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Our FAI Champions!
World and Continental Champions in Paragliding, Hang Gliding, Paragliding Accuracy and Aerobatics… Winners of the World online Cross Country contest… They are our best pilots, men and women, and they are all here!
FAI Today Champions
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Hang Gliding Class 2 and 5 |
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FAI Champions of the past
Today FAI Champions
FAI World Champions
Paragliding Accuracy - 2017 - Vlora, Albania
- Overal - Tzvetan Tzolov (BGR)
- Women – Nunnapat Phuchong (THA)
- Team – China
Paragliding - 2017 - Monte Avena, Pedavena-Feltre, Italy
- Pierre Remy (FRA)
- Team – France
- Women – Seiko Fukuoka-Naville (FRA)
Hang Gliding Class 1 - 2017 - Brasilia, Brazil
- Petr Banes (CZE)
- Team: Italy
- Yoko Isomoto (JAP)
- Team: Japan
Hang Gliding Class 2 - 2014 - Lac d'Annecy, France
- Manfred Ruhmer (AUT)
Hang Gliding Class 5 - 2016 - Krushevo, FYR of Macedonia
- Tim Grabowski (GER)
- Team: Austria
Hang Gliding Sport Class - 2014 - Lac d'Annecy, France
- Mario Alonzii (FRA)
- Team: France
Paragliding Aerobatics - 2016 - Lac d'Annecy, France
- Solo – François Ragolski (FRA)
- Team: France
- Solo Women - Christina Kolb (AUT)
- Synchro – Raul Rodriguez / Felix Rodriguez (SPA)
Hang Gliding Aerobatics - 2006 - Villeneuve, Switzerland
- Jon Gjerde (NOR)
FAI European Champions
Paragliding - 2016 - Krushevo, FYR of Macedonia 2016
- Honorin Hamard (FRA)
- Women – Seiko Fukuoka-Neville (FRA)
- Team – France
Hang Gliding Class 1 - 2016 - Krushevo, FYR of Macedonia 2016
- Christian Ciech (ITA)
- Team – Italy
Hang Gliding Class 1 Women - 2008 - Greifenburg, Austria
- Corinna Schwiegershausen (GER)
Paragliding Accuracy - 2016 - Paluknys, Lithuania
- Matjaz Sluga (SLO)
- Women – Tamara Kostic (SER)
- Team – Serbia
FAI Asian Champions
Paragliding - 2012 - Linzhou, China
- Kamiyama Taro (JAP)
- Women – Hiraki Keiko (JAP)
- Team – Japan
Paragliding Accuracy - 2016 - Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
- Tanapat Leangaiem (THA)
- Women – Mariko Ito (JAP)
- Team – China
FAI Pan-American Champions
Paragliding - 2014 - Loma Bola, Tucuman, Argentina
- Bernardo Medina Sastre (COL)
- Team – Colombia
(Pictures are coming from different sources, one of them being the wide world web where it is not always possible to find the authors of said pictures. Thanks to Denis Balibouse and Red Bull for the aerobatics ones. Also pictures from Didier Mathurin, Martin Scheel, Stéphane Malbos... Pilots! Insert a picture of you in the WPRS database and we will use it here!)
Events Calendar
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The 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2016
The 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett will take place from 15 – 24 September 2016 in Gladbeck, Germany, the epicentre of global gasballooning activities which will therefore provide for sure perfect conditions.
France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
The winners of the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017 said they were “overjoyed” to be awarded their FAI gold medals at a ceremony in Fribourg, Switzerland on Saturday 16 September 2017.
The 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Ballon Race launched tonight
This evening 21 gas balloons from 13 countries launched from Gruyères airfield (Switzerland) that sits below the famous chateau for the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Race. Over the next few days the teams will aim to fly as far as possible, measured in a straight line from the launch field to the landing site. Meteorological experts are forecasting that the balloons will follow a north-eastern route.
Follow the race live at: gordonbennett.aero/livetracking
France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
The winners of the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017 said they were “overjoyed” to be awarded their FAI gold medals at a ceremony in Fribourg, Switzerland on Saturday 16 September 2017.
The 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Ballon Race launched tonight
This evening 21 gas balloons from 13 countries launched from Gruyères airfield (Switzerland) that sits below the famous chateau for the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Race. Over the next few days the teams will aim to fly as far as possible, measured in a straight line from the launch field to the landing site. Meteorological experts are forecasting that the balloons will follow a north-eastern route.
Follow the race live at: gordonbennett.aero/livetracking
France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
The winners of the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017 said they were “overjoyed” to be awarded their FAI gold medals at a ceremony in Fribourg, Switzerland on Saturday 16 September 2017.
The 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Ballon Race launched tonight
This evening 21 gas balloons from 13 countries launched from Gruyères airfield (Switzerland) that sits below the famous chateau for the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Race. Over the next few days the teams will aim to fly as far as possible, measured in a straight line from the launch field to the landing site. Meteorological experts are forecasting that the balloons will follow a north-eastern route.
Follow the race live at: gordonbennett.aero/livetracking
France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
The winners of the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017 said they were “overjoyed” to be awarded their FAI gold medals at a ceremony in Fribourg, Switzerland on Saturday 16 September 2017.
The 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Ballon Race launched tonight
This evening 21 gas balloons from 13 countries launched from Gruyères airfield (Switzerland) that sits below the famous chateau for the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Race. Over the next few days the teams will aim to fly as far as possible, measured in a straight line from the launch field to the landing site. Meteorological experts are forecasting that the balloons will follow a north-eastern route.
Follow the race live at: gordonbennett.aero/livetracking
France takes the gold at the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017
The winners of the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett 2017 said they were “overjoyed” to be awarded their FAI gold medals at a ceremony in Fribourg, Switzerland on Saturday 16 September 2017.
The 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Gas Ballon Race launched tonight
This evening 21 gas balloons from 13 countries launched from Gruyères airfield (Switzerland) that sits below the famous chateau for the 61st Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett Race. Over the next few days the teams will aim to fly as far as possible, measured in a straight line from the launch field to the landing site. Meteorological experts are forecasting that the balloons will follow a north-eastern route.
Follow the race live at: gordonbennett.aero/livetracking
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