The Ingo Renner Cup 2024 season concluded on 30 September 2024
Australian pilots who post their flights on weglide.org are automatically scored for the Ingo Renner Cup. The scoring period is from 1 October to 30 September. At the end of the season, the combined score of the top three flights of each pilot will determine the ranking.
The winners for the 2024 season are listed to the right.
The 2025 contest is now underway with many excellent cross country flights (listed overleaf) already onine at tinyurl.com/ingorenner25
ABOVE photo and trace: Lumpy Paterson flew 1,142km at 133 kph in a JS3 18m on 10 January 2025. Lumpy is currently top of the league in 18m Class for the 2025 season.
ABOVE photo trace: Ross McLernon flew 523km at 85 kph in a Jantar on 17 December 2023. Ross came top of the league in Club Class for the 2024 year.
Ingo Renner Cup winners 2024
to 30 September 2024
Over All
1 Norm Bloch Beverley SC JS3 3237.62
2 Lumpy Patterson Tocumwal SC JS3 2920.93
3 Karsten Bojesen Beverley SC JS3 2558.61
Open
1 Ryan Driscoll GCV Nimbus 3T 25.5m 2372.88
2 Ojars Balodis GCV ASH 31 M1 21m 1779.84
3 Ashley Boyle Narrogin GC SZD-42-2 Jantar 2b 1751.28
18M
1 Norm Bloch Beverley SC JS3 3176.03
2 Lumpy Patterson Tocumwal SC JS3 2920.93
3 Karsten Bojesen Beverley SC JS3 2558.62
Two seat
1 Jorgen Thomsen Tocumwal SC Arcus M 2242.15
2 Lumpy Patterson Tocumwal SC Arcus M 2001.95
3 Leo Davies LKSC ASG 32 1958.91
15m
1 Tobias Geiger GCV Ventus2-15m 2326.29
2 Daniel Summers GCV LS3a 2104.86
3 Yunhai Wang Tocumwal SC Mini Nimbus 2011.80
Standard
1 Grant Heaney Tocumwal SC Discus a 2291.32
2 Allan Gartland Beverley SC Discus a 2220.05
3 Makoto Ichikawa Temora GC LS8 2163.81
Club
1 Ross McLernon Beverley SC SZD-48 Jantar Std.2 2131.59
2 Bernie Sizer Tocumwal SC PIK-20 B 1967.17
3 Nathan Johnson Temora GC Std. Cirrus 1885.38
Women
1 Akemi Ichikawa Temora GC LS8 1906.83
2 Jenny Ganderton NT Soaring AKS21 / LS4 1772.04
3 Sophie Curio Kingaroy SC LS4 1755.02
Juniors
Ethan Blunt GCV Speed Astir 1487.09
Peter Brunton DDSC Arcus/ ASW20 1272.86
Noah anzen GCV Jantar 1097.88
Full results at tinyurl.com/ingorenner24
Ingo Renner Cup 2025
The 2025 contest is now underway with numerous excellent cross country flights already on line at tinyurl.com/ingorenner25
After several big soaring days in December and January the leaders in all classes have been changing as their flights are added. The results fo far to 8 January are belowupdates will be added as the season progresses.
ABOVE trace and photo Tomas Suchanek
Tomas is from Czechia is also a member of Narromine Soaring Club. At this point in the season he is the overall leader onf the Ingo Renner Cup 2025.
ABOVE Sophie Curio Feminine 750km record
Sophie Curio set a new Feminine 750k Speed record (to be verified). Flying from Narromine, she completed the triangle at at 114 kph in an LS8
ABOVE photo, trace: Ryan Driscoll back to back 1,000km
Ryan Driscoll celebrated his birthday on 27 December by flying 1031km at 101 kph in his Nimbus-3 from Benalla. He wrote about his flight, 'Dumped basically all my water at the low point before I climbed away - it’s always when you’re furthest from the field. So, around 700km in a dry Nimbus3 afterwards was pretty good.' The next day he got up and did it again flying 1,120km at 114 kph.
Over All
1 Tomas Suchanek Narromine SC ASW20 4208.44
2 Tobias Geiger GCV Ventus2-15m 3392.46
3 Allan Barnes LKSC LS8 3390.81
Open
1 David Fagan LKSC JS1 21m 2549.86
2 Ed Marel BSC ASH31 Mi 21m 2467.70
3 Ryan Driscoll GCV Nimbus 3T 25.5m 2357.34
18M
1 Lumpy Patterson Tocumwal SC JS3 2920.93
2 Justin Smith LKSC JS3TJ 18m 2786.70
3 Richard Traill Melbourne GC ASG29E 18m 2737.18
Two seat
1 Ian Steventon HVGC Arcus M 2125.60
2 Jorgen Thomsen Tocumwal SC Arcus M 2116.71
3 Matthew Atkinson LKSC Arcus M 2034.50
15m
1 Tomas Suchanek Narromine SC ASW20 4208.44
2 Tobias Geiger GCV Ventus2-15m 4208.46
3 Adam Woolley Kingaroy SC Ventus 3T 15m 2757.27
Standard
1 Allan Barnes LKSC LS8 3390.81
2 Grant Heaney Tocumwal SC Discus a 2803.58
3 Sophie Curio Kingaroy SC LS8 2596.02
Club
1 Bernie Sizer Tocumwal SC PIK-20 B 2634.59
2 Les Kinsley Temora GC Std Libelle 2138.66
3 Peter Crowhurst LKSC LS1-f 1930.65
Women
1 Sophie Curio Kingaroy SC LS8 2596.02
2 Pam
Kurstjens-Hawkins DDSC Ventus 3m 18m 2123.11
3 Kerrie Claffey BSC ASG29 18m 1868.40
Juniors
Ethan Blunt GCV Speed Astir 2351.04
Peter Brunton DDSC ASW20 1906.72
Leonard Freitag GCV Discus b/DG1000/Jantar 1294.52
Full results at https://tinyurl.com/ingorenner24
ABOVE David Fagan flew 818km at 108 kph in a JS1C 21m on 28 October 2024. David is currently top of the league in Open Class.
ABOVE Bernie Sizer flew 583km at 98 kph in a Pik 20B on 30 December 2024. Bernie is currently top of the league in Club Class for the 2025 season.