the 1st European Union Championships in 1995, the GERMAN Open, NORDIC Open or RUSSIAN Open and all again underlined Kössen as the Mecca of Air Sports. Many further international PG comps had to come to Kössen, e.g. And it was again in Kössen where 1989 the 1st World Championships in Paragliding where organized and the global popularization for this new sport started. ![]() Numerous national and international HG competitions were then successfully organized in Tyrol: Another HG-World Championship in 1985, two European championships and the Women's World Championship in 1991, have again and again underlined Kössen's well-meant reputation as the paradise of hang gliding.ġ986 a new movement has but sparkles into the new air sport scene - PARAGLIDING. Consequently many Aero Clubs officially opened the doors for this young sport - so also did the Austrian Aero-Club.Īlready one year later in 1976, the 1st official FAI World Championship in Hang Gliding took place - again in KÖSSEN, Austria. This pioneer event was a fabulous start for the worldwide popularization of hang gliding and the reason for the world air sport organization FAI to officially include hang gliding as a special section within their organisation. In 1975 over 300 hang gliding pioneers from all over the world for the first time competed in Kössen in an event called "1st World Championship in Alpine Hang Gliding". In the same year the daring pioneers founded the "1st Austrian Hang Gliding Club" in Kössen. Sepp Himberger, Hans Schroll, Jürgen Siedesbeck und Schorsch Steffl since then were listed with the Australian guy Bill Moyes, the Americans Bill Bennet und Mike Harker, and the German Harti Huber as pioneers of hang gliding. In 1973 brave young men in the Tirol mountains aroused great interest with their spectacular flights on "kites". Dachverband der Flugschulen in Österreich The development of aviation sport in AustriaĮven though hang gliding and paragliding were not directly invented in Austria, Kössen in the Tyrolean Kaiserwinkl must still be characterized as the cradle of these airsports, starting from here their most successful global journey.
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