Poles win long-distance balloon race
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
02.10.2018 11:46
A Polish team has won the Gordon Bennett Cup, a famous long-distance gas balloon race.
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The Poles, Mateusz Rękas and Jacek Bogdański, flew over 1,145 km, starting in Bern, Switzerland, and landing near Ostróda in northern Poland.
Twenty teams from around the world competed in the race, in which balloonists aim to fly the farthest distance from the launch site.
Polish teams have won the Gordon Bennett Cup six times, the last time in 1983.
The next Gordon Bennett Cup competition will be held in Poland.
(pk/gs)
Source: Polish Radio