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Today the weather forecast announced a short thermik day. So a short 129km task has been set. Zig-Zag south and north. Very interesting with load of options and the choice between flats and mountains were the key to success. The finalglide was very tight for the most pilots. All Swiss Pilots in Goal today what nicely concludes this championships. We look forward for more such event, we gonna be ready for it. Tomorrow the closeing and prize giving ceremony will close this amazing experiance for all of us and everyone involved in this championships.

Day 10: 152km Task in a diamond form around the plateau. First leg north, then east, goint south and west. The finals were against wind back to goal, quite tricky and some pilots came too short, also Petsch with 300m too short before end of speed section.

Day 9 in short: not a swiss day. Very interesting task was set. 152km first south-west then north-east with a zig-zag to goal. The conditions were totally different again, with Alex Ploners words: The clouds here are wrong... Low-safe was not possible and at some places the pilots hit some serious sink to the ground. One wrong decision ended often to direct land.

Ruhetag. The weather seems to be flyable but not taskable today. The teamleaders together with the meet director decided to make a rest day today. So the race continues for 3 more days from tomorrow on. The Swiss Team is occupied with free flying, paragliding before the thunderstorm, doing laundry or just haveing a nice day.

Today, quite some E-wind in the forecast. The task let the competitors first south, then east, north-east and back south again. What seemed easy for orientation showed up to be very tricky. To be able to make the task, a fairly good mix of technic (cause of the winddrift of the thermals and lowsafes), tactics (which line was either possible to tick the north waypoint and also fast), positive thinking (a lot had surely their harness open doing lowsafes) and even more experience in task flying. The Livetracking never was so exciting than today for those who watched!!! The day's result show quite some mixing up rankings.

Today, lots of NE winds in the forecast. The task lead the competitors to north, then back to south and west near the beautiful lake ohrid for the final towards E to the goal in the south of Krushevo, 126km. The task was won by Alex Ploner, followed by Attlia Bertok and Franz Herrmann. This leads Franz on the currently overall second place togehter with Alvaro "Nene" Figueiredo Sandoli and the Swiss Team overall to the third place. The Rest of the Swiss are: 10: JD 22: Petsch 26: Damien 59: Ubi 84: Fredy

The day started cloudy and even, which setting up our glider, we caught some rain. The tasksetter set a smaller task north, south and goal just near Krushevo. JD and Ubi landed short, all others in goal. Franz did a fast race, but the leading points and the different gates the pilots took was makeing it difficult to see who won in the goal. Finally Jon Durand won the day. The Swiss team currently at the 4th place, due to good and solid performances.

Day 04, Task 2. The task, 126km. North, South and against the north-east wind back to the goal. First two ones in goal were Marco Laurenzi and Alex Ploner. But there were multiple gates. So we will see the fastest racers only on the ranking.

Tag 2: Der Task wurde vom Safety Komitee wegen einem Unfall am Startplatz (nur leicht verletzt) und schlechten Startbedingungen gestoppt. Tag 3: Der Tag wird gecancelled wegen Abdeckungen, Überentwicklungen und Regenschauer im Tal. Somit zählt der Tag als Ruhetag. Für die nächsten 5 Tage sind die Prognosen sehr gut. Fotos folgen.

Day one is on. Task is about to been set and the competitors are ready. Livetracking

The Team got all well to Krushevo. Last preparations are ongoing. Registrations start today and tomorrow, 07. August a training task is announced.

The Delta World Championships are coming up! From 6-19 August 2023, the best hanggliders in the world will compete in Kruševo, Northern Macedonia. Fredy Bircher, Franz Herrmann, Jean-Daniel Kugler, Peter Neuenschwander, Ubaldo Romano and Damien Zahn will fight for the world championship title for Switzerland. Team manager Toni Crottet has set himself a podium finish (individual and team) as a long-term goal for the World Championships. Whether this goal will be achieved at this year's Delta World Championships in Kruševo in northern Macedonia is uncertain. "It would have to go really well for that," says the Delta League boss. Follow the World Cup with us here. #hoppschwiz