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Red Bull ACRO CROSS

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by justACRO
5 years ago
Event date: 
2019/08/28 to 2019/09/01
Offical homepage: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2337780896510762
Location: 
Sopot

Veso Ovcharov – the Bulgarian top Red Bull athlete - dares the elite in paragliding sports to embrace their abilities into entirely new concept!

Red Bull ACRO CROSS, created and launched by Ovcharov, is a paragliding competition which merges the two most popular styles in the sport – ACRObatics and CROSS - Country into one unique format. The big event is going to take place between August 28th and September 1st at the historical and already famous across flying athletes’ location – Sopot.

The entire community connected to the sport is excited to have the opportunity to gain new experiences and embrace their limits. Entering unknown fields is always a challenge, which provokes the interest of the most famous names we know.

So far, we are proud to announcet confirmed participation from top pilots Rafael Goberna, Felix rodriguez, Timothee Alongi, Jack Pimblett, Egor Posokhin, Francois Ragolski. Due to high dependence on the weather conditions, 2 out of 5 days are planned to be flying competition days, so stay tuned about the weather
forecast.

Red Bull ACRO CROSS - results

by justACRO
5 years ago

The first Red Bull Acro Cross ended on Sunday on Sopot, Bulgaria. 2016 World Champion Francois Ragolski (FRA) won the competition with a pretty safe margin, followed by Nicola Donini (ITA) and Jack Pimblett (UK). Christina Kolb, female World Champion and only woman participant finished in the impressive 6th place leaving many big guns behind her. 

We collected everything you need to know about the judging concept of this competition. Click to read more!

Red Bull Acro Cross

by justACRO
5 years ago

These days a brand new type of acro event is taking place in Bulgaria, Sopot created by mastermind Veso Ovcharov: the Red Bull Acro Cross! 

The competition merges the two big disciplines of the sport – acrobatics and cross country - into one unique format. The hosting town Sopot, is already well known in XC competition scene. Parcicipants are all manually selected and invited and there are some big names among them such as Francois Ragolski (Acro World Champion 2016), Nicola Donini (2nd in World Cup Superfinal 2018), Félix Rodriguez or Tim Alongi.

Today the third task of the event is running with....