{"id":48741,"date":"2013-10-25T01:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=48741"},"modified":"2024-07-23T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:58:46","slug":"perfect-weather-for-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/10\/25\/perfect-weather-for-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Weather For Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48885\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48885\" title=\"20131024 Gliding Championships\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Georgeson, from Kingaroy, was amongst the top pilots in the 18m class going into the second last day of competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>October 25, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kingaroy&#8217;s weather may not have been much good for farmers lately, but it&#8217;s been almost perfect for gliders and the top-class field of competitors that the 52nd Australian Multiclass Nationals\u00a0gliding championships brought to town.<\/p>\n<p>The national championships, which wind up today, has attracted 54 entrants, including five pilots who competed at the World Gliding championships at Uvalde, Texas, last year.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve come from all over Australia &#8211; and \u00a0New Zealand, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands &#8211; to test their skills in four classes: Standard, 15m, 18m and Open.<\/p>\n<p>The competition officially began on Tuesday, October 15, after a practice session the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Since then they have been able to fly every day, except one when there was some slight rain hanging around in the morning. \u00a0However, as they were due for a &#8220;rest&#8221; day anyway, no one seemed to mind.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots have been assigned different tasks to complete on each day of the competition. \u00a0The fastest each day over the course wins that leg of the competition, with points accumulating for the overall winner.<\/p>\n<p>The overall Championship winners should be known this evening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48886\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48886\" title=\"20131024 Gliding Championships\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danish pilot Arne Boye-Moller has been setting the pace in the 18m and Open classes leading into the last two days of competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48887\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48887\" title=\"20131024 Gliding Championships\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingaroy Soaring Club member Greg Kolb lands his Open class glider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48888\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-48888\" title=\"20131024 Gliding Championships\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding4.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131024gliding4-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competition director Neil Dunn with Kingaroy Soaring Club member Peter Summerfeldt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>More photos on the Gliding Federation of Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.541952762553096.1073741838.520154441399595&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED October 25]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Results after Day 10:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Greg Beecroft (WA) 8783<br \/>\n2. Matt Gage (Vic) 8028<br \/>\n3. Tim Wilson (Vic) 7791<\/p>\n<p><strong>15m<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Matthew Scutter (SA) 8084<br \/>\n2. Mak Ichikawa (NSW) 7943<br \/>\n3. Peter Trotter (Qld) 7925<\/p>\n<p><strong>18m<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Tom Claffey (NSW) 8563<br \/>\n2. John Buchanan (Qld) 8420<br \/>\n3. Arne Boye-Moller (Denmark) 8276<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Tom Claffey (NSW) 8566<br \/>\n2. John Buchanan (Qld) 8430<br \/>\n3. Arne Boye-Moller (Denmark) 8253<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingaroy&#8217;s weather may not have been much good for farmers lately, but it&#8217;s been almost perfect for gliders and the top-class field of competitors that the 52nd Australian Multiclass Nationals gliding championships brought to town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":48885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,1824,3,6],"tags":[617,21],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perfect Weather For Champions - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/10\/25\/perfect-weather-for-champions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Perfect Weather For Champions - 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