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After a three year hiatus, (the last World Paramotor Championships were in the Czech Republic in 2009) the 7th World Paramotor Championships took place in a small airfield in Marugan, Spain (close to Madrid).
118 pilots and co-pilots from 17 countries competed in 4 categories: PF1 foot launch solo, PF2 foot launch tandem, PL1 single trike and PL2 double trike. It was the first time in the history of the sport that a female PF1 class was valid.
Good weather conditions allowed pilots to fly 10 tasks over 7 days: 2 slaloms, precision landing, navigation with limited fuel, navigation for speed, precision navigation with speed declaration or photo finding, eco-distance and pure eco in nice thermal conditions.
Ozone team pilot, Alex Mateos, suffered an ankle injury just 1 week before the competition started. Miraculously, he was able to enter the PF1 class flying his Viper. Alex won all slalom tasks by a comfortable margin but was not competitive enough in the economy tasks flying his Polini 200 engine. It was only after the last economy task that he lost his lead, finishing 2nd overall for a Vice World Champion title. Well done Alex! And we wish you the best for the European Championship in Estonia, 2013.
Ozone Speedsters dominated the PF2 podium, in 1st and 2nd place. French pilot Yann Leudiere with his co-pilot Aundrey were unbeatable from the beginning of the competition, followed by polish couple Ryszard Zygadlo and Patrycja Lejk. Both teams were flying the Speedster 33. The wing showed amazing performance, allowing fast take off and the best speed and agility in all tasks even with the airfield altitude being 940m above sea level.
In the PF1 Female class, Ozone PPG manager, Emilia Plak, flew her Speedster 19m to an overall World Champion Title. Coralie Mateos took 2nd overall, also flying her
Source: Ozone Paramotor

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This week end happened to be the final event of the 2012 world cup season, AcroWing tour in Annecy, this event was synchro/solo APWC and the french championships Synchro and solo in the meantime.
The first 2 days we had terrrible weather with rain and wind all day long, and so we could only let 5 pilots of the french championship fly
On friday the rain stopped but the wind was quite strong we had to wait until 1pm to see the wind stop and to run the 1st solo task of this Acro Wing tour, the 44 pilots were able to fly this task.
the top 5 of the 1st task was :

This week end happened the final event of the 2012 world cup season, AcroWing tour in Annecy, this event was synchro/solo APWC and the french championships Synchro and solo in the meantime.

French championships and APWC finals

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Eliot Nochez (FRA) won his battle against Horacio Llorens (SPA) yesterday in Villeneuve and so he is the winner of the Sonchaux Acro Show 2012! Horacio took the 2nd place while Adrian Hachen (CHE) took the 3rd after winning his battle against François Ragolski (FRA)

Sonchaux Acro Show 2012

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We are in Villeneuve and the event rocks!
The level of the battles is great, a good game to play..
Although the weather forecast wasn’t the best the Acro Battle and all the side acts of the Sonchaux Acro Show 2012 rock.
Between little rain showers the twelve invited int. pilots and the four best Swiss were fighting for the finals with announced runs such as Rhythmic SAT – Misty Flip – Helico and of course the freestyle part in the end. All the four qualification pools where hot, the technical level in the air didn’t make a big difference and 360 landings to the raft were almost standard.
The pilots were randomly put together into 4 pools. Out of each pool the two best pilots got qualified for the quarter finals, the first pool – Marvin Ogger (GER), Rafael Goberna (BRA), Lionel Hercod (SUI) and Baptiste Rousset (FRA) – had an equality of three pilots but due to a points penalty Ogger didn’t make into the final battles, he got drifted out of his flying box during the first run.
In the finals: Eliot Nochez (FRA) Vs. Horacio Llorens (ESP) and Adrian Hachen (SUI) Vs. François Ragolski (FRA) THIS AFTERNOON!”

Sonchaux Acro Show 2012

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