British Microlight Team Wins Half a Dozen Medals......
1 September 2005The listing was posted by CCPR - General
At the 2005 World Microlight Championships, held at Levroux, near Chateauroux, in France, over the week of 20th to 27th of August, the British Microlight Team won their usual basketful of medals. This year it was two Golds, two Silvers and one Bronze individual medals together with the Team Bronze Medal
The most notable achievement was that of Paul Dewhurst, who, flying with his wife Dawn, took the two seat fixed wing Gold Medal. This brings Paul's tally of medals to eleven, four World Golds, two European Golds, two European Silvers and three European Bronzes. This year's Gold was all the more remarkable in that the Dewhursts, in their rag and tube Sky Ranger, beat seven times World Champion, Philippe Zen of France, who flew with Jose Bertanier in their beautiful, ultra-slick and expensively customised composite microlight, the Pipistrel Sinus.
In the two seat weighshift class reigning European Champions, Rob Grimwood and Chris Saysell, took the Gold in their French manufactured Tanarg, ahead of Hungarians Endre Thuroczy & Gabor Guti and Britain's reigning and three times World Champions, Simon Baker & Anita Holmes, who took the Bronze in their Pegasus Quik. Britain's European Silver medallist, David Broom, flying his dad's Shadow, was beaten into the Silver Medal slot in the solo fixed wing class by the defending World Champion, Denis Chevillet of France, who took the Gold once again in his remakable little Micro B. In the solo weighshift class, Britain's reigning World Champion, Richard Rawes, had a tough time following mechanical problems in the first task, eventually surrendering his title by coming fifth, with Poland's Alojzy Dernbach taking the Gold.
Michel Carnet, who won the Silver Medal in the paramotor class, achieved a notable success by taking Britain's first international medal in this new and rapidly growing microlight category.
The overall Team Gold Medal was won by the strong French team, with the Czechs taking the Team Silver.
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