2009 United States Paragliding Nationals – Utah

Part two of the United States Paragliding Nationals was held in Salt Lake City Utah at the Point of the Mountain Flight Park. Event organizers scheduled seven competition days between August 16-22.

This is the second half of the US Paragliding Nationals with the first half of the US Paragliding Nationals being held in Dunlap California between April 27^th and May 3rd earlier this year.

Great weather allowed for flying a task everyday which lead to a high scoring event.

According to our calculations (by the way which may or may not be correct) Brad Gunnuscio is the new national champion followed by Eric Reed and Jack Brown. Josh Cohn finished in fourth.

We will be updating this with official results when they are known.

Task 5

August 21, 2009

Josh Cohn won his second task at Salt Lake City but with a mediocre showing at Dunlap, he will be pressed to get on the podium.
Task 5 results are here

Top 10 Unofficial Combined Results – Open Class – Dunalp and SLC
Each Pilots gets to drop one task from each venue as long as four tasks are flown. Grand totals below reflect dropped tasks.
Pilot	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	Grand Total
	Dunlap					SLC
Brad Gunnuscio	995	993	963	892	154	507	764	791	911	985	7294
Eric Reed	770	951	898	889	155	781	146	894	909	841	6933
Jack Brown	984	900	958	429	146	542	737	822	808	783	6421
Nate Scales	866	786	982	421	311	799	786	859	470	833	6332
Josh Cohn	824	970	225	718	288	716	800	976	498	1000	6292
Rob Sporrer	833	741	960	1000	82	256	188	619	400	829	5638
Andy Macrae	812	706	867	565	82	265	598	376	676	848	5448
Matt Dadam	166	680	369	887	204	690	797	674	422	838	5139
Pine Pienaar	614	721	865	646		135	414	160	669	129	4224
Bill Hughes	447	666	980	485	159	257	328	368	406	468	4148

Task 4

August 20, 2009

Mads Syndergaard from Denmark won his second task of the competition. Brad Gunnuscio finished 3rd and is still holding a slim lead in the overall.
Task 4 results are here

Top 10 Unofficial Combined Results – Open Class – Dunalp and SLC
Each Pilots gets to drop one task from each venue as long as four tasks are flown. Grand totals below reflect dropped tasks.
Pilot	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T1	T2	T3	T4	Grand Total
	Dunlap					SLC
Brad Gunnuscio	995	993	963	892	154	507	764	791	911	6309
Eric Reed	770	951	898	889	155	781	146	894	909	6092
Jack Brown	984	900	958	429	146	542	737	822	808	5638
Nate Scales	866	786	982	421	311	799	786	859	470	5499
Josh Cohn	824	970	225	718	288	716	800	976	498	5292
Rob Sporrer	833	741	960	1000	82	256	188	619	400	4809
Andy Macrae	812	706	867	565	82	265	598	376	676	4600
Matt Dadam	166	680	369	887	204	690	797	674	422	4263
Pine Pienaar	614	721	865	646	0	135	414	160	669	4089
Bill Hughes	447	666	980	485	159	257	328	368	406	3680

Task 3

August 19, 2009

Josh Cohn, Matt Beechinor, and Eric Reed took the top three spots in task 3. Josh narrowly edge out Matt by 7 seconds for first place.
Task 3 results are here

Top 10 Unofficial Combined Results – Open Class – Dunalp and SLC
Each Pilots gets to drop one task from each venue as long as four tasks are flown. Grand totals below reflect dropped tasks.
Pilot	Dunlap Task 1	Dunlap Task 2	Dunlap Task 3	Dunlap Task 4	Dunlap Task 5	SLC Task 1	SLC Task 2	SLC Task 3	Grand Total
	Dunlap					SLC
Brad Gunnuscio	995	993	963	892	154	507	764	791	5905
Nate Scales	866	786	982	421	311	799	786	859	5499
Jack Brown	984	900	958	429	146	542	737	822	5372
Eric Reed	770	951	898	889	155	781	146	894	5329
Josh Cohn	824	970	225	718	288	716	800	976	5292
Rob Sporrer	833	741	960	1000	82	256	188	619	4597
Matt Dadam	166	680	369	887	204	690	797	674	4301
Andy Macrae	812	706	867	565	82	265	598	376	4189
Pine Pienaar	614	721	865	646		135	414	160	3555
Bill Hughes	447	666	980	485	159	257	328	368	3531

Task 2

August 18, 2009

Mads Syndergaard of Denamrk won task two by more than twenty minutes over verteran competition pilot Josh Cohn.

Mads now is in first in the overall (for Salt Lake City) followed by Nates Scales and Josh Cohn.

Remember that these scores will be combined with the results from Dunlap. Mads did not compete in Dunlap so he is over 3,000 points behind the leaders at the end of task two.

Task 2 results are here

Task 1

August 17, 2009

American Nate Scales out flew the gaggle to win the first task of the second half of the nationals. A total of 11 pilots made goal in this 31 mile task.

Task 1 results are here

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