Live broadcasts:
https://www.facebook.com/hangglidingworldchamp2019/

Live tracking and replays:
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=2941

Also live tracking:
https://www.livetrack360.com/livetracking/split/2941

Results: http://www.italy2019.com/news/

Results:
https://airtribune.com/22nd-fai-world-hg-championship/results

Malcolm Brown writes:

Goal field at the Hang Gliding World Championships in northern
Italy. I'm feeling tired after 5 hours flying and a 201km flight to goal. This
probably ranks as one of my most memorable flights in 30 years of flying hang
gliders. The mountains we flew over today are absolutely stunning. I had my
doubts about coming here but I was so wrong.

Matjaz Klemencic writes:

Big task was called today at 200 km taking us from Cercivento
north to Austria, over Greifenburg, then to Sillian and back to a bit further
from Hermagor. I got to the takeoff where at briefing I noticed my Oudie didn't
charge yesterday. I must have mistakenly put the cable in and it was 50% battery
was ready for 200km. I managed to charge it a bit with power bank from Evan,
thank you so much for that.

Since I was running around making this all happen I somehow managed to make a
bigger start cylinder which put me back already at start. I flew quite good
after and was with Manfred and rest of the gang after Greifenburg. Here the
decision of the day was made as we flew over the valley into shitty area with
slow speed and horrifying place to fly over so low. I lost the group and had
scratched the ridge to get to the Sillian turnpoint.

Then I flew back to Lienz where I got to 3000m and the direct line was tempting
again. I crossed the ridge at about 20 m and found out the landing areas are
quite further out then expected. Quite some struggle but I made it out of the
trap and went ridge racing towards Hermagor. I was too happy with the nice lift
on the way and flew to easily only to find that last part is in complete shade
and without any lift. I decked in at about 10k short.

Pilots took other lines that were far better today so I am once again not really
happy with my performance. Every day I start good, fly a part with good gaggle
but somehow I lose the tempo and get myself somewhere in some shitty place. At
least I got my wing to climb well today finally, did some strange settings on my
wing with turning things the opposite way it should be. Cost me quite some
climbing during the race. Now resting time as tomorrow is yet another task.

Task 7:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Eduardo Oliveira	BRA		04:17:20	986
2	Grant Crossingham	GBR		04:20:13	956
3	Primoz Gricar	GER		04:21:40	938
4	Alessandro Ploner	ITA		04:36:04	868
5	Filippo Oppici	ITA		04:36:15	864
6	Genki Tanaka	JPN		04:36:57	854
7	Peter Neuenschwander	SUI		04:35:52	846
8	Mario Alonzi	FRA		04:37:38	845
9	Christian Ciech	ITA		04:39:46	842
10	Gerd Doenhuber	GER		04:40:12	836

Eduardo, Grant and Primoz got way ahead of everyone else. Manfred
landed out, or so the scoring says so. U have him landing at goal. Maybe he missed a turnpoint?

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/23/il-brasile-nella-task-piu-lunga-del-mondiale-suona-la-carica-con-oliveira-secondo-in-goal-crossingham-terzo-gricar/

"When the going gets tough the tough begin to play." In the
aftermath of the extraordinary feat of the Italian Alex Ploner, who in fact
dominated task 7 with a masterpiece of wit and tactical wisdom seasoned with a
clear knowledge of the Friulian skies, the race direction opted for a task not
only incredibly long (well over 200km) but even with a landing outside the
Italian borders, in neighboring Austria. The dress rehearsals had already been
staged a few days ago, with the turning point of task 4 - won from the Alto
Cassino di San Cassiano - in the area of Caporetto, in Slovenia. The pilots
unanimously asked to be able to engage in even more demanding flights and, once
the weather allowed safety on all fronts, they were satisfied with a real
mission to the limit of the impossible.

Before moving on to the story of the day, one can not but spend words of praise
for Flyve, AeroClub Italia and AeroClub Lega Piloti, who with so many efforts
have succeeded in giving to protagonists and enthusiasts something never
experienced before even in the maximum expression of this sport , or the world
championship competition. Absolute novelty also that concerning the take-off:
the nearly 120 remaining in the race have "tasted" today another characteristic
mountain of Carnia and precisely the Monte Crostis, Valsecca, in the
municipality of Ravascletto, taking flight already from a very high altitude at
1900m . Another wonderful place from which they were able to admire a
breathtaking panorama, an appetizer of an epic challenge that surely wrote a
page about the history of hang gliding.

The Czech Dan Vyhnalik was among the first to come out in the direction of the
first mark; the Dutch Tanzer together with the American Zac Majors, opted
instead for a different trajectory. Selenati, after about twenty minutes of the
race, took the reins of the flight with speeds that reached almost 90km/h and
over, taking advantage of the positive effects of the mountain ranges of the
district, trying to imitate yesterday's exploits of compatriot Ploner.

The Colombian Daniel Velez together with the Czech Peter Polach (who delighted
the public during the daily live broadcast with live images from his hang
glider), closed the gap in a short time, as Selenati was forced to stop to gain
overtaken share from the big group positioned higher than him. Having left to
make the difference and seek redemption, the strong Friulian had to surrender
after a few kilometers, landing unfortunately out of goal. At the turning point
in the area of Emberg, where practically everyone arrived following the
optimized line, the first to turn was the Swiss Neuenschwander, followed by the
Japanese Nagusa, Velez, Smith, Polach and also by our Christian Ciech, second in
general individual at 168 points from compatriot Ploner.

Another Japanese person came to light shortly after and we talk about Minoru
Kato: taking advantage of one of the classic flying styles of gliders called in
technical jargon "a dolphin" (which allows not having to search for thermals
flying in fact directed towards the goal at variable speed), was the first to
gain the third buoy, followed by Polach, Klemencic, Gricar, Ruhmer, Ploner and
the young but enterprising Manuel Revelli, later forced to abandon hostilities
even before so many others, a clear sign of the great difficulties today. On the
long journey to the cylinder including the area of Sillian, a municipality in
the Upper Val Pusteria in East Tyrol, the group fragmented and Neuenschwander
also opted for a very different line than the head line which instead preferred
the trajectory more short.

Ciech, Ruhmer, Klemencic, Ploner, Oppici and the German Gerd Doenhuber composed
the head of the race, advancing more than 90 km/h along the crest of the
mountains. The Swiss, with great intuition, has accumulated more than 1000m of
difference compared to the others, flying sent to over 105km/h and soon
rejoining at the head of the race. As happened to Revelli, in the vicinity of
this buoy even the strong Brazilian Glauco Pinto had to land, as did Selenati
(see above) and Tanzer who had to say goodbye practically at the same time to
dreams of glory.

Meanwhile, the splendid day allowed Markel Neiderman of Sweden to reach 4049m of
altitude on his Combat GT, practically a record in this World Championship. A
few dozen kilometers from the finish, the head of the race - who chose the
optimized trajectory - was formed by the Japanese Kato and among others by the
Brazilian Oliveira, by the English Crossingham, by the Germans Woehrle and
Gricar, by the French Pollet and Alonzi and from our Oppici and Ploner.

Before the final sprint, at Hermagor (minus 25km on arrival), Gricar and
Oliviera opted for full altitude (with thermals of even 6m/s); Minoru Kato
together with Pollet, authors of a superlative performance up to that point,
instead found themselves in great difficulty losing altitude and for the
Japanese there was nothing to do but land before their due, when there was very
little to the goal. The Brazilian has thus concluded in first goal after more
than four hours of flight (entirely covered by the live broadcast on the
official FB page), followed by Crossingham and Gricar. First of the Italians in
goal Ploner (fifth) followed by Oppici: Brazil plays the charge and warns our
National team, called to defend the 1825 points that separated it from the South
Americans at the end of yesterday's task. There will be fun and the last two
days of competition (we remind you that from tomorrow to tomorrow the final day
of rest will take place and for this reason we invite you to follow the updates
on the official FB page) will announce themselves not suitable for the faint of
heart.

Cumulative: