Saturday August 9th: last race in Sopot ! 47.7km... and the winner is... Stefan Schmoker !

Last bulgarian task for our Tour 2008. The race was 47.7km long and started at 13:20.

Stefan Schmoker is the first to reach goal, may pilot have a difficult final glide with some landing a few meters or hundred meter before the goal line.

 

Friday August 8th: 100km race... stopped because of rain and thunderstorm

A 100km race has be started but had to be stopped because of rain and thunderstorm.

The task will be scored as the stopping time was more than 90minutes after the start of the race.

Results will be available later in the evening.

Thursday August 7th: 96km race...

Today's task has started at 13:40. It was 96km long.

Wednesday August 6th: strong north wind at take-off area... no task today

The north wind is blowing quite strong at take-off (around 10 to 15 m/s). See our live weather page for up to date weather.

Pilots are invited to the Shambhala adventure park !

 

Tuesday August 5th: 78km race

Today's task was a race of 78km.

Many pilot did not respect the maximum altitude and got penalties ranging from 100 points to 0 for the task depending on the maximum altitude that was recorded by their flight instrument. A dedicated topic about this issue has been open in our forum.

UPDATE: the results have been updated after dealing with complaints and protest regarding the penalties.

LAST UPDATE has been done with jury decision confirming only one penalty of 100 points for pilot #10 for fying in forbiden airspace.

 

Monday August 4th: 86km race stopped at 16:50, Jean Marc Caron wins the task

A 86km race has started at 14:00 but due to turbulent conditions at the last turnpoint before goal, the task has been stopped at 16:50.

Jean-Marc Caron wins the task, Jeremie Lager is second andDavid Ohlidal is third. Klaudia Bulgakow is the first woman.

The best team today is Spaelti.

Sunday August 3rd: we're starting the competition in Sopot with a 71km race

The competition in Sopot, Bulgaria is starting today with a 71km race. The window opened at 13:20 and the race started at 14:00.

More than 100 pilots made goal

Orlin Dimov and Anders Baerheim are reaching goal at the exact same time, so we have two winners today. Yassen Savov is third and Ewa Wisnierska is the first woman reaching goal. ABAC is the best team today.

Sopot Waypoints

Here is the official waypoint list for the World Cup event in Sopot, Bulgaria (see the attached files).

To speed-up local registration, please upload the waypoints in your GPS.

The local registration will take place Sunday August 2nd at head-quarter located at the Shambhala chair lift in Sopot.

Waypoint upoad will also be possible on Friday August 1st morning.


View in Google Maps