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Roldanillo Colombia

PWC 2022: Roldanillo, Colombia

The Paragliding World Cup Tour 2022 gets underway on 6 February in Roldanillo, Colombia. Organisers say the pilot level is "the highest we've ever seen!"
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Bordairrace Sillian 2021 start

Dates and venues announced for 2022 Bordairrace

The dates and venues for 2022 Bordairrace hike-and-fly races have been announced. There will be two events in Germany and one in Austria
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Larrun, Pyrenees

X-Pyr 2022: athletes announced

X-Pyr organisers have announced the athletes who have places in the 2022 race, describing the field of competitors as the highest level yet
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Forbes sky

Attila Bertok wins Forbes Flatlands 2022

Attila Bertok won Forbes Flatlands 2022. Australia's Covid restrictions meant no overseas entries, but 19 pilots enjoyed a good week of racing
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PWC Superfinal 2021 task 3

Switzerland adopts Time-Based Scoring for 2022

The Swiss Paragliding League Commission has decided to adopt Time-Based Scoring (TBS) for all of its 2022 competitions.
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Paragliding World Champions Team GB

Team GB: ‘How we won the World Championships’

A brilliant insight into paragliding competition at the very highest level – and how the British team and Russell Ogden won gold in Argentina
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UAE Hike and Fly Championships 2021. Credit: Michael Sigel / Adi Geisegger / Instagram

UAE Hike-and-Fly: ‘Insane’ 300m hotel launch

The inaugural UAE Hike-And Fly Championships has been forced to change its planned first task less than 24-hours ahead of the start
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FAI Paragliding World Champion 2021 Russell Ogden. Photo: Jocky Sanderson

Paragliding World Championships 2021: Russell Ogden takes gold!

Russell Ogden won gold at the FAI Paragliding World Championships in Tucuman, Argentina after a final, nail biting task at the two-week long competition
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Paragliding World Championships 2021

Paragliding World Championships 2021: No-goal Thursday

Thursday's task was another difficult one with weak conditions and nobody in goal. Current leader Russell Ogden (GB) flew furthest, 37.3km of the 51km task
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Paragliding World Championships Loma Bola

Paragliding World Championships 2021: shake-up day

Russ Ogden (GB) and Yael Margelisch (CH) won Monday’s 55km task. The UK now lead the Nations rankings, with France having dropped from first place to 12th
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