Honor for the multi-champion

January 20, 2021

After five victories in the Swiss Cross Country Cup in the sports class, Urs Haari no longer has to give up the associated challenge cup. The serial winner Urs Haari. // Source: Nova The Cross Country Cup (CCC) is the online cross-country flight competition in Switzerland. According to the rules of the SHV, the respective winners of a rating class receive a challenge cup. However, a driver can keep the trophy if he has either won three times in a row or has been on the podium five times. Urs Haari met these conditions twice. On the one hand, he won the sports class ratings in the consecutive years 2018, 2019 and 2020. On the other hand, he had already been in first place in 2013 and 2014. In doing so, he has satisfied both the rule of three and the rule of five. Not only Urs Konstanz is remarkable, but also his flying skills, which are also noteworthy from another point of view. Because in four of the five mentioned seasons he won the sport class rating (which allows gliders up to EN-C) with an EN-B glider (Nova Mentor). And in all five seasons his flights even made it into the top 5 in the open class - and in 2014 he was also at the top there. The almost 56-year-old has been providing top performances for three decades. In 1991 Urs finished third at the paragliding world championships in France. In 1992 he set a world record of almost 228 km in South Africa - an almost unbelievable distance at the time. He flew in the Swiss national team for years. Urs Haari is also known for his company High Adventure, through which he sells brands such as Nova, Woody Valley, Kortel and Naviter in Switzerland. He developed the first controllable reserve paraglider for paraglider pilots, the beamer. Tip: Urs Haari can also be heard on the Podz-Glidz podcast, in episode # 15: Der Retter-Tester. I also recommend reading a cross-country flight commentary by Urs from 2013, quoted on Lu-Glidz, which would still have its place in the top 10 most humorous flight descriptions, if there was a rating for it.

This article has been translated for your convenience and was originally written in Deutsch.