Full House for the World Paragliding Accuracy in Vlora, Albania
he 9th FAI World Paragliding Accuracy Championship is very popular: 28 nations and 198 pilots requested a spot in the event. CIVL Bureau, in agreement with the organisers and Accuracy Committee, has allowed the maximum number of pilots accepted to be raised from 130 to 150.
A first allocation took place on March 26, 2017, as per Section 7C 2.3. Results are published on the organizers’ website https://paragliding.al/. They are also available here under.
All team were first given the maximum team size (5 ‘any gender’ + 2 women). As there were too many pilots, in order to limit the competition to 150 pilot, one pilot was taken away from the 9 lowest ranked nations with a full ‘any gender’ team.
Entry fee payment
Also in agreement with the organisers, CIVL Bureau has modified the local regulations as follows:
• NAC must pay their pilots entry fees before April 5, 2017.
• If any entry fee is not paid, the corresponding spot will be considered as vacant.
• A second allocation will be run on April 5, 2017. All vacancies will be allocated to nations to which the first allocation denied a complete team.
Nation (28) – Total number of pilots (150) - Women (36)
Slovenia - 7 - 2
Serbia - 7 - 2
Indonesia - 7 - 2
Thailand - 7 - 2
Czech Republic - 7 - 2
China - 7 - 2
Bulgaria - 6 - 1
FYR Macedonia - 6 - 1
Romania - 7 - 2
United Kingdom - 6 - 1
Russia - 7 - 2
Hungary - 5 - 1
Turkey - 5 - 1
Estonia - 3
Lithuania - 6 - 2
Albania - 7 - 2
Belarusia - 6 - 2
South Korea - 6 - 2
Kazakhtstan - 6 - 2
Japan - 6 - 2
Kosova - 4
Colombia - 6 - 2
Poland - 4
Netherland - 4
Canada - 1
Croatia - 3
Nepal - 1 - 1
France - 3