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.
