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Records

Hakan Ackalar is Turkey's new paragliding distance record holder

255.5km paragliding record in Turkey

On 3 July Turkish paraglider pilot Hakan Akcalar broke Turkey's cross country record with a 255.5km flight from Denizli on an R10.2.
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Thomas de Dorlodot paragliding in the Pakistan Karakoram Mountains

New record flight set in Karakoram

Thomas De Dorlodot has flown 225.02km in Pakistan
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Neville Almond

UK hang gliding record broken

Neville Almond flies hang glider 269km to new record
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Luc Armant on his Ozone Mantra R11

345km across the Alps by paraglider

Luc Armant and Dav Dagault fly record distance in French Alps
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Heli Eicholzer and Christoph Eder

World record triangle for Austrian pilots

Top Austrian paraglider pilots Heli Eichholzer and Christoph Eder have flown a new world record FAI triangle of 268.5km on their Ozone R10.2s.
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Skywalk's marketing man, Reinhard Vollmert

Another tandem record for Skywalk’s Join’t2

Skywalk's marketing man has flown the Join't2 tandem into the record books again.
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Nicole Fedele. Photo: www.xcontest.org

Nicole Fedele in the record books again

Italian Nicole Fedele has submitted a claim for the Speed over a 25km triangular course women's world record.
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Anthony Allen breaks the Western Cape distance record which has stood for 15 years, with a 173 km flight on 7 January

Record-breaking conditions in South Africa

Fantastic flying conditions in Porterville over the last few weeks have seen Anthony Allen break the Western Cape distance record on 7 January, with a flight of 173 km.
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Nina Renate-Brummer and Nicole Fedele. Between them they are dominating the female world paragliding records table.

More women’s World paragliding records confirmed

The FAI have recently confirmed that both Nina-Renate Brummer (DE) and Nicole Fedele of Italy have flown into the Women's World paragliding record books, again.
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Ecuador’s Open Distance paragliding record broken

Ecuadorian pilot Juan Carlos Morán Reinoso has broken Ecuador's Open Distance paraglider record with a flight of 85.8 km from Bototillo on 24 November.
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