Comps and Events

Organisers have described last weekend's Lakes Charity Classic as "possibly the biggest and most successful free flying/comp event of its type ever held in this country".

Italian Luca Donini is the new European Paragliding Champion for 2010, and Italy the top nation.

Women stormed to victory at the German Hang Gliding Open in Hochries last week. Natalia Petrova won the Open outright, and Corinna Schwiegershausen (second in the open) is the new overall German champion, with Konrad Schwab top male.

Flymovies have released their trailer for the Hang Gliding World Championships 2010 that took place at Tegelberg, Germany, this month.

The second competition of the 2010 Paragliding World Cup tour finished today in Japan, with only two tasks flown. France's Lucas Bernardin (Ozone) was the first-placed Open pilot, and Tomomi Masuko (JP, Gin) top female.

The winner of the 2010 Transdromoise hike and fly race through the Drome department of France was Michel Guichard, whose prize was a brand new Dudek Zako Speed mountain paraglider.

Further places are now available in the European Hang Gliding Championship (for Class 1, flexwings) which is to be held in Ager in July.

The Canadian Hang Gliding Championship 2010 takes place in Lumby, BC, from 13 - 19 June.

The Nissan Outdoor Games is back for its sixth consecutive summer. Five teams of sportspeople and filmmakers will each make a five-minute film, this time in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. The fifth team's director's chair is still vacant - Julbo are running a competition to fill this role.

The European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking