Finally, the retrieve vehicles are back and all the pilots have downloaded their instruments. The race was won in a time of  3 hours 35 mins 2 seconds by Aljaz VALIC (Slovenia)

Winning woman for the day is Elisa HOUDRY (France) who was the only woman to make goal in a time of 3 hours 55 min 10 seconds.

Our winning team today is GIN !!

The results are all posted on the internet and can be accessed by the links above.

Its been a long day but the outcome has been excellent. We're all off to bed now - check tomorrow morning for the next task.

Its been a great day - the goal for today was 83km away in a straight line and the task itself was 111km over some incredible scenery. Just short of the goal (about 2 - 3 km) something happened and approximately 40 pilots ended up landing in fields to the north west of Dinar. 63 pilots, however, struggled on through this problem and made the goal with the winners completing the course in just over 3 and a half hours.

We tracked down the winning team for task 2 - this is team Parapente Mag.

This task is tearing the field apart. A few pilots landed around the second turnpoint and a few more aruond the third but then a huge group or 30 or more have landed within 4km of the goal. At the time of writing there are 63 pilots in goal.

We expect the retrieve to take a while because the goal is 83km away so the results will be quite late tonight.

We have an ambitious task today - its been set as a 111km Race to Goal to the east of Pamukkale with a remote goal. Window open was at 12:40 local time and the race start is at 13:40. Race finish is at 19:00.

Here is the map - check later for news...

It's day 3 and the weather is being fairly kind to us. The morning began with haze but is clearing up nicely. The takeoff busses are leaving now and we should have task details soon.

Check back here later for the task...

It is an interesting day - 30 pilots made goal in the specified race time but a lot more made the goal field too late. 50 or more landed short of the goal.

The race was won in 3 hours 17 mins 22 seconds by Charles Cazaux (France) but he was followed in 7 secs after by Martin Brunn (Austria).

Winning woman today is Renáta KUHNOVÁ with a distance of 80 kilometres.

Todays winning team is Parapente Mag

As usual, the photographers have been out and about - here is a selection of the day's takings...

Its a wonderful, sunny day and the race is on for day 2. The task is an 89.3 km race starting at Cokelez and heading north-west then back, east then out to the west and the goal is here in Pamukkale.

131 pilots are taking part today - the window opens at 13:30 [local time] and the race start is at 14:20.

This is what it looks like - check back later for more news...

The first day is always very busy for the organisation - yesterday was worse because we discovered a problem with the waypoints we were using (but only after we had uploaded them into every GPS that is here) so we had to reload every machine (approx 300 GPS's).... this took a while !

Things have settled down now and Day 2 is here - the weather is looking good and 132 pilots have been loaded into busses and sent up to take off.

Details of today's task will be here as soon as it has been decided.

Meanwhile, a few pilots here are keeping Blogs about the events - here are the details.

http://paraglidingteam.ru/en/  (Dmitry Korolev/ in Russian & english)

http://www.dhv.de/typo/World-Cup_T_rkei_200.5421.0.html (German Team / in German)

http://www.pepemalecki.de/icc/pepemalecki/nav/826/8266fbdd-94cb-e119-db79-e168ada3b7d8&conOrder=mc.dContentStartAt&conOrderDirection=DESC.htm (Andreas Malecki / in German)

http://yannmartail.blogspot.com (Yann Martail)

Enjoy them....

After a long day for all the results are finally calculated.

Winning the race overall was Michael Von Wachter (Venezuela) in a time of 2 hours 5 mins 19 seconds.

First woman for the day was Renáta KUHNOVÁ in a time of 2 hours 19 mins 25 seconds.

And our top team of the day was..........Axis Para

Apologies for the delay in the results. We ran into a relatively minor, but very time consuming, technical problem last night which has taken most of today to put right.

The race and the day are over and our first task appears to have been won by Michael Von Wachter (Venezuela). He was closely followed into goal by Yassen Savov (Bulgaria) and, in 4th, Orlin Dimov (also Bulgaria) so the Bulgarians are off to a great start in the Nations competition.

Here are the three of them (2nd - 1st - 4th)

For those who want to check out the action before the race even begins, there is a live video stream from the take off - you can get that (and the plug-in you need to view it) - HERE

For people looking for the IGC files and the animations, the IGC files will be available very shortly. The animation takes a little longer since the IGC files have to be sent to PGLive and then they have to upload them into their application so be a little patient. As soon as they are available we will add a link to the existing animations from Korea.

One of the goal fields here is so close to the hotels that some of the pilots fly across the goal line and then back to their hotel afterwards...here's a pilot's eye view.

This part of the country has a very famous landmark, the spectacular calcified formations of Pamukkale (the cotton castle) - its a hundred metres from today's goal...

And, finally, here's No 48 (Marco Littame) racing with the pack...

 Text and pictures by xm and Chris