Ozone

The Ozone Chabre Open, the friendly paragliding competition based in the little town of Laragne Monteglin in the French Haute-Alpes, takes place from 4 - 10 June this year. Registration starts 30 January.

The Alpine Flying Centre near Chamonix in the French Alps will be running cross country weeks exclusively for Ozone Delta pilots, next summer.

Italian pilot Benedetto Lo Tufo wins his choice of paraglider from either Aircross, Apco, Gin, Gradient, Ozone or Sol in the Cross Country Magazine Readers Draw

Ozone pilot Che Golus (R10) won the 2010 Canungra Cup, which kicked off the Australian 2010-2011 season on 23 - 30 October.

Applications are open for Australia's Corryong Open 2011 paragliding competition, which takes place at Mount Elliot, Victoria, next February.

Paragliding competitions could be revolutionised following the decision of the Paraglider Manufacturers Association to support Serial Class for FAI Cat 1 competition, effectively banning Open Class paragliders

Ozone's Luc Armant won task two of the Superfinal in Denizli, a short, racy task of 63 km that saw 88 pilots in goal. Seiko Fukuoka Naville was again the first woman.

Craig Morgan has become British Paragliding Champion for the second time after a hugely successful second round of the British Championships.

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French paraglider pilot Thomas Puthod has set a new record for Piedrahita, Spain, with a flight of 312 km on 29 July.