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Es gab heute nochmals einen Task, ziemlich tricky anscheinend. Yael wurde bei den Frauen hervorragende 2. Overall wurde Steph Morgenthaler 4., Michi Maurer 7. und Tim Bollinger 11. Ein guter Tag für die Schweizer, der Rückstand aus Task 2 und 3 kann bei den Herren aber nicht aufgeholt werden. Trotz hervorragender Einzelleistungen in Task 1 und 4 haben die Top gesetzten Schweizer Piloten unter den Erwartunten abgeschnitten…. Yael Margelisch beendet den Weltcup in Gemona nun als 2.. Gratulation!

Wegen starken Nordwind wurden die Tage 4+5 abgesagt

A 103 km task was set from the Meduno take-off today. The first part of the course zigzagged about in front of launch giving a choice of mountains or flats. The goal was in a stunning location literally in the mouth of the Alps. It was both a technical and very interesting task, with a north wind high up and a southerly flow out on the plains. Today it was Honorin’s birthday and his task! He took a different route to everyone else halfway round the course into the mountains, which gave him a lead of several minutes. He was then able to use the following gaggle as thermal markers and arrived in goal with 1000m to spare and 100% of the lead out points. A further 70 pilots joined Honorin giving a grand total of 71 pilots in goal at the end of a day of blue skies, sunshine and stunning views of the big mountains. Top 3 overall 1st Honorin HAMARD 2nd Joze MOLEK 3rd = Julien WIRTZ 3rd = Aaron DUROGATI Top 3 ladies 1st Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE (5th overall) 2nd Klaudia BULGAKOW 3rd Méryl DELFERRIERE

Despite rain in the morning and cloud base below launch, the Task Committee insisted that today was going to be taskable. A 53 km, three turn point task, was set taking the pilots on a tour of the plains. What initially looked like a short task with few options, really split the pilots up. Rolf Dale summed the day up nicely. ‘Great task setting kept us away from the rain. Despite the weather forecast it was a brilliant day with nice thermals all along the course line. The last, into wind leg, to get to goal was very difficult and cyclic, putting some of the leaders on the ground. After a lot of perseverance, 108 pilots made goal. Some taking 40 minutes to fly the 2km from ESS to Goal! Top 3 overall 1st Jurij VIDIC 2nd Marco BUSETTA 3rd Primoz SUSA Top 3 ladies 1st Klaudia BULGAKOW 2nd Meryl DELFERRIERE 3rd Yael MARGELISCH

Today started off with grey skies. However, an optimistic, classic, 60 km task with four turn points was set, zigzagging south. What an amazing first task, given the weather this morning. The task was both interesting and gave lots of options. Unfortunately, the strong headwind into goal put quite a lot of the top pilots on the ground just short of the line. Despite the difficult conditions at the end, 88 pilots did get to goal. 1st Stephan MORGENTHALER 2nd Gareth CARTER 3rd Jost NAPRET 1st Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE 2nd Meryl DELFERRIERE 3rd Constance METTETAL

Mittlerweile sind alle Schweizer in Gemona eingetroffen und die meisten konnten heute die guten Bedingungen für einen schönen Trainingsflug nutzen. Sowohl die Ridges als auch das Flachland funktionierten ausgezeichnet und wir hoffen auf weitere Tage wie heute! 50km geradeaus am Ridge oder im Flachen gasen bis Steigen kam war kein Problem. Mal sehen was uns vom Tasksetting erwartet... Zuerst geht es jetzt zum Einschreiben und Pilotenbrefing. Wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden...