World records

Timo Leonetti was a star of the international cross-country paragliding scene Photo: Stéphane Boulenger

Timo Leonetti’s records posthumously ratified

French pilot Timo Leonetti has been posthumously awarded four Junior world records by the FAI for distance flights in Brazil
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Ramón Morillas and Carlos Peña on their World altitude record flight

World Paramotor Altitude Records

Ramón Morillas and Carlos Peña flew a foot-launched tandem paramotor to 7,186m on 23 December 2023, to claim two new altitude World records
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Baptiste lambert's 350km FAI triangle World record flight on 20 August 2023

Baptiste Lambert: World Record 350km triangle

Ozone R&D pilot Baptiste Lambert flew a 350.5km FAI triangle from Col de l'Izoard on Sunday 20 August 2023, potentially a new world record
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Marcella Uchoa’s World record 457km in Brazil

Marcella Uchoa flew a World Record declared-goal flight of 457km from Caicó in Brazil on 14 October, on her Enzo 2
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Masterclass: How we set a 300km record with Jošt Napret

Jošt Napret explains how he, Primoz Susa, Bojan Gabersek and Dušan Orož set a 300km out-and-return paragliding world record in Slovenia
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Ramón Morillas

World record: Ramón Morillas flies paratrike to 7,027m

Ramón Morillas flew his powered trike to 7,027m above Granada, Spain to set a World paramotor altitude record in the solo trike (PL1) category
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Sebastien Kayrouz 600km

Sebastien Kayrouz flies 600km in Texas

Sebastien Kayrouz set a new paragliding world record in Texas on 20 June 2021, with the world's first 600km paraglider flight
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Owen Morse

Hang gliding world record: 222 miles out-and-return

US hang glider pilot Owen Morse flew a 222.22 mile (358km) out-and-return flight in the Owens Valley on 20 June 2020 on his Wills Wing T3
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Mike Küng headover at 7107m

Video: Mike Küng’s 7117m Head Over world record

On 21st January 2020, Mike Küng leaped into the World Record books again, with a 7,117m balloon jump over Achensee on a Phi Allegro paraglider
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Brigitte Kurbel 268km triangle

Brigitte Kurbel: 268km triangle record

Brigitte Kurbel has extended the women's paragliding world triangle record to 268km, with a flight from Grente, Italy on 24 June 2019
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