TheEuropean Gliding Championships is agliding competition held every two years.
Gliding is a competitive sport and was even a demonstration sport at the1936 Summer Olympics. It was due to become an official Olympic sport in theHelsinki Games in1940. However, since thewar, gliding has not featured in the Olympics. For gliding, international competition has been provided by theWorld Gliding Championships since 1938 and also by the European Gliding Championships since 1982.
The increased number ofclasses ofglider means that it is no longer possible for all the classes to compete at the same location. The European Glider Aerobatic Championships were added in 1992. They are also held every two years.[1]
Each of the following entries give the year and location of the contest followed by the winner of eachclass, nationality and the glider used.
1st European Women s Gliding Championships in Hungary 1979[8]
2nd European Women s Gliding Championships in France 1981[8]
3rd European Women s Gliding Championships inSaint Hubert (Belgium) 1983[8](originally supposed to be held inOryol (UDSSR))
4th European Women s Gliding Championships inSubotica Yugoslavia 1985[8]
5th European Women s Gliding Championships in Bulgaria 1987[8]
6th European Women s Gliding Championships inOriol (UDSSR) 1989[8]
7th European Women s Gliding Championships inHusbands Bosworth (UK) 1991[8]
8th European Women s Gliding Championships inHosín (CZE)[8]
9th International European Women's Gliding Championships inMarpingen (Germany), 1995[8][9]
10th International European Women's Gliding Championships inPrievidza Slovakia, 1997[8][10]
11th European Women's Gliding Championships inLeszno (Poland), 1999 held in conjunction with the2nd World Class World Championship[8]
TheFAI granted World Championship status to international women's contests in 2001. The 1st World Gliding Championships were held inPociūnai (Lithuania). However, this decision was made rather late so that it was essentially a European contest.[8] For the results of this and the following women's contests refer toWomen's World Gliding Championships.
1st European Junior Gliding Championships in Falköping (Sweden), 1991
2nd European Junior Gliding Championships in La Roche-sur-Yon (France), 1993
3rd European Junior Gliding Championships inLeszno (Poland), 1995[9]
4th European Junior Gliding Championships inMusbach (Germany), 1997[10]
The contests were replaced by theJunior World Gliding Championships in 1999. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the calendar was revised to shift the World and European Gliding Championships by one year, additionally reintroducing the European Junior Gliding Championships in 2021.
5th European Junior Gliding Championships inPociūnai (Lithuania), 2021
6th European Junior Gliding Championships inArnborg (Denmark), 30 July – 11 August 2023[11]
7th European Junior Gliding Championships inPrievidza (Slovakia), 6–19 July 2025[12]
European GliderAerobatic Championships are held every two years, so that they alternate withWorld Glider Aerobatic Championships which are held every two years since 1985.[13] These contests are flown in the unlimited category, only. In 2006, the first European Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships was held inBad Frankenhausen in conjunction with the German Glider Championships in the unlimited and advanced category.[14] The second European Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships were held in conjunction with the 2008 German Glider Aerobatic Championships inRothenburg–Görlitz (26 July 2008 – 3 August 2008).[15]
1st European Glider Aerobatic Championships
2nd European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Rieti (Italy) 1994[16]
3rd FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Pér (Hungary), 27 June 1996 – 6 July 1996[17]
:Mikhail Mamistov (Swift S-1),Sergey Rakhmanin (Swift S-1), Sergei Krikalev (Swift S-1)
:Jerzy Makula (MDM-1 Fox), Adam Michałowski (Swift S-1), Marek Hernik (MDM-1 Fox)
: Martin Stáhalík (MDM-1 Fox), Petr Poborský (MDM-1 Fox), Josef Čech (MDM-1 Fox)4th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Ostrów Wielkopolski (Poland), 19 July 1998 – 2 August 1998[18]
:Jerzy Makula (MDM-1 Fox), Adam Michałowski (Swift S-1), Małgorzata Margańska (Swift S-1): Georgij Kaminski (Swift S-1), Valentin Barabanov (Swift S-1),Alexandr Panfierov (Swift S-1): Petr Poborský (MDM-1 Fox), Přemysl Vávra (MDM-1 Fox), Jiří Peprný (MDM-1 Fox)5th FAI European Glider Aerobatic ChampionshipsSalon de Provence (France), 7 August 2000 – 20 August 2000[19]
:Jerzy Makula, Adam Michałowski, Krzysztof Brząkalik
:Ferenc Tóth, István Matuz, János Szilágyi: Georgij Kaminski,Alexandr Panfierov, Valentin Barabanov6th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Pasewalk (Germany) – 16 July 2002 – 26 July 2002[20][21]
7th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Moravská Třebová (Czech Republic), 6 July 2004 – 18 July 2004[22]
8th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Rybnik (Poland), 19 July 2006 – 29 July 2006[23][24][25]
:Ferenc Tóth (Swift S-1), János Szilágyi (Swift S-1), Szabolcs Kühtreiber (Swift S-1): Georgij Kaminski (Swift S-1), Igor Plakhsin (Swift S-1), Olga Romanenko (Swift S-1)
: Eugen Schaal (MDM-1 Fox),Markus Feyerabend (Swift S-1),Olaf Schmidt (Swift S-1)9th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Radom (Poland), 7 July 2008 – 17 July 2008[26][27][28]
: Přemysl Vávra (Swift S-1), Jan Rozlivka (Swift S-1), Miroslav Červenka (Swift S-1):Alexandr Panfierov (Swift S-1), Georgij Kaminski (Swift S-1), Igor Plakhsin (Swift S-1):Markus Feyerabend (Swift S-1),Olaf Schmidt (Swift S-1), Hans-Georg Resch (Swift S-1)10th FAI European Glider Aerobatic Championships,Jämijärvi (Finland), 17 July 2010 – 24 July 2010[29]
:Ferenc Tóth (Swift S-1), János Szilágyi (Swift S-1), Szabolcs Kühtreiber (Swift S-1)
:Erik Piriou (Swift S-1), Daniel Serres (Swift S-1), Pierre Albertini (Swift S-1): Maciej Pospieszynski (Swift S-1),Jerzy Makula (Solo-Fox),Stanisław Makula (Solo-Fox){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) – Retrieved 2008-01-14