The entire main street of Manilla was closed to traffic for the closing ceremonies. We started off with a free steak BBQ at Vic and Tom’s, and then moved outside to the street party for the awards:
1st Nation: Czech Republic
2nd Nation: France
3rd Nation: Switzerland
Canada 19th Nation
1st Women: Petra Slivova(Czech)
2nd Women: Viv Williams (Australia)
3rd Women: Harmony Gaw (New Zealand)
1st Men: Bruce Goldsmith (UK)
2nd Men: Jean-Marc Caron (France)
3rd Men: Tom McCune (USA))
Canadian rankings:
Keith McCullough: 51st
Will Gadd: 77th
Nicole McLearn: 114th
All in all Canada did better at this Worlds compared to Brazil. All of us made goal at least once, and the conditions here were very difficult compared to the usual Manilla flying. I learned a lot more about comp flying and am very glad I came, but now I’m ready to go back home and fly for fun. Everyone is leaving tomorrow; I’ll be in Sydney for a few more days and then back in Vancouver next week. Hopefully by then the rain back home will have ceased!
Nicole
4 comments:
Well done to all three of you. And thanks for the blogging! Some great comments and insights. Brings it alive for us back here in the rain. Sounds like a pretty tough gaggle battles at times with the poor conditions. Glad you all went to the xc comp, and really got some strong flying too!
Cheers,
Alex Raymont
Congrats you three! Bummer that classic Manilla conditions weren't the norm for you guys. Safe travels back.
Jayson
Thanks for all the reporting, and congratulations on the great flying and especially on the great attitude. See you all soon I hope.
-Bill
GOOD WORK TEAM CANADA!!
Looking at the National Team scoring, Canada placed ahead of some pretty accomplished PG nations!! Sounded like the overall trip including the XC Challenge was worthwhile. Glad to hear the last task ended up working out and being fun.
Way yo go!! See you guys & gals at the Canuck comps this summer!
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