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Throughout the day on Saturday pilots performed precision tests, gain in height, permanence and combined female flight

A test that characterizes Guadalentín Sports Games is paragliding because, year after year, it becomes the most striking activity throughout the year, as it meets three important features required of all risky sport: show adventure and striking.

This year, after two weeks trial postponed due to weather conditions, the XIX National Meeting of Paragliding met during the day on Saturday to 28 participants who flew through the sky Lorca trying to get the aircraft.

Throughout the day on Saturday pilots from Alhama, Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras, Lorca, Cieza and Murcia, as neighboring towns like Elche and Huercal Overa, among others, they sailed the skies of the city doing amazing stunts, accompanied by a good weather this time it stopped developing the test without any problem, except for a delay to start the air direction.

Departing from the Peñarrubia arrival in the athletics track of the Sports Complex of La Torrecilla, the evidence for accuracy, high gain, permanence in flight and female combined, the latter test that scores all the flights were held females throughout the competition.

From 12:30 in the morning, since the competition began late in the wind, until 14:30 hours and from 16:30 to 19:30 hours, participants flew over the city to then proceed to the awards ceremony and then to the coexistence among all participants is own brand of test.

These were the results:

Height Gain

1. Jesus Costa

1349 meters on takeoff

2. Cristian Barrionuevo

1230 meters on takeoff

3. Rafael Nicolas

1,130 meters above the takeoff

Stay in flight

1. Federico Nunez

1 hour 39 minutes

2. Ginés Moreno

1 hour 14 minutes

3. Juan Antonio Martinez

55 minutes

Accuracy

1. Javier Peñarrubia

1,500 points

2. Giovanni Valencia

1,000 points

3. Pedro Ignacio Velazquez

500 points

Women

1. Inma Peyadró

3,000 points

2. Ana Belen Perez

1,500 points

3. Alba Samarra

1,000 points

Source: Juegos deportivos del Guadalentín