Ewa Wiśnierska

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Ewa Wiśnierska , (born Cieślewicz ; born December 23, 1971 in Nysa , Poland ) is a paraglider pilot . She was a member of the German national team and won several Paragliding World Cup competitions , including the overall ranking in 2005.

Life

In 2000 Wiśnierska started paragliding in Poland. She has been a competition pilot and member of the German national paragliding team since 2004 . Since her momentous incident in 2007 (see “Special incident”), Ewa Wisnierska has been increasingly committed to more safety in paragliding competition. On December 5, 2007 Wisnierska flew a distance of 300.4 km ( open distance ) in South Africa , setting a new German record (it had previously been 219 km). She decided to make a safe landing so as not to fall into a lee , although she still had enough altitude to glide over the last 4 km to a new world record (302.9 km at the time).

In July 2008 Ewa Wisnierska became European champion. In this competition, too, she remained true to her resolution not to take any increased risks and only fly in safe conditions.

At the World Championships in Valle de Bravo (Mexico) in January 2009, Wisnierska decided to stop the competition early. The conditions were extremely demanding and ultimately claimed the life of pilot Stefan Schmoker from the Swiss team in a tragic accident . Since then, the top athlete has withdrawn from competitions and decided to pass on her knowledge and wealth of experience within the framework of her newly founded flight school and her academy for personality development.

Wiśnierska is a naturopath for psychotherapy, motivational coach and hypnosis therapist. She lives in Aschau im Chiemgau , where she runs a flight school as a paraglider flight instructor. It also offers lectures and seminars on personal development and motivation.

Most important sporting successes

  • 2004 - Paragliding European Championship - 2nd place women
  • 2004 - Int. Swiss Open - 1st place women
  • 2004 - Int. Nordic Open - 2nd place, 1st place women
  • 2004 - Int. German Championship - 6th place, 1st place women
  • 2004 - Int. Berchtesgaden Open - 1st place women
  • 2004 - German Cup - overall victory overall
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Cup - overall victory women
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Cup Portugal - 1st place women
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Cup Italy - 1st place women
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Cup Serbia - 1st place women
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Cup France - 1st place women
  • 2005 - Int. German Championship - 1st place women
  • 2005 - Paragliding World Championship - 2nd place women
  • 2006 - World Paragliding Ranking List - 1st place women
  • 2006 - Paragliding European Championship - 2nd place women
  • 2006 - Paragliding World Cup Austria - 1st place women
  • 2006 - Int. German Championship - 1st place women
  • 2006 - Paragliding World Cup Brazil - 1st place women
  • 2007 - German record open distance 300.4 km
  • 2007 - World Cup Overall - 2nd place women
  • 2007 - World Cup Argentina - 2nd place women
  • 2007 - World Cup Turkey - 2nd place women
  • 2007 - German League - 1st place women
  • 2007 - Schmitten Cup - 6th place overall
  • 2007 - Schmitten Cup - 1st place women
  • 2007 - German Championship - 1st place women
  • 2007 - World Cup Italy - 2nd place women
  • 2007 - Greifenburg Open - 1st place women
  • 2007 - Monarca Open Mexico - 1st place women
  • 2008 - World Paragliding Ranking List - 1st place women
  • 2008 - World Cup overall - 2nd place women
  • 2008 - World Cup Castelo / Brazil - 1st place women
  • 2008 - European Championship - 1st place women
  • 2008 - World Cup Castejon / Spain - 1st place women
  • 2009 - World Paragliding Ranking List - 1st place women
  • 2009 - international Bavarian Championship - 1st place women
  • 2009 - German champion
  • 2009 - German League - 1st place women
  • 2010 - Nepal Paragliding Open - 1st place sport class

Special incident

On February 14, 2007, she flew in training for the World Cup in Australia near a developing overdevelopment . It was sucked in a cumulonimbus cloud at an altitude of over 10,000 m, where temperatures of around −50 ° C prevail. There she temporarily lost consciousness. After a three and a half hour flight, she finally landed 60 km north of the launch site on Mt. Borah. Wiśnierska suffered frostbite on his face, ears and lower legs, but otherwise suffered no serious or permanent injuries. The 42-year-old Chinese paraglider pilot He Zhongpin was killed in the same thunderstorm. Ewa Wiśnierska and the American fighter pilot William Henry Rankin are the only people known to have survived the passage through a cumulonimbus cloud.

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  1. a b Ewa Wisnierska's flight school
  2. Paraglider Cheats Death In Thunderstorm (English, with interview video)
  3. Flight into the death zone Video on spiegel.de accessed on May 21, 2017

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