Alphen aan den Rijn Saturday- evening June 25 2011 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
I continue with the ARBOGA story. When you scroll down you find the rest of this exciting last day. Pictures still arriving later, also from the prize giving tomorrow and the party tonight.
At 14.00 the pilots were launched, while it was still raining. Would the lines open? Another tricky day !!!??? Club class goes enroute their line opened. Launching continues! The “rest ” goes on track as well. Start line from 15 m. was open at 15.25 !!! THEY ALL FLY ON THEIR LAST DAY!
20.00; It was another tricky day! Already soon outlandings were reported. The tasks were very small so it could not take that long before they should come back.
Unfortunetely NOBODY from club class , returned to the field, luckily the task was close to Arboga, so it wont be too long before they can join the party. Only one pilot seems to have more then 100 km. so I presume it is not a valid day for club class.
In standard class it is a- nail- biting -event for the Swedish fans. The current number 1 Sue Kussbach from Germany and the current number 2 Swedish hope Gunilla Lindell are at this stage ONE point far off each other, in the prelimanary results. In this class even 2 girls made it home; Joanna Biedermann from Poland, who really flew well this competition and who won the first and last day and Danish pilot, Helle Lundgrun.
In the end after looking at more results Sue moved away and IS world CHAMPION in standard class.
In 15 m. class also one finisher Jutta Sturm from France, good on her!! Chapeau!!!Here it is pretty clear German pilot Susanne Schödel is the world Champion!!
A total of 44 outlandings, but I guess they were still all happy with the soaring today. It is a WWGC and not a regional competition. A pity for Liz Sparrow who had the best distance, over 100 km. in club class. All work done for 0 points .
Both Susanne and Sue defended their world title from 2009 in an excellent way.
I just read on the Swedish site that indeed it is not a valid day in club class so the scores for club class will be the same as yesterday which means that Agnete Olesen from Denmark is WORLD CHAMPION.
More later……