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Congratulations to the French Aerobatic team on wheeling and tumbling their way to victory in both the team event and three of the other four programmes at the FAI World Aerobatic Championships, which took place from 22 to 31 August. French pilot, Louis Vanel won the Mixed and Men’s events, with star female pilot Aude Lemordant – also on the French team – taking first place in the Women’s competition. In the Freestyle programme, Robert Holland (USA) once again climbed to the top of the podi...

The first Italian edition of the Paragliding World Championships were already openend with a new record: 48 nations with about 150 athletes were involved: Such a massive participation has never had occurred in past editions. The event is structured in 11 flight tasks that were assigned on a daily basis for which the best closing time is only one aspect to climb the charts. The competition was held in 3 scoring categories: Nations, Women and Overall. A 5000 square kilometres flying area and...

The 2nd FAI World Paragliding Aerobatic Championships came to a successful close today at Lake Annecy in south west France. An impressive seven solo and seven synchro runs were flown over 7 days from 26 August to 3 September, giving the 34 pilots from 16 nations an excellent opportunity to demonstrate their aerobatics skills in a highly competitive environment.

France takes home all Gold Medals at the 28th World Aerobatics Championships: general rankings, team rankings, individual male and individual female. After ten days of a particularly challenging competition French pilot Capitaine Alexandre Orlowski (FR) is the new World Champion. The French female pilot Aude Lemordant also takes gold at the women’s competition. She finishes fifth in general rankings, just behind Capitaine François Rallet (FR), Castor Fantoba (Spanish), Mikhail Mamistov (Russi...