Israeli Pilot retained first position on Day four of Para event

Dharmasala:Itay Takserman of Israel again made it to the first spot on Day four of the International, FAI (CAT II) and Himalayan National Paragliding Championship with Gurpreet Singh Dhindsa from India and Denis Velikov of Russia being on second and third place respectively as per the results declared Friday.
Dilip Kotecha and Raj Kumar were the two Indians who made their place in the first ten remaining on fourth and ninth position correspondingly. The foreign pilots were again successful in dominating the competition on Day four with three lady Para glider pilots Anna Darchenkova, Karina Sharipova from Russia and Daniela Mladenova from Bulgaria who figured in the list. The final ratings would be done on the last day of the competition after calculating the total scores of the pilots over the given five tasks till 22nd October, 2011.
“ As far as safety measures are concerned the Rescue and Retrieval by the organizers as what I have observed is second best in the world after Greece”, said Alexey Boldrev, a competitor from Russia.
There were safe landings of all the pilots at the end of the day.
Friday the windows opened at 12 noon and closed at 1.15 PM, with the task of covering air distance of 56.5 kilometers right from the take-off site to soar over Mihara village, Dam site, Utrala Train Station at Jogindernagar, Red roof temple to finally land at goal at Bir.
21/10/11 Bijender Sharma/PunjabNewsline.com

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