Australian National League - Ingo Renner Cup 2025

The Ingo Renner Cup is the Australian National League Championships scored on WeGlide. The southern summer spans the calendar new year, so the cup is scored from October through September each year. The 2025 contest well underway with many excellent cross country flights already online at tinyurl.com/ingorenner25.

Although the scoring does not officially end until September, the summer season is drawing to a close and the possibility of high scoring flights is receding fast. Below you can see the results and who is leading the table in all classes.

Paterson 1000

Paterson 10 Jan 25

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.

After several big soaring days in December and January the leaders in all classes have been changing as their flights are added.

Thomas Suchanek 2

Thomas Suchanek 1 Jan

ABOVE trace and photo Tomas Suchanek
Tomas, from Czechia, is also a member of Narromine Soaring Club. At this point in the season he is the overall leader of the Ingo Renner Cup 2025.

Sophie Curio 30 Dec

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

Driscoll 3

Driscoll Trace 27 Dec a

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. Writing about his flight, he noted, '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

Fagan 28 Oct 24