug 10 2020, 10:02:51 pm MDT

Started on Monday, last task on Saturday 15th August

Christian Pollet|French Nationals Open 2020|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

Competition web site (in French): https://championnatdefrancedelta2020.blogspot.com/?m=1

Live tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3284

Results: https://delta.ffvl.fr/content/r%C3%A9sultats-des-comp%C3%A9titions-2020

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manuel Revelli Ita Laminar 02:19:00 984.7
2 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros Combat C 02:19:32 977.1
3 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro Laminar 02:20:21 966.4
4 Mario Alonzi Fra Aeros Combat C 02:23:42 939.4
5 Dan Vyhnalik Cze Aeros Combat C 12.7 02:26:27 915.7
6 Petr Polach Cze Moyes Litespeed RX 02:27:45 909.3
7 Robert Kulhanek Cze Wills Wing T2C 02:28:03 874.5
8 Ataulfo J Fernandez Montero Esp Wills Wing T2C 02:30:30 858.8
9 Tao Le Fra Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 02:32:32 841.8
10 Cedric Germanaz Fra Aeros Combat GT 02:30:44 841.4

Thanks to Paolo de Nicola

Petr's Friday Flight

April 10, 2020, 1:54:31 pm EDT

Petr's Friday Flight

200+ km

Petr Polach

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:polachp/10.4.2020/10:25

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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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2019 UK Nationals »

August 31, 2019, 3:47:02 pm MDT

2019 UK Nationals

Task 6

Gordon Rigg|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|UK Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3

Results here: https://nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2019-results

Live Tracking Open Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3042

Live Tracking Sport Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3038

Live Tracking ATOS Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3040

Final Task.

Task 6:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:43:02 1000
2 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 02:00:50 856
3 Andrea Franchi Aeros Combat C 12.7 02:08:19 782
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:14:35 776
5 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 02:14:54 767
5 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 02:14:41 767
7 Enda Carrigan Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 02:15:16 739
8 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 02:29:37 692
9 Wayne Thompson Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:32:36 667

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 5745
2 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 5350
3 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 5278
4 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 5192
5 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 4691
6 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 4445
7 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 4382
8 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 4020
9 Damien Zahn Moyes RX3 Pro-Edge 3809
10 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 3498

2019 UK Nationals »

August 30, 2019, 7:44:19 MDT

2019 UK Nationals

Task 5

Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|UK Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3

Results here: https://nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2019-results

Live Tracking Open Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3042

Live Tracking Sport Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3038

Live Tracking ATOS Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3040

Gerolf returns to form.

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Gerolf Heinrichs Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 01:20:03 971
2 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:20:21 962
3 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 01:21:03 941
4 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 01:24:58 873
5 Damien Zahn Moyes RX3 Pro-Edge 01:26:05 839
6 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 01:32:08 777
7 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 01:34:04 773
8 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:33:41 754
9 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:35:05 749
10 Robert Kulhánek Wills Wing T2C-144 01:34:41 747

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 4745
2 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 4583
3 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 4511
4 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 4336
5 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 4131
6 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 3824
7 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 3669
8 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 3498
9 Damien Zahn Moyes RX3 Pro-Edge 3379
10 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 3328

Grant pulls ahead a few extra points.

2019 UK Nationals »

August 29, 2019, 2:41:19 pm MDT

2019 UK Nationals

Task 4

Gordon Rigg|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Rich Lovelace|UK Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3

Results here: https://nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2019-results

Live Tracking Open Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3042

Live Tracking Sport Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3038

Live Tracking ATOS Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3040

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 01:50:12 1000
2 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:51:32 954
3 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 01:57:03 891
4 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 01:57:27 882
5 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:00:58 848
6 Rich Lovelace WillsWing T3 02:10:15 783
7 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:18:37 717
8 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 02:21:03 714
9 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 02:28:19 660
10 Robert Kulhánek Wills Wing T2C-144 02:28:38 656

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3783
2 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 3782
3 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 3710
4 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 3395
5 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 3382
6 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 3051
7 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 2915
8 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 2721
9 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 2596
10 Damien Zahn Moyes RX3 Pro-Edge 2540

Grant once again in first place by one point but now over Gordon instead of Dave.

2019 UK Nationals »

August 28, 2019, 8:30:38 MDT

2019 UK Nationals

Task 3

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Gordon Rigg|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Rich Lovelace|UK Nationals 2019|Wills Wing T3

Results here: https://nats.bhgcomps.uk/content/2019-results

Live Tracking Open Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3042

Live Tracking Sport Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3038

Live Tracking ATOS Class: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=3040

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 andy hollidge WillsWing T3carbon 02:36:50 989
2 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 02:36:59 976
3 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:41:13 910
4 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:41:42 902
5 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 02:42:16 898
6 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 02:45:36 883
7 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:52:49 834
8 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 02:56:17 798
9 Rich Lovelace WillsWing T3carbon 02:56:29 770
10 Alexandra Serebrennikova Moyes Litespeed RX3 03:10:20 710

Thanks to Sasha for the HTML version of the results.

Wow. The results are now available in HTML (the world wide web standard for written documents):

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2829
2 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 2828
3 Gordon rigg Moyes RX3.5ProEdgeSkylite 2782
4 Stephen Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 2665
5 andy hollidge WillsWing T3 2504
6 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 2337
7 Malcolm Brown Wills Wing T3 2263
8 Damien Zahn Moyes RX3 Pro-Edge 2247
9 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 2067
10 Daniel Martin Mota Wills Wing T2C-144 1936

Grant stays in the lead by a single point.

Petr Zooming at the Worlds

July 29, 2019, 3:13:51 pm MDT

Petr Zooming at the Worlds

Flying along the ridge lines

Facebook|Petr Polach|video

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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.

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/22/imprendibile-ploner-solo-laustriaco-ruhmer-limita-i-danni-terzo-in-goal-un-ottimo-filippo-oppici/

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

2019 Worlds »

July 19, 2019, 11:19:34 MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the fourth task

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|photo|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|video|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 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

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/19/manfred-ruhmer-ancora-stoico-ma-deve-cedere-al-nostro-alex-ploner-terzo-ciech-che-cosi-completa-la-splendida-doppietta-azzurra/

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.

Petr Polach: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2582778105113987/

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

2019 Worlds »

July 17, 2019, 10:23:51 MDT

2019 Worlds

Day three results

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Facebook|Flavio Tebaldi|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|Primoz Gricar|record|Suan Selenati|Tyler Borradaile|video|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

Petr Polach: https://www.facebook.com/polachp/videos/2579299812128483/

https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/live4gopro?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG

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

2019 Worlds »

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

Hessiche meisterchaft competition

June 16, 2019, 11:42:19 MDT

Hessiche meisterchaft competition

Final Results

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach|video

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|video

Carsten Muth|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Facebook|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach|video

A rough day: https://www.facebook.com/corinna.schwiegershausen/videos/10156550628356314/

https://gleitfliegen.hlb-info.de/inhalt/hessenmeisterschaft-2019

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 02:24:32 1000
2 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 02:54:19 790
3 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 02:54:24 781
4 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 02:59:42 754
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 03:02:23 731
6 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 03:11:12 682
7 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 03:11:50 677
8 Jiri Nadvornik T2C 144 03:12:49 665
9 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 03:23:44 641
10 Carsten Muth T2C 154 03:23:35 614

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 2799
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 2410
3 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 2234
4 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 2198
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 2150
6 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 1908
7 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 1902
8 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 1899
9 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 1873
10 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 1803

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Hessiche meisterchaft competition

June 15, 2019, 4:45:41 pm MDT

Hessiche meisterchaft competition

Results so far

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Manfred Ruhmer|Moyes Litespeed RX|Petr Polach

https://gleitfliegen.hlb-info.de/inhalt/hessenmeisterschaft-2019

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 01:25:15 993
2 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:26:27 949
3 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 01:27:49 925
4 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:27:50 914
5 Jiri Gut T2C 144 01:30:05 880
6 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 01:30:38 874
7 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:33:25 853
8 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 01:41:38 769
9 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 01:44:11 729
10 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 01:44:15 727

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 01:21:10 806
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 01:26:59 715
3 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:34:47 654
4 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:43:09 586
5 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 01:46:01 570
6 Corinna Schwiegershausen Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3 01:50:25 555
7 Botjan Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 01:50:34 548
8 Jiri Gut T2C 144 01:50:39 539
9 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 01:52:19 533
10 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 01:58:32 519

Task 3:

Day cancelled. They are expected to fly on Sunday.

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer Icaro Laminar 1799
2 Dan Vyhnalik Combat 13,5 09 GT 1629
3 Matjaz Klemencic Litespeed RX TECHNORA-3.5 1535
4 Petr Polach Moyes Litespeed RX4 1507
5 Gerd Dönhuber Laminar Zero 9 14.1 1444
5 Miroslav Cap T2C 144 1444
7 Jiri Gut T2C 144 1419
8 Kajo Clauß Combat 12,7 GT 1262
9 Oliver Salewski Laminar Zero 9 13.2 1231
10 Joerg Bajewski T2C 154 1220

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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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2020 Forbes Flatlands »

June 3, 2019, 7:02:46 MDT

2020 Forbes Flatlands

Pre-pre-preparing

calendar|Forbes Flatlands 2020|Petr Polach|Vicki Cain|video

Vicki Cain <<Vicki>> writes:

The dates are set for the Forbes Flatlands 2020, registration is open!

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/

Trophies for Open, Sport and Women’s Classes

Come on out and experience firsthand what all the hype is about!

Whether you are a Sport class pilot looking to set a new personal best or a seasoned cross country pilot chasing the elusive big flight!

Forbes can offer all and more in a super friendly environment.

Our posse of volunteers together with the most experienced competition organisers on the Aussie calendar make for a great fun, safe and challenging competition.

You will not be disappointed!

Practice flying Friday the 3rd of January

Registration: Friday 3rd from 10:00-12:00 and 1600-1800 at head quarters.

1st Competition day Saturday January 4th, 2020 8th (Last) Competition day Saturday January 11th, 2020

We will overlap with the Elvis Festival happening in Parkes so be sure to book your accommodation early.

To give you a taste of our Forbes flying check out Petr Polach's video as he shows us his captivating Aussie sojourn story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnzACXj-8OE&feature=youtu.be

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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

Kosciuszko

January 18, 2019, 7:45:58 EST

Kosciuszko

Flying into the national park

Petr Polach

https://www.xcontest.org/cesko/prelety/detail:polachp/16.1.2019/02:35

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2019 Forbes Flatlands »

January 5, 2019, 8:03:27 EST

2019 Forbes Flatlands

Final results from day 7, task 5

Attila Bertok|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2019

Task 5:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:15:04 922
2 Petr Polach Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:26:42 901
3 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 03:17:38 896
4 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 03:18:08 887
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:20:47 847
6 Petr Benes Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:32:16 845
7 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:23:01 777
8 Lukas Bader Moyes RS 4 03:43:16 773
9 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:31:11 762
10 Tyler Borrdaile Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:31:14 757

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 4547
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 4480
3 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 4155
4 Petr Benes Moyes RX 4 Pro 4133
5 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3936
6 Filippo Oppici WW T2C 144 3851
7 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3823
8 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 3821
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3819
10 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3797

2019 Forbes Flatlands »

January 4, 2019, 8:17:43 EST

2019 Forbes Flatlands

Preliminary results from day 7, task 5

Forbes Flatlands 2019|Petr Polach

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2558

Petr Polach in first to goal:

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2019 Forbes Flatlands »

January 3, 2019, 8:53:29 EST

2019 Forbes Flatlands

Results from day 6, task 4

Attila Bertok|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2019

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 04:07:48 952
2 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 04:22:20 900
3 Filippo Oppici WW T2C 144 04:10:13 893
4 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 04:28:29 862
5 Minoru Kato Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:29:16 833
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:29:14 832
7 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 04:30:09 817
8 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:33:45 793
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:39:43 769
10 Tyler Borrdaile Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:39:49 765

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 3785
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 3593
3 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3402
4 Petr Benes Moyes RX 4 Pro 3288
5 Minoru Kato Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3235
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3212
7 Filippo Oppici WW T2C 144 3106
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3099
9 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 3089
10 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 2925

From Petr Polach:

2019 Forbes Flatlands »

January 1, 2019, 8:14:29 EST

2019 Forbes Flatlands

Results from day 4, task 3

Attila Bertok|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|video

https://www.facebook.com/flymoyes/posts/2371934836211659

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Tyler Borrdaile Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 03:55:16 995
2 Filippo Oppici WW T2C 144 03:55:57 972
3 Oliver Chitty Moyes RX 5 Pro 03:56:31 964
4 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 03:57:16 955
5 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:01:10 908
6 Gijs Wanders Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:02:30 894
7 Petr Benes Moyes RX 4 Pro 04:03:25 892
8 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 04:05:29 830
9 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:20:29 791
10 Minoru Kato Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 04:24:09 776
11 Petr Polach Moyes RX 4 Pro 04:30:52 756

Cumulative:

  Name Glider Total
1 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 4 Pro 2885
2 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 2640
3 Petr Benes Moyes RX 4 Pro 2621
4 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2609
5 Minoru Kato Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2401
6 Josh Woods Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2379
7 Rohan Taylor Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2364
8 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2329
9 Guy Hubbard Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 2233
10 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2C 136 2231

2019 Forbes Flatlands »

December 29, 2018, 6:22:57 pm EST

2019 Forbes Flatlands

Results up on Sunday (Australia date)

Attila Bertok|Forbes Flatlands 2019|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Petr Polach|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Trent Brown Moyes RX 3.5 01:54:40 1000
2 Jonny Durand Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 01:57:13 938
3 Attila Bertok Moyes RX 5 Pro 02:00:33 891
4 Tyler Borrdaile Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:07:56 813
5 Olav Opsanger Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:08:11 811
6 Rory Duncan Moyes RX 3 Pro 02:08:16 810
7 Petr Benes   02:09:06 802
8 Vic Hare Wills Wing T2C 136 02:13:09 767
9 Steve Blenkinsop Moyes RX 3.5 Pro 02:13:25 764
10 Petr Polach   02:14:39 754

It's flat:

How good is ⁢Forbes »

Fri, Dec 28 2018, 8:20:57 am EST

Almost 300 kilometers FAI triangle

Petr Polach

https://www.xcontest.org/cesko/prelety/detail:polachp/27.12.2018/02:03

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Flying in Forbes

December 18, 2018, 9:34:41 EST

Flying in Forbes

140 km triangle

Facebook|Petr Polach|photo

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:polachp/17.12.2018/02:31

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Turbulent landing zone at pre-Worlds

July 31, 2018, 5:51:31 pm MDT

Turbulent landing zone at pre-Worlds

Four pilots in hospital

Facebook|Petr Polach

Petr Polách writes:

The task setup was good but the goal? We somehow missed safe and fun, but got fair. Between 120 pilots with a wide spread of experience we went for a very restricted and turbulent landing field. The outcome was four pilots in hospital, several gliders damaged, chaos and carnage. I feel really bad about that.

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2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 29, 2018, 4:17:25 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

Task 2 Results:

Christian Ciech|competition|Manfred Ruhmer|Petr Polach|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar

https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 02:51:21 991
2 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 02:54:19 952
3 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 02:57:52 909
4 Arne Tanzer NED Icaro 02:58:12 899
5 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:02:41 852
6 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:02:50 841
7 Dan Vyhnalik CZE Aeros 03:03:54 829
8 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:04:56 826
9 Peter Neuenschwander SUI Aeros 03:06:08 814
10 Petr Polach CZE Aeros 03:07:19 808

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 1944
2 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 1856
3 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 1778
4 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 1734
5 Balazs Ujhelyi HUN Moyes 1732
6 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 1650
7 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 1614
8 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 1492
9 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 1474
10 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 1452

2018 Pre-Worlds »

July 28, 2018, 3:56:55 pm MDT

2018 Pre-Worlds

A lot of big fat zeros.

Christian Ciech|competition|Daniel Vé|Daniel Vélez Bravo|Davide Guiducci|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|Petr Polach|Pre-Worlds 2018|Primoz Gricar|Tullio Gervasoni

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

http://www.italy2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Task-1.pdf

Yes, a PDF file, which screws me when it comes to republishing the results.

1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 03:01:14 970
2 Tom Weissenberger AUT Moyes 03:10:45 909
3 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 03:19:38 865
4 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 03:18:49 851
5 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 03:32:56 805
6 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:40:03 780
7 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 03:45:13 774
8 Laszlo Okros HUN Moyes 03:52:33 760
9 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes 04:09:06 707
10 Pedro Garcia USA Wills Wing 04:10:08 702

Thirty two pilots got 100% penalty for airspace violations, including Christian Ciech, Petr Benes, Ollie Chitty, Tulio Gervasoni, Andrew Hollidge, Guy Hubbard, Matjaz Klemencic, Marco Laurenzi, Patrick Pannese, Eduardo Oliveira, Petr Polach, Daniel Velez Bravo, Dan Vyhnalik, Josh Woods, and Davide Guiducci.

The HTML version shows up later: https://airtribune.com/hg-pre-worlds-2018/results/task3529/day/class-1

The number of zeroed pilots is substantially reduced:

Penalties

Name % penalty Reason
Frederic Andre Bakken 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Christian Cid 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Hernan Cortes Pinones 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Jonghwan Kim 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Patrick Pannese 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Konsou Son 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Dan Vyhnalik 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Lukas Walcher 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters
Davide Guiducci 100% Airspace Violation greater that 30 meters

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Manfred Ruhmer AUT Icaro 03:01:14 970
2 Tom Weissenberger AUT Icaro 03:10:45 909
3 Petr Benes CZE Aeros 03:15:17 878
4 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 03:19:38 865
5 Christian Ciech ITA Icaro 03:20:47 853
6 Vanni Accattoli ITA Moyes 03:18:49 852
7 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing 03:33:12 813
8 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 03:32:56 806
9 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros 03:40:03 781
10 Marcelo Moikano BRA Aeros 03:45:13 775

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

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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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 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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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

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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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

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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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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.

Paraboarding

Fri, Jan 25 2002, 9:00:04 pm EST

Chris Muller|Petr Polach|PG|photo|Vincene Muller

Vincene Muller«fly» writes:

I just got back from Mexico - and received a message from Martin Polach asking me to forward you the paraboarding photos.

photos by Donna Green

(editor's note: Chris Muller is the paragliding pilot, who's getting some air time in Mexico at the beach.)

Real dynamic soaring

Thu, Jan 17 2002, 11:00:04 am EST

Petr Polach|PG|Vincene Muller

martin polach«polachm» writes:

Just saw some awesome pictures courtesy Vincene Muller. Her son...Chris is flying his paraglider...towing a chap on a wave/kite surfing board.

Incredible...there they are... way out to sea (off the coast of Baja) Chris essentially maintaining courtesy of the drag provided by the surfer (who is planing along in good fashion!)

Don't really know what happens if the surfer falls into the water and releases his end of the line...I guess Chris would soon have a salty canopy?

Vincence is gone for a couple of weeks but I will try and get her to forward a couple of the pictures when she returns