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Category 1 Championship Events and Champions

Updated: 15 October 2007
Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championships Gas Balloon (AA) Championships

 

Hot Air Airship (BX) Championships Rozier Balloon (AM) Championships

World Air Games Championship
No Traveling Trophy

Num

Year and Location Champion

1997 - Cappadocia, Turkey

Uwe Schneider (Germany)
2 2001 - Seville, Spain (AX) Masahiko Fujita (Japan) 
2001 - Seville, Spain (AA - Gas) Klaus Weisgerber & 
Astrid Gerhardt (Germany)

World Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championship  
Kinsinger Traveling Trophy

Num

Year and Location Champion
1 1973 - Albuquerque, USA Dennis Floden (United States)

2

1975 - Albuquerque, USA David Schaffer (United States)
3 1977 - York, England Paul Woessner (United States)
4 1979 - Uppsala, Sweden Paul Woessner (United States)
5 1981 - Battle Creek, USA Bruce Comstock (United States)
6 1983 - Nantes, France Peter Vizzard (Australia)
7 1985 - Battle Creek, USA David Levin (United States)
8 1987 - Schielleiten, Austria Albert Nels (United States)
9 1989 - Saga, Japan Benedikt Haggeney (Germany)
10 1991 - St.Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada Albert Nels (United States)
11 1993 - La Rochette, Luxembourg Alan Blount (United States)
12 1995 - Battle Creek, USA Joe Heartsill (United States)
13 1997 - Saga, Japan David Bareford (Great Britain)
14 1999 - Bad Waltersdorf, Austria Bill Arras (United States)
15 2002 - Châtellerault, France David Bareford (Great Britain)
16 2004 - Mildura, Australia Markus Pieper (Germany)
17 2006 - Motegi, Japan John Petrehn (United States)
All results including
list of all competitors 1973-2006
  
Download MS Excel File (358K)

Continental Hot Air Balloon Championships

European Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championship
Luxembourg NAC Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1976 - Skovde, Sweden *Winner - Simon Faithful (Netherlands)
*Only 2 task flown - not a Championships
2 1980 - Arc-et-Senans, France Joseph Starkbaum (Austria)
3 1982 - Ettelbruck, Luxembourg Joseph Starkbaum (Austria)
4 1984 - York, England Vic Trimble (Great Britain)
5 1986 - Stubenberg, Austria Martin Messner (Switzerland)
6 1988 - Leszno, Poland David Bareford (Great Britain)
7 1990 - Llerida, Spain Csaba Molnar (Hungary)
8 1992 - Belfort, France Uwe Schneider (Germany)
9 1994 - Murska Subota, Slovenia Jean-Marie Huttois (France)
10 1996 - Schielleiten, Austria Dave Bareford (Great Britain)
11 1998 - Katerineholm, Sweden Stéphane Bolze (France)
12 2000 - Larochette, Luxembourg Dave Bareford (Great Britain) 
13 2003 - Vilnius, Lithuania Uwe Schneider (Germany)
14 2005 - Debrecen, Hungary Uwe Schneider (Germany)
15 2007 - Magdeburg, Germany
Francois, Messines (France)
All results including
list of all competitors 1976-2007
  
Download MS Excel Spreadsheet with all results (208K)  

North American Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championship
Canadian Balloon Association Traveling Trophy

Num

Year and Location Champion
1 1982 - Battle Creek, Michigan, USA Owen Keown (United States)
2 1984 - Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada Owen Keown (United States)
3 1986 - Barrie, Ontario, Canada Richard Rudlaff (United States)

1988 - St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada

Chuck Bump (Canada)
5 1990 - San Antonio, Texas, USA Bill Cunningham (United States)
6 1992 - Baton Rouge, Louisana, USA Mark Sullivan (United States)
7 1994 - Brockville, Ontario, Canada Bill Cunningham (United States)
Download MS Excel Spreadsheet with all results (28K)  

Pacific Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championship
No Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1990 - Saga, Japan Owen Keown (United States)
2 1992 - Grand Prairie, Canada David Gleed (Canada)
3 1994 - Mildura, Australia Edwin Mitchell (Australia)
4 1996 - Saga, Japan Yasuhiko Asaoka, (Japan)
Download MS Excel Spreadsheet with all results (17K)  

South American Hot Air Balloon (AX) Championship
No Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 2006 - Rio Claro, Brazil  Sacha Haim (Brazil)

World Hot Air Airship  (BX) Championship
Luxembourg NAC Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1988 - Luxembourg Oscar Lindstroem (Sweden)
2 1990 - Clumber Park, UK Vincent Dupis (France)
3 1992 - Besancon, France Guy Moyano (Luxembourg)
4 1994 - Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland Vincent Dupis (France)
5 1996 - Aosta, Italy Jens Petersen (Germany)
6 1998 - Gatineau, Canada Jacques Besnard (Switzerland)
7 2000 - Schielleiten, Austria Jacques Besnard (Switzerland)

European Hot Air Airship (BX) Championship
No Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1989 - Besancon, France Mats Backlin (Great Britain)
2 1991 - Mondorf, Luxembourg Guy Moyano (Luxembourg)

World Gas (AA) Championship 
BFA/Levin Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1976 - Augsburg, Germany Peter Peterka & Jean-Paul Kuenzi (Switzerland)
2 1980 - Brussels/St. Niklaas, Belgium  Brachtendorf & Karnstadt (Germany)
3 1982 - Berne, Switzerland Peter Peterka & Jean-Paul Kuenzi (Switzerland)
4 1986 - Glendale, AZ, USA Peter Peterka & Jean-Paul Kuenzi (Switzerland)
5 1988 - Augsburg, Germany Josef Starkbaum & Gert Scholz(Austria)
6 1990 - Tyndall, SD, USA Josef Starkbaum & Gert Scholz (Austria)
7 1992 - Obertraun, Austria David Levin & Jim Schiller (United States)
8 1994 - Albuquerque, NM, USA Thomas Fink & Rainer Hassold (Germany)
9 1996 - Bitterfeld, Germany Thomas Fink & Rainer Hassold (Germany)
10 2004 - Bitterfeld, Germany Peter Krafczyk/Uwe Schneider (Germany)

World Rozier (AM) Championship
No Traveling Trophy

Num Year and Location Champion
1 1990 - Tyndall, SD, USA Nick Saum (United States)

 


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