Chris
A really detailed piece of reporting, but not from the mainstream press but a
local newspaper web site from the contest location.
Fact is they flew 3 days out of 9, final day highly devalued by a short task
especially in standard Class. Andy Davis deserved his Open Class win flying the
new 18m JS-1 from South Africa (I think 6 of the 8 so far built were flying in
Hungary and showed up very well in challenging (I'm sure Tom Claffey will
agree) conditions.
There were several female competitors in all classes in the UK this year, with
a number of these highly competitive and consistently achieving good results.
Sarah Kelman has twice been Women's World Champion, once European Women's
Champion, and is an airline pilot for a day-job - so her Standard Class win was
a consistent showing, given this record.
So far bad weather has dogged the German Women's Championships which has a
large entry list - after 5 days, still no flying today!
What are we doing wrong in Australia to have so few women and families in our
gliding scene? I don't think the age of our training gliders has a lot to do
with it, but maybe the age of some of our attitudes does.
Wombat
----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Mc Donnell
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Results
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/sport/Holdable-sdfsdfsadfg-sadfasdfagg/article-2543430-detail/article.html
Female person won standard class.
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