11th WWGC
Husbands Bosworth, United Kingdom
14 August 2022 – 26 August 2022

UPDATES ; after quite a spectacular day in Husbos with pilots dropping from 1 to 5, in club class and 1 to 3 in 18 m. Only Cornelia in standard could hold her first spot!!

August 26 VERY LAST DAY in Hus Bos!!!
After 5 practice days, and 13 days on which they flew in club class 6 valid days and in standard and 18 m. 8, it’s time for the very last day.
Day 1 was the absolute best day and set expectations for the rest of the days, but the weather is the weather, nobody has influence. Luckily they had that one TOP day!
And,…. you can only say they tried HARD!! EVERY DAY.
Yesterday parts of the UK needed winter coats, we here nearly melted with 35dgr C. in the shade.

BUT there is ONE MORE DAY!!! TODAY!!!!
No flying yesterday and the day before , so no “looking back ” report, by Liz.
But the pilots and crews were busy with paper -glider- throwing-comps and gummy-boot-throw-comps: “Welly Wang day.”…won by Team Germany ll.
A picture from todays weather published at 7.30 UK time.

First I thought this must be a British joke, UK humor, they are good in that, but when I checked I got the message ; NO JOKE, LONG AAT’s.
So that fog should burn away!!!! And …indeed then you could have a real good day.
Tasks were set and long tasks too , AAT’s from 3.30 and 3 hours .
Would they start with a top day and finish with one????
I really hope so!!!!! Though day 1, was as said, one of the best ever , maybe even the best, in the UK weather-wise…a one-of-a-kind-day!!!!

August 26; last day
Last briefing for Liz and her team and with the words “the next briefing will be in Spain” she finished that part of her job.
The next one will be in 2023 in Soria-Garray in Spain.

Order today; club, 18 m. and standard.
First launch at 12.
then…12.15.
The trigger temperature was not reached …more delay till 12.30 AND
a B task.
then more delay….12.45! Cloud base still only 2200 AGL.
The sniffer has no problem to stay up, but the cloud base is a bit of a problem.
Then…12.45 it IS!!!!
And,…off they go for the last time during this WWGC.

Thank you to the scorer Benedict Smith and task setter ; Harriet Gamble

With a big thank you to ALL TUGGIES!!!! Here is one of them……

AND,…
to all field runners.

Club class; 3.30 AAT…..changed in 2.45….Gate opened at 13.25.
Looking at the overall scores between at this stage Aude at 1 and Ulrike at 5 , the difference is less than 200 points. SO EVEYTHING IS POSSIBLE for them and Petra, Claudia and Ines!!!
UK pilot Carol was the first on the score board, …. unfortunately she was out after 106 km..
The Ukraine girls flew far South into the sector ….did they make more kilometers???
MAYBE YES…. Valentina has just finished at 16.48 BST! She flew 200 km with a speed of 61.66 km./h.
So to see, Ines was 200 m. higher than the rest …AND she was runner up for the day.
Edita , winning task 5 as the only finisher, was OUT, after 213 km. With her 11 more!!! .
One of them the number 1 Aude, was not counted for, she might celebrate already or be sad! So I had to wait with the final scores for this class.
Updated!!!!No Aude was not celebrating, after being on spot 1 overall for 4 days, she was out after 197 km and sad for her ,dropped from 1 to 5!! That hurts!!!! Petra is the new number 1 and world champion.
In 18 m Czech Rep’s Alena lost the first place, in this class Petra wins the spot.
More hectic in Club,…. as Ines with her runner up spot is now number 2 overall, AND an EQUAL runner up spot for Claudia!!! Hope they have 2 SILVER MEDALS!!!
NOT NECESSARY,..it changed again and with ONE point Claudia is runner up and Ines 3d.
Elena is 4th

Standard; 3 hour AAT…changed in 2.15…Gate opened at 14.02.
also here is the difference between number 1 Cornelia and the number 6 Aude [Untersee] not huge; about 300 points!!! Who takes risks and are the other team members ready/prepared to help the one above them? That seems NO problem.
The 3 German girls fly together , hoping to keep their positions on 1 and 2 , also the 18m girls could help out!
It helped,…. Cornelia won the day with French Anais as runner up. Chrissie was 3d. Sabrina 4th.
It’s reasonable to say with 3 not yet counted for, that the overall top 3 is nearly the same as yesterday. Only Jana [4] and Barbora [3] swapped places!!! Cornelia Sabrina and Barbora.
After 19 years [2003] Cornelia is WORLD CHAMPION again. Good on her!!!

18m; 3 hour AAT….changed in 2.15...gate opened at 13.42.
the numbers 1,2 and 3 at this stage have 4.402, [Alena] 3.878,[ Anne Ducarouge] 3,870 points [ Melanie ] Will she be able to defend her title??? The difference with number 4 Stefanie and 1 is nearly 400 points,…..too much for 1 day.
UK pilot Jane, used her engine to get home…after 150 km. So did Diana. The rest is still going well, but the last leg seems to be TOUGH!!!!
Only Katrin is not scored yet but I can say now that PRELIMINARY the new CHAMPION is ANNE DUCAROUGE from France. The 3 flew together…. Anne started 3 minutes behind Melanie , who lost her title to Anne with only 11 points!!!!
Alena lost her first place on the last day! She was there for 5 days. She was out after 201 km. and is 3d overall now.
Pfff what a day!!!!
Katrin is now scored and was 5th for the day and overall. She was 2 days on 1 overall.

After 13 days, 6 valid days in club and 8 in both other classes.…WE have winners and CHAMPIONS;

club class;
1. Petra Piskata from Czech. Rep in LS 4 with 4,282 points and WORLD CHAMPION!!!!
2. Claudia Hill from the UK in LS1f neo with 4,181 p
3. Ines Engelhardt from Germany in LS1f with 4,182 p. ONE POINT!!!!

Standard class;
1. Cornelia Schaich from Germany in LS 8 with 4,692 points and WORLD CHAMPION!!!
2. Sabrina Vogt from Germany in Discus 2a with 4,503 p.
3. Barbora Moravcova from Czech Rep. in LS 8b with 4,350 p.
That ‘s only 2 points more than Jana [ 4,348 ]and 3 more than Aude. [4.345] SO CLOSE!!!!!

18m class;
1. Anne Ducarouge from France in JS 3 with 4,411 points….WORLD CHAMPION!!!!
2. Mélanie Gadoulet from France in JS 3 with 4,400 p.
3. Alena Netusilova from Czech Rep. in ASG33es with 4,369 p.
Anne is for the 3d time WORLD CHAMPION. She won already in Issoudun [2013] , Herning [2015]
All preliminary.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CHAMPIONS AND TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!!!!

Now it is time to look at my garden ,house, friends and specially my family again.
Writing EVERY day for 4 Cat.1 events [ EGC/ 13.5 WGC in Pocuinai, WGC in Szeged, JWGC in Tabor and WWGC in Husbands Bosworth] is VERY time consuming!!!!
But it was my pleasure.
Tomorrow some pictures from the prize giving and then……
back to the normal regular Wednesday blog.

CU next Wednesday
Ritz

Tonight party time in Hus Bos

And for the FUTURE this message from Adam;
“Entries for the Australian Pre-world‘s are building nicely, Beryl runs a fabulous competition, & with such a great task area with associated conditions, it’s set to be another top one! Entries & form found here: http://www.narromineglidingclub.com.au/…/AusGlide2022…

P.s. 15m & Club as a stand alone class already, come on Standard pilots, get your entries in“

And last but not least, The Netherlands won for the first time in history medals in aerobatic gliding…. category Free Unknown. Bjoern Straijer and Erwin Vorenhout were those TOPPERS!!!