You are correct! It appears that Sebastian Kawa won the 2012 15 Meter Class World Championship at WGC Uvalde 2012 by ONLY 440 points (not quite 600). I don't understand what you mean by gaining half of those points on the final day. It appears that Kawa gained only 7 points on the last day (13). Not to shabby, regardless.

http://wgc2012uvalde.com/index.php?o...110&I temid=7

15m (flapped) and Standard (un-flapped) are arguably the most competitive classes at each of the 2 bi-annual World Championships right now. I imagine this is why Kawa competes in those classes and not 18 meter, yet. 18 meter is probably very close to matching or even surpassing 15 meter as the most competitive class, IMO. But, Poland is fairly nationalistic, and Poland does not have its own 18m glider yet.

In terms of Kawa's fairly uncharacteristic second place finish at the 2014 Standard Class WGC Finland, the weather conditions were very poor in Finland overall except for the final competition day. It was a bit of a crapshoot (from what I heard) and that makes yet another consistent second place finish by Sebastian Kawa even more impressive (for me at least).

I am not sure the fine details matter that much. I stand behind my statement that Kawa's: 1) major contest record (numerous World Championships, FAI Grand Prix, Major European events), 2) consistency (second is a poor contest for him, even at this level), 3) raw talent and 4) ability to be competitive in multiple classes and gliders is something the world has never seen before in the sport of soaring. In fact, nobody else is (or has been) remotely close.

Kawa is the best competition glider pilot ever, by far and without question.. He has the whole world gunning for him every contest. The only question is how long can he maintain this run!