The prizegiving was fun - I think 'Doog' will take a while to live down his new nickname....but that's paragliding for you !

Here are our winners in their moment of glory

First, the female podium

From the left - Melanie Pfister (USA), Joanna Di Grigoli (Venezuela / FordEicomCantvColumOakley) and Nicole McClearn.

And now the Open Podium

Nicholas Greece (USA / Eagle Paragliding, Flytec), josh Cohn (USA / Eagle Paragliding) and Yasushi Kobayashi (Japan / Fly Gin)

The video of the prizegiving will be along in a while. We hope you have enjoyed the coverage of the Paragliding World Cup in Chelan. We would like to thank all the local organising team for your help in making this event a success.

Next stop Portugal !

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It has been an epic competition - 6 tasks in 7 days and some huge flights for everyone. The competition is over and the results are ready.

Winning today's task in a time of 3 hours 31 minutes 24 seconds is Russel Ogden (UK / Ozone)

First woman in todays task, with an overall distance of 50.470km, is Melanie Pfister (USA)

And today's winning team is Yasushi Kobayashi, Ulrich Prinz, Gin Seok Song and Melanie Pfister - Gin Team

Now that we have reached the end of the competition there are overall results to consider as well.

Winning event 6 of the 2010 Paragliding World Cup here in Chelan, USA is Josh Cohn (USA / Eagle Paragliding)

Top woman for the event is Joanna Di Grigoli (Venezuela / FordEicomCantvColumOakley)

And our winning team is Nicholas Greece, Nate Scales, Matt Dadam and Meredyth Malocsay - Porcher Sport

And finally, this competition is the final American event for 2010 which means we now have two new champions.

The Paragliding World Cup - American Open Champion 2010 is Josh Cohn (USA / Eagle Paragliding)

Paragliding World Cup - American Women's Champion is Joanna Di Grigoli (Venezuela / FordEicomCantvColumOakley)

The results are all available from the links above - prizegiving is at  21:00  and the podium photos will be along shortly afterwards.

Congratulations to all our competitors this week - its been BIG

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With just 10 minutes to go to the task deadline, we have just had news that we have 9 pilots in goal. Its proving to be a hard task but there are still pilots flying.

More news as we get it....

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The task is set - it is a 77.8km out and back race to goal to the north east of take-off.

The window is open and the start time is 13:30. Since today is the final day, the task deadline has been set at 18:00 to allow time for prizegiving etc this evening.

There are 14 SPOTs and 2 Live Tracking units in the field - the live map will have all the details (the 2 live units are now in yellow to distinguish them) - for more details on any of the pilots just click on the icon.

Here is the task map

The wiind blew hard for the whole day yesterday but, this morning, it is gone. The sun is out and it is looking like a very nice day.

Everyone is on the way to launch and we are ready for task 5 ! - news will be here as soon as we get it.

Task 4 was an absolute epic - we had 1 pilot in goal and that was after 7 hours in the air. We have some photos from the task...

And, of course, the morning helping of videos to keep you amused...

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Its windy this morning. The wind is howling down in the valley and its even stronger at altitude. Because of this, the day has been cancelled.

Most of the pilots flew at least 4 hours yesterday so this decision has not been at all unpopular !

The latest from Paragliding World Cup TV is here ....

Text - Chris : Video - Philippe

The day is over - all the pilots are back and the downloads are, at last, complete.

Today's task was won by the only pilot to make goal within the deadline - winning the task in an incredible time of 6 hours 18 minutes 27 seconds is Jack Brown (USA / FLYABoveAll)

Our first woman today made an overall distance of 57.91km (that took over four hours) and is Joanna Di Grigoli (Venezuela / FordEicomCantvColumOakley).

Winning team today is Nicholas Greece, Matt Dadam, Meredyth Malocsay and Nate Scales - Porcher Sport

More tomorrow

The final pilots have just been picked up by the retrieve busses. It turns out that the only pilot to make the goal line in time was Jack Brown !

Results will be along in a while once the final pilots have returned.

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More news from the goal field - the order of arrival of the first four pilots was

1 - Jack Brown

2 - Ayumu Miyata

3 - Len Szafaryn

4 - Nate Scales

More pilots are arriving (better late than not at all !)

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