LA 2024 World Cup Super Final will traditionally take place at the beginning of next year, now, in February 2025. The race will take place of 4. to 15.2. in Roldanillo, Colombia. This year we will watch three Czech pilots at the World Cup superfinal – Jan Jareš, Karel Kůta and Vít Pekárek. 118 pilots will participate in the races.

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#1 Training and registration

The most represented country in this year's Super Final is France (24), followed by the USA (14). Wild cards were awarded this year

Miguel Mondragon from Colombia

Robert Whittall from Great Britain

Bill Hughes from the USA

We wish everyone beautiful flights with safe landings, and both daily reports and results can be followed on the LAA - Sports Results page.

https://www.laacr.cz/2025/02/superfinale-pwc-2024/

Superfinal Roldanillo 2025#2

We have gathered some interesting information for you from the PWC superfinal in Roldanillo. If you have just watched today's task, which punished a huge number of pilots just before the tape (e.g. Julien Wirtz, Celine Lorenz, Damien Lacaze and others landed before crossing the ESS). Not so our pilots, who all finished today.

All three of our pilots are participating in the race in Colombia for the first time and, in their own words, they are getting used to the conditions that are not entirely normal for them. But okay!

Karel, Honza and Vítek are staying about 300 m from the square, where the racing HQ is also located. At 7:30 the guys have breakfast and around 8:00 they load their backpacks into trucks and themselves get on the buses that take them to the start.

The journey takes almost an hour - there is also a closer launch pad, which the pilots tried during training, but now they pass it every day and commute to the more distant one, and it is not uncommon for them to hide from the rain under a shelter, while the tourist pilots, who start from the closer launch pad from HQ, are already in the air, rising and approaching the waiting competitors.

The terrain is very nice, but according to our competitors, not as varied as they are used to from alpine flying, for example. The thermals here operate from the ground, initially weaker, then strengthening to 4–6 m/s and the entire task is flown approximately 600–800/1000 meters above the ground.

The weather here is more or less unpredictable, they go to the start lying in the clouds, it often drizzles and they receive tarps from the organizer to cover their backpacks - but a few dozen minutes later the weather clears and the pilots take off.

We also learned that this year's superfinal is perfectly organized, but the pilots are stacked one behind the other at the finish line, seconds apart, and Kájo is very unhappy with the size of his equipment (S).

Today, Honorin Hamard is first in the ESS, followed by Maxim Pinot, who has thus broken a three-game winning streak. Today, three pilots also receive a penalty for cutting space. Honorin Hamardov, who is the first to score 1000 points in today's task, is in second place overall with a gap of 1,8 points and is well on his way to his 3rd superfinal victory in his life.

Superfinal Roldanillo 2025#3

The pilots enjoyed a day off when their departure was first postponed by 30 minutes in the morning and then the entire task was cancelled. They could relax for the next stage, yesterday. In the afternoon, the field of competitors was educated in 2 lectures (the first on the design of the so-called Equalizer - or wing handicaps and the second on software for measuring wing geometry).

This was the longest task of the entire superfinal so far. Some pilots were quite skeptical about the length of the task (114 km), however Maxim Pinot, currently in charge of the entire race and also a member of the Task Commission, was very positive (If only he had known in advance how it would end….)

The start was announced a little later than usual and the route was set up in such a way that reaching the finish line became the most difficult part of the task. A very similar task with a difficult zigzag before the finish line, where this place put many pilots to shame, was experienced by Czech pilots at the league last year in the Beskydy Mountains. Spectator-attractive difficult reaches are always welcome!

Our pilots stayed with the front part of the race, Kája unfortunately stayed in one place for a longer time and the rest of the race the pilots flew in a small group with other foreign pilots. Unfortunately, he had a fatal southern turning point and did not reach the ESS. However, he was not alone!

Just before ESS, the entire leading group, including Maxime Pinot and Honorine Hammard, was sitting. Many others had already been on the ground long before the course. It was a very difficult task, with the pilots having to avoid the mountains where it was raining. The last pilots had their way from the last turning point completely in the shade and gradually everyone landed.

In the end, the group chasing the front of the race and 17 pilots, including both Czech racers Vít Pekárek and Jan Jares They flew, albeit at a low altitude, but sufficient to reach the goal, over the heads of the favorites. In addition to ours, we could observe the great flight of Constance Mettetal, Julien Wirtz, Dominik Kapica, Mardo Brusetta or Ranjeet Singh and many others.

Eduard Potel, who had been struggling with difficult moments about 16 minutes ago when he almost landed next to Dylan Mansley, also crossed the finish line in 90th place. He managed the situation, spun around, and flew away - certainly not completely satisfied at the time, because even if he continued, the leading group was far away. But this situation beautifully shows that you have to fight until the end!

The crash and the bookmark of this day went well, the pilots are fine, someone probably dropped their tracker during the flight (the already very expensive superfinal will unfortunately become even more expensive), our pilots in the top ten (6th and 8th) and three more tasks ahead of us, weather permitting!

Thanks for the nice show, especially safely of course – but go for it guys!

Superfinal Roldanillo 2025#4 final

The day before yesterday, the penultimate task was canceled and yesterday the competitors set off for the start, but the subsequent time spent on the hill with backpacks at their sides was more like a boating camp, where everyone is trying to get their boat bags and themselves under the sails as quickly as possible.

The weather was not kind to the superfinal, not as many laps were flown as the pilots would have liked, but that's competitive paragliding. Pilots have to work not only on their speed, tactics and patience, but also, together with the organizers, on psychological resilience, humility and respect.

We are very excited about the great success of our pilots and congratulate them.

Czech pilots finished in 25th place in two cases – Jan Jares takes 19th place and Vít Pekárek 22nd place. Karel Kůta leaves Roldanillo in 102nd place.

Honorin Hamard does not dare to take the historic third 1st place from the superfinal, finishing in 4th place and in the same position (i.e. 2x superfinal winners) Maxime Pinot in the Open category and Constance Mettetal in the women's. Constance also took an excellent 6th place overall

In the first three places of the overall competition we can find Maxime Pinot from France, Juan Ospina from Great Britain and Thibault Voglet from Belgium.