British Hang-gliding Competition Panel Vacancies

DEADLINE: 1st October 2021

Two of our valued competition panel members and our scorer have announced a decision to retire from the competition panel.

The panel would like to thank Tim King for 12 years service on the panel and Phil Chettleburgh for over 10 years as our scorer. Both have given a large commitment to British hang-gliding and have conducted a multitude of other competition related tasks.

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British Open Series Winners

Round 2 Winners Are:

Class 1

1st Grant Crossingham

2nd Justin Needham

3rd Darren Brown

grant — Grant Crossingham Photo Katy Cole

Class 5

1st Stewart Reid

2nd Tim King

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BOS 2021 (part Deux)

After an immense amount of work put in by various members of the Panel, and discovering and working around a number of spanners inserted into the works, the Panel are happy to announce details of the second round of the BOS series. There is more info and detail to come, but for now.

British Open Series 2021 2nd Round

Dates:Sat 04/09/2021 to Friday 10/09/2021

HQ Location:

Fforest Fields, Hundred House, Llandrindod Wells Powys. LD1 5RT

Accommodation

‘For Campsite bookings please email Mrs Katie Bairstow office@fforestfields.co.uk

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British Nationals to be Cancelled.

With to many unknowns and ever changing restrictions it has been decided that the British Nationals to be held in Laragne France are to be cancelled.

It is anticipated that to replace this a second round of the BOS will be held on the same dates. Further details will follow as soon as possible.

British Nationals 2021 Update

The Nationals are planned for Laragne France 15th to 21st August 2021. We have permissions in place to run the competition.

At present the travel rules from the UK to France require quarantine periods, covid testing, and a night time curfew applies while in France , so unless there is a relaxation a competition would be difficult to hold.

There will be a panel meeting held during the BOS and a final decision made.

We are looking at options to hold either a nationals in the UK or another round of the BOS as an alternative on these dates or possibly in September.

Worlds 2021 postponed to 2023

World Championships Macedonia 2021

After many days of consideration, again due to health ,travel quarantine and sporting issues and after most of the major teams withdrew from the competition the event was postponed until 2023

23rd World HG Championships- Update

Over the past few months it would be fair to say that some challenging debates have taken place as wether the 23rd World HG Championships should take place.

We are aware very recently Italy and Brazil have withdrawn from this event.
As of 24th May the UK position has now been established.
Regrettably, but not unexpectedly, the BHPA having taken into consideration all the perceived obstacles such as, but not limited to insurance,quarantine, heath and sporting issues, decided that a UK Team will not participate in this competition, and have thus decided to withdraw from the 23rd World HG Championships (2021)

BHPA comps panel.