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Caution : all downloadable results files of this page are in Adobe Acrobat format  Last update: 9-April-2004 |
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Caution : all downloadable results files of this page are in Adobe Acrobat format Last update: 9-April-2004 |
Italy - Monte Avena / Monte Grappa
5th April - 11th April 2004Task 1 PROVISIONAL results : Overall - Women - Nations
Team result :
Advance
Parapente Mag 1
2 Aerotact 3 
Steve Cox (2nd) - Christian Maurer (1st) - Bruce Goldsmith (3rd)Short (3mn) video clips are available
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Sunday, April 11th, 2004 - Race to goal of 62km
The weather really improved starting yesterday late afternoon and today the blue sky is finally there !
All pilots are moving to Rubio's launch area. A 62km race to goal is starting at 12:20.
Christian Maurer (Ch) is the first reaching goal in 2h04, with an average speed of nearly 30 km/h. Steve Cox (CH) is second and Bruce Goldsmith (UK) third. The first woman in goal is our World Cup Champion 2004... Petra Krausova. She is followed by Caroll Licini and Karin Appenzeller, both from Switzerland.
As we have only one task in this event, these results are also the competition results and the first World Cup Ranking 2004.
cq
Saturday, April 10th, 2004 - no task...
The weather is slowly improving, but not good enough to have a task today.
Tomorrow, will be the last chance to fly our first 2004 Tour task. Some sun is expected in the morning but followed by storms... pilots will have to move early to the launch area to fly during this short window of sunny weather.
cq
Friday, April 9th, 2004 - no task... rain...
We have all moved to Borso del grappa, near Bassano for the last 3 days of this event.
One day of cold rain meaning no task today.
cq
Thursday, April 8th, 2004 - task cancelled before of storms
In order to avoid forecasted thunderstorms in the mountains, all the pilots are moving to the Bassano launch which is located more in the flat area.
A 70km elapsed time task is set with a window opening at 12:20 and a start limit at 13:30. A group of 45 pilot is waiting for the start limit but everybody manage to fly to the first turnpoint and come back to the take off, but aa storms are developing the meet director cancels the task at 14:20.
Tonight, we are all invited to a free diner in Pedavena headquarters for this last night here before moving to Borso del Grappa, near Bassano for the next 3 days.
xm
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004 - no task
Snow ?
Yes, it has been snowing during the night and the weather gets colder.
Some pilots are moving to the launch area, but all then gather on the way down for a free lunch offered by the organization.
cq
Tuesday, April 6th, 2004 - no task
Weather is worse than yesterday and we don't even move to the launch area. Pilots have a free day to visit the surrounding like Venice.
The weather is expected to improve in the next days...
cq
Monday, April 5th, 2004 - no task
Everybody is moving to the launch area, but low clouds and showers are preventing any good task to be flown.
Some pilots are flying at the end of the afternoon, and manage to fly 30 to 40km but sometime under the rain.
The headquarters are located in an Heineken brewery which is a perfect place for parawaiting and local legal drugs testing.
Yesterday, the brewery was the meeting point for the italian bikers. The place is a little quiter now.
xm
