Competition Reports | British Paragliding Cup

Sopot Round 2025

Imagine you, your paraglider, 30-odd fellow pilots, big mountains, warm weather and kick-ass thermals that makes you question your life choices—welcome to the BP Cup Sopot round. The BP Cup is a series of paragliding co...

Dales Round 2025

The 4 day competition was based near Settle in the Yorkshire dales. We had an excellent organisation team led by Gareth Aston setting tasks, aided by Ed Cleasby's local expertise. The first day's task had us walking up...

Drama Round September 2024

2024 Drama round 14th - 19th September - report by Simon Ford The BPCup has been running for decades and is aimed at sports class pilots, many of whom will be competing for the first time. It also attracts more experi...

Dales Round May 2024

The UK round of the 2024 BPCup was based at the Dalesbridge Centre near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales. It is a good base, nice flat pitches for campers, electric hook ups for the posh people with fridges for their beer...

Sopot Round 2023

Sadly, we once again lost a UK round due to the weather and had to cancel our planned April round in the Yorkshire Dales. However, our bookings at The Dalesbridge have been held over and we will be back there again in M...

2022- Pennine round

2022 was the first year back for the BPCup following a two year break due to the Covid 19 pandemic which put paid to many sporting activities. Fortunately, although only having one round, our pilots were able to enter t...

Pennine and Dales Rounds 2019

Well, mixed fortunes for the BPCup again this year and all due to the great British weather. However we did have some lovely flying and, as always, a huge amount of fun. We started the 2019 competition over the Spring B...

Peaks Round 2018

Of Bucket Lists, Finger Errors and Declared Excuses There comes a time when you start to consider a bucket list – things you want to do before you kick the bucket and sometime later you realize that you’d better get a m...

Macedonia Round 2018

2018 is shaping up to be a top season for the BP Cup. Following on from the Pennine round in June (with 4 valid tasks) the BP Cup tried something different and put on a foreign round in Macedonia. The thought behind th...

Pennine Round 2018

HQ and camping courtesy of the Bowland Forest Gliding Club at the foot of Parlick. Well what can you say, a long weekend ahead and a forecast of South to South West wind and thermals for 4 days. Be serious, it is North...

Peaks Round 2017

British Paragliding Cup 2017 (Peaks Round) 5th - 12th August August is the new October. It may be a bit warmer, the days a little longer, but the depressions rattle in from the Atlantic with all the energy of Autumn sto...

Pennine Round 2017

Round Results What a fine hill Parlick is! It is located at the southern end of Lancashire’s Bowland fells and over the May bank holiday weekend it became the focus for the first round of the 2017 British Paragliding Cu...

2016- Won by "The Weather"

We had an idea that we were being ambitious this year in trying to run 3 rounds but never dreamed that we wouldn’t even manage to run one. Our new format of a wildcat round (called on the Thursday, fly Saturday and Sund...

Prize giving 2015

Full results David Thomson - Overall winner 2nd - Chris Blanchard 3rd - Tony Blacker

2015 Peaks Round

The forecast for the week of the main body of the comp in August was not good, but the accommodation and facilities at Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club between Bradwell and Eyam are second to none. The best weathe...

2015 Pennine Round

After two years of enjoying the coastal delights of the Isle of Wight, the British Paragliding Cup (BPC) moved the first round back to the mainland and headed north; well north ….. to a small, quaint village nestling...