It is of course difficult to say, but with 4 Days in the Open Class and 3 Days so far in the 15 and 18m classes, we are at the mid point of the comp, and expect to lose to weather a couple of days this week. We are doing quite well in the 15m class, but need to keep it up as the margins are as always very tight. Also in the Open class we are well in with a chance of taking some silver, while in the 18m Class we have a lot of work to do to move up the ladder.

The practice week for the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, has now begun. The opening ceremony is on Saturday 24th July, and contest flying begins the following day, from 25th July to 6th August.

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The World Championships in Prievidza, Slovakia have come to a close. The British Team managed an excellent third place in the team prize, behind Poland and Germany.

The team has now arrived and settled in at Prievidza, Slovakia for the World Championships in the Club and Standard classes.  The opening ceremony is on the 3rd July, with the first competition day on 4th July.

The weather is currently beautiful and hot, and the team are practising hard.  We will be keep you up to date with all the latest news, information and photos.  For the latest blogs, please click here.

The 2010 World Gliding Championships take place in Prievidza, Slovakia (unflapped classes) and Szeged, Hungary (flapped classes). The British teams are;

Club Class: Gee Dale, Ian MacArthur
Standard Class: Jay Rebbeck, Howard Jones (reserve Jez Hood)
15m Class: Leigh Wells, Tim Scott (reserve Ed Johnston)
18m Class: Russell Cheetham, Philip Jones (reserve Mike Young)
Open Class: Peter Harvey, Steve Jones (reserve Ian Ashdown)

More news will appear here soon. 

We have finally arrived at the end of the last competition day.

Thirteen days of great weather and flying for the 80 or so competitors and the fantastic organisation who have made the European Gliding Championships 2009 at Pociunai probably the most sucessful international competition of all time.

The entire British team here feel honoured and privileged to have participated in this incredible event

Graham Garnett

British Team Captain

After several hours waiting for results the final results are now in and everyone is scored and it seems the speed points in the Club class are enough to push Ayala into fourth place. She flew extremely well in her first World Championships leading for most of the competition. 

Now our Attention must turn to 2011 in Sweden.

After ten days of exciting and close competition flying it is finally over, it took a nailbiting couple of hours for the results to be issued and it was not what we had hoped for.

In the club class Ayala lost her lead and ended up third overall, congratulations to Ayala on winning a podium place in her first World Championships, LIz ended up in 5th and Rose in 6th place.

Day 6 the 31st of July was a good day for the Brtish Womens team when they took line honours in both the Club and Standard classes. A fantastic day which started late and finished in thunderstorms allowed Liz Sparrow to to achieve 113kph to win the Club Class and Gill Spreckley achieved 118kph to win the standard class. Ayala was second in the Club keeping her overall lead and Rose Johnson was third giving us a clean sweep in the Club class. We are still awaiitng the resuls for Kay and Hannah.