The 2025 Hang Gliding World Championships will be held in Ager, Spain from the 13th to the 26th of July 2025. The United Kingdom plans to send two full teams, six pilots in Class 1 and four pilots in Class 5.
Applications for places in the team were invited from competition pilots. We received nine applications for Class 1 and five for Class 5. Therefore a selection process was carried out in accordance with the rules in the Competition Panel's constitution: you can find those rules elsewhere on this website. As always the discussion was detailed, lengthy and robustly-argued. We offer our congratulations to the pilots who were selected, and our commiserations to those who were not.
The teams are as follows:
Class 1
Grant Crossingham
Dave Mathews
Gordon Rigg
Jeremy Soper
Steve Penfold
Darren Brown
Class 5
Tim King
Mike Armstrong
Stewart Reid
Nigel Bray
Reserves are Malcolm Brown (Class 1) and Neil Atkinson (Class 5)
Team Manager: Gary Hume
Sports Class Worlds in Laveno
The decision has also been taken to support a team at the Sports Class Worlds in Laveno, Italy (1st to 14th June). The panel will be requesting pilots to submit applications once the local rules have been issued and team sizes and qualification requirements are finalised.
Neil Atkinson
Competitions Panel Chairman
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