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 27th 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
