The prizegiving ceremony was held in a very plush hotel in the heart of Mun Gyeong and was attended by all, including the mayor of the city. The picures show the winners in the order that the prizes were presented. The PWCA would like to thank Mun Gyeong for a wonderful competition.

Enjoy the pictures - the next round is in Denizli Turkey.

PWCA 2009 Asian Female Champions - 2nd Xiangping Hou, 1st Noriko Mizunuma, 3rd Junghun Park

PWCA 2009 Asian Open Champions -   2nd Jinoh Kim, 1st Seyong Jung, 3rd Mooseob Lim

PWCA 2009 - Round 2 - Winning Teams -  Joint 1st Team Cornizzolo Eventi and Advance, 3rd Team Gin

PWCA 2009 - Mun Gyeong,Korea - Open Female Champions - 2nd Noriko Mizunuma, 1st Orlane Sturbois, 3rd Xiangping Hou

PWCA 2009 - Mun Gyeong,Korea - Open Champions - 2nd Denis Cortella, 1st Seyong Jung, 3rd David Ohlidal

Womens winner - Orlane Sturbois (La Plagne - UP France)

Overall Winner - Seyong Jung (Fly GIN)  

Winning Team(s) - Joint First Place

Advance and Cornizzolo Eventi 

ASIA AND OCEANIA OVERALL CHAMPIONS 2009

PWCA  Overall Asian Champion - Seyong Jung (Korea - Fly GIN)

and

PWCA  Women's Asian Champion - Noriko MIZUNUMA (Japan)

PWCA NATIONS RANKING (Round 2)

1st - Korea (11112 points)

2nd - France (10092 points)

3rd - Japan (9618 points)

and finally

ASIA AND OCEANIA PWCA NATIONS RANKING 2009

1st - KOREA

2nd - JAPAN

3rd - CHINA

We were expecting it today - we awoke this morning to low cloud, breezy wind and a definite promise of rain in the air. The take off is obscured in cloud and an early decision has been taken to cancel the day.

The officially published results will be up here shortly - the animation of Task 3 is now available and task 4 will follow soon.

Winning team yesterday were Team UP - who win themselves a free meal for their efforts - this is team UP...

It has proved to be a very tricky task. Final number in goal is 22 and the race was won in a time of 3 hours 6 minutes 10 seconds by David Ohlidal (Czech republic / www.axispara.cz) .

Today's fastest woman made goal in a time of 3 hours 19 minutes and 24 seconds and was Junghun Park (Korea)

Winning team for the task was the UP team

The results are available now from the links above or HERE.

This task is proving to be a tough one. At the moment there are 64 pilots landing short of the goal and, as we write this report, we have just heard that there are 15 pilots in goal and more arriving all the time...

More news later

The sun is out this morning and the wind is staying fairly calm (although it is quite breezy in Mun Gyeong itself). It looks good so far and everyone is on the way to the take-off. There are two days left in this competition and we are hoping to make two more tasks.

As soon as the task is decided it will be posted here - in the meantime, we wanted to show you how we fill up the evenings during a World Cup event. A couple of nights ago Gin hosted a party for the whole competition - we had traditional dancing, drumming and even a dragon - and free beer as well (its tough here but someone has to do it...) - here is a selection of photos from the party.

Its been an excellent day for the Paragliding World Cup - exactly 100 pilots made goal and the task was won in a time of 1 hour 20 minutes 42 seconds by Denis Cortella (France - Kortel Design -  Gin Boomerang 6).

First woman today was Xiangping Hou (China - Niviuk Peak) with a time of 1 hour 36 minutes 13 seconds.

Winning team for the task was the Gin Team

The task is set - it should be task 4 by now but, due to yesterday's cancelled task, it is only task 3.

Its a 48.9km Race to Goal where every second turnpoint is back over the launch. This gives it a star shape which is hard to follow on the map so here is the order...

Launch - D27. Start is a 3km cylinder around P13 then...

Turnpoint 1 - P13
Turnpoint 2 - D27
Turnpoint 3 - P16 (2km Radius)
Turnpoint 4 - D27
Turnpoint 5 - P36
Turnpoint 6 - D27
Turnpoint 7 - P26

And finally to Goal at L25.

The start is at 13:00 and the map is here....

The winds have dropped off a lot this morning and the forecast is looking good for a task today. Everyone is on their way to launch (one or two look a bit sleepy after last night's party...)

The party went well, we had an amazing display of Korean dancing and drumming along with a feast of locally prepared, traditional Mun Gyeong food and free (yes FREE) beer !!!

Many thanks to Gin for organising a wonderful evening. The pictures will be here this afternoon.

The retrieve has been a busy period - since the task was stopped, many pilots simply landed where they were and the busses have been out collecting them. Nearly the whole field is now back at the HQ building.

This evening we have a party in Mun Gyeong - starting at 18:00 - this is a get together for the competitors and organisers and is being hosted by Gin. Look out tomorrow for pictures from this - it promises to be entertaining.