{"id":24622,"date":"2025-09-08T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/?p=24622"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:56:48","slug":"kurt-frieden-und-pascal-witpraechtiger-gewinnen-68-coupe-aeronautique-gordon-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aeroclub.ch\/en\/kurt-frieden-und-pascal-witpraechtiger-gewinnen-68-coupe-aeronautique-gordon-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpr\u00e4chtiger win 68th Coupe A\u00e9ronautique Gordon Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The venue and therefore starting point for this year's 68th Coupe A\u00e9ronautique Gordon Bennett is Metz in the Grand Est region of France. The winners are Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpr\u00e4chtiger. The Aero Club of Switzerland congratulates them on their victory!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

On the evening of September 5, 24 teams set off for the first night. Saturday brought trips across southern Germany and Austria. Due to the extremely unstable weather conditions in the region, some teams decided to land prematurely between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. This included the balloon of SUI 2 with Balthasar Wicki and Ren\u00e9 Erni, who landed east of Lake Balaton in a field of sunflowers near Si\u00f3fok, Lake Balaton. They finished the race in 11th place.<\/p>

Challenging third night<\/strong><\/p>

The third night wasn't easy for Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpr\u00e4chtiger either. They reported on the challenges in their blog. Sheltered by the rain canopy, but with temperatures of -5 Celsius in the basket, they tried to stay south to avoid the unstable weather in the east.<\/p>

Germany-Switzerland\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Five teams took to the skies on Monday afternoon. Finally, this year's Gas Balloon World Championships ended in Romania and Bulgaria respectively. Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpr\u00e4chtiger held the leading position from the early afternoon and never relinquished it. Bravo, Kurt and Pascal - congratulations!<\/p>

Blog by Kurt Frieden and Pascal Witpr\u00e4chtiger<\/a><\/p>

A detailed article will appear in the next issue of AeroRevue!<\/em><\/p>

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