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🏆 World XContest 2019 champions - ♀️ WOMEN ♀️ ! 🥇1st: Amazing German pilot Brigitte Kurbel 🇩🇪 has achieved the first place (after last year‘s 3rd place) with her best performance from Anthol by astonishing ♀️ record FAI triangle 268km in 11:32 hours (total 2071p). 🥈2nd: Silver goes to Germany again 🇩🇪️, Ramona Eckert also flew incredibly from Antholz with super nice 251km FAI triangle (total 1755p). 🥉3rd: Another defender from the last year, Gabriela Jacober-Wüest from Switzerland 🇨🇭️ won bronze with all homeland triangle flights again (total 1707p). We very much CONGRATULATE you girls, hope you will enjoy the next season 2019 too! Check the women ranking here: https://www.xcontest.org/2019/world/en/ranking-pg-women/

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🏆The 2019 World XContest has just officially ended and we have new paragliding and hang-gliding WINNERS! 🏆 This season in OPEN category was literally a battle of Brazil record chasing flights in combination with extraordinary FAI Alpine triangles. 🇧🇷+🔺 All three winners have their longest flights from Brazil towing sites (Caico & Assu). 🥇First place belongs to the Swiss winner of 2018 World XContest Michael Sigel with his longest flight 551km and total score 2782 points 🇨🇭 🥈Second place goes to the Slovenian pilot Primoz Susa, currently co-holder of 302km Out-and-Return World Record, with 2729 points 🇸🇮 🥉And third place with 2700 points flies to Juan Sebastian Ospina from the United Kingdom with Colombian roots 🇬🇧 We CONGRATULATE them and wish all of you a great new XContest season 2020! For the ranking of the OPEN category, please visit: https://www.xcontest.org/2019/world/en/ranking-pg-open/

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Another pick from Brazilian record season: southamerican hangglider record and probably the world's longest footlaunched flight with the hangglider!

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Yet another news from Brazil: Yael Margelisch is the first lady in the 500k+ club!!!

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World record! 3 🇧🇷 pilots broke the free distance world record yesterday together ✌️✌️✌️ Congrats to Rafael De Moraes Barros, Marcelo Prieto and Rafael Saladini!

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