Gliding
- World Gliding Championships (Women's), Klix, Germany
- 15-metre Class Winner: Mette Pedersen, Denmark; Glider: Alexander Schleicher ASW 27B
- Standard Class Winner: Jana Veprekova, Czech Republic; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS8-b
- Club Class Winner: Hana Vokrinkova, Czech Republic; Glider: Schempp-Hirth Standard Cirrus
- World Gliding Championships (Junior), Husbands Bosworth, United Kingdom
- Standard Class Winner: Mark Parker, Great Britain; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS8
- Club Class Winner: Christoph Nacke, Germany; Glider: Rolladen-Schneider LS1
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Famous quotes containing the word gliding:
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“I stand on a bridge of one span
and see this calm act, this gathering up
of life, of spring water
and the Muse gliding ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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