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World Air Games - World Class ie Smyk
The 1st World Air Games were held in Turkey in September 1997. The Games covered a wide range of aviation sports, including balloons, micro lights, acrobatics and gliding. The World Class event was held at Inonu, Turkey and over 40 different Smyk gliders with pilots from over 20 countries were brought together, from all over the world. The rarest example was the one and only Indonesian Smyk "INA" - if you have a photo of this machine please contact me.
The top three finishers were as follows - 1st World Class Championship
1st Frederic Hoyeau of France ( F-CICB )
2nd Julien Henry of France ( F-CICC )
3rd Jesper Engstrom of Sweden ( SE-UPV )
The following three images from the 1 st World Air Games were sent to me by Mustafa Kabasakal of Turkey
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Smyks gather |
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The competiton "Grid" |
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Winch Launch up she goes |
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Competitors take a breather - this is an Italian crew |
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Winch launch in progress |
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The "fleet" before launch - here we can see "PV" - the Russian Smyk |
The Competitors and Final Placings at the 1st WAG, were as follows ( with thanks to Piero Morelli for this data )
| Name | Nationality | Smyk | Final Position |
| Tom Gilbert | Australia | ZK-GAT | 10th |
| Maurie Bradney | Australia | ZK-GZX | 18th |
| Shinzo Takizawa | Australia | ZK-GJO | 11th |
| Jochen Kroitzsch | Austria | OE-5604 | 15th |
| Dimas Carvalho | Brasil | ZK-GSD | 39th |
| Peter Volf | Brasil | OE-5651 | 38th |
| Petr Krejciric | Czech Rep | OE-5628 | 21st |
| Ole Arndt | Denmark | OY-XSV | 12th |
| Mads Lykke | Denmark | OY-XUC | 27th |
| Julien Henry | France | F-CICC | 2nd |
| Frederic Hoyeau | France | F-CICB | 1st |
| Henry Rebbeck | England | BGA 4311 | 23rd |
| Jay Rebbeck | England | BGA 4325 | 19th |
| Bruno Gantenbrink | Germany | D-8843 | 14th |
| Gudrun Haas | Germany | D-3180 | 42nd |
| Diether Memmert | Germany | D-0060 | 7th |
| Bela Kassai | Hungary | HA-3600 | 25th |
| Gabor Halasi | Hungary | ZK-GVF | 22nd |
| Wiwin Anggono | Indonesia | "INA" | 43rd |
| Rafi Lusky | Israel | 4X-GAM | 31st |
| Luca Urbani | Italy | OE-5650 | 26th |
| Nino Perotti | Italy | OE-5649 | 16th |
| Leonardo Brigliadori | Italy | OE-5638 | 8th |
| Motoharu Oda | Japan | ZK-GES | 28th |
| Vyatutas Sabeckis | Lithuania | LY-GUA | 5th |
| Gintaras Dravinskas | Lithuania | LY-GFF | 7th |
| Jeroen Kole | Netherlands | PH-1042 | 9th |
| Hans Biesters | Netherlands | PH-1041 | 4th |
| Stewart Barton | New Zealand | ZK-GSB | 37th |
| Brian Chesterman | New Zealand | ZK-GPD | 41st |
| Bill Walker | New Zealand | ZK-GSJ | 40th |
| Janusz Centka | Poland | SP-3621 | 13th |
| Pawel Frackowiak | Poland | SP-3622 | 20th |
| Pedro A D Sa'e Melo | Portugal | SP-3603 | 34th |
| Tamara Sviridova | Russia | ZK-GKF | 24th |
| Vladimir Panafutin | Russia | "PV" | 32nd |
| Pedro Toquero | Spain | EC-GPZ | 29th |
| Jesper Engstrom | Sweden | SE-UPV | 3rd |
| Bengt Gook | Sweden | SE-ULU | 17th |
| Metin Ozbey | Turkey | TC-PFH | 35th |
| Tolga Varol | Turkey | TC-PFG | 36th |
| Clarendon Bowman | U S A | ZK-GHB | 33rd |
| Karl Striedieck | U S A | ZK-GDH | 30th |
I'd like to add much more to this page, recalling the 1st World Air Games. If you have further interesting details or any spare / unwanted photos - then please email me - Thanks
since page added 28.12.00