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| Lausanne, 24 July 1999 CIVL World Pilot Ranking Scheme - latest UpdateWith no competitions deleted since the last publication, the Paragliding World Championships being invalid and only the Swedish Open results added there is no change in the top places of the Paragliding World Pilot Ranking Scheme. As the Hang Gliding World Championships start (today), despite the pre-Europeans being invalid due to bad weather, the results from the British League Open held in Monte Cucco havea changed the rankings of the top ten pilots. Gerard Thevenot (LUX) is now in the lead with 301 points, just one point ahead of Oleg Bondarchuk (UKR, 300). Manfred Ruhmer (A) is 3rd (296), Gerolf Heinrichs (A) 4th (286). Steve Cook (UK) and Guido Gerhman (D) share 5th place with 285 points. Richard Walbec (F, 7th) and Jean-Francois Gerard (F, 10th) are newcomers to the top 10. Andre Wolf (BRA) climbs to 8th place Josef Zweckmayer (A) drops to 10th. The next publication will see the last hang gliding World Championships (Forbes, Australia, Jan 1998), deleted and the inclusion of the results from the 1999 Hang gliding Worlds in Italy, which have just started. There have been no class 2 events, so no change to the rankings. However the next publication of WPRS will see the inclusion of the World Championships being held in Monte Cucco. Full rankings can be found on FAI/CIVL website at www.fai.org/hang_gliding/ . Forthcoming hang gliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Category 2: Canadian Grand Prix; WHGS Canada; Pre-World Speed Gliding, Greece; Pre Pan American, USA; WHGS, San Francisco, USA and WHGS, New Zealand. Future paragliding competitions that qualify for WPRS points are:
Details on these competitions can be found on the CIVL web page at http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/competitions/comp_schedule.asp |
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