Entschuldigung! I am sorry

Wegen einer "Person im Gleis" *) vor dem ICE hatte ich eine chaotische Rückfahrt und konnte diesen Bericht nicht mehr am Dienstag vollenden. Dies soll am Mittwoch und Donnerstag geschehen.

The blog will be completed on Wednesday & Thursday. - A person tried to kill itsself and stopped my train ...

Rudolf H. Böttcher

*) Sie kam nicht zu Schaden, aber die Verspätungen und Folgen etc. war erheblich.

1st Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship 2014

The Price Giving Ceremony

Here are the Champions:

Nicola Scaife, Australia, 1st World Champion
Elisabeth Kindermann, Austria, Silver Medal
Agne Simonaviciute, Lithuania, Bronce Medal

The Champions 2014
Rank 1 - 10

Best Balloon Team of 1st Women's

Lithuania 

a small nation, but rather big in ballooning!

eine kleine Nation, aber wirklich groß im Ballonsport!

Agne Simonaviciute, Bronce Medal

Daiva Rakauskaite, rank 6

Kristina Sunaitiene, rank 16
Rita Naujaliene, rank 18

MORE PHOTOS, YOUTUBE-CLIPS & LINKS TO FOLLOW.

Winners and Teams - A Foggy Day

Day 5, No Flight

 [Task Data Sheet Flight 6]

First Women's 

Worldchampion

Nicola Scaife

Australia

12 489 points

Second

Elisabeth Kindermann

Austria

12 401 points

Third

Agne Simonaviciute

Lithuania

11 362 ponits

Fourth

Dolly Deimling

Germany

10 881 points

Konkurrentinnen, die in der Mannschaft zusammenarbeiten:
Elise Kloss (links) und Dolly Deimling

Fifth

Elise Kloss

Germany

10 837 points

Sixth

Daiva Rakauskaite

Lithuania

10 647 points

The Team of Our Hearts

Poland

MORE PHOTOS, YOUTUBE-CLIPS & LINKS TO FOLLOW.

A Fantastic Evening with Mroz in Dolsk

Day 4, Flight 5
Tag 4, Fahrt 5

Winners of the Day: Ann & Agne

More Photos to Follow!

Cancelation of morning briefing - Results

Day 4 - No morning Flight.

11.37  Balloon Drying in the Sun

Please learn a Polish word: "Słońce". It's the SUN, - difficult to pronounce, but she is back!

The Polish PUCHASZ sailplane - I will tell more ...

Tyskie Beer Balloon Extra Dry

Beata Choma

Television and TravelPhoto.pl

Kelly Cook, USA

Auch Sylvia Meinl muss die Hülle trocknen ...

Five hours earlier ...

6:37

A grey morning at the Leszno Airfield. 

Results

6.33 - Do you want to fly?

There is a FreeFlyCenter - Wind Tunnel Leszno at the airfield.
More information on: www.TuSieLata.pl.

A grey and wet morning
the wind tunnel in the background ...

Hot Air Balloon Sport in the Rain

Day 3, Flight 4 / Tag 3, Fahrt 4:

A day with 5 tasks on the data sheet - the rain started at the end of the first task.
Hot Air Balloon Sport in the Rain. - All pilots landed safely, but there had been failures at the electronic equipment.

The Event Director decided to cancel all tasks of this flight for safety reasons:
[Cancelation of all tasks in flight 4 (pdf)]

Elisabeth Kindermann (Austria) did an excellent job, she finished all the tasks with good results. After her complaint and protest, the Jury decided: "The Jury requires the Event Director to score the tasks in Flight 4." Elisabeth Kindermann, has been first in Task 14 (Fly On) and might be Winner of Flight 4.
[Complaint & Protest and Jury Decision]

Susan Stamats, USA,best in Minimum Double Drop

Nicola Scaife (Australia) is also a goddess in 3 dimensions - she flew the best donut (Task 13).
Susan Stamats (USA) made the best Minimum Double Drop; this task was solved only by Her, Sanne, Lindsay and Rita from Hungary (Task 10).

Waltzing Germany: The best Hesitation Waltz' was shown by Sylvia Meinl (Sindelfingen) and Dolly Deimling (Frankenthal), who is now ranking third (Task 12 & Task 11).

Three Polish pilots are close together now: Ewa Prawicka (rank 13), Daria Dudkiewicz (rank 14) and Beata Choma (rank 15).

September Nine - Eleven:
In Leszno is taking place a peaceful contest between American and Russian ladies. - The American team had been so kind to offer nine competition maps to the pilots, who lost their maps due to the rain. - Thank you.

Julia Seleznava, Russia (Tula Region) - left)
Meg Skelton, USA (Curves)
Maria Sadkovskaya, Russia (aeronavt)

Nicola Scaife (left) and Elisabeth Kindermann (right) are leading
 in the ranking, will Lindsay Muir attack today?

Beata Choma, today the Polish Elevator
Balloon: Kubicek Tyskie, SP-BEA

[YouTube: Beata Choma, Flight 4a] see above

[YouTube: Beata Choma, Flight 4b] see above

[YouTube: Beata Choma, Flight 1]

[Task Data Sheet Flight 4] (pdf.)

Results in the following posts are updated (3 flights, 9 tasks only).

Nightglow at the Speedway Stadium - Ballonglühen

Better than any words:

The nightglow was taking place in the Speedway Stadium of Leszno.
Das Ballonglühen fand im Speedway Stadion von Leszno statt.

1st FAI Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship
Leszno 2014, Poland


© Text & Fotos:  Rudolf H. Boettcher

Day 2, The evening - Tag 2, Der Abend

No flight!

The officials had sceptical faces - an additional briefing was held - under blue sky - the METEO promised rain - but when? Black flag - No evening flight. - The rain started just after the nightglow.

[TDS Flight 4 - CANCELLED]

1st FAI Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship
Leszno 2014, Poland 

© Text & Fotos:  Rudolf H. Boettcher

Day 2, Third Flight - Tag 2, Fahrt 3: Dolly und Elise fahren nach vorne

Five balloons queing up on task seven

Winner of Flight 3:  Nicole Vogel, SUI

Results (Total):
(13:05 / Sep. 10)

1. Nicola Scaife  AUS  8 058
2. Elisabeth Kindermann  AUT  7 053
3. Elise Kloss  GER  6 538
4. Dolly Deimling  GER  6 457

Who will win - Australia or Austria - Down under or ...? 
Etwas Dramatik bei den Resultaten Elise und Dolly tauschten nach der Auswertung der 9 Aufgabe die Plätze. - Daria (Foto folgt) überholte Beata.

Nicola Scaife,
Australia, ranking 1st
Winner of task 2 & 9

.

Elisabeth Kindermann
Austria, ranking 2nd

Elise Kloss, Germany, ranking 3rd,
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur 2. 1000!
Winner of task 5 & 7: 1000 points!

Dolly Deimling,
Germany, ranking 4th

Our Polish hosts: 
Daria Dudkiewicz advanced to rank 8 with 5 721 points; 
Beata Choma to rank 10 with 5 593 points.

Beata Choma, Polska
rank 10

Sept. 10, 13:05

Total of all scored tasks.					Flt 1			Flt 2			Flt 3
Ra.	Nr.	Competitor	NAC	Total	1 JDG	2 HWZ	3 RTA	4 FIN	5 HWZ	6 HWZ	7 HWZ	8 HWZ	9 FON
1	1	Nicola SCAIFE	AUS	8058	905	1000	950	994	854	640	848	867	1000
2	2	Elisabeth KINDERMANN	AUT	7053	408	754	963	997	950	289	855	910	927
3	10	Elise KLOSS	GER	6538	859	447	421	571	1000	555	1000	956	729
4	11	Dolores DEIMLING	GER	6457	908	821	289	500	773	770	872	958	566
5	18	Agne SIMONAVICIUTE	LTU	6079	590	547	950	526	708	970	26	993	769
6	28	Nicole VOGEL	SUI	6006	263	613	938	474	237	701	936	844	1000

[Results]
[Task Data Sheet Flight 3] (pdf)

1st FAI Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship
Leszno 2014, Poland 


© Text & Fotos:  Rudolf H. Böttcher

Day 1, Second Flight - Tag 1, die 2. Fahrt and a rollcall in a lost place

It's fine but windy:
Best in this place - the alley, nothing else ...
The officials are working: New Weather - new coordinates.
Security Conference.
Roll Call.

Winner of Flight 2:  Mariya Sadkovskaya, Russia

Ranking after 2 Flights and 6 Tasks

Nicola Scaife, Australia
Openining Ceremony
Leszno, Polska

1	1	Nicola SCAIFE	AUS	5343	905	1000	950	994	854	640
2	25	Ekaterina LARIKOVA	RUS	4738	749	882	788	936	738	645
3	2	Elisabeth KINDERMANN	AUT	4335	408	754	963	997	950	263
4	24	Diana NASONOVA	RUS	4300	771	342	813	874	500	1000
5	18	Agne SIMONAVICIUTE	LTU	4291	590	547	950	526	708	970
6	11	Dolores DEIMLING	GER	4061	908	821	289	500	773	770
7	38	Ewelina HELAK	POL	4002	691	677	395	754	526	959
8	23	Mariya SADKOVSKAYA	RUS	3925	667	500	53	1000	778	927
9	36	Beata CHOMA	POL	3867	500	237	447	997	757	929
10	9	Astrid CARL	GER	3860	316	821	763	395	654	911
11	10	Elise KLOSS	GER	3853	859	447	421	571	1000	555
12	20	Daria DUDKIEWICZ	POL	3849	768	528	316	867	632	738
13	8	Sylvia MEINL	GER	3835	899	800	913	303	368	552
14	5	Marija MIKLOUSIC	CRO	3742	645	797	938	967	237	158
15	16	Akari SUE	JAP	3452	184	79	1000	899	922	368
16	21	Rita NAUJALIENE	LTU	3443	630	474	111	956	983	289
17	13	Rita BECZ	HUN	3414	368	263	551	776	682	774
18	6	Marketa OLSANOVA	CZE	3379	596	714	938	184	421	526
19	26	Julia SELEZNEVA	RUS	3213	700	368	79	677	606	783
20	3	Ann HERDEWYN	BEL	3205	581	779	950	158	316	421
21	28	Nicole VOGEL	SUI	3200	263	613	938	474	211	701
22	19	Kristina SUNAITIENE	LTU	3178	39	972	368	715	768	316
23	17	Daiva RAKAUSKAITE	LTU	3117	211	289	487	992	691	447
24	37	Ewa PRAWICKA-LINKE	POL	2949	447	316	863	303	395	625
25	33	Kelli COOK	USA	2908	289	526	526	342	474	751
26	27	Nataliia IVANOVA	RUS	2711	1000	955	387	211	79	79
27	30	Joanna BIEDERMANN	POL	2685	526	421	463	263	447	565
28	22	Sanne HAARHUIS	NED	2318	621	829	237	105	184	342
29	34	Meg SKELTON	USA	2166	158	211	58	368	871	500
30	29	Janet HAASE	SUI	2164	342	769	526	237	158	132
31	35	Debby YOUNG	USA	2031	105	132	925	132	263	474
32	32	Christine BERTSCH	USA	1882	79	184	751	421	342	105
33	12	Karin CYROL	GER	1815	39	53	184	855	289	395
34	31	Susan STAMATS	USA	1735	651	557	132	53	105	237
35	7	Lindsay MUIR	GBR	1567	408	395	342	79	132	211
36	15	Rieko SHINGO	JAP	1565	474	158	5	850	39	39
37	4	Mary-Anne STEVENS	CAN	1511	237	26	26	447	591	184
38	14	Tomoko KURAHASHI	JAP	604	132	105	263	26	39	39

[Results]

Task 1 - Judge declared goal

1. Nataliia Ivanova  1000
2. Dolly Deimling   908
3. Nicola Scaife     905

Task 2 - Hesitation waltz

1. Nicola Scaife  AUS 1000
2. Kristina Sunaitiene  LIT  972
3. Nataliia Ivanova  RUS  955

Nataliia Ivanova,  Russia
Winner of the first task

Task 3 - Race to an area

1. Akari Sue  JAP  1000
2. Elisabeth Kindermann  AUT   963
3. Nicola Scaife  AUS  950

Task 4 - Fly In

1. Mariya Sadkovskaya  RUS  1000
2. Elisabeth Kindermann  AUT   997
3. Beata Choma  POL  997

Beata Choma, Poznan,
Polska / Poland

Task 5 - Hesitation waltz

1. Elise Kloss  GER  1000
2. Rita Naujaliene  LTU  983
3. Elisabeth Kindermann  AUT   997

Elise Kloss, Germany
Winner of the fifth task

Task 6 - Hesitation waltz

1. Diana Nasonova  RUS  1000
2. Agne Simonaviciute  LTU  970
3. Ewelina Helak  POL  959

Diana Nasonova,
Moscow area, Russia

Ewelina Helak, Wrocław
Polska / Poland