Buzet, Croatia

12th - 18th July 2009 - Buzet, Croatia - Paragliding World Cup - Event 5

12th - 18th July 2009 - Buzet, Croatia.
New Feature - LIVE Leader Board
LOCAL ORGANISATION WEBSITE - BUZET, CROATIA

The Buzet Paragliding World Cup results, as they happen, can be found at
BUZET PARAGLIDING WORLD CUP RESULTS

The track logs (IGC Files in ZIP format) from the 2009 events are here
IGC-ZIP Files

and, courtesy of PGLıve.cz, you can also
View completed tasks as an animation

 PLEASE NOTE - We can only upload results when they are complete and the animations take, normally, until the next morning so if you are looking for todays results you may have to wait a little. As soon as they are available they will be included in the above links.

Buzet, Croatia - Video Gallery

All the videos from the Buzet, Croatia Paragliding World Cup are here.

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

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