1st FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship

European champion Gabriela Slavec

The 1st FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship ( German first FAI hot air balloon - European women ) found in 2010 in the Lithuanian Alytus instead.

European champion was Gabriela Slavec from Slovenia . The silver and bronze medals went to Lindsay Muir from Wales in the United Kingdom and Jolanta Matejczuk from Poland .

course

Vice European Champion Lindsay Muir (2012)

The competition in Alytus was the first balloon sporting event of the highest category in which women competed for the title of the best hot air balloon pilot in Europe. It was carried out according to the guidelines of the FAI from June 15 to 20, 2010. 27 balloonists from 12 European countries took part. The hosts provided the strongest team with eight pilots, ahead of four Polish women and three Russian women . Germany, Latvia and the United Kingdom were each represented with two balloonists. Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine each took one participant . Kristina Sunaitiene and Giedre Luksaite from Lithuania started with the start numbers “1” and “2” ahead of the junior Elisabeth Kindermann from Graz . The competition management was with the Dutchman Mathijs De Bruijn.

Due to the weather, five trips with 15 tasks could be carried out over three days. As the wind direction changed, two tasks were canceled and the goals changed during the journey on the early morning of June 18th. For the same reason, three tasks were replaced by two tests with different goals in the evening. The trip on the morning of June 19 had to be canceled.

After the fifth and final run, Slavec was ahead of Muir and Matejczuk. The best Lithuanian was Kristina Sunaitiene in fourth place ahead of Kristine Vevere from Latvia . Elisabeth Kindermann from Austria came in seventh place, the German pilots "Dolly" Deimling and Astrid Carl in places 12 and 19. Switzerland had not registered any female pilot.

In the assessment, the participants and the competition director gave positive feedback about the event. The Lithuanian organization team had done a good job and selected a suitable venue. Thanks to good weather conditions, it was possible to advertise attractive and demanding tasks. These included two pure logger tasks (driving an elbow and land a triangle). The other tasks were mainly marker drops over target crosses, with half of the competition participants lying within the evaluation area. However, it was unusual for a female pilot to dance in the basket when she hit the target. - Dolly Deimling and Julija Romanovskaja from Lithuania won the first task of the first drive with 1000 points each, as their markers both hit 32 centimeters from the center of the target cross.

It was agreed that the first FAI Women's World Championship would be held in Latvia in 2011. - This plan could not be realized because the women's hot air balloon championship could only take place in 2014 in Leszno , Poland .

Day	journey	tasks	Remarks
June 16	0
17th of June	1 - in the morning	5
17th of June	2 - in the evening	2
18th of June	3 - in the morning	3 (of 5)	Shortened trip
18th of June	4 - in the evening	2 (of 3)	Changed tasks
June 19th	0 - in the morning		Trip canceled
June 19th	5 - in the evening	3
20th June	0 - in the morning		Reserve day

Results

rank	pilot	nation	Points	Task victories
1	Gabriela Slavec	Slovenia	11,488	1
2	Lindsay Muir	United Kingdom	10,778	3
3	Jolanta Matejczuk	Poland	10,701	2
4th	Kristina Sunaitiene	Lithuania	10,671
5	Kristine Vevere	Latvia	10,404	1
6th	Ewa Prawicka	Poland	9999	2
7th	Elisabeth Kindermann	Austria	9781	2
8th	Giedre Luksaite	Lithuania	9514
9	Ann Herdewyn	Belgium	9339
10	Beata Choma	Poland	9291	1
11	Rita Naujaliene	Lithuania	8981
12	Dolores Deimling	Germany	8965	1
13	Daiva Rakauskaitė	Lithuania	8685
14th	Ekaterina Larikova	Russia	8259	2
15th	Inga Igaune	Latvia	7879
16	Asta Kauspedaitė	Lithuania	7488	1
17th	Majka Zubrycka	Poland	7253
18th	Iryna Nikolaieva	Ukraine	7197
19th	Astrid Carl	Germany	7144
20th	Renata Narbutė	Lithuania	7099
21st	Galina Stegalina	Russia	7080
22nd	Almut Dunnington	United Kingdom	6235
23	Julia Romanovskaya	Lithuania	6145	1
24	Jolanta Turaitė	Lithuania	5646
25th	Helena Sa	Portugal	5538
26th	Marie Travnikova	Czech Republic	4668	(1)
27	Victoria Sletova	Russia	4429

See also

• 4th FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship in Leszno, Poland (2017)

Web links

• Official final result (PDF)
• Detailed individual ratings (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} fai.org: Success for the 1st FAI-Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship. (English, notification from July 1, 2010; accessed May 31, 2020)
2. ↑ See the annotated exercise sheet at www.debruijn.de (English, the page cannot be linked directly).