Kawa.....

Originally Posted by Sean Fidler

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.

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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!

I would venture that it's not without question. There have been other excellent pilots both in the past and at present that have excellent contest winning pedigree.

There have been some e.g. Sue Kussbach, Ingo Renner, George Lee and Michael Sommer, that I can think off, that have won 3 world titles in a row in the same class. Not an easily achieved feat and one that Kawa has yet to do.

I take nothing away from Sebastian, in fact if there was betting involved my money would be on him (saw him fly the SGP final at Omarama in 2007). He's my pick as winner in whatever contest he flies and he does seem to fly a lot. I actually wonder what his winning percentage is over all the National level and higher comps he's been in.

As a side note and probably worthy of a thread it's own is 'how good is the variety of gliders span wise that are competitive in the open these days?'

:-) Colin

You can add another WC to Kawa's resume today...by over 300 pts. BTW, the new 18M champ is a Pole too.

A Diana2, a JS-1, and an EB-29.
A SH shutout at this WC.

Correction ASG-29, not JS-1

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 2:11:08 PM UTC-4, wrote:
You can add another WC to Kawa's resume today...by over 300 pts. BTW, the new 18M champ is a Pole too.

Absolutely amazing. He was close to the top in the poor weather (early in the event) and pulled away once it got better. I don't think many fully appreciate how difficult it is to win this many world level competitions (in various classes, gliders and formats).

Congratulations Sebastian!