Competitions News

2024 Junior National gliding champion!

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Well done to the 2024 UK Junior National gliding champion, Jordan Johnson (ASW20)! 2nd – George White (ASW20) 3rd – George Downing (ASW20) You can view the full results here.

WGC 2025 Team Vote For 15m, Club and Standard Classes – Voting Pools

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The vote to select the team to represent Great Britain at the 39th World Gliding Championships 15m, Club, and Standard classes at Tabor CZE in June 2025 will open on 19th August 2024 and will run up to and including the 30th August. The voting pools for each class are…

2024 Junior Nationals at The Gliding Centre

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The 2024 Junior National Gliding Championship is being run by The Gliding Centre at Husbands Bosworth airfield from the 17th – 25th August. Good luck to all the competitors, crews and organisers! You can follow the results here.  

WGC 2025 Team Vote For 15m, Club and Standard Classes

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The vote to select the Team to represent Great Britain at the 39th World Gliding Championships 15m, Club, and Standard classes at Tabor CZE in June 2025 will open on 19th August 2024 and will run up to and including the 30th August. Once again, the voting will take place…

New national gliding champion!

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After a week of mixed gliding weather at the UK club class nationals hosted by the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club at Nympsfield, we’re delighted to report that the 2024 UK club class national champion is John Roberts (LS3)! The full results are available here.

National Gliding Competitions 2025

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The following UK National gliding competitions have been agreed for 2025: Standard, 15m and Open classes at Lasham. 24 May – 1 June. Club class at Dunstable. 26 July – 3 August. 18m and 20m multi-seat classes at Husbands Bosworth. 16-24 August. Junior Nationals at Aston Down. 16-24 August.

New National Gliding Champions!

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After a week of great gliding weather at the Standard, 15m and Open Nationals hosted by Cotswold GC at Aston Down and organised by Competition Director Matt Page and team, we’re delighted to report that the 2024 champions in all three classes are: Open – Andy Davis (JS1)  15m -…

18m and 20m National champions!

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We’re delighted to report that the 2024 18 metre and 20 metre two-seat National championships have resulted in two new champions! After a very challenging week of squeezing in tasks around some unhelpful weather, Matt Davis (JS1) is the 18 metre champion, and Steve Jones (Arcus) is the 20 metre…

British Gliding Team in 2024

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We’re pleased to report the following British Gliding Team plans for 2024: World Gliding Championship – Uvalde, Texas, USA 18m class – Ian MacArthur / Peter Harvey 20m class – Steve Jones / Garry Coppin Open class – Tim Jenkinson / Russell Cheetham Junior World Gliding Championship – Ostrow Wielkopolski,…