Nicolas Bernhard is French Paragliding Champion 2011
French Paragliding Championships 2011: men's podium
Following a week of paragliding on the island of La RĂ©union in the Indian Ocean, Nicolas Bernhard and Elisa Houdry earned the titles of overall and women’s paragliding champions of France for 2011.
The competition, which ran from 5-12 November, was serial class only. Nicolas flew an Ozone Mantra M4 and Elisa, AirDesign’s Pure.
Conditions were not always easy: winds, low clouds and low thermal activity at times all made the tasks that much more tricky.
Although mountainous, with its highest point at over 3,000m, La RĂ©union is only 75km across, and has interesting micro-meteorological conditions around it, so deciding a paragliding championship here was not going to be done by open distance tasks. Instead, two speed tasks, and fours cat’s cradle type race-to-goal tasks of around 50km, were run (plus one other that was cancelled due to bad weather).
Women's podium of the 2011 French paragliding championships
RESULTS
Overall
1. Nicolas Bernhard, Ozone Mantra M4
2. Hamard Honorin, Ozone Mantra M4
3. Jean Marc Caron, Niviuk Peak 2
Women
1. Elisa Houdry, AirDesign Pure
2. Laurie Genovese, AirDesign Pure
3. Sandie Lambert, Advance Omega 8
There’s a lot of information, in French, including photos, videos and task reports, on the French Championships website.
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November 28th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
It is a pleasure to have many links to XCmag in LIFT as we grow a review of hang gliders that feature tethers to pilot (paraglider hang gliders; one tether like in many airframed systems featuring the triangle control frame or many tethers like in many soft-canopy systems) as opposed to hang gliders that have no kite tether to the pilot like Otto Lilienthal’s.