There are changes to Hang Gliding and Paragliding.

HANG GLIDING

Competitions added are the Australian Open, the Lanzarote Open, the Australian Nationals, and the Korean Open.

Deleted are the Finnish HG Open, the Slovenian Open, the Women's World Championships in Greece, the Pre-WAG in Algonadales and the Icelandic National Open.

Manfred Ruhmer (AUT) remains in 1st, Robert Reisinger (AUT) stays 2nd and Oleg Bondarchuk (UKR) bounces back to 3rd (from 6th). Gerolf Heinrichs (AUT) slips to 4th (from 3rd) and Gordon Rigg (GBR) slides to 5th. Mario Alonzi (FRA) is in 6th, Josef Zweckmayer (AUT) 7th, but newcomer to the top 10 Antoine Boisselier (FRA) comes in at 8th, deposing Jean-Francois Gerard (FRA) to 9th and Rohan Holtkamp (AUS) comes in at 10th place.

In the team competitions, the top 3 places remain the same; FRA, AUT, GBR while AUS swaps 4th place with the USA (5th).

Results not yet received (and therefore not included in WPRS yet) are the
Andradas (Brazilian) Nationals and the Buenos Aires Flatlander

PARAGLIDING

Competitions deleted from the paragliding rankings are: the Aeolian PG Open, the British Open in Piedrahita, the Alpen Open in Austria, and the PWC in Granada.

Competitions added are the Ruitoque Open, the Venezuelan Open, the All
Africa Open and the Korean Open.

The top 10 remain unchanged, Steve Cox (SUI) maintains 1st place overall
with Christian Tamegger (AUT) and Kaspar Henny (SUI) 2nd. Tsuji Tsuyoshi
(JPN) and Hans Bollinger (SUI) are 4th, Patrick Berod 6th, Joos
Achim (GER) 7th Martin Brunn (AUT) & Jean-Marc Caron (FRA) stay 8th and Jimmy Pacher stays10th.

The countries remain the same, SUI, FRA & AUT in the top 3 places.

Results not yet received (and therefore not included in WPRS yet) are the PG Lanzarote Open and the PWC Mexico.

Pilots should check that their personal record shows the correct nationality, particularly as there are still a number of hang glider and paraglider pilots of unknown nationality

Full details of the rankings (PG and HG) can be found on the World
Pilot Ranking System website: http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/rankings/

FORTHCOMING COMPETITIONS

Forthcoming hang gliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Category 1: European Champs; World Championships (Brazil) (23/08/03 to 07/09/03).
Category 2: Zicosur, Chile; Remember Eva (Hungary) Canadian Championships; Flytec Championships; Wallaby Open; Millau Classic; Open Dutch Champs: Pre World Champs (Brazil) (24/08/02 to 08/09/02)

Forthcoming paragliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Category 1: European Champs; PG Worlds (Portugal) 2003
Category 2: Zicosur Chile; New Zealand Champs; Australian Nationals;
Champs; Il Real Minas, Ladares; Manilla Open; Wallaby Open; Canadian Open Nationals; PWC Monte Cornizzola; Portuguese Open; Pre PWC Portugal; PWC Morzine; PWC Turkey; PWC Mung Yeong.

Details of these competitions can be found on the CIVL web page:
http://events.fai.org/hgpg/civl-calendar.asp

Any queries/questions regarding the World Pilot Ranking Scheme should be
sent to Paula Bowyer, paula@fai.org.

Information and an application form for CIVL category 2 sanctioning are
available on the CIVL website http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/ or from Paula
Bowyer.

All amendments should be e-mailed to Paula Bowyer (paula@fai.org) Full
details of the rankings can be found on the FAI/CIVL website at
http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/rankings/