Provisional Programme announced

Provisional programme:

* Saturday 21st August : training/ practice and registration

* Sunday 22nd - Friday 27th August : 6 competition task days

* Friday 27th August : Prizegiving and closing ceremony

If we don't fly three tasks during the six competition days we will use Saturday 28th August as a reserve task day. The prizegiving and closing ceremony will then take place on Saturday 28th August as soon as results are finalised.

Womens Paragliding Open 2010 - Venue Àger, Spain

After long negotiations and much research we have chosen the site for the 2010 Womens Paragliding Open. We will go to Àger in northern Spain during the last week of August ( 21st - 28th 2010)
There were many reasons for this decision.
One of the significant factors was that due to so many events of the Paragliding World Cup, the European Championship and Asian Championship there was little opportunity available during best season in the Alps, and so we needed to find place with an experienced local organisation and reliable weather during the late part of the summer season.
The proposal from Àger met all the criteria for experience, safety, accessibility and local support as well as offering us an exciting and challenging place to fly. As a consequence of the semi-mountain / semi-flatlands terrain we know we can offer a high level sportive event in Àger whilst still encouraging pilots with less competition experience.
We look forward to flying with you soon...

Womens Paragliding Open 2010

Kamira (Brasil), Anna (Sweden), Renata (Czech), Caroll (Italy), Joanna (Venezuela), Kari (USA), Anja (Switzerland), Klaudia (Poland), Marion (Austria), Rasa (Lithuania), Nicole (Canada); kneeling: Xiangping (China), Regula (Switzerland), Harmony (New Zealand), Keiko (Japan), Desiree (South Africa)

During the Paragliding World Championship which was held in Valle del Bravo in Mexico this year we organised a meeting of female pilots.
The motivation for it was rumour from FAI/CIVL to separate the female and male World Championship. Almost all the women were against the idea. Many reasons were given, too many to write about it here. But we decided it would be nice to have Womens Open FAI cat. 2 event.
The reason to have such an event was to compete, just ourselves against each other, without following the guys and to bring more female pilots to competitions.
We strongly believe there are many women who think of competing but don’t do it. One of the reasons we see is that they don’t won't to or are scared to fly in competition where male pilots decide about task settings and safety issues.
We decided to organise a 2010 competition made for women by women: 1st. Womens Paragliding Open.

The dates are: 21-28 August 2010. The place is Àger, Spain.