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Buzet, Croatia - More videos from the Paragliding World Cup
Uploading videos takes a long time and there were a few which did not finish during the event. Here are the remaining videos from Buzet.
If you want to see ALL the videos look in the Buzet Video Gallery
Paragliding World Cup - Event 5 - Buzet, Croatia - FINAL RESULTS
We have had 6 days of tough flying to decide the results for Event 5 of the Paragliding World Cup 2009 - and the final results are out.
Ladies first - winning the Buzet, Croatia Paragliding World Cup Womens Event is Renata Kuhnova (Czechoslovakia / Sky Paragliders) with a score of 3066 points.
Winning the Open Competition is Yassen Savov (Bulgaria / MacPara.com) with a score of 4514 points.
And the winning team overall in Buzet is Yassen Savov, Gasper Prevc and Karel Vrbensky - Team MacPara
Congratulations to our winners - the prizegiving starts here at 20:30 - there will be pictures and video to follow - and, of course, as usual - the results are all available from the links above.
Text and pictures by Chris
July 17th 2009 - Buzet, Croatia - Day 6 - Task 6 - won by Stefan Wyss
The final task here in Buzet (its the 6th task so the competition ends here) was tricky and spread the field out a lot. In the end we had 43 pilots in goal.
17th July 2009 - Day 6 Task 6 - Afternoon Update [17:30]
Buzet has certainly provided a challenging week for the pilots and today is no exception.
17th July 2009 - Day 6 - Task 6 - 72.4km Race to Goal
Its been a strange year for weather but, finally, we have a 6/6 event - 6 tasks in 6 days !
16th July 2009 - Buzet, Croatia - Day 5 - Task 5 - 61.1km Race to goal won by Peter Frauenschuh
The downloads are complete and the results are up - our race today was won in a time of 2 hours 45 mins 11 seconds by Peter Frauenschuh (Austria).
First woman today is the only female pilot to make goal Marion Slunka (Austria) in a time of 2 hours 53 minutes 5 seconds.
Winning team today is ABAC / Niviuk.
16th July 2009 - Buzet,Croatia - Day 5 - Task 5 - Interim Report [20:15]
Its been an interesting task !
When we started looking at the retrieve possibilities it seemed that they were fairly good - as long as nobody lands in one particular spot (there are 4 roads in the area and none of them are connected....which means a 30 minute drive back to the main road before going up the next road)
Guess where most of the field landed....!
After that leg of the course, anyone that got round turnpoint 3 made goal - 26 pilots in all
Downloads are almost complete and the results will be out soon
Text by Chris
16th July 2009 - Buzet, Croatia - Day 5 - Task 5 - 61.1km Race to Goal
We're a little late with the news today (sorry) because we've all been up to take-off this morning.
We have a task - its a 61.1 km race to a remote goal 27km South East of Buzet.
Start was at 14:10 so the race has been running for 15mins at the time of writing.
The map is below and the live map is active on www.fastretrieve.com/mapping - live positions will be available during download on www.fastretrieve.com/download as usual.
16th July 2009 - Buzet, Croatia - Day 5 - Morning [08:30]
We have woken to yet another clear and sunny morning (in fact, every day seems to be the same here). The sky is clear but a little hazy and it is hot, even at 8:30.
The prospect for a task looks good so the busses will be loading in a while - task details will be here when we have them.
We try to give the winning teams a spot on the web - so here is the winning team from task 3 - ABAC/Niviuk
And the pick of yesterday's photos.....
Two days ago the European Championship looked like it was 'in the bag' - now its all changed. Aljaz (below) was at the top of the list but he has been replaced by Yassen....so, there is everything to fly for - who will be the first European Champion....?
Philippe has been busy - so here are some videos to keep you going...
Text by Chris - Pictures xm and Philippe
