Aeromodelling and drone racing stars honoured at the CIAM 2017 World Cup Award Ceremony
FAI Drone Racing World Cup 2017 winner Dario Neuenschwander (SUI) was among the Aeromodelling pilots honoured at the 2017 World Cup Award Ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland today.
Part of the Plenary Meeting of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM), the ceremony included the prize giving for the aeromodelling and drone racing World Cup winners and medallists from 2017.
The winners were presented with a trophy, and the three best-placed competitors in each event were also given FAI World Cup medals and diplomas.
Neuenschwander received the FAI Drone Racing World Cup trophy, a permanent CIAM trophy donated last year by the Fédération Française d'AéromoModélisme (FFAM).
Speaking before the ceremony, he said: “My 2017 victory still makes me happy and proud. Receiving this prize is one of my very greatest achievements.
“I am very grateful to all the people who supported me on the way, including the friends I trained so hard with, and my dad who always came along to support me. This victory would not have been possible without their help.”
Many thanks to all those who participated in this happy event. And congratulations to all the winners and medallists!
2017 CIAM World Cup Winners and medallists
| F1A | 1 | Per Findahl | SWE | F1A Junior | 1 | Vitek Rossler | CZE | |
| 2 | Aviv Balassiano | ISR | 2 | Tamara Kiss | ROU | |||
| 3 | Thomas Weimer | GER | 3 | Filip Klobusicky | SVK | |||
| F1B | 1 | Oleg Kulakovsky | UKR | F1B Junior | 1 | Bojan Gostojic | SRB | |
| 2 | Alexander Andriukov | USA | 2 | Ekaterina Demtsenko | LAT | |||
| 3 | Stepan Stefanchuk | UKR | 3 | Vladislavs Dreiers | LAT | |||
| F1C | 1 | Larissa Savukhina | RUS | F1P Junior | 1 | Elizaveta Klimakova | RUS | |
| 2 | Volodymyr Sychov | SLO | 2 | Ekatirina Klimakova | RUS | |||
| 3 | Viacheslav Aleksandrov | UKR | 3 | Vladislav Lipov | RUS | |||
| F1E | 1 | Jacek Zurowski | POL | F1E Junior | 1 | Theo Laura | FRA | |
| 2 | Jaromir Orel | CZE | 2 | Jakub Wisniewski | POL | |||
| 3 | Fritz Mang | AUT | 3 | Florian Winker | GER | |||
| F1Q | 1 | Omri Sirkis | ISR | |||||
| 2 | Zeljko Grepl | CRO | ||||||
| 3 | Ian Kaynes | GBR | ||||||
| F2A | 1 | Denis Shliakhov | RUS | F2B | 1 | Igor Burger | SVK | |
| 2 | Paul Eisner | GBR | 2 | Alexandre Gauthier | FRA | |||
| 3 | Peter Halman | GBR | 3 | Sergiy Solomyanikov | UKR | |||
| F2C | 1 | Yuriy Bondarenko / Semen Lerner | UKR | F2D | 1 | Audrius Rastenis | LTU | |
| 2 | Sergey Dozhidaev / Vlacheslav Dukov | RUS | 2 | Illia Rediuk | UKR | |||
| 3 | Oleksiy Igoshyn / Yuriy Chayka | UKR | 3 | Vaclovas Cyzas | LTU | |||
| F3A | 1 | Lassi Nurila | FIN | F3B | 1 | Andreas Herrig | GER | |
| 2 | Gernot Bruckmann | AUT | 2 | Martin Herrig | GER | |||
| 3 | Robert Forster | GER | 3 | Andreas Böhlen | SUI | |||
| F3F | 1 | Iñaki Elizondo Casado | ESP | F3J | 1 | Dominik Prestele | GER | |
| 2 | Philipp Stary | AUT | 2 | Jan Littva | SVK | |||
| 3 | Radovan Plch | CZE | 3 | Jure Marc | SLO | |||
| F3K | 1 | Cederic Duss | SUI | Drone Racing | 1 | Dario Neuenschwander | SUI | |
| 2 | Milan Havelka | CZE | 2 | Andreas Hahn | GER | |||
| 3 | Olaf Starmanns | GER | 3 | Thomas Grout | FRA | |||
| F5B | Gerben van Berkum | NED | F5J | 1 | Primož Rižner | SLO | ||
| Julian Schild | AUT | 2 | Timo Drust | GER | ||||
| Thomas Wäckerlin | SUI | 3 | Radek Malčik | CZE | ||||
| S4A | 1 | Aliksandr Lipai | BLR | S6A | 1 | Vasil Pavljuk | SVK | |
| 2 | Rastislav Kičura | SVK | 2 | Michal Žitňan | SVK | |||
| 3 | Miodrag Čipčić | SRB | 3 | Anatoliy Zemlyanukhin | RUS | |||
| S7 | 1 | Miodrag Čipčić | SRB | S8E/P | 1 | Grigory Sergienko | RUS | |
| 2 | Florica Sercaianu | ROU | 2 | Angel Ts Todorov | BUL | |||
| 3 | Marián Greš | SVK | 3 | Dmitrii Rosliyakov | RUS | |||
| S9A | 1 | Denis Trochkin | RUS | |||||
| 2 | Uladzimir Minkevich | BLR | ||||||
| 3 | Uladzimir Pasiukov | BLR |
Photo captions: top picture, for left to right: Drone Racing Subcommittee Chairman Bruno Delor, FAI Secretary General Susanne Schödel, Drone Racing World Cup 2017 winner Dario Neuenschwander, FAI Executive Director BengtLindgren; 2nd picture, Ian Kaynes (GBR), 3rd of the F1Q World Cup, Per Findhal (SWE) winner of the F1A World Cup, Emilien Galley (SUI), winner of the F3M RC Large Aerobatic Aircraft World Cup
