Mike Meier <<email>> writes:

This is a "complete" list of US National Hang Gliding Champions,
as best I can compile it - with one exception - it contains no women champions.
There were not that many years that a women's national champion was named, and I
did not try to compile a list of those.



The list is complete, except for the glider that Mike Daily flew in 1986, which
I could not find, and it is accurate to the best of my knowledge and ability to
research it. I made only one assumption - that Campbell Bowen flew the same
glider in the 2007 Nationals as he did in the Quest Air comp that immediately
followed the Nationals. All of the other data listed is documented somewhere,
Hang Gliding Magazine, the Oz Report, manufacturer web sites, etc. That does not
guarantee that all the data is accurate, but it is all documented. Anyone who
has conflicting information should, of course, comment on anything they think is
not accurate.



The history of the title US National Champion in hang gliding is not, perhaps,
as simple or as clean as one might prefer. As I mentioned above, there was a
period (1983 - 1987) where the rules called for a single national champion, to
be determined by CPS points, and during this period the winners of the U.S.
Nationals competitions, in various classes, were supposed to have been
designated as "Nationals Champions" (i.e. Champions of the Nationals), but that
convention was not followed, in almost all cases, when the meets were reported
in the media, so in those years we had additional "National Champions" beyond
what the rules provided for.



Another source of possible confusion or complication is that the term US
National Champion has been reserved for a US pilot, so in many cases, after the
meet became international in its participation, the National Champion did not
necessarily finish in first place in his class in the meet. In the list, I've
added a column where I've listed the National Champion's finishing place in the
meet, where I was able to determine that, when it was not a first place finish.

 

Year	Pilot	Site	Class	Glider	(Place in meet)
2008	Zac Majors	Lakeview, Oregon	Flexwing	Wills Wing T2C 144
2007	Campbell Bowen	Florida Ridge, Florida	Rigid Wing	Air Atos VX
2007	Tom Lanning	Florida Ridge, Florida	Flexwing	Moyes Litespeed S 4	5th
2007	Rodger Furrey	Florida Ridge, Florida	Sport Class	Wills Wing U2 160	2nd
2006	Campbell Bowen	Florida Ridge, Florida	Rigid Wing	Air Atos VX	<1st
2006	Curt Warren	Florida Ridge, Florida	Flexwing	Moyes Litespeed S	3rd
2005	Bruce Barmakian	Quest Air, Florida	Rigid Wing	Air Atos VR
2005	Paris Williams	Quest Air, Florida	Flexwing	Aeros Combat L	3rd
2004	Davis Straub	Big Spring, Texas	Rigid Wing	Air Atos VX
2004	Curt Warren	Big Spring, Texas	Flexwing	Moyes Litespeed S
2003	Bruce Barmakian	Big Spring, Texas	Rigid Wing	Air Atos C
2003	Paris Williams	Big Spring, Texas	Flexwing	Aeros Combat 2
2002	Bruce Barmakian	Wallaby Ranch, Florida	Rigid Wing (Class 5)	Aeros Stalker	4th
2002	Brian Porter	Wallaby Ranch, Florida	Rigid Wing (Class 2)	Bright Star Swift
2002	Paris Williams	Wallaby Ranch, Florida	Flexwing	Icaro Laminar	3rd
2001	Brian Porter	Hearne, Texas	Rigid Wing	Bright Star Swift	2nd
2001	Paris Williams	Hearne, Texas	Flexwing	Icaro Laminar
2000	Brian Porter	Lakeview, Oregon	Rigid Wing	Bright Star Swift
2000	Bo Hagewood	Lakeview, Oregon	Flexwing	Wills Wing Fusion
1999	Brian Porter	Quest Air, Florida	Rigid Wing	Utopia
1999	Jim Lee	Quest Air, Florida	Flexwing	Wills Wing Fusion	5th
1998	Dave Sharp	Dinosaur, Colorado	Rigid Wing	Flight Designs Exxtacy
1998	Chris Arai	Dinosaur, Colorado	Flexwing	Wills Wing Fusion	3rd
1997	Chris Arai	Lakeview, Oregon	One Class	Wills Wing Fusion
1996	Larry Tudor	Dinosaur, CO	One Class	Wills Wing XC	3rd
1995	Chris Arai	Chelan, WA	One Class	Wills Wing XC	2nd
1994	Chris Arai	Mount Princeton, Colorado	One Class	Wills Wing RamAir
1993	Jim Lee	Lakeview, Oregon	One Class	Wills Wing RamAir
1992	Brad Koji	Telluride, Colorado	One Class	Wills Wing HP AT
1991	Tony Barton	Owens Valley, California	One Class	UP TRX
1990	Bruce Case	Dinosaur, Colorado	One Class	Wills Wing HP AT	2nd
1989	Brian Porter	Dunlap, California	One Class	Odyssey
1988	Joe Bostik	Chattanooga, Tennessee	One Class	Wills Wing Sport
1987	Joe Bostik		Overall (on CPS points)	Wills Wing HP II
1987	Howard Osterlund	Owens Valley, California	Meet Winner	Airwave Magic IV
1986	Rick Rawlings		Overall (on CPS points)	Wills Wing HP
1986	Rick Rawlings	Chelan, Washington	World	Wills Wing HP
1986	Mike Daily	Chelan, Washington	Sporting
1985	Rick Rawlings		Overall (on CPS points)	Wills Wing HP
1985	Rick Rawlings	Chelan, Washington	World	Wills Wing HP
1985	Gerry Uchytil	Chelan, Washington	Sporting	Airwave Magic
1984	Stew Smith	Crestline, California	Overall (on CPS points)	Seedwings Sensor 510
1984	Rich Pfeiffer	Crestline, California	World	Seedwings Sensor 510
1984	Terry Wilkins	Crestline, California	Sporting	Wills Wing Duck
1983	Rick Rawlings		Overall (on CPS points)	Wills Wing Duck
1983	Chris Bulger	Dunlap, California	World	Bennett Delta Wing Streak
1983	Lee Fisher	Dunlap, California	Sporting	Seedwings Sensor 510
1982	Rich Burton	Crestline, California	Open	UP Comet
1982	Rich Pfeiffer	Crestline, California	Flexwing	Wills Wing Duck
1981	Fred Hutchinson	Slide Mountain, Nevada	Open	Manta Fledgling IIB
1981	Rich Pfeiffer	Slide Mountain, Nevada	Flexwing	Seedwings Sensor 510
1980	Rex Miller	Ellenville, New York	Open	Manta Fledgling IIB
1980	Tom Haddon	Ellenville, New York	Flexwing	UP Comet
1979	Eric Raymond	Crestline, California	One Class	Manta Fledgling IIB
1978	Dennis Pagen	Hyner View, Pennsylvania	One Class	Sky Sports Sirocco II
1976	Rob Reed	Dog Mountain, Washington	Standard	Bennett Delta Wing 19/13
1976	Keith Nichols	Dog Mountain, Washington	Open	ASG 21
1976	Ken Koklenski	Dog Mountain, Washington	Unlimited	Manta Fledgling
1975	Dave Muehl	Grandfather Mtn, North Carolina	Overall	Eipper 19 x 17
1975	Chris Price	Grandfather Mtn, North Carolina	Open	Price Special
1975	Chris Wills	Grandfather Mtn, North Carolina	Advanced Standard	Wills Wing Swallowtail
1975	Dave Muehl	Grandfather Mtn, North Carolina	Standard	Eipper 19 x 17
1974	Bob Wills	Escape Country, CA	Flexwing	Wills Wing Swallowtail
1974	Jack Schroeder	Escape Country, CA	Rigid Wing	Eipper Quicksilver
1973	Chris Wills	Sylmar, CA	One Class	Wills Wing

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