15 Jan 2015
The 14th FAI World Paragliding Championship has started on January 10th in Roldanillo, Colombia, with 148 pilots and 38 nations. Sunday, the opening ceremony turned into a town festival with a Carneval floats parade and thousands of spectators. Monday was a practice task day, neccesary for...
25 Jan 2015
« Good morning from Roldanillo for the final time of these Worlds. It's been a blast. » reports Ed Ewing, editor of XC Magazine, in his daily report on the championship website. The winners of the blast and new World Champions: Honorin Hamard and Seiko Fukuoka-Naville from France, and the German...
12 Feb 2015
Since 2010, the CIVL/FAI World XC Online Contest has hang-gliding and paragliding pilots of the world participating. In 2014, the big winners are: Honorin Hamard (PG Open) Thomas Weissenberger (HG Flex) Christopher Friedl (HG Rigid) Women Brigitte Kurbel (PG Open) Françoise Dieuzeide Banet (HG Flex...
25 Feb 2015
Greetings from Belgrade, Serbia, and the 40th CIVL Plenary. A record number of countries (41) and delegates (over 50) worked here during two days of Open meetings and two of Plenary sessions. No dramatic decisions were taken and we kept building our sport in the continuity of the 39 previous...
01 Mar 2015
The 20th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship was opened on February 28, 2015 by the Governor of the State of Mexico to the ssight and sound of Mariachis and Aztec groups. 92 pilots from 20 countries gathered for the parade. There were short speeches by high level officials, all underlining...
01 Mar 2015
30 nations on site: Albania, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China (Republic of), Chinese Taipei, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, F.Y.R. Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden,...
