Spain’s Felix Rodriguez Fernandez won the Coeur de Savoie leg of the Paragliding World Cup at the weekend. The competition was held over the week of 25-31 May in France.
Felix beat Alfredo Studer (CH) into a close second place, with Clement Latour (FR) in third.
Britain’s Kirsty Cameron was first woman, with Laurie Genovese (FR) and Tomoko Uno (JP) in second and third.
The competition saw a difficult start weather-wise – the first task scored only 137 points out of 1,000 as the leading pilots only made a maximum distance of 15km on the 46km task.
However, better weather moved in for the second half of the week and four good tasks were flown: 64km, 87.8km, 46.4km and 47.7km.
Felix Rodriguez tops the overall podium. Photo: Laura Sepet
Kirsty Cameron dominated the women’s category. Photo: Laura Sepet
Task winners were Jose Ferreira, Charles Cazaux, Torsten Siegel, Alfredo Studer and Felix Rodriguez.
In the women’s category, Kirsty Cameron won all the tasks except task 2, which was won by Emma Casanova (GB).
The next leg of the PWC circuit is in Portugal, 21-28 June 2014.
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