Urban Valic and Klaudia Bulgakow were the overall winners of this year’s Kruševo Open – the Slovenian and Croatian Open Championships.
The event was held in Kruševo, Macedonia from 6 – 13 August. Five tasks of 55 to 75km were flown under conditions that saw pilots at 3,000m, higher than has ever been possible before at the site, according to Klaudia.
Urban was thus crowned the new Slovenian Champion, with Tanika Virtovsek the female Slovenian champion; the Croatian Champions are Marko Hrgetić and Sonja Papeš.
RESULTS
Overall – men
1. Urban Valic (SL) Niviuk Icepeak 5
2. Borut Hafner (SL) Ozone Mantra R11
3. Marko Norah (SL) Ozone mantra R11
Overall – women
1. Klaudia Bulgakow (PO) Gin Boomerang 6
2. Nicole Fedele (IT) Ozone Mantra R10.2
3. Svetlana Piskareva (RU) Ozone Mantra R10.2
Full results can be found here.

Krusevo Open 2011, women's podium: Nicole Fedele (2), Klaudia Bulgakow (1) and Svetlana Piskareva (3)
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