Sportaviation on Sunday January 20 2013
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Wow, WOW, wow,it happened all on the last day!!!!
It is a splendid Sunday here in Tocumwal, sunny , clouds up but far East , a nice breeze , not too hot not too cold.
It cost me some effort to not rush out to a WIFI spot to see what happened in Chaves! Time difference, you know!
When I saw the final results I could not believe my eyes. YES , I knew and felt Sebastian was going to win, but that Roman dropped to 3 , Toby climbed to 2 and 3 Argentinians on TOP POSITIONS is specially for the home country a GREAT moment in history.
Well done too for the German pilots with 2 in the top 3 and of course the Polish pilots with Sebastian winning 2 WGC’s in one season and with 2 pilots in the top 3 !!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL best pilots/winners and to all other pilots for flying well under not too easy circumstances.
On day 4 the top 1 and 2 Argentinean pilots Sebastian Riera and Jorge Tartara in World class were still on spot 3 and 4. The next 3 days they raced to the 2 best spots to keep their top- places overall till the end!
Mind you the winner won not one single day!
A pity Allan dropped to spot 6 but looking at the points there is not much difference. Number 4 had 3388 points , number 5 3385 and number 6, 3382. WOW, again!
Sebastian Riera is the winner and last World champion in World class during a combined WGC with 2 other classes. They are on their selves now.
In Club class I had hope as a good Dutch citizen and knowing how good he is , that Tim would be in the top 3 , but unfortunately on the last day [8] he had only 773 points from the 1000 available on this 3 hour AAT day. Over the last days Tim had to deal with flu as well and that’s not .
The last day was won by Santiago Berca with 311 km in 3 hours 12. He was 2d overall on the last but one day and won with this very last flight of the comps the TITLE. He seems to be the local hero , so that’s extra good for the Argentineans. On this last day he needed 125 points to beat Roman,…it turned out all different.
Great news for Toby Geiger, I know my Aussie friends are happy for him. His name sounds German , he has German roots and as I heard he even has joined in the past the German team. What about that. Tobias flies from Benalla and I have seen they kept a good eye on him.
Toby was 16 points better than Roman who dropped from 1 to 3 on the last day. You don’t want that , but it can happen, as we all know. He was 25th on the last day a pity for him.
In standard class the last title was by Sebastian Kawa. This years title is for SEBASTIAN KAWA.
His book goes “as a train” , he wins Uvalde in 15 m. class and now he wins the standard class in Argentina. Who will be ever better then Sebastian?
What a HERO!
They had 9 days in this class. On the last day the pilots had a 2.45 AAT, won by Czech pilot Jan Louda [951 points] .Sebastian was 4th with 903 points. Felipe and Mario “hung”in coming back in the top 6, but that was not enough to pass Sebastian.
With the total of 6102 points he was the deserved winner but can’t say anything else then TOP JOB for Mario [ 6038] and Filipe [ 5955].
A competition without accidents , ….PERFECT and as I heard with a lot of atmosphere also created as I hear by the lovely local people, …..very good,…. and with top organizers ,….TOP!
And, as the TC from the USA team mentioned about this last day; “a day with 100 % completions and the best overall speeds of the contest”. The trouble was the weather, but I guess so what I read that this will be quickly forgotten the rest also the interesting retrieves will stay in the minds.
Another WGC over. With 7 Argentinean participants and all of them within the best 7 spots, they did VERY WELL. Congratulations!
Cheers Ritz
Nearly forgot; The hanggliding World Comps are over too ; here are the results.
Great result for Tocumwal “girl” Tove Heany being 3d in the womens!!!
Sport: Hang Gliding class 1
Title: 19th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1
Championship
Type : World
Date: 05.01 – 18.01.2013
Location: Forbes
(Australia)
Final Results :
Overall
1st : Manfred Ruhmer
AUT
2nd : Alessandro Ploner ITA
3rd : Filippo Oppici
ITA
Women
1st: Corinna Schwiegershausen GER
2nd: Kathleen Rigg
GBR
3rd: Tove Heaney AUS
Team
1st : Italy
2nd : USA
3rd :
United Kingdom
The full results can be found at the following address :
http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results.html