Joachim Oberhauser from South Tyrol (ITA) is new FAI Paragliding World Champion! <br />The 43 year old came out on top after 10 days of intense competition flying in the Overall Category (=Women+Men). He finished ahead of 149 other pilots from 48 different countries to win the title of FAI Paragliding World Champion and a prestigious gold medal of the World Air Sports Federation FAI. Gleb Sukhotskiy (RUS) took the 2nd place. Honorin Hamard (FRA) came in 3rd. <br />The 21 year old Meryl Delferriere from France won gold in the Women’s category and is the new FAI Women’s Paragliding World Champion. <br />On place 2 in the women’s competition came Yael Margelisch (SUI/Verbier). And Australia’s Kari Ellis completed the podium on rank 3. A total of 21 women took part. <br />The nations ranking was a close competition: Although France pulled out all the stops on the final day and managed to clinch the day-win as a team, it wasn’t enough to pull ahead of the Italians. By the end of the competition, France and Italy had both scored 18,821 points over the two weeks of competition – an incredibly tight finish. Japan was third and wins bronze; there is no second-place silver medal awarded. In paragliding competition each team is made up of four pilots, with the top two pilots in each team contributing to the team score each day. <br />The event was hold in the highest town in the Balkans, Krushevo (MKD) from August 5 – 18, 2019.<br /><br />Results <br /><br />OVERALL<br />1st Joachim Oberhauser (ITA)<br />2nd Gleb Sukhotskiy (RUS)<br />3rd Honorin Hamard (FRA)<br /><br />WOMENS<br />1st Meryl Delferriere (FRA)<br />2nd Yael Margelisch (SUI)<br />3rd Kari Ellis (AUS)<br /><br />TEAMS<br />1st France<br />1st Italy<br />3rd Japan
