(by Gustavo Vitali - FIVL Press Office) The national team that will represent Italy at the 16th edition of the Paragliding World Championships organized under the auspices of the FAI, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, has landed in Kruscevo in North Macedonia.
Silvia Buzzi Ferraris from Milan, Christian Biasi from Rovereto (Trento), Marco Busetta from Paternò (Catania), Joachim Oberhauser from Termeno (Bolzano), Alberto Vitale from Ragusa, who moved to Bologna and Alberto Castagna from Cologno Monzese (Milan ) as CT.
All French titles to defend from the team title and then the individual titles with Pierre Remy the male and Seiko Fukuoka Naville the feminine. They had conquered them in Italy in the 2017. We will try the 48 nations registered for a total of 146 pilots, including 21 women. Italy presents itself as vice European champion in teams, a title won last year in Portugal. The event will close on August 18.
Kruscevo, located at 1350 meters above sea level and at 159 km from the Macedonian capital Skopje, is the highest city in the Balkans. The pilots will mainly use two take-off sites, one at 1420 meters of altitude exposed towards the Pelagonia valley and the other very close to the first at 1440 meters. From here the pilots will stand out the flights along routes that could touch distances close to the 100 km. Ten trials are scheduled, one per day, weather permitting, interspersed with a rest day. Summing up the results of these will be compiled the final classification to elect the new world champions of paragliding flight.
Meanwhile, after the hang-gliding world championships that saw yet another blue triumph, the skies of Friuli will host the Italian leg of the AcroMax paragliding acrobatic flight World Cup from the 9 to the 15 in August. Seven days with the best pilots of this discipline who will color the sky over Lake Tre Comuni (Udine), so-called from the countries that overlook it, Cavazzo, Bordano and Trasaghis, about fifty foreign and local pilots will compete to win the Cup of the world of acrobatic paragliding. It organizes the event with its epicenter in Trasaghis, the Free Flight of Friuli, which also has the 2020 world championship of this specialty on its calendar.