Comps and Events

The Turkish paragliding festival known to most as the Oludeniz Air Games is to be re-named the Oludeniz Air fest. It takes place in the Turkish resort from 13 - 17 october 2010.

The paramotoring world has just enjoyed a weekend of a new kind of competition and a lot of fun. Fourteen of the world’s top paramotor pilots met in Montauban, SW France for Parabatix, a spectator-friendly competition involving pylon racng and stick-kicking in an audience-filled area.

All five rounds of the British Paragliding Cup have now been flown, and Richard Butterworth is holder of the cup for 2010.

Mal Grace reports on the final roud of the British Paragliding Cup that was held in Snowdonia over the weekend of 13 - 15 August. Martin Sandwith won the round, but overall winner of the 2010 BPCup was Richard Butterworth. [More...]

Britain's Kirsty Cameron has won both Open and Serial classes of the first female-only paragliding open that was held in Ager in the Spanish Pyrenees, winning herself a new Sup'Air harness and Flymaster B1 nav GPS-vario.

France's Lucas Bernardin and Seiko Fukuoka-Naville won the seventh round of the 2010 Paragliding World Cup series in Portugal. Seiko and Thomas Brandlehner (AT) are the PWC European champions.

Nordic acro champion, Norwegian Ove Tillung, won the 2010 Downteam Challenge acro competition held in the Swedish ski resort of Åre from 6 - 8 August.

Flight international festival for paragliders, hang gliders and microlights takes place at the Tegelberg, Germany, over the weekend of 25 - 26 September.

Applications for the 2011 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding adventure race, have opened and athletes have until 30 September 2010 to apply.

Following four tasks, Manfred Ruhmer (AT) has won the hang gliding pre-Worlds in Monte Cucco, Italy.