More women’s World paragliding records confirmed

Nina Renate-Brummer and Nicole Fedele. Between them they are dominating the female world paragliding records table.

The FAI have recently confirmed that both Nina-Renate Brummer of Germany and Italian Nicole Fedele have flown into the Women’s World paragliding record books, again.

Nina-Renate, co-author of the Hang Gliding & Paragliding Guide to the Central and Eastern Alps, showed that she does indeed know her stuff, when a flight from Molini di Tures in Italy last July broke the World free triangle distance (118.3 km), speed over a 100 km triangle (15.88 km/hr) and distance over a triangular course (108.5 km) records. Nina-renate was flying an LTF 2 Skywalk Cayenne 3.

Meanwhile Nicole Fedele has broken two World speed records: speed over an out-and-return course of 100 km (27.3 km/hr) and over a triangular course of 50 km (22.3 km/hr) for flights in Slovenia in May and July on her Airwave Magic FR4.

Three women now dominate the World Record listings on the FAI records page. Nicole is awaiting ratification for a World distance record using up to 3 turnpoints for her 256 km flight in Brazil last month. If successful, she will take it from Kamira Pereira, and almost double it (Kamira’s record was for 131.5 km). Nicole will then hold four records, Nina-Renate three, and Kamira the straight distance, and straight distance to a declared goal records for the 324.7 km flight she made in Brazil a year ago.

Only two women’s World records have not been claimed in the last year: Kat Thurston (GB) has held the height gain record of 4,325 m since 1996, and another Brit, Fiona Macaskill, holds the speed over a 25 km triangle record (24.5 km/hr) and has done since April 2007.

Read Ed Ewing’s interview with Nicole Fedele in issue 133 of Cross Country magazine, out in early January 2011.