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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

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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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Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022 »

Tue, Jun 7 2022, 5:23:07 pm MDT

34th, Sport Class

Alexandre Ferreira|Manfred Ruhmer|Serge Mainente|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/xxxiv-valerio-albrizio-trophy-2022/results

1 Manfred Ruhmer
2 Alexandre Ferreira
3 Serge Mainente

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Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022 »

Sun, Jun 5 2022, 9:53:11 pm MDT

34th, Jun 2-5, 2022

Christian Ciech|Lorenzo de Grandis|Mario Alonzi|Valerio Albrizio Trophy 2022

https://civlcomps.org/event/xxxiv-valerio-albrizio-trophy-2022/results

Mario Alonzi 1st
Christian Ciech 2nd
Lorenzo de Grandis 3rd

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Christian Ciech's Penalties on Task 3

Mon, Aug 23 2021, 3:16:06 pm MDT

Just short of goal

Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|PG|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

I wondered in the last Oz Report why Christian got fewer time and arrival points than pilots who were slower than he was. Turns out if I had looked more closely I would have seen that he made the end of the speed section but just came up 90 meters short of the goal cylinder. His points were docked 20%.

Paraglider scoring takes away all your time points if you don't make it to the goal cylinder and there are no arrival position points.

# Name Glider Time Speed
(km/h)
Distance Dist.
Points
Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 01:58:11 59.4 119.96 380.8 73.3 433.4 77.4 964.9
2 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:58:31 59.2 119.96 380.8 70.3 429.1 70.6 950.8
3 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 01:59:34 58.7 119.96 380.8 81.9 419.3 58.5 940.5
4 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:58:48 59.1 119.96 380.8 67.7 426.2 64.3 939.0
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:00:57 58.0 119.96 380.8 72.9 408.3 48.4 910.4
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:03:12 57.0 119.96 380.8 73.1 392.1 44.0 890.0
7 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 02:03:20 56.9 119.96 380.8 73.2 391.2 40.0 885.2
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:04:11 56.5 119.96 380.8 69.6 385.5 36.4 872.3
9 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:59:43 58.6 119.87 380.7 108.4 334.4 42.6 866.1

Fastest Competition Speed?

Mon, Aug 23 2021, 9:53:41 am MDT

Task 3 at the Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021

Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Steven "Steve" Pearson|triangle

The task:

No Leg Dist. Radius
1 0.0 km 400 m
2 Ss 2.3 km 15000 m
3 36.8 km 5000 m
4 56.8 km 3000 m
5 91.4 km 5000 m
6 113.3 km 2000 m
7 Es 119.4 km 1000 m
8 120.0 km 400 m

The task is almost an out and return from the start of the speed section (SS) to the end of the speed section (ES). The leg distances shown in the chart above are the optimized distances, those displayed on the map.

Three pilots had average task speeds of over 59 km/h (36.7 mph) in the speed section.

# Name Speed (km/h)
1 Filippo Oppici 59.4
2 Marco Laurenzi 59.2
4 David Gregoire 59.1

The optimized task distance between the SS and the ES is 116.939 km.

Steve Pearson asks the question, is this the highest task speed attained in a competition in Europe for a triangle or out and return task over 100 km?

Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021 »

Sat, Aug 21 2021, 12:34:32 pm MDT

Saturday, the last day

Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/monte-cucco-piero-alberini-international-trophy-20/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 03:11:57 988.6
2 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 03:24:13 920.8
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 03:28:19 864.2
4 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 03:28:49 856.3
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 03:30:49 843.7
6 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 03:34:47 818.1
7 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 03:42:58 762.7
8 Valentino Bau Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 03:42:21 757.5
9 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 03:45:28 747.4
10 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 03:43:51 746.6

Final Results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 3794
2 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 3785
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 3723
4 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 3569
5 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 3392
6 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 3287
7 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12,7 3279
8 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 3177
9 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 3136
10 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 3134

Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021 »

Fri, Aug 20 2021, 5:30:42 pm MDT

Friday

Christian Ciech|competition|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/monte-cucco-piero-alberini-international-trophy-20/results

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Lead.
Points
Time
Points
Arr.
Pos.
Points
Total
1 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 01:58:11 73.3 433.4 77.4 964.9
2 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:58:31 70.3 429.1 70.6 950.8
3 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 01:59:34 81.9 419.3 58.5 940.5
4 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:58:48 67.7 426.2 64.3 939.0
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 02:00:57 72.9 408.3 48.4 910.4
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 02:03:12 73.1 392.1 44.0 890.0
7 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 02:03:20 73.2 391.2 40.0 885.2
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 02:04:11 69.6 385.5 36.4 872.3
9 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:59:43 108.4 334.4 42.6 866.1
10 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 02:05:37 74.0 376.1 33.2 864.1

So why did Christian Ciech receive so many fewer speed points compared to pilots that flew slower than he did? And fewer arrival position points?

Cumulative:

# Name Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 996.5 982.3 950.8 2930
2 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 979.1 984.2 964.9 2928
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 934.3 933.6 866.1 2734
4 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 910.0 905.0 910.4 2725
5 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 900.0 937.8 872.3 2710
6 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12,7 942.5 804.7 785.2 2532
7 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 677.9 926.6 864.1 2469
8 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 958.3 851.7 619.4 2429
9 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 661.1 806.9 940.5 2409
10 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 650.6 856.0 885.2 2392

Filippo has barely won the last two days an is two points behind Marco who just beat Filippo on the first day.

Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021 »

Thu, Aug 19 2021, 6:53:30 pm MDT

Second task on Thursday

Christian Ciech|competition|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/monte-cucco-piero-alberini-international-trophy-20/results

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 01:30:16 984.3
2 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:30:22 982.1
3 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 01:33:34 937.4
4 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:34:05 933.0
5 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 01:33:50 926.1
6 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 01:34:33 904.4
7 David Gregoire Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:36:20 877.2
8 Lorenzo De Grandis Icaro Z9 01:38:35 859.6
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 01:38:39 855.5
10 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 01:38:48 851.3

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 1979
2 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 1963
3 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 1867
4 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 1837
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 1814
6 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 1810
7 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12,7 1747
8 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 1604
9 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 1506
10 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 1468

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Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021 »

Wed, Aug 18 2021, 2:42:48 pm MDT

First task on Tuesday

Christian Ciech|competition|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Filippo Oppici|Marco Laurenzi|Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021|Moyes Litespeed RX|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/monte-cucco-piero-alberini-international-trophy-20/results

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:39:33 996.5
2 Filippo Oppici Wills Wing T3 144 01:39:55 979.1
3 Francesco Marsella Moyes Litespeed RX 01:40:40 958.3
4 Fabien Zadora Combat GT 12,7 01:40:57 942.5
5 Christian Ciech Icaro 2000 Laminar 01:43:52 934.3
6 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7 C 01:44:45 910.0
7 Roland Woehrle Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 Pro 01:45:23 900.0
8 Manuel Revelli Icaro Laminar 02:28:43 677.9
9 Karl Reichegger Icaro Laminar 02:31:10 661.1
10 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T3 02:32:25 650.6
11 Frantisek Kostal Aeros Combat 09 14.2 02:40:43 596.9

Twenty six pilots.

Photo by Corinna.

Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021 »

Tue, Aug 17 2021, 9:29:39 am MDT

Looks like they didn't fly on Monday

Monte Cucco Piero Alberini International Trophy 2021

https://airtribune.com/monte-cucco-piero-alberini-international-trophy-20/blog__day_1

Ready to fly now.

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Campionato Italiano Delta - Italian Open 2021 - Trofeo Guarnieri »

July 2, 2021, 4:41:28 pm MDT

Final results

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Marco Laurenzi

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi

https://airtribune.com/campionato-italiano-delta-italian-open-2021/results

You'll find sport class and rigid wing class here also.

Christian Ciech wins every task

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 02:14:37 785.2
2 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:26:12 730.7
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 02:45:44 661.1
4 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 02:46:30 651.6
5 Andrea Franchi Aereos Combat 02:50:26 639.2
6 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 02:52:33 632.7

Final:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 3511
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 3184
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 3161
4 Francesco Marsella Litespeed RX 2776
5 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 2681
6 David Gregoire IcaroLaminar Z9 2623
7 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 2595
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 2315
9 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 2272
10 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 2183

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June 30, 2021, 6:27:09 pm MDT

Day 3 results

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Marco Laurenzi|Tullio Gervasoni

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi|Tullio Gervasoni

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi|Tullio Gervasoni

https://airtribune.com/campionato-italiano-delta-italian-open-2021/results

You'll find sport class and rigid wing class here also.

Task 3:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 01:08:35 758.3
2 Francesco Marsella Litespeed RX 01:11:06 739.8
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 01:12:04 714.1
4 David Gregoire IcaroLaminar Z9 01:12:46 698.6
5 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 01:12:58 696.3
6 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 01:13:31 694.9
7 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 01:18:38 644.0
8 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 01:18:51 639.7
9 Tulio Gervasoni Willwing T3 01:19:20 636.4
10 Joerg Bajewski Icaro Lamina Z) 01:20:17 619.3

Cumulative:

# Name Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 2725
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 2523
3 Francesco Marsella Litespeed RX 2474
4 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 2431
5 David Gregoire IcaroLaminar Z9 2250
6 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 2067
7 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 2030
8 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 1963
9 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 1912
10 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 1804

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Campionato Italiano Delta - Italian Open 2021 - Trofeo Guarnieri »

June 30, 2021, 1:00:37

Italian Open

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|Marco Laurenzi

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi

Campionato Italiano Delta|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Marco Laurenzi

https://airtribune.com/campionato-italiano-delta-italian-open-2021/results

Task 1:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 02:51:19 1000.0
2 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 03:03:06 907.2
3 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 03:12:59 852.0
4 Anton Moroder Icaro Laminar 03:15:17 826.4
5 Christian Pollet Aeros Combat C 03:14:24 824.8
6 Francesco Marsella Litespeed RX 03:17:34 817.5
7 David Gregoire Icaro Laminar Z9 03:28:01 766.0
8 Roland Woehrle Moyes RX 3.5 03:38:07 709.0
9 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 03:42:31 675.7
10 Eric Mathurin Moyes RX P20 04:00:14 615.6
11 Joerg Bajewski Icaro Laminar Z) 04:56:50 471.6

Task 2:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Christian Ciech Icaro Laminar classe 01:52:09 984.3
2 Francesco Marsella Litespeed RX 01:59:06 937.1
3 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 01:59:22 918.8
4 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:02:17 893.3
5 Vanni Accattoli Moyes RX4 Pro 02:04:07 878.2
6 David Gregoire Icaro Laminar Z9 02:20:58 788.8
7 Valentino Bau Icaro Laminar 02:42:33 661.8

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The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sun, Sep 13 2020, 12:21:46 pm MDT

Task 4, the last day, Sunday

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 4:

# Name Nat Glider Time
)(h:m:s)
Distance
(km)
Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:27:10 83.09 930.6
2 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:27:45 83.09 912.6
3 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:28:23 83.09 895.9
4 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:34:54 83.09 868.5
5 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 80.44 660.7
6 Eric Mathurin Fra Moyes 54.78 526.4
7 Johann Courtain Fra Wills Wing 54.30 520.4
8 Joerg Bajewski Ger Icaro 54.10 518.9
9 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 54.25 517.0
10 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing 53.89 515.1

Final results:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech m Ita Icaro 3315
2 Roland Wöhrle m Ger Moyes 3141
3 Marco Laurenzi m Ita Icaro 2718
4 Lorenzo De Grandis m Ita Icaro 2693
5 Joost Eertman m Ned Icaro 2537
6 Christian Pollet m Fra Aeros 2470
7 Oliver Salewski m Ger Icaro 2232
8 Suan Selenati m Ita Wills Wing 2139
9 Sasha Serebrennikova F Rus Moyes 1919
10 Marco Gröbner m Ger Moyes 1823

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sun, Sep 13 2020, 9:35:13 am MDT

Task 3

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 3:

Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 01:54:47 1000.1
2 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:21:43 789.0
3 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 02:23:22 771.6
4 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:23:47 765.5
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:24:41 752.7
6 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:25:25 743.6
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 02:26:07 735.0
8 Tullio Gervasoni Ita Wills Wing 02:32:26 692.1
9 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:27:24 678.1
10 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 02:36:23 664.1

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 2385
2 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 2245
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 2057
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 2020
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 1780
6 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 1753
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 1720
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 1636
9 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 1602
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 1414

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Sat, Sep 12 2020, 8:45:29 am MDT

Task 2

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|Christian Pollet|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Sasha at Goal on the second day.

# Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:16:31 975.9
2 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:18:17 945.2
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:18:49 929.2
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:30:39 842.7
5 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 02:36:10 813.3
6 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 02:47:43 737.8
7 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 02:53:24 699.8
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 02:59:32 696.4
9 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 03:01:11 665.2
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 03:42:14 507.8

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 1456
2 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 1384
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 1379
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 1276
5 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 1089
6 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 1028
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 985
8 Suan Selenati Ita Wills Wing 864
9 Christian Pollet Fra Aeros 836
10 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 760

The Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy

Fri, Sep 11 2020, 5:59:19 pm MDT

Rescheduled

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christian Ciech|competition|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2020|Marco Laurenzi

https://airtribune.com/springmeeting-2020/results

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time
(h:m:s)
Distance
(km)
Total
1 Roland Wöhrle Ger Moyes 02:07:10 59.69 480.5
2 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro 02:14:17 59.69 450.0
3 Christian Ciech Ita Icaro 02:11:15 59.19 439.2
4 Joost Eertman Ned Icaro 02:20:15 59.69 433.4
5 Marco Gröbner Ger Moyes 02:24:39 59.69 424.1
6 Sasha Serebrennikova Rus Moyes 32.58 251.9
7 Oliver Salewski Ger Icaro 33.21 247.6
8 Lorenzo De Grandis Ita Icaro 23.99 214.3
9 Valentino Bau Ita Icaro 25.15 211.1
10 Eric Mathurin Fra Moyes 22.45 199.1

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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

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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 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

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

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Final Results

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

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

Task 5:

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

Final Results:

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

Almost a perfect score.

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

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

2019 Italian Open and pre-Europeans

Montecucco

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

https://airtribune.com/cucco2019/results

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

The competition lasts through the 18th.

2019 Worlds »

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

2019 Worlds

Results from the eighth task

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

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

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

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

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

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

Task eight:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cumulative:

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

2019 Worlds »

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

2019 Worlds

Results from the seventh task, day nine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Malcolm Brown writes:

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

Matjaz Klemencic writes:

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

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

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

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

Task 7:

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

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

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"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

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July 22, 2019, 10:39:20 MDT

2019 Worlds

Results from the sixth task, day eight

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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

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July 20, 2019, 10:34:21 MDT

2019 Worlds

A flatland task for the fifth task on the sixth day

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The task:

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

Task 5:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cumulative:

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

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July 19, 2019, 11:19:34 MDT

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

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Task 4:

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

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Tolmezzo, 19th July 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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July 18, 2019, 8:09:35 MDT

2019 Worlds

The German version

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Christian Ciech|Conrad Loten|Manfred Ruhmer|Marco Laurenzi|PG|record|Suan Selenati|weather|Worlds 2019

https://www.dhv.de/piloteninfos/wettbewerb-sport/drachen-szene/live-berichte/weltmeisterschaften-tolmezzoita-2019/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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July 17, 2019, 10:23:51 MDT

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

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

2019 Worlds

Results

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

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

From the Italian team:

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

Felix Cantesanu at goal.

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

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

Task 1:

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

Penalties:

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

Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

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

They flew one more day

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

32nd Trofeo Valerio Albrizio

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

Task 3:

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

Final:

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

Thanks to Tullio for this correction.

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32nd Valerio Albrizio Trophy

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

A two day competition

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

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

Day 1:

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

Day 2:

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

Final results

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

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

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

2019 Aeros Winter Race »

March 22, 2019, 4:06:06 pm EDT

2019 Aeros Winter Race

Results for day 3, task 1

Aeros Winter Race 2019|Davide Guiducci|Marco Laurenzi|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Ubaldo Romano|video

http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show

Rank Name Nation Glider Time Score
1 Primoz Gricar DEU 13,5 GT 01:03:42 901
2 Marco Laurenzi ITA Laminar 01:06:34 858
3 Davide Guiducci ITA laminar 13.2 01:06:45 855
4 suan selenati ITA T2c 01:07:02 852
5 Ubaldo Romano CHE Litespeed RS 3.5 01:07:23 848
6 Peter Neuenschwander CHE Combat 12.7 01:07:34 846
7 franc peternel SVN Litespeed 3,5 PRO 01:07:43 844
8 Joost Eertman NLD Laminar Z9 14.8 01:08:12 838
9 Arne Tanzer NLD Laminar 01:08:16 837
10 Gerd Doenhuber DEU Laminar 14.1 01:11:22 803

https://youtu.be/CYaDJNx65Fc

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Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »

I guess they are not flying tomorrow or until next year

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018

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

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

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

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

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

Class 1:

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

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

Sport Class:

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

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

Air ATOS class:

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

Marco Laurenzi

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

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018 »

August 13, 2018, 8:51:21 CDT

Monte Cucco International Trophy 2018

It runs through the 16th, so after two tasks

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

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

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

Photos:

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

2018 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

Marco's wingover and tumble

July 17, 2018, 6:38:34 MDT

Marco's wingover and tumble

A thermal too strong

Facebook|Marco Laurenzi

Story found here: https://www.facebook.com/Marco.Laurenzi.89/posts/1599931943463543

We were shortly after the start, under a line of cumulus, in convergence, at 2500 meters towards the first turn point, when the constant "beep beep" of the vario (0.5 ÷ 1 M / s) gently became more frequent, so I decided to turn and climb the last 100 meters that separated me from the base of the clouds. I'm about to turn right, that's when I feel something. I get ready to undo the 3/4's of VG that I had and tilt slightly to right to try to find the core.

The air was going up faster (2 ÷ 3 M / s) when an unheard force took my right wing and rolled me to the left in no time. The vario went from the beep beep beep to "triiiiiiiii."

I don't remember if I was able to hold onto the control bar. In a fraction of a second I found myself almost like in a wing over, but without the right speed and fighting unnecessarily. From there I saw the earth and a piece of sky upside down and gently feel my feet touch the sail, then my legs, then I lose the control bar and hit with my head on the glider nose. It went from a sudden and immediate event that didn't give me time even to understand to some sort of temporal slowdown, where time seemed to scroll slowly by, until another violent shake that threw me on to the control frame. I only realize after this is the first round of tumbling.

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Sunday, not a rest day

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cumulative:

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

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

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

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

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Saturday

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

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

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

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

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

Christian landing at goal:

Christian landing at goal

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

Task 5:

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

Cumulative:

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

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

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Friday

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Task 4:

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

Cumulative:

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

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

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

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Thursday, day 3

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

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

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

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

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

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2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Wednesday, day 2 results

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

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

Task 2:

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

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

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

Cumulative:

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

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

2018 European Hang Gliding Championships

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

Wednesday, day 2

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

http://hgeu2018.mk/

Hang Gliding Europeans Class 1 Live tracking:

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

Looks like a better day:

Ploner in the lead.

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

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

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

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2018 Quest Air Nationals Series

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

The meet is over-subscribed

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

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

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

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

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

WPRS

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

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

https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/info/details__info

https://OzReport.com/waivers.php

https://OzReport.com/2018QuestAirpay.php

We will keep track of the order in which pilots are confirmed (everything is time and date stamped), check any forms for errors, and notify pilots if they are allowed entry into the meet.

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21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

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

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Day 5, a slow day, results

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

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

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

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

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

One more day, then a rest day.

Task 5:

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

Cumulative:

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

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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

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

21st FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship

Results

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

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

Task 3:

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

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

Cumulative:

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

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2017 Italian National Hang Gliding Championships

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

Interesting weather

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

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

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

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

Sunday's results, Monday and Tuesday cancelled:

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

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

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2017 UK Nationals »

July 1, 2017, 2:07:03 pm MST -0600

2017 UK Nationals

The last day, they score

Davide Guiducci|Gordon Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni|UK Nationals 2017

After three canned days.

https://nats.bhgcomps.uk/

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 02:13:14 985
2 Jochen Zeischka Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:13:33 969
3 Davide Guiducci Icaro Laminar Z9 02:19:15 908
4 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 02:20:10 852
5 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:24:05 850
6 Steve Penfold Moyes Litespeed RX4 02:24:50 823
7 Malcolm Brown Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 02:26:11 810
8 Gordon Rigg Moyes RX3.5 pro edge skylite 02:25:10 803
9 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 02:29:12 791
10 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 02:30:39 776

Final results:

# Name Glider Total
1 Davide Guiducci Icaro Laminar Z9 3030
2 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 2990
3 Grant Crossingham Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 2947
4 Gordon Rigg Moyes RX3.5 pro edge skylite 2755
5 Dave Matthews Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5T 2725
6 Vanni Accattoli Moyes Litespeed RX4 2663
7 Marco Laurenzi Icaro Laminar 2561
8 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C-144 2522
9 Darren Brown Wills Wing T2C-154 2489
10 Jochen Zeischka Moyes Litespeed RX4 2441

Spring Meeting - Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017

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

Just finished

Facebook|Friuli Venezia Giulia Trophy 2017|video

https://airtribune.com/spring-meeting-2017/blog

No live tracking on Airtribune for this meet.

https://www.facebook.com/731889390194258/videos/1327146994001825/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

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2017 Aeros Winter Race »

Sat, Apr 1 2017, 9:44:42 pm MDT

Final results

Aeros Winter Race 2017|Icaro 2000|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni

http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/results-show

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 01:26:17 991
2 Arne Tänzer Icaro 2000 Laminar Z9 01:26:26 976
2 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes RX3.5 Technora 01:26:35 976
4 Philipp Hofmann Icaro Laminar 14.1 01:26:43 961
5 Balázs Ujhelyi Moyes RX4 01:27:12 956
6 Jochen Zeischka Moyes Litespeed RX4 01:27:48 942
7 Wolfgang Siess Wills Wing T2CC 01:29:47 908
8 Marco Laurenzi Moyes Laminar 01:30:46 882
9 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 01:35:45 835
10 Walter Mayer Moyes RX 3.5 01:35:28 832

Final Reults:

# Name Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger Moyes RX3.5 Technora 3668
2 Balázs Ujhelyi Moyes RX4 3633
3 Franc Peternel Wills Wing T2C-144 3488
4 Roland Wöhrle Moyes RX 3.5 3361
5 Tullio Gervasoni Wills Wing T2C 144 3315
6 Endre Kovács Aeros Combat GT 13,5 3308
7 Matjaz Klemencic Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 3299
8 Benedikt Braun Aeros Combat 12.7 GT 3295
9 Anton Moroder Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 3212
10 Stanislav Galovec Moyes RS4 2972

http://awr.aeros.com.ua/index.php/en/basics

Strong SW winds were predicted this morning, so we left to Kovk launch earlier. We decided on task only on the east half of the valley - we prepared kind off two lap task, 93 km in length. Right now pilots are somwere at the end of lap one, we expect many pilots in goal in short time.

Task 4 has just finished, with most of the pilots in goal. It was a strong racing day with high average speed of the winner, Matja· Klemencic 65 km/h. Second was Arne Tanzer and Tom Weissenberger third.

2016 Pre-Worlds »

September 2, 2016, 5:33:49 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Results

André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Thomas Weissenberger

Results: https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/:

Task 5:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Andre Wolf BRA moyes-litespeed rx 3,5 01:29:02 999
2 Suan Selenati ITA WW T2C 144 01:31:41 936
3 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 01:32:08 929
4 Josh Woods AUS Moyes Ls Rx 3.5 01:34:21 903
5 Primoz Gricar GER AEROS COMBAT 12,7 01:36:18 864
6 Valentino Bau ITA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 01:37:29 862
7 Fábio Thomaz BRA moyes-litespeedS5 01:37:04 850
8 Davide Guiducci ITA   01:37:29 845
9 David brito Filho BRA WILLSWING-T2CX 01:37:42 843
10 Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli BRA WW T2C 144 01:39:22 840

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 Total
1 Jonny Durand AUS MOYES RX 3.5 990 828 824 968 747 4357
2 Carlos Niemeyer BRA AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 831 802 923 941 779 4276
3 Davide Guiducci ITA   908 787 836 898 845 4274
4 Primoz Gricar GER AEROS COMBAT 12,7 630 834 1000 936 864 4264
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 911 845 856 953 690 4255
6 Valentino Bau ITA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 525 809 960 941 862 4097
7 Rodolfo Gotes MEX Wills Wing T2C 144 899 717 798 910 758 4082
8 Michel Louzada BRA WILLS WING-T2C144 622 830 908 906 732 3998
9 Olav Opsanger NOR MOYES RX 3.5 972 758 406 984 772 3892
10 Mario Alonzi FRA Aeros Combat 833 788 731 701 825 3878

The top five all within 100 points. One more task?

Photo by Wolfi

2016 Pre-Worlds »

Thu, Sep 1 2016, 9:34:53 pm MDT

Results

Øyvind Ellefsen|Akiko Suzuki|Chisato Nojiri|Christian Pollet|Claudia Mejia|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kathleen Rigg|Marco Laurenzi|Mario Campanella|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Suan Selenati|Ubaldo Romano

http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-5-task-4/

The most special thing about flying in Brasilia is the Esplanade goal field. A perfect 118km task finally brought us back here to the city today. There’s nothing more exciting that watching the lead gaggle come across the tops of the tall buildings and set up an approach in what is basically a park between the two directions of traffic – four lanes each on both sides. The field seems pretty big when you see it empty. But with twelve gliders setting up to land, especially in light and variable conditions, it quickly shrinks.

Olav Opsanger and Jonny Durand came in pretty close (with Olav first), even setting up and landing together. Another ten or so came in one after the other behind them in the first gaggle.

Tom, who is in first overall as of yesterday arrived with half of his battens tips broken and sticking 4 or 5 inches out of their pockets. Apparently he inadvertently did what he called a “½ loop” in air so strong and turbulent that he thought he would tumble. He pulled out of it at high speed and his carbon basebar slammed him in the throat while the batten tips were busy breaking off. All that fun, and he believes he may have unintentionally violated the airspace as well, in a climb late in the task that he just couldn’t get out of in time. It’s really going to mix things up if he gets a zero for the day.

Wolfi high 15 minutes before the start.

Rory Duncan writes:

Had a bit of bummer today. Was sitting in 13th place in the pre worlds here in Brazil, but I think I might drop quiet a few positions after I accidentally breached the 9000ft ceiling. (Which can be very hard to stay under while flying in such strong conditions!) And then I miss judged the final glide into the city and had to land in someone's backyard on the lake 3km short of goal. At least I got to have swim while waiting for a ride.

Results: https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 4:

Jonny and Olaf Opsanger.

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Olav Opsanger Nor Moyes RX 3.5 02:04:37 984
2 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes RX 3.5 02:05:06 968
3 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:07:11 953
4 Valentino Bau Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 02:07:15 941
4 Carlos Niemeyer Bra Aeros Combat C 12.7 02:07:12 941
6 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros Combat 12,7 02:07:48 936
7 Koji Daimon Jpn Aeros 02:07:49 933
8 Yuji Suzuki Jpn Moyes Ls RX 3.5 02:09:44 911
9 Rodolfo Gotes Mex Wills Wing T2C 144 02:09:29 910
10 Sergio Galvas Bra Wills Wing-T2C 02:09:41 907
Name Note
Francois Isoard Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thalis Pacheco Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thomas Halter Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Thomas Hylander Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Nilsson Tommy Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Tony Armstrong Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Valentino Bau Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Walter Mayer Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Yuji Suzuki Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Anton Moroder Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Claudia Mejia De La Pava Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Juan Tawil Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Laurent Thevenot Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Manuel Nieto Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Pedro L Garcia Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Wolfgang Siess Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Patrick Collin Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Jonny Durand Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Rafael S. Mello Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Alipio Loyola Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Niemeyer Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Billy Miller-Macleod Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Bjørn Joakimsen Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Gomes Luiz Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Carlos Alberto Correa Ruiz Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Chisato Nojiri Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Chrigel Küpfer Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Greussing Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Pollet Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Christian Tiefenbacher Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Corinna Schwiegershausen Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Davide Guiducci Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Euclides Robert Neto Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Eduard Meusburger Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Eitan Koren Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Elmar Christl Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Emmanuel Felix-Faure Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Fábio Thomaz Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Filippo Oppici Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Gerardo Perez Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Guy Hubbard Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Guenther Pfanzelter Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Günther Tschurnig Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Haroldo Assumpção Neto Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hugo Avila Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hugo Manuel Rodrìguez Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Hakan Andersson Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Jean Marc Laporte Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Joakim Hindemith Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Josh Woods Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Kathleen Rigg Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Koji Daimon Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Abe Kozo Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Luciano Dos Santos Danni Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Lionel Cristian Ezequiel Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Nagusa Akira Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcelo Araujo Dos Santos Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcelo Silva Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
márcio Freire Fernandes Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marcos Rodrigues De Oliveira Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Michel Louzada Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Marco Laurenzi Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mario Alonzi Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mario Campanella Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Markus Riezler Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Mauricio Tovar Nieto Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Olav Lien Olsen Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Olav Opsanger Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Oyvind Ellefsen Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Primoz Gricar Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Rodolfo Gotes Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Romano Ubaldo Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit
Suan Selenati Pilot Came Within 100 Meters Of Briefed Altitude Limit

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 Total
1 Jonny Durand Aus Moyes RX 3.5 990 827 825 968 3610
2 Marco Laurenzi Ita Icaro Laminar 14.1 911 845 857 953 3566
3 Carlos Niemeyer Bra Aeros Combat C 12.7 831 801 923 941 3496
4 Davide Guiducci Ita 908 786 837 898 3429
5 Primoz Gricar Ger Aeros Combat 12,7 630 833 1000 936 3399
6 Rodolfo Gotes Mex Wills Wing T2C 144 899 716 799 910 3324
7 Michel Louzada Bra Wills Wing-T2C144 622 830 908 906 3266
8 Valentino Bau Ita Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 525 809 960 941 3235
9 Koji Daimon Jpn Aeros 807 683 785 933 3208
10 Olav Opsanger Nor Moyes RX 3.5 972 757 409 984 3122

2016 Pre-Worlds »

August 31, 2016, 6:52:22 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Pedro restored

Akiko Suzuki|Davide Guiducci|Filippo Oppici|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|record|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni

Pedro writes:

The issue was that they tried to score the task using the data from the trackers and, at least in my case, the record had the wrong altitude. They then scored me with the data from my primary instrument and everything was correct.

https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar GER AEROS COMBAT 12,7 01:56:19 1000
2 Valentino Bau ITA ICARO 2000 LAMINAR 14.1 01:57:50 960
3 Anton Moroder ITA laminar Z913.2 01:57:54 954
4 Christian Tiefenbacher AUT MOYES RX 3.5 01:59:29 936
5 Carlos Niemeyer BRA AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 01:59:43 922
6 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 02:00:26 914
7 GLAUCO PINTO BRA Icaro 2000-LAMINAR 02:00:50 909
8 Michel Louzada BRA WILLS WING-T2C144 02:00:50 907
9 Yuji Suzuki JPN MOYES LS RX 3.5 02:03:38 886
10 Olav Lien Olsen NOR WW T2C 144 02:05:12 865
11 pedro l garcia ESP T2C 144 02:07:25 857
12 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:07:18 855
13 Davide Guiducci ITA   02:07:44 834
14 Filippo Oppici ITA WW T2C 144 02:07:49 832
15 Tullio Gervasoni ITA WILLS WING-T2C 144 02:08:05 831
16 Jonny Durand AUS MOYES RX 3.5 02:09:00 823

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 2718
2 GLAUCO PINTO BRA Icaro 2000-LAMINAR 2660
3 Jonny Durand AUS MOYES RX 3.5 2640
4 pedro l garcia ESP T2C 144 2616
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 2611
6 Carlos Niemeyer BRA AEROS COMBAT C 12.7 2554
7 Davide Guiducci ITA   2528
8 Tullio Gervasoni ITA WILLS WING-T2C 144 2488
9 Primoz Gricar GER AEROS COMBAT 12,7 2463
10 Rodolfo Gotes MEX Wills Wing T2C 144 2411

2016 Pre-Worlds »

August 30, 2016, 8:20:09 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Results

Akiko Suzuki|Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|Thomas Weissenberger|Tullio Gervasoni

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740

Tulio at goal here. The big picture (surrounding).

There was a 9,000' ceiling. I would not appreciate having to stay below a given height. I see the point of keeping folks out of clouds. Pedro won yesterday and exceeded the height limit today to get a zero.

Wings on Tour story

The best day by far compared to the last 10 days of flying here! Big air with 5-7 meters/second up, beautiful cloud streets, less wind and a cloudbase not much higher than our 2,700 meter ceiling - thank god!

Primoz won the day with our Austrian fellow Christian 5th, Tom Weissenberger around 7th place. Nene tumbled but stays unhurt which is most important! Next days are looking promising as well with a dying cold front passing tonight bringing some humid air masses, like today.

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:tomtom01/30.8.2016/15:39

https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 3:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros Combat 12,7 01:56:19 1000
2 Valentino Bau ITA Icaro 2000 Laminar 14.1 01:57:50 959
3 Anton Moroder ITA Laminar Z913.2 01:57:54 953
4 Christian Tiefenbacher AUT Moyes RX 3.5 01:59:29 935
5 Carlos Niemeyer BRA Aeros Combat C 12.7 01:59:43 920
6 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 02:00:26 912
7 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 02:00:50 908
8 Michel Louzada BRA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:00:50 905
9 Yuji Suzuki JPN Moyes LS RX 3.5 02:03:38 883
10 Olav Lien Olsen NOR Wills Wing T2C 144 02:05:12 862
11 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:07:18 852
12 Davide Guiducci ITA 02:07:44 831
13 Filippo Oppici ITA Moyes Litespeed RS 4 02:07:49 829
14 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 02:08:05 828
15 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 02:09:00 819

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider Total
1 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 2716
2 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 2659
3 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 2636
4 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 2608
5 Carlos Niemeyer BRA Aeros Combat C 12.7 2552
6 Davide Guiducci ITA 2525
7 Tullio Gervasoni ITA Wills Wing T2C 144 2485
8 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros Combat 12,7 2463
9 Rodolfo Gotes MEX Wills Wing T2C 144 2407
10 Michel Louzada BRA Wills Wing T2C 144 2357

Jamie Shelden is reporting here: http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-3/ and http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pilot-number-17-is-pushing/

2016 Pre-Worlds »

August 30, 2016, 3:02:31 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Preliminary results

Akiko Suzuki|dust devil|Fabiano Nahoum|Facebook|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Pre-Worlds 2016|Suan Selenati

https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740

1 Sergio Galvas 02:08:03
2 Christian Tiefenbacher 02:09:30
3 Carlos Niemeyer 02:09:44
4 Michel Louzada 02:10:50
5 Glauco Pinto 02:10:51
6 Tony Armstrong 02:12:41
7 Bjørn Joakimsen 02:13:09
8 Yuji Suzuki 02:13:39
9 Olav Lien Olsen 02:15:13
10 Marco Laurenzi 02:17:19
11 Pedro L Garcia 02:17:28
12 Jonny Durand 02:19:01
13 Koji Daimon 02:26:10
14 Suan Selenati 02:26:21
15 Rodolfo Gotes 02:26:39

Still can't figure out how to make Playback work.

I've heard from Fabiano Nahoum that Nene successfully threw his chute over the second turnpoint after going in low into a dust devil. He is unharmed.

https://www.facebook.com/brasilia2017/?fref=nf

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August 29, 2016, 11:43:11 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Pedro wins the day

Davide Guiducci|Facebook|Filippo Oppici|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|photo|Pre-Worlds 2016|Primoz Gricar|record|Thomas Weissenberger

Live Tracking: https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=1740

Has anyone had Playback work for them? Please tell me how.

https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 2:

# Name Nat Glider SS Time Total
1 Pedro L Garcia ESP Wills Wing T2C 144 13:40:00 02:02:03 953
2 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 13:20:00 02:21:56 845
3 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 13:20:00 02:21:45 843
4 Primoz Gricar GER Aeros Combat 12.7 13:20:00 02:22:07 834
5 Michel Louzada BRA Wills Wing T2C 144 13:20:00 02:22:18 830
6 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 13:20:00 02:22:33 828
7 David Brito Filho BRA Wills Wing T2C X 13:20:00 02:22:13 827
8 Sergio Galvas BRA Wills Wing T2C 13:20:00 02:22:19 824
9 Fábio Thomaz BRA Moyes Litespeed S5 13:20:00 02:22:37 815
9 Filippo Oppici ITA Moyes Litespeed RS 4 13:20:00 02:22:38 815
11 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing T2C 144 13:20:00 02:22:54 810

Pedro took the second start time and went much faster. Forty or so leading points for Jonny and others did not make up for Pedro's 150 point lead in speed points.

Cumulative:

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 Total
1 Jonny Durand AUS Moyes RX 3.5 990 828 1818
2 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 962 843 1805
3 Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli BRA Wills Wing T2C 144 954 810 1764
4 Pedro L Garcia ESP Wills Wing T2C 144 806 953 1759
5 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 911 845 1756
6 Glauco Pinto BRA Icaro 2000 Laminar 960 793 1753
7 David Brito Filho BRA Wills Wing T2C X 905 827 1732
7 Olav Opsanger NOR Moyes RX 3.5 972 760 1732
9 Davide Guiducci ITA   908 788 1696
10 Sergio Galvas BRA Wills Wing T2C 839 824 1663

Jonny, Tom, Nene and Pedro in the first four places.

Tom Weissenberger writes at Wings on Tour:

Brasilia day 2, task 2: tricky and blue 100 km with many pilots in goal joined by just one single girl - and the only right one, yeah! :)

Conditions at the start gate at 1:20pm were not favorable with broken lift up to 2.000-2.300 m, still everybody left as together we are strong!

First TP 30 km down SW on the plateau kept us first along the ridge where ENE winds pushed up good lift but also with big sink in between! After jumping onto the plateau thermals got better and the main gaggle bigger. It was not the day for pushing out in front alone and into the blue, so I forced myself to play that game. To my big surprise I played it well trying to be always on top of the gaggle and leaving when everybody else did, oh boy, nerve killing!

Anyway, TP2 was a tricky one 30 km back into wind but also situated on the edge of the ridge close to launch. Once I hit a strong rocket thermal but as soon I started to enjoy the consistent 5m up I already had to dive out again not to get over the vertical limit of 2.745m, damn! Also we could not get high enough to make it back to the ridge again but winds died down so this ridge's dead zone on its lee side was starting to work! So we managed to fly just behind the ridge and right on course to TP2 where all of a sudden Pedro could catch up and join us after taking the 2nd clock, damn damn!

As soon this piece of hard work was done a 35 km downwind leg into goal was the final reward. I could go on final glide first - after playing the gaggle game well - together with Pedro and Marco.

So Pedro should win the day with me and Marco first in goal pending on leading bonus. But the best part of the day was to welcome Kathleen in goal, abraco, record lady!

The 30-40 leading points were so so much smaller than the 150 speed points that Pedro was able to gather by going second.

http://www.hgoutlanders.com/pre-worlds-day-2/

As it turns out, Pedro wasn’t in position to take the first start and was forced into the second. It worked for him because he caught the lead gaggle near the last turnpoint and came in together with them.

2016 Pre-Worlds »

August 28, 2016, 10:35:12 pm MST -0600

2016 Pre-Worlds

Results

André Wolfe|André Wolfe|Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Marco Laurenzi|Moyes Litespeed RX|Pre-Worlds 2016|Thomas Weissenberger

https://www.cvlb.com.br/compes/competicao-43/

Task 1:

# Name Nat Glider Time Total
1 Jonny Durand AUS MOYES RX 3.5 02:26:39 990
2 Andre Wolf BRA moyes-litespeed rx 3,5 02:27:00 983
3 Olav Opsanger NOR MOYES RX 3.5 02:27:23 972
4 Thomas Weissenberger AUT Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 Technora 02:28:11 962
5 GLAUCO PINTO BRA Icaro 2000-LAMINAR 02:28:07 960
6 Alvaro figueiredo Sandoli BRA WW T2C 144 02:28:18 954
7 Wolfgang Siess AUT Wills Wing T2C 154 02:29:31 934
8 Lionel Cristian Ezequiel ARG WILLS WING-T2C 02:30:39 921
9 Marco Laurenzi ITA Icaro Laminar 14.1 02:33:51 911
10 Davide Guiducci ITA   02:33:57 908

Tom's six points of leading points did put him ever so slightly ahead of Glauco (2 points). Leading points amount to so very little unless you take an earlier start clock.

2016 Italian Open »

August 18, 2016, 8:00:54 MST -0600

2016 Italian Open

Balazs wins, Christian third

Christian Ciech|Davide Guiducci|Italian Open 2016|Marco Laurenzi|Suan Selenati|Vicki Cain

Vicki Cain <<Vicki>> writes:

Congratulations to Balazs Ujhelyi for winning the Italian Nationals in a mighty strong field! The scores show him flying an RS4 but he was actually flying his new RX4!

Balazs wrote to me:

Glider was super also on this comp, I enjoy the Rx feeling a lot and how it hooks into the thermal.

When I asked him about his result he comment was ”quite good”!

Way to go Balazs!

Results can be seen at: http://www.vololiberomontecucco.it/d…/trofeo2016/Class1.html

# Name Nat Glider T 1 T 2 T 3 Total
1 balazs ujhelyi hun moyes litespeed rs4 650 836 886 2372
2 marco laurenzi ita icaro laminar 668 873 797 2338
3 christian ciech ita icaro laminar 300 1000 988 2288
4 davide guiducci ita icaro laminar 521 848 911 2280
5 karl reichegger ita icaro laminar 445 820 889 2154
6 anton moroder ita icaro laminar 449 816 821 2086
7 daniele silvagni ita wills wing t2c 440 669 896 2005
8 jun tomihara jpn air vq-racer 542 751 696 1989
9 suan selenati ita wills wing t2c 588 786 597 1971
10 arturo dal mas ita wills wing t2c 417 627 914 1958

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

Three tasks out of six days.

2016 Italian Open »

August 10, 2016, 4:17:24 pm CST -0500

2016 Italian Open

Christian had a bad day

Christian Ciech|Italian Open 2016|Marco Laurenzi

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

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49071

The Hang Gliding Italian Open 2016 is taking place at Monte Cucco (Sigillo). Today task was cancelled due to a front coming in the afternoon. At the moment two task has been flown and Marco Laurenzi is leading the overall ranking with a margin of 50 points on the Hungarian Balazs Hjhelyi. The former Italia champion Christian Ciech (and World and European Champion) is in fifth place after a very bad first task. Christian won task two but Marco arrived second. So it will be a very interesting competition to follow.

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The pre-Europeans - day 4 »

Fri, Aug 21 2015, 6:03:11 pm MDT

The results

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|competition|Marco Laurenzi|Pre-Europeans 2015|Suan Selenati|Tullio Gervasoni|Wills Wing T2C

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/results

Task 4:

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Jochen Zeischka Moyes RX 4 03:29:48 1000
2 Petr Benes Aeros Combat 14.2 09 03:34:08 934
3 Frantisek Kostal Aeros Combat 09 03:59:01 881
4 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 04:00:37 876

After four days:

# Name Glider Total
1 Elio Cataldi Moyes RX 4 3315
2 Suan Selenati Wills Wing T2C 3228
3 Balazs Ujhelyi Moyes Rs 4 3199
4 Guenther Pfanzelter Icaro 2000 Laminar 3161
5 Mario Alonzi Aeros Combat 12.7°C 3022
6 Tullio Gervasoni T2C 144 3009
7 Marco Laurenzi Moyes Rs 3.5 2909
8 Emmanuel Felix Faure Aeros Combat GT 13,2 2857
9 Alexandra Serebrennikova Moyes RX 3 2755
10 Jochen Zeischka Moyes RX 4 2744

The pre-Europeans - day 3 »

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

The pre-Europeans - day 3

Jochen wins the day

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

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

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/blog__day_3

Jamie's photo.

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/results

Task 3::

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

After three tasks:

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

The pre-Europeans - day 2 »

August 19, 2015, 1:02:06 pm MDT

The pre-Europeans - day 2

So few with trackers

Davide Guiducci|Icaro 2000|Marco Laurenzi|Pre-Europeans 2015|Wills Wing T2C

https://airtribune.com/play/924/2d

https://airtribune.com/euhg2015/blog__day_2

Many at goal

# Name Glider Time Total
1 Petr Benes aeros combat 14.2 09 01:41:26 967
2 FRANC PETERNEL wills wing t2c 01:48:56 861
3 Elio Cataldi Litespeed rx 3.5 01:49:15 858
4 Marco Laurenzi Moyes RS3.5 01:49:26 853
5 Anton Moroder Icaro 2000 laminar 01:49:28 846
6 Davide Guiducci Icaro 2000 Laminar 13.2 01:49:28 845
7 Piero Zin icaro Laminar Z9 14.1 01:49:40 838
8 Endre Kovacs Aeros Combat 13,5 01:49:30 835
9 Emmanuel FELIX FAURE Aeros Combat GT 13,2 01:50:43 823
10 Balazs Ujhelyi Moyes Litespeed RS4 01:51:58 800

Dolomiti Open 2015 »

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

Christian Ciech wins

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

Task 5, last task

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

Total:

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

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

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Dolomiti Open 2015 »

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

Dolomiti Open 2015

Italian Nationals 2015

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

Flavio sends:

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/

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

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/

Task 4:

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

Cumulative:

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

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

Dolomiti Open 2015 »

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

Italian Nationals 2015

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

Flavio sends:

https://flafly63.wordpress.com/

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

Task 3:

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

Cumulative:

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

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

Trofeo Carlo Zanchettin

May 28, 2014, 8:01:10 EDT

Trofeo Carlo Zanchettin

Manfred wins

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

Matthias Kurzthaler <<m.kurzthaler>> sends:

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

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

https://vimeo.com/96527853

Livetracks:

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

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

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

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Christian on fire

August 1, 2013, 8:45:12 CDT

Christian on fire

Wins

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

Filippo Oppici <<oppicif>> writes:

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

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

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

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

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

A total separation of six seconds over four days.

Filippo was third at the 2013 Worlds.