Maxime Pinot

Maxime Pinot, European and World Paragliding Champion. Photos: Marcus King

Top of the Stack

Maxime Pinot is riding high as European, World and Superfinal champion but is still haunted by what happened in the Red Bull X-Alps 2023
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Constance Mettetal and Maxime Pinot on the podium

Double French win at PWC Superfinal

Maxime Pinot and Constance Mettetal were declared overall winners of the 14th Paragliding World Cup Superfinal in Roldanillo
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A PWCA Superfinal gaggle. Photo: Marcus King

PWCA Superfinal 2024: All you need to know

The Paragliding World Cup Superfinal 2024 kicks off on 4 February with 120 of the world’s best competition pilots heading to Colombia
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Europeans 2024 in Pegalajar, Spain

European Championships 2024: One to remember

The FAI European Paragliding Championships in Pegalajar, Spain saw ten tasks and knocked more than 1,000km flown. We headed to olive country
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Launching at the start of the X-Pyr in 2022. Photo: Marcus King

X-Pyr 2024: The Adventure Race Returns

The X-Pyr 2024, one of the world's premier hike-and-fly adventure races, kicks off on Sunday 23 June drawing pilots from around the globe
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Europeans 2024: ‘This was one to remember’

Maxime Pinot, Constance Mettetal and Team GB win gold at the FAI European Paragliding Championships in Spain
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Honorin Hamard, Jonathan Marin, Maxime Pinot, Michel Cervellin, Tim Alongi and Julien Garcia all launched from a small site northwest of Paris and flew almost due south, landing close to the town of Bergerac.

Six pilots set new French paragliding record

Six pilots will share the new French national paragliding record after they all flew 457km straight-line across France
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France's first hike-and-fly championships 2023

Max Pinot and Laurie Genovese: French hike-and-fly Champions

Max Pinot and Laurie Genovese won France’s first ever Hike and Fly Championships, which finished with the Mont Blanc Airtour on 12 September
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Chrigel Maurer on the raft in Zell am See after winning the 2023 Red Bull X-Alps in record time. Photo: Christian Lorenz / Red Bull Content Pool

Red Bull X-Alps 2023: Chrigel Maurer wins in six days

Chrigel Maurer has won the Red Bull X-Alps for a record eighth time – and in the fastest time in the race’s 20-year history
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New 2022 European Paragliding Champion Luc Armant. Photo: Dejan Valek

France dominate European Paragliding Championships 2022

Luc Armant won the overall title and Méryl Delferrière won the women's title. Maxime Pinot slipped to second place and took silver
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