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2018 French Championships finished with a big success for OZONE Team. Alex Mateos won French Champion title followed by Nicolas Aubert on the 3rdrd place in general classification. Both pilots flew Viper 4. Competition took place in Blois in France. During 7 days pilots completed 14 tasks.

Alex Mateos reports: “This year the most challenging task for me was economy, because I chose smaller size of the Viper 4, 16 instead of the 18. But despite of smaller size I won all the eco tasks, which is pretty amazing as for such a small wing! The weather was great, we had only one rainy day, which allowed us to have a nice rest! I think my weak point has always been Navigation but lucky this part of France is easy so I haven’t lost too many points on that task! I would like to thank you OZONE for such a great wing, which always helps me to win! Looking forward to Slalom World Championships in October”

Cheers from All OZONE Team

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The FAI European Hang Gliding Championships 2018 sees its first task in Macedonia. Two comps are running at the same time: the Class 1 Europeans and the Class 5 Europeans

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“Parafest 2018 is going to be a cracker!” That’s the tag-line for the UK’s biggest free-flight festival, being held in Snowdonia, Wales at the end of July.

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Mark Graham and Mirjam Hempel won the Ozone Chabre Open 2018 which finished on 7 July

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Jurij Vidic and Seiko Fukuoka topped the podiums of the third round of the 2018 Paragliding World Cup tour, which finished in Gemona, Italy on 30 June

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Our friends Hugh Miller, Luke Nicol, Guy Anderson (Enzo 3s) and Graham Steel (Zeno) have set a new declared goal record in the UK with an amazing 246 km flight. They launched from Sharpenhoe (65 metres high!) on June 28 and flew past Oxford, Glastonbury and into Devon.

Hugh reports:

“It was an epic flight. Base was at 2000 ft for the first two hours then slowly rose till we were surfing convergence lines at 5,500 ft that looked like they stretched almost to Cornwall if we could have got going earlier”

A few days prior to this flight, on June 22nd, Mark Watts and Hugh Miller started the British summer with a 120 km out and return flight, also a new UK record, from Devils Dyke to beyond Buster and back. Mark and Hugh flew Enzo 3s.

For the new UK declared goal record’s track click HERE
For the new UK out of return record’s track click HERE

Congrats and cheers from all the OZONE Team.

Photos Courtesy of Hugh Miller

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The third stop of the 2018 PWC in Gemona, Italy, came to an end on Saturday.

After four valid tasks, the overall win went to Jurij Vidic and in the women’s category, OZONE team pilot, Seiko Fukuoka took the win. Both flew Enzo 3s.
The team winner was The OZONE Team.

OZONE R&D team pilot , Honorin Hamard won two out of four tasks following his own lines and leading the pack during the last two tasks. Our own Russ Ogden, Charles Cazaux and Luc Armant finished 4th, 6th and 10th respectively.

For full results click HERE

Congrats and Cheers from all the OZONE TEAM.

Next Stop: Sopot, Bulgaria. Stay tuned for more.

Photos courtesy of PWCA.org

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Mark Langenfeld from Wisconsin, USA, is the lucky winner of the wing in the Cross Country Subscribers’ Summer Prize Draw 2018

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Here are the impressions from our XC Seminar this June with our guest paragliding professionals Michael Nesler & Gudrun Oechsl. A great occasion to happily greet and warmly welcome like always many paragliding pilots that joined our seminar, to push their boundaries and earn healthy experience in XC flying with our […] …read more

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Woody Valley GTO Light review: From a first two hour’s XC flying, it’s clear that Woody Valley have made a very, very impressive harness here.

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