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Task eight:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Time	Total
1	Manfred Ruhmer	AUT		02:00:09	977
2	Primoz Gricar	GER		01:59:16	968
3	Peter Neuenschwander	SUI		02:03:30	917
4	Mario Alonzi	FRA		02:06:34	875
5	Roland Woehrle	GER		02:06:43	870
6	Glauco Pinto	BRA		02:07:16	864
7	Marcelo Andrei Gomes Da Rocha	BRA		02:06:55	857
8	Franz Herrmann	SUI		02:07:34	847
8	Andrew Hollidge	GBR		02:07:26	847
10	Daniel Velez	COL		02:07:19	845

http://www.italy2019.com/2019/07/24/gricar-anticipa-ruhmer-a-pochi-chilometri-dal-goal-terzo-neuenschwander-italia-fuori-dalla-top-ten/

Greet the Alps that yesterday served as the backdrop for the
“infinite” flight of the protagonists of the XXII edition of the Hang Gliding
World Championships, the ninth task returned completely to Italy, with a length
of 95.5 km to travel from Monte Valinis to Bordon.

The race direction opted for a flight day in the south-western area of Friuli
Venezia Giulia, with buoys in Montereale Valcellina, Malnisio and Pian del
Cansiglio before the long return to Bordano, anticipated by the last turning
point near Buja.

The pilots were able to follow - at least in the initial phase - a line on the
mountain ridges, which allowed quite high speeds at the expense of not too
generous quotas (in general it flew at 5-600m, much lower than yesterday due to
the lack of good thermals).

The first to cross the buoy near Montereale were the Swiss Peter Neuenschwander
(author of a very interesting World Championship so far and currently sixth in
the individual classification with 5807 points), Franz Hermann and Zac Majors
(also yesterday brought to light in the initial phases), however, having to stop
before the Piancavallo to take altitude, finding one of the best thermals of the
day of about 4m/s.

Ruhmer, the Canadian Smith and also our young Laurenzi, then carried on trying
to escape to the Pian del Cansiglio, deviating on the fastest trajectory over
the plain, gaining about 3km on the pursuers but having then to make height and
consequently re-enter on the own steps. The group formed by the Italians Ciech,
Ploner, Oppici, the Brazilians Sandoli and Pinto, Neuenschwander and Ruhmer,
managed to climb up to 500m, finding a good current above Castello di Aviano,
with Laurenzi having to beaten but managing to recover soon afterwards and
turning the buoy near the Piancavallo in the first positions at a reasonable
speed.

In the long return to Buja, the competitors have in fact alternated the plain
with the mountain, to find the right compromise that would guarantee them
adequate speed and altitude without losing too much time. Meanwhile, yesterday's
splendid winner Eduardo Oliveira was reported in difficulty, perhaps tried by
the fatigues of task 8, which required considerable energy expenditure for all;
even worse it went to the Italian Selenati, who played it all for opting for the
second start, pulling as much as he could, but unfortunately landing beforehand:
a praise, however, due to his resourcefulness.

In the vicinity of Meduno, Ruhmer and Laurenzi have chosen two slightly
different trajectories but for both of them the first real moment of difficulty
occurred in this world, desperately forced to look for altitude above Clauzzetto.
Ruhmer managed to climb the 600m while Laurenzi, after having seriously risked
landing outside the goal, entered an appreciable thermal. It went better to the
pursuer group formed by Ciech, Kato, Ploner, Pinto, Velez and Oppici, who over
Travesio, opting for a line on the ridges, have reached a safety altitude of
about 1000m of altitude guaranteeing the possibility of flying calmly until next
turning point and then aim directly at landing.

The turning point came a few kilometers later: while most of the pilots, once
they gained altitude, deviated towards the south, Neuenschwander and Gricar
preferred to continue turning a thermal, which led them to lengthen the route a
bit, but allowing them to launch later a few minutes at crazy speed towards
Buja's last buoy. On the way to Bordano, a few kilometers away as the crow
flies, Ruhmer (who in the meantime had taken the reins of the "paying" group but
about 200m above sea level against the Swiss-Austrian duo) was overtaken at more
than 80km/h from Gricar, who has thus flown in goal by touching the ground of
the landing field first, anticipating the same Ruhmer and Neuenschwander.
"Tactical" day for Italy, with Ploner and Ciech respectively sixteenth and
seventeenth: waiting for the publication of the official rankings, we will have
to watch our back in the last task from Gricar, Alonzi, Crossingham and
Neunschwander (these last four fighting for at least for the last step of the
podium). Instead, the situation in the team standings should be calmer, where
our Azzurri had 1922 points ahead of Brazil and 2326 of Germany ahead of today's
task, now winner with Gricar and fifth with Woehrle. Here too the battle for
third place is on, with Germany at 16828 points, Japan at 16447 points and
Austria at 16387 points, obviously after this task.

Cumulative:

#	Name	Nat	Glider	Total
1	Alessandro Ploner	ITA		7385
2	Christian Ciech	ITA		7190
3	Primoz Gricar	GER		7026
4	Mario Alonzi	FRA		6852
5	Peter Neuenschwander	SUI		6724
6	Manfred Ruhmer	AUT		6678
7	Grant Crossingham	GBR		6634
8	Alvaro Figueiredo Sandoli	BRA		6586
9	Marco Laurenzi	ITA		6454
10	Filippo Oppici	ITA		6369