Skopje – The Italian expedition at the 19th European gliding championship ended in a triumph, the stage being the sky above Krushevo and the mountains of Macedonia. The Italian national team, already world champion in Mexico 2015, the eighth world title in its history, graduated yesterday for the fourth time European champion, followed by Hungary and Czech Republic. The world champion Christian Ciech, a pilot from Trentino residing in Varese, also became European champion. Alessandro Ploner of San Cassiano (Bolzano) won the silver medal, the Swiss Peter Neuenschwander got the third place. The rest of the Italian team consisted of Suan Selenati from Sutrio (Udine), Filippo Oppici from Parma, Davide Guiducci fromVilla Minozzo (Reggio Emilia), Tullio Gervasoni from Brescia and coach Flavio Tebaldi from Varese, and has prevailed in seven runs on eight races, 88 km the shortest and 145 km the longest. The time taken to cover them by these aircrafts without motor that stand in the air by exploiting the updrafts was between two and four hours. 88 riders flew representing 22 nations. The hang-glider Laminar, produced by Icaro 2000 in Laveno Mombello (Varese), was the best of wing in the league. (9Colonne)
