South African National League - Bateleur Cup 2025

The Ingo Bateleur Cup is the South African 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.

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.

Rudi Hiltbrunner flew 1,021 km from Worcester on 11 January 2025 for his best flight of the season putting him in 1st place overall.

Over All
1 Rudi Hiltbrunner                Cape GC                             4,796.88
2 Mike Barenbrug                Magalies GC                       4,707.09
3 Laurence Hardman           Gliding Centre SA               4,467.19

Laurnece Hardman flew a Stemme 10 1,138 km from Douglas Backhouse on 3 January 2025 for his top score of the season in Open Class.

Laurence wrote on WeGlide ,'Good flight home, launched at Douglas into some good looking weather, got low around Colesburg, but saved by some dusties that look like tornadoes.

From there, I ran the sea breeze convergence from Hofmeyr to De Aar and back, and then into the late afternoon thermals on the escarpment. All in all, lots of fun. But not so easy with a Stemme.'

Open
1 Laurence Hardman           GCSA                                  3,573.34
2 Hendrik Stheeman            Magalies GC                      2,888.50
3 Henry Richard Daly           Akavlieg Potchefstroom   2,743.09

Mike Barenbrug flew a Ventus 2xc 1,028 km from Douglas Backhouse on11 December 2024 for his best flight of the season.

18M
1 Rudi Hiltbrunner              Cape GC                             4,796.88
2 Mike Barenbrug               Magalies GC                      4,707.09
3 Phillip Jonker                   Akavlieg Potchefstroom   3,219.82

Markus Giesen and Karin Weisenthal flew an Arcus 1,287 km from Worcester on 12 December 2024.

Two seat
1 Markus Geisen               LVM Mönchsheide              3,758.00
2 Nicky Oberhofer            Cape GC                               2,216.33
3 Maarten Jonker             Akavlieg Potchefstroom     2,039.84

Mark Holliday flew an ASW 27 535 km from Magalies on 3 November 2024 for his best flight of th season, putting him at the top of the table in 15m Class.

15m
1 Mark Holliday               Magalies GC                          2,493.10
2 Wilhelm Mosehuus      Cape GC                                2,301.24
3 Bronwen Klaas             Magalies GC                         2,061.78

The 2025 contest is now online at weglide.org/ranking/za