Packing a punch … Michael Maurer. Photo: James Pagram
After seven tasks Switzerland’s Michael Maurer is leading the Paragliding World Championships 2015 in Roldanillo, Colombia.
Chrigel Maurer’s younger brother has been flying at a consistently high level, and now leads the competition by a mere three points. There is only 103 points between first place and tenth.
Brother to brother … Chrigel and Michael Maurer talk about each other.
After a couple of shorter tasks Tuesday saw a 103km race that took pilots north along the hills before flying back south to a goal near Roldanillo. With strong air and airspace and cloudbase both at 2,400m the day was notable for the number of pilots penalised for flying into airspace – 22 pilots were hit with penalties, including nine who scored zero.
The results of the 103km task on Tuesday 20 January mean a shake up in the cumulative overall scores. Which now look like this:
Overall
1. Michael Maurer (CH, Boomerang 10), 4,991
2. Torsten Siegel (DE, Boomerang 10), 4,988
3. Helmut Eichholzer (AT, Enzo 2), 4,985
Women
1. Seiko Fukuoka Naville (FR, Enzo 2), 4,409
2. Nicole Fedele (IT, Enzo 2), 4,029
3. Kirsty Cameron (GB, Enzo 2), 3,971
Nations
1. Germany
2. Spain
3. Slovenia
Former competition leader Stephan Morgenthaler has had two bad days in a row, and is now in sixth place. In the Women’s, Laurie Genovese who was leading the comp bust airspace and scored zero on Tuesday. That means she is now dropped to fourth place.
Germany, flying steadily and assuredly, are in the top spot in the Nations.
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