European Gliding Championships


The European Gliding Championships is a gliding competition held every two years.
Gliding is a competitive sport and was even a demonstration sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics. It was due to become an official Olympic sport in the Helsinki Games in 1940. However since the war, gliding has not featured in the Olympics. For gliding, international competition has been provided by the World Gliding Championships since 1938 and also by the European Gliding Championships since 1982.
The increased number of classes of glider means that it is no longer possible for all the classes to compete at the same location. The European Glider Aerobatic Championships were added in 1992. They are also held every two years.

European Gliding Championships

Each of the following entries give the year and location of the contest followed by the winner of each class, nationality and the glider used.
1st European Women s Gliding Championships in Hungary 1979
2nd European Women s Gliding Championships in France 1981
3rd European Women s Gliding Championships in Saint Hubert 1983
4th European Women s Gliding Championships in Subotica Yugoslavia 1985
5th European Women s Gliding Championships in Bulgaria 1987
6th European Women s Gliding Championships in Oriol 1989
7th European Women s Gliding Championships in Husbands Bosworth 1991
8th European Women s Gliding Championships in Hosin
9th International European Women's Gliding Championships in Marpingen, 1995
10th International European Women's Gliding Championships in Prievidza Slovakia, 1997
11th European Women's Gliding Championships in Leszno, 1999 held in conjunction with the 2nd World Class World Championship
The FAI granted World Championship status to international women's contests in 2001. The 1st World Gliding Championships were held in Pociūnai. However, this decision was made rather late so that it was essentially a European contest. For the results of this and the following women's contests refer to Women's World Gliding Championships.

European Junior Gliding Championships

1st European Junior Gliding Championships in Falköping, 1991
2nd European Junior Gliding Championships in La Roche-sur-Yon, 1993
3rd European Junior Gliding Championships in Leszno, 1995
4th European Junior Gliding Championships in Musbach, 1997
Later contest have been held as Junior World Gliding Championships.

European Glider Aerobatic Championships

European Glider Aerobatic Championships are held every two years, so that they alternate with World Glider Aerobatic Championships which are held every two years since 1985. These contests are flown in the unlimited category, only. In 2006, the first European Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships was held in Bad Frankenhausen in conjunction with the German Glider Championships in the unlimited and advanced category. The second European Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships were held in conjunction with the 2008 German Glider Aerobatic Championships in Rothenburg-Görlitz.
1st European Glider Aerobatic Championships
2nd European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Rieti 1994
3rd FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Pér, 27 June 1996 – 6 July 1996
  1. Mikhail Mamistov, glider: Swift-S1
  2. Jerzy Makula, glider: MDM-1 Fox
  3. Adam Michałowski, glider: Swift-S1
  1. Russia :Mikhail Mamistov, Sergey Rakhmanin, Sergei Krikalev
  2. Poland :Jerzy Makula, Adam Michałowski, Marek Hernik
  3. Czech Republic : Martin Stáhalík, Petr Poborský, Josef Čech
4th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Ostrów Wielkopolski, 19 July 1998 – 2 August 1998
  1. Jerzy Makula, glider: MDM-1 Fox
  2. Georgij Kaminski, glider: Swift-S1
  3. Adam Michałowski, glider: Swift-S1
  1. Poland : Jerzy Makula, Adam Michałowski, Małgorzata Margańska
  2. Russia : Georgij Kaminski, Valentin Barabanov, Alexandr Panfierov
  3. Czech Republic : Petr Poborský, Přemysl Vávra, Jiří Peprný
5th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships Salon de Provence, 7 August 2000 – 20 August 2000
  1. Ferenc Tóth
  2. Jerzy Makula
  3. Georgij Kaminski
  1. Poland : Jerzy Makula, Adam Michałowski, Krzysztof Brząkalik
  2. Hungary : Ferenc Tóth, István Matuz, János Szilágyi
  3. Russia : Georgij Kaminski, Alexandr Panfierov, Valentin Barabanov
6th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Pasewalk – 16 July 2002 – 26 July 2002
7th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Moravska Trebova, 6 July 2004 – 18 July 2004
  1. Jerzy Makula
  2. Alexandr Panfierov
  3. Ferenc Tóth
8th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Rybnik, 19 July 2006 – 29 July 2006
  1. Ferenc Tóth, glider: Swift S-1
  2. Jerzy Makula, glider: Solo-Fox
  3. Georgij Kaminski, glider: Swift S-1
  1. Hungary : Ferenc Tóth, János Szilágyi, Szabolcs Kühtreiber
  2. Russia : Georgij Kaminski, Igor Plakhsin, Olga Romanenko
  3. Germany : Eugen Schaal, Markus Feyerabend, Olaf Schmidt
9th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Radom, 7 July 2008 – 17 July 2008
  1. Ferenc Tóth, glider: Swift S-1
  2. Erik Piriou, glider: Swift S-1
  3. Markus Feyerabend, glider: Swift S-1
  1. Czech Republic : Přemysl Vávra, Jan Rozlivka
  2. Russia : Alexandr Panfierov, Georgij Kaminski, Igor Plakhsin
  3. Germany : Markus Feyerabend, Olaf Schmidt, Hans-Georg Resch
10th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships, Jämijärvi, 17 July 2010 – 24 July 2010
  1. Erik Piriou, glider: Swift S-1
  2. Ferenc Tóth, glider: Swift S-1
  3. Dietmar Poll, glider: Swift S-1
  1. Hungary : Ferenc Tóth, János Szilágyi
  2. France : Erik Piriou, Daniel Serres, Pierre Albertini
  3. Poland : Maciej Pospieszynski, Jerzy Makula, Stanisław Makula