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LOOP News 4 OCT 06: CLEAN SWEEPSKIWinner Mikhail Mamistov beat an extremely competitive field including last year's world champion Sergey Rakmanin. It was Mamistov's second European championship - he won the last one in 2004. He's also a former world champion in both powered aerobatics (2001) and gliders (1995 & 1997). Frenchman Renaud Ecalle gave his CAP a winning return to aerobatic competition after the aircraft were grounded for the best part of year with wing spar issues. Ecalle won the Male Freestyle part of the competition, beating overall winner Mamistov into second. Ecalle was the only pilot not flying a Sukhoi 26 in the top ten. Best Brit was Londoner Nick Onn in 16th, flying his Su-26 G-XXVI (think about the registration), with Gerald Cooper finishing 36th in his CAP 232. Gerald had only received his CAP back three weeks prior to the event. The third British team member, Tom Cassells, was unable to compete because his CAP 232 is still undergoing modification. Tom told LOOP that the British team had suffered from lack of training this year because of the situation with the CAP. "We need three or four training camps before the event - the French have them every month starting in April." Russian Svetlana Kapanina not only won the Women's championship but also placed 8th overall. RESULTS EAC 29 Aug-9 Sep 1 Mikhail Mamistov (Su-26 M3) RUS 78.89 2 Renaud Ecalle (CAP 232 EX) FRA 78.73 3 Oleg Shpolyanskiy (Su-26 M3) RUS 77.14 4 Victor Chmal (Su-26 M3) RUS 77.11 5 Castor Fantoba (Su-26) ESP 75.96 6 Sergey Rakhmanin (Su-26 M3) RUS 75.49 7 Andrey Bespalov (Su-26 M3) RUS 75.31 8 Svetlana Kapanina (Su-26 M3) RUS 74.84 9 Pierre Marmy (Su-26) SUI 73.84 10 Svetlana Fedorenko (Su-26 M3) RUS 72.91 16 Nick Onn GBR (Su-26) 67.24 36 Gerald Cooper (CAP 232) GBR 43.68 Team results 1 Russia 2 France 3 Spain 4 Switzerland 5 Italy Full results: www.eac06.ch |                      | ||||||
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