Saturday,
April 30th, 2005 -
cold, wind and rain...
no task
The weather has not changed much. No task for today and the prize giving ceremony took place this morning in the cinema complex of Sopot.
Christian Maurer (CH) wins the competition, followed by Gregory Blondeau (F) and Armin Eder (D).
Petra Krausova (CZ) is the first woman on the podium, Keiko Hiraki( J) is second and Eliane Ueltschi (CH) is third.
The winning team is Gradient, with Achim Joos (D), Denis Cortella (F) and Luca Donini (I).
Friday,
April 29th, 2005 - wind and rain... no task
The weather is getting really bad and no task can take place today.
Thursday,
April 28th, 2005 - 75km race... 85 pilots in goal
A north west flux is blowing today in the Bulgarian sky.
The meet director really knows his flying site. He propose an interesting mixed task to the pilots.
All the new coloured glider are taking off together for a 66km task. The pilots are fast reaching a hi altitude to avoid lower levels that remains rough because of many mountain dust devils.
Along the mountain, the pilots are surfing the south breeze that converge with the north tendency.
Jean-François Chapuis a french pilots rides an integrated 7.2 thermal and finally catch
a maximum of
10.2 m/s !!
After a really low point at the second turn point in front of the take off, the leading pilots are choosing to get back to the mountain but sinks again and have to get back to the flatland.
The options are really open in the second part of the race. The race now ends in the flatland in the direction of the big town of Kazanlak.
At least three different groups can still win the day.
Aljaz Valic (from Slovenia) wins the task, followed by Rodrigo Monteiro (from Brazil) and Luca Donini (from Italy).
Petra Krausova (CZ) is the first woman reaching goal, followed by Ewa Wisnierska (D) and Dorothea Stilchmair (D).
Christian Maurer (CH) now leads the competition aa well as the World Cup ranking, followed by Greg Blondeau (F) and Armin Eder (A).
On the women side... Petra is leading, Keiko Hiraki (J) is second and Eliane Ueltschi (CH) is third.
Wednesday,
April 27th, 2005 - Too much wind ...
Sunny, but much too windy... no task today !
A tour to Plovdiv is organised for the pilots. See some pictures...
Tuesday,
April 26th, 2005 - 60 task cancelled because of Cb ...
The weather forecast is not very good, but the sky is clear and sun is there. Some big clouds are present but not growing too much.
A 60km task is started shortly at 14:10 but clouds are overdeveloping and a cumulo-nimbus is getting too close to leave the race going on. The organizer decided to cancel the task.
A "premiere" of the
Tour 2004 DVD is organized In Sopot moovie theatre.
Monday, April
25th, 2005 - Bad weather ...
Cloudy sky and cold weather... no task today.
Sunday, April 24th, 2005 - 65km race...
First task of the 2005 tour !
First World Cup task in Bulgaria !
The weather has improved compared to the last days... less wind, good thermal activity. As it was the very first task of the year, a middle size task has been chosen.
67 pilots are reaching goal, and many are landing around half of the task.
Mathias Roten (CH) wins the task, followed by Kaoru Ogisawa (J) 2nd and Thomas Brandlehner (A) 3rd.
Keiko Hiraki (J) is the first woman in goal, followed by Petra Krausova (CZ) and Caroline Brille (F).
Task 1 PROVISIONAL results : 
