Paragliding World Cup

11th World Cup Superfinal ::: Switzerland - Disentis

Switzerland, Disentis

06/08 - 18/08/2021
Switzerland, Disentis
Type
World Class - World Cup Super Final
Season
2021

Event News

Super Final, Disentis 2021

2021-08-18 12:31

18/8/2021. Final summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
Today brings to an end this amazing, first ever, Alpine Super Final. 
103 pilots came to Disentis with the same dream: just to fly together and be reunited with much missed friends. 
Disentis 2021 brought together an all-star cast of young and old, famous and not so famous. We had a Costa Rican pilot in the Super Final for the first time and X-Alps Super star Chrigel Maurer made a comeback.  
The competition far exceeded all expectations. It was Alpine splendour at its best: Seven tasks with stunning views of rocky peaks and glaciers. 
For Marc Wensauer it was rock faces, waterfalls, sharp edged rocky ridges, chamois roaming the high pastures and a whole combination of conditions. Wind directions varied, with winds from the north and south high up, then a strong valley breeze from the east, all in one task, giving challenging racing conditions. 
 
For Colombian pilot, Alejandro Salazar, it was such impressive terrain and possible to get high in an incredibly short space of time.
 
For Seb Ospina the aerial racetrack here connects so many steep valleys, lakes, intimidating terrain, but at the same time stunningly beautiful panoramas. Even two days of good flying weather would have made it a most memorable competition because of the landscape, but to have had seven is a blessing. Everyone will remember their flights here forever - truly unforgettable flying.
 
For Felix Rodriguez this Super Final has been unexpectedly good. Nobody in their wildest dreams expected seven tasks out of a maximum of ten. The pilot level has been fantastic and great conditions gave very technical flying. But above all, the best thing about Disentis 2021 was all the people helping, with their wonderful, encouraging smiles. I will always remember these nice people.  
 
Well done to Martin Scheel and Marc Demond, president of the organizing club, and to their team of helpers, in particular Dani and Michaela for their efficient retrieve, and Emilia for taking care of the trackers every day. 
A big thank you to the pilot task committee for daring to set tasks, which they seemed to literally pull out of the mist on some of the days: Michael Sigel, Remo Maissen and Ferdinand Vogel. 
More than 500km of task distance were set. Aaron Durogati, Michael Maurer, Stefan Wyss, Christian Maurer and Stephan Morgenthaler all won tasks. 
This competition has been a dream come true for everyone, especially Luc Armant, winner of the World cup in Coeur de Savoie, France in 2017, and San Potito, Italy in 2010. Winning three tasks and flying away with the title of Super Final Champion here in Disentis, makes him truly King of the Mountains.

The top 10 overall: 
1st Luc ARMANT 
2nd Aaron DUROGATI 
3rd Adrian HACHEN 
4th Stephan MORGENTHALER 
5th Baptiste LAMBERT  
6th Christian MAURER  
7th Honorin HAMARD  
8th Joachim OBERHAUSER  
9th Julien WIRTZ  
10th Ferdinand VOGEL

Many congratulations also to Seiko Fukuoka Naville who was first lady in three out of the seven tasks and has already won the ladies’ title a staggering sixteen times. Disentis 2021 brings her Super Final titles to three, have already claimed the top spot in 2016 in Governador Valadares, Brazil, and in Valle de Bravo, Mexico in 2015.

Top 5 ladies:
1st Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE 
2nd Meryl DELFERRIERE 
3rd Nanda WALLISER 
4th Yael MARGELISCH 
5th Constance METTETAL 
 
Well done to the top three paragliding manufacturer teams, who have shown that glider and harness design has anything but stagnated over the last 18 months.
 
Top 5 teams
1st Ozone 
2nd Gin Gliders  
3rd Niviuk  
4th Flying Tree Environmental Management 
5th Chinese Taipei Gliding Sports Association 

You can see all the famous faces flying in this competition: https://live.pwca.org/photos.php

We were very fortunate to have Andy Busslinger and Martin Scheel here in Disentis taking some truly amazing photos of the pilots and the stunning terrain that they have been flying over in this competition. The galleries can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1znrEWr7BDCHS3nR4oxDxBKdgCOT8SZQf
There are task videos available here: https://www.youtube.com/c/paraglidingworldcup/videos

A big thank you to World Cup partner Cross Country magazine who have been doing an excellent blog every day about the competition: https://xcmag.com/

Task 8, Disentis 2021

2021-08-17 15:50

Summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
This morning was damp, to say the least, in Disentis. A short 52km task up and down the valley was set, with a very low cloud base and even lower expectations.
The day cleared up progressively, and much to everyone’s surprise, the task proved possible.
For Felix Rodriguez it was like flying on Reunion Island, lovely and smooth, although admittedly, the views were a bit different.
The dynamics were different to the other days - gentler and nobody reached the dizzy heights of the previous days.
We reported in the commentary that geologist Julian Robinson was taking a closer look at some geological features. In fact, he was actually low enough to see the squirrels and tree climbing marmots in the pine trees he was flying over!
It was a fast task where, if you made a mistake, you got left behind with no chance of catching up.
One quote stands out from today’s commentary, posted at 12:40: I would bet a bowl of muesli that there is more chance of Silvia Buzzi Ferraris managing to finish off knitting herself a down jacket on launch today, than anyone flying 53km from Disentis. 
 
Well done to the 73 pilots who made goal and to the pilot task Committee who were brave enough to set the task: Michael Sigel, Remo Maissen and Ferdinand Vogel.
 
The fastest pilots round the course today were:
1:27:14 Pierre REMY, flying at an average speed of 30.5km/h
1:27:15 Tim BOLLINGER
1:27:16 Honorin HAMARD
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
156.8 Stephan MORGENTHALER
149.8 Honorin HAMARD
149.2 Luc ARMANT
 
Top 3 overall
1st  Stephan MORGENTHALER
2nd  Honorin HAMARD
3rd  Pierre REMY
 
Top 3 ladies
1st  Meryl DELFERRIERE
2nd  Yael MARGELISCH
3rd  Nanda WALLISER
 
Top 3 teams
1st  Ozone
2nd  Niviuk
3rd  Gin Gliders

Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the Live App (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org

Task 7, Disentis 2021

2021-08-15 15:32

Summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
With concerns about over development in the afternoon, a 62 km task was set going directly east. 
The early part of the race gave stunning views and lots of photo opportunities for those who had time to stop.
With the wind behind them, and stronger than forecast, the first pilots made goal super-fast, in one hour and nineteen minutes, thus sadly devaluing the day. 
In the goal valley the wind seemed to come from all directions. Above about 300m, it was from the south. Below 300m it was from the north. The unexpected wind from the north caused a lot of problems. 
 
‘It was a task where you had to concentrate right to the very end,’ said Honorin Hamard.
 
For whatever may have been good, or not so good in today’s task, it did put this Super Final in the record books as being one of the very few World Cups where one pilot has won three tasks. Well done Luc. 
The only pilots to have won more, in recent paragliding times, were in two previous Super Finals, Stefan Wyss in 2015 in Valle de Bravo, Mexico and Luca Donini in 2012, in Roldanillo, Colombia. 
 
The first 68 pilots made goal today, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed points and lead out points. 
 
Top 3 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
1:19:41 Christian MAURER flying at an average speed of 42.2 km/h
1:19:49 Julien WIRTZ
1:20:54 Pierre REMY
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
150.8 Luc ARMANT
141.4 Pierre REMY
139.1 Honorin HAMARD
 
Top 4 overall
1st= Luc ARMANT
1st= Christian MAURER
3rd= Pierre REMY 
3rd= Julien WIRTZ
 
Top 3 ladies
1st Yael MARGELISCH
2nd Nanda WALLISER
3rd Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE
 
Top 3 teams
1st= Niviuk
1st= Ozone
3rd  Flying Tree Environmental Management
 
Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the live app (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org
 
Tomorrow is the official rest day, a well-earned, and flown, day off for all! See you again on Tuesday. 

Task 6, Disentis 2021

2021-08-14 15:46

Summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
With beautiful blue skies a 97 km task was set taking the pilots west, then a long leg east, followed by a circuit round the end of the Disentis valley, then back to goal at Ilanz.
For Aaron Durogati it was the best day of the week - not too turbulent and with quite a few options. 
For Christian Maurer, it was perfect, better than expected, with totally blue conditions. The air start gave everyone stunning views from 3900m.
Every time it looked as if it was going to be a procession to goal the pilots chose different route options. 
For Felix Rodriguez, everywhere was working, no need to stop in weak thermals - a really good racing day.
It was a neck and neck race to end of speed between two veteran task winners Honorin Hamard and Stefan Wyss. Stefan won by 1 point bringing his task wins total to 23, inching his way nearer to Tim Bollinger’s Dad, Han’s overall lead of 28 task wins.
 
Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary and live tracking on our split screen: https://live.pwca.org/app/split.html

The first 98 pilots made goal, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed points and lead out points. 
 
Top 3 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
2:26:17 Honorin HAMARD flying at 37.4 km/h
2:27:07 Stefan WYSS
2:27:51 Xavier LAPORTE
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
161.8 Stefan WYSS
155.2 Julien WIRTZ
151.8 Pierre REMY
 
Top 3 overall
1st  Stefan WYSS
2nd  Honorin HAMARD
3rd  Xavier LAPORTE
 
Top 3 ladies
1st  Meryl DELFERRIERE
2nd  Nanda WALLISER
3rd  Yael MARGELISCH
 
Top 3 teams
1st  Ozone
2nd  Chinese Taipei Gliding Sports Association
3rd=  Flying Tree Environmental Management
3rd=  Fly Turkey
3rd=  Wind

Task 4, Disentis 2021

2021-08-12 18:35

Summary by Ruth Jessop

The weather today was stunning with clear blue skies and fantastic views of the alps. An 87km task east to Davos was set.
It looked straightforward. Follow the line, but nobody did. A group of paragliding sky gods went north, and another group of sky gods went south. 
The conditions were smooth and chilled at the start, then the thermals got stronger and rougher south of the main valley with a big convergence southwest of Davos.
The route to the north proved slower and more difficult, but smoother and with stunning views, so it wasn’t such a big mistake after all.
It was a very fast race, and the winners got to end of speed in less than two hours. 
But what was perhaps one of the most wonderful sights in this competition was the race to end of speed along the ridge southwest of Davos. The youngest pilot in the competition, Ivan Haas was flying right at the front with, just behind him, two World Cup veterans, Xevi Bonet Dalmau and Stefan Wyss. A quick peek at World Cup records as everyone was relaxing on the final glide down the Davos ski slopes revealed that Xevi and Stefan were busy winning tasks in Granada, Spain in June 2000, four months before Ivan was born! Paragliding, the sport with a wingspan across the generations! 
Congratulations to both young and old who flew so well today. 
 
Just a reminder that we have our star cameraman Philippe Broers doing live transmissions from launch (10-11h) and goal when the pilots arrive. Please subscribe to the channel if you would like to receive automatic notifications of the live transmissions: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC5IpyfuqzSh2WFMPzr8NNuA

The first 98 pilots made goal, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed points and lead out points. 
 
Top 3 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
01:48:14 Michael MAURER with a fast and furious average speed of 46.3 km/h.
01:49:01 Ivan HAAS
01:49:02 Baptiste LAMBERT
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
161.8 Dominik BREITINGER
160.8 Tim BOLLINGER
160.4 Michael MAURER
 
Top 3 overall
1st  Michael MAURER
2nd Dominik BREITINGER
3rd Ulrich PRINZ
 
Top 3 ladies
1st Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE
2nd Yael MARGELISCH
3rd Meryl DELFERRIERE
 
Top 3 teams
1st Gin Gliders
2nd Flying Tree Environmental Management
3rd Niviuk
 
Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the live app (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org 

Task 3, Disentis 2021

2021-08-11 17:35

Summary written by Ruth Jessop

Today started off with rain, but ended with sunshine and an 85 km task taking pilots south of the Disentis valley onto new terrain, south and east of the town with 6 turn points. 
The first part of the race was rough with a northerly wind.
It proved to be a very interesting task with incredible views especially down onto the mountains in the southern part of the course. The wind wasn’t as strong in this part of the race as the pilots were higher.
Michael Maurer took a very impressive early lead over the high mountains but was then overtaken by his brother Chrigel who took a more direct route, just before the fifth turn point. 
Unfortunately, a head wind between End of Speed and goal caught out a lot of the lead pilots and turned the scores upside down.

The first 53 pilots made goal, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed points and lead out points. 

Top 3 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
02:18:34  Aaron DUROGATI flying at an average speed of 35.1 km/h.
02:18:37  Luc ARMANT
02:19:11  Adrian HACHEN
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
152.1  Michael MAURER
145.3  Alfredo STUDER
139.6  Honorin HAMARD
 
Top 3 overall
1st  Luc ARMANT
2nd  Aaron DUROGATI
3rd  Baptiste LAMBERT
 
Top 3 ladies
1st  Constance METTETAL
2nd  Meryl DELFERRIERE
3rd  Yael MARGELISCH
 
Top 3 teams
1st  Air'G Products
2nd  Ozone
3rd  Fly Turkey
 
Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the live app (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org

Task 2. Disentis 2021

2021-08-10 16:51

Summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
With a much more promising weather forecast today an 84 km task up and down the Disentis valley was set.
The wait for the start gate to open gave fantastic views of sharp mountains and snowy, glacial terrain. 
The race northeast to Flims was fast and furious. Luc Armant and Julien Wirtz took an early lead which they kept almost to End of Speed. The following gaggle overtook them 1km from ESS when they hit tricky conditions and their route shaded over forcing them to stop for a climb. 
Jan Jares, on the other side of the valley, used a cloud to climb out and fly straight to ESS, crossing the virtual line with a convincing lead of 1 minute and 28 seconds.   
The constantly changing wind direction in the goal field made it look as if nobody would make it, so helmets off to the 83 pilots who made the tricky final part of the race as the waiting crowd and paparazzi held their breath. 
 
The first 83 pilots made goal, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed/time points and lead out points. 
 
Top 3 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
 
02:07:11 Jan JARES flying at an average of 38.4 km/h
02:08:39 Pierre REMY
02:08:59 Aaron DUROGATI
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
 
161.4 Luc ARMANT
156.8 Julien WIRTZ
148.0 Pierre REMY
 
Top 3 overall
 
1st  Luc ARMANT
2nd  Jan JARES
3rd  Pierre REMY
 
Top 3 ladies
 
1st  Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE
2nd  Meryl DELFERRIERE
3rd  Nanda WALLISER
 
Top 3 teams

1st  Ozone
2nd  Niviuk
3rd  Gin Gliders      


Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the live app (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org

All the results are available here: https://live.pwca.org/scores.php?comp=28

Task 1, Disentis 2021

2021-08-09 15:18

Summary written by Ruth Jessop
 
Day one of the first ever alpine Super Final started off with weather that didn’t even seem to impress the Highland cows grazing in front of HQ. 
A short sharp 54km task was set, with a turn point at Flims and goal at Llanz. The day was slow to launch but once it got going, what a race. It was anything but a straightforward ridge run. An X-Alps breakaway group led by Christian Maurer and Aaron Durogati took a route much further into the mountains reaching heights of 3300m with stunning views of the glacier and great, grey rock faces. 
Meanwhile, Honorin Hamard led the charge on the front ridge. 
Between the first and second turn points some of the leaders from the first part of the race got stuck. From what looked as if it was going to be a Swiss whitewash, Italians, Joachim Oberhauser and Aaron Durogati, took end of speed, almost neck and neck. 
‘It was a day where it was turbulent in places, but an appropriate task given the conditions,’ Stephan Morgenthaler confirmed.
 
The first 62 pilots made goal, and thus all flew the same distance, and gained the same distance points. Today’s winner is therefore the one with a combination of the best speed/time points and lead out points. 
 
Top 4 speed point winners – the fastest pilots round the course:
01:13:14 Joachim OBERHAUSER
01:13:19 Aaron DUROGATI
01:13:36 Adrian Hachen and Simon METTETAL
 
Top 3 leading point baggers – those who were in the lead the most:
138.6 Honorin HAMARD
121.5 Christian MAURER
120.8 Sergi CLARET
 
The average speed of the fastest pilot, Joachim OBERHAUSER, was 39.5km/h
 
Top 3 overall
1st  =  Joachim OBERHAUSER
1st  =  Aaron DUROGATI
3rd    Adrian Hachen
 
Top 3 ladies
1st  Seiko FUKUOKA NAVILLE
2nd  Constance METTETAL
3rd  Nanda WALLISER
 
Top 3 teams
1st  Gin
2nd  MacPara
3rd  Ozone
 
Just a reminder that you can follow the commentary, the leaderboard and tracking on the live app (which is also now a webpage) at: https://live.pwca.org

11th World Cup Superfinal ::: Sunday 8th August

2021-08-08 05:50

11th World Cup Superfinal ::: Sunday 8th August
Due to the weather conditions the initial schedules have been revised. 
The local registration is extended as this 1st competition day has been canceled 
 
 15:30 - 17:30            Local registration in HQ (Catrina Lodge Sax)
 16:30 - 18:00            Opening Aperitif 
 18:15                         General Briefing

14:30 to 16:30 :         Covid-19-Testing

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  • Friday, 6 August, 2021 to Wednesday, 18 August, 2021

11th World Cup Superfinal will take place in Disentis called in local language Mustér is a village and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

It lies on the highest step of the Rhine valley, where the roads of the Oberalp pass coming from central and western Switzerland and of the Lukmanier pass coming from the Ticino meet. It has a station where the line from Brig meets the line from Chur and is connected by train and road to the Valais via the Oberalp pass and to Chur following the Rhine valley. The Lukmanier pass road is in summer served by a post bus line. (Sorce Wikipedia).

Surounded by impresive mountain masives, valleys and gletchers provides spectacular landscape for paragliding racing and more.

11th World Cup Superfinal is unique in many ways as it is first evet Superfinal held in the Alps. It is first Superfinal since 10th (2018 season one), as the global health situation forced PWCA to cancel Superfinal that was suposed be held in Brazil and was not able to held one in 2020. Therefore this superfinal will be the finest selection of top pilots from 2019 Superfinal, Season 2020 and 2021.

For more informations please visit lockal organizers website: http://www.disentis-open.ch/paragliding-world-cup-2021/home/home.html

Waypoints

Headquarters

Flying Site

Main Take Off Gendusas
 Disentis-Gendusas

Main Landing next to Hotel Sax

General Schedule

07.08.2021
Registration

08.08-17.08 
Task days

18.08
Last task and prize giving ceremony

Daily Schedule


Saturday, August 7
Training Day and Registration

If the weather is ok, we will make a training task.

  • Meeting 09:30 at headquarter (to get maps and free ticket for the cable car) or 10:30 at the cable car station (there you have to pay your own cable car ticket).
  • You have to upload the turnpoints yourself from the website.
  • Follow the informations on whatsapp.

17.00 to 20.00: Registration

  • Registration is at the Headquarter at Catrina Lodge (Sax).

Late Registration:

  • If the weather is very bad on the first day, you will have the possibility of late registration in the evening prior the first taskable day.

19:00 to 21:00: Opening Aperitif

  • Drinks, light food.
  • Opening Ceremony

21:00: General Briefing 
Read the briefing here!

  • If the Corona situation stay difficult, the physical briefing should be attended only by pilots who have questions.


Sunday, August 8 to Wednesdy August 18


Competition days


Daily Shedule

From 8:00 | Race office opens | Catrina Lodge (Sax)
ca 8:00 | Informative whatsapp to all pilots |  
09:00 - 10:00 | Ride up to Middle Station Caischavedra
Free Coffe and Croissants
Debriefing, Briefing, Weather, provisional Task
Ride up to take off site Gendusas | Caischavedra
Chairlift Caischavedra-Gendusas opens on our needs!
ca. 11.00 | Final task briefing | Takeoff place Gendusas
afterwards | Takeoff |  
from 14.00 | Landings | Landing area next to Restaurant and Lodge Sax
15.00 - 19.00 | Report back and Tracker Return 
(immediately upon landing) | Race office at Lodge Sax
20.00 | Weather-Briefing, 
Presentation with MeteoSwiss | Tent and online

Depending on the weather, the schedule might change. Registered pilots are informed via Whatsapp-Group.


Wednesdy August 18
Prize giving Ceremony

17:00 Aperitiv (Drinks, light food)
18:00 Prize giving Ceremony (non flying: 12:00)

The timing will change according to the task flown.

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