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2011 World Championships awarded

The 2009 CIVL Plenary held in Hall in Tirol, Austria had the difficult task of assessing and voting on no fewer than 9 bids for three World Championships. The vote for the 2011 World HG Championship ran to three rounds among the four contenders, and was finally awarded to Italy. The bid for the 2011 World PG Championships was conclusively won by Spain in the first round of voting with three nations bidding. The 2011 Paragliding Accuracy Championships were awarded to Czech Republic.

Wanted: top pilots for world air games test events - pilot selection underway

Pilot selection for the test events of the World Air Games, the most prestigious and extensive aerial contest in the world, is now underway. If you believe you are a contender and you meet the qualification criteria, then contact us straight away – especially if you have experience of Hang Gliding Speed Gliding and Hang Gliding Aerobatics. See below for details.

CIVL is responsible for selecting and inviting the pilots in four of the 26 individual discipline competitions: Hang gliding Aerobatics, Hang gliding Speed Gliding; Paragliding Aerobatics (solo & synchro) and Paragliding Accuracy. These four test events will take place from18 to 20th August, 2008, at Avigliana, Italy. Selection criteria are available on the FAI WAG website: http://www.worldairgames.org/2009 Full event details are on the organiser’s website (now in English as well as Italian): http://www.wag2009.com/eng/

Paragliding Accuracy

World Air Games 2009 - Avigliana, Italy
Taking place in June 2009, the World Air Games this year features Paragliding Accuracy. The 20m x 20m target is located on a raft floating on the lake at Avigliana, near Turin. Take-off is from a nearby mountain.

Pilot rankings – Photo opportunity!

The CIVL online database of pilots, competitions and results which includes pilots and nations ranking system has just been enhanced with the option of including photographs of pilots. Check out the Womens' Paragliding ranking

http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=329&ladder_id=3&ranking_date=2007-08-01&
or Paragliding Nations ranking
http://civlrankings.fai.org/?a=328&ladder_id=3&ranking_date=2007-08-01&
to give you an idea of how it will look.

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