Congratulations to all participants in this years Paragliding National XC League for making it another record year. Again, in terms of total KM flown, the top three pilots would have won any previous year.
The League was won by Richard Westgate (Gradient XC3) with 837.5km, the highest total KM ever accumulated (an average of almost 140km per flight!). This is Richard's third XC League win and his second in 3 years. The end of the season battle is summarised here.
Mark Jones on his Avax XC2 was 10th with 623.0km (and 2nd in the Serial Class) and in the top 50, 16th Philip Wallbank (3rd Serial Class) 552.1km, 24th Jon Collie 474.7km, 26th Julian Robinson 465.9km, 27th Ian Miskin 464.0km, 28th Burkitt Rudd 458.1km, 29th Graham Richards 449.4km, 30th David Thomson 432.0km, 41st Martin Nichols 344.7km, 48th Gary Puhl 324.8km.
Gradient did well at Club level again with the following podium places:
Avon League: Graham Richards, Aspen 3, 1st; Martin Nichols, Aspen 3, 2nd
Condors League: Simon Fouracre, Aspen 3, 3rd
Cumbrian League: Burkitt Rudd Avax 1st
Dover League: Tim Pike, Avax XC2, 2nd
Gap League: Mark Jones, Avax XC2, 2nd
Joint Services League: Alistair Andrews, Aspen 3, 2nd
Thames Valley League: Mark Jones, Avax XC2, 3rd
SHPF League: Julian Robinson, Avax XC2, 1st; Ian Miskin, Avax Xc2, 2nd; David Thompson, Avax XC2, 3rd
SMPC League: Ian Miskin, Avax XC2, 1st
Wessex League: Shamus Pitts, Golden 2, 1st;Martin Foley, Aspen 3, 3rd
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