Lilienthal Gliding Medal

Lilienthal Gliding Medal – the highest soaring award in the world, established by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) in 1938 in honor of Otto Lilienthal, a German pioneer of human aviation. It aims "to reward a particularly remarkable performance in gliding, or eminent services to the sport of gliding over a long period of time". The award is made at the annual FAI General Conference.[1] Medal was designed by Austrian artist Josef Humplik.

Lilienthal Gliding Medal
Awarded forRemarkable performance in gliding, or eminent services to the sport of gliding over a long period of time
CountryInternational
Presented byFédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
First awarded1938
Last awarded2017
WebsiteOfficial site
Obverse of the Lilienthal Medal
Reverse of the Lilienthal Medal awarded to Tadeusz Góra

The first winner of the Lilienthal Gliding Medal in the world was Tadeusz Góra for his record-breaking 577.8-kilometer flight on May 18, 1938, glider PWS-101 from Bezmiechowa to Soleczniki (near Vilnius).

The Medal is awarded by a vote of the Delegates to the International Gliding Commission at the annual Plenary in March. In 2012 it was decided to end the practice of awarding the Medal for accomplishments of the previous calendar year, and to associate the Medal with the year in which the recipient is determined. Consequently, the year 2013 does not appear in the table below.

Recipients

Recipients of this award, from 1938 to present, include:[2]

Year Recipient Notes
1938 Tadeusz Góra for a goal flight of 577 kilometers
1948 Per-Axel Persson
1949 John C. Robinson
1950 William S. Ivans
1951 Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard
1952 Charles Atger
1953 Victor Iltchenko Flight of 520 miles, a world two-seater record, from Moscow to Stalingrad[3]
1954 Philip Wills
1955 Joachim Küttner
1956 Paul MacCready
1957 Don Luis Vicente Juez Gomez
1958 Wolf Hirth
1959 Richard Schreder
1960 Pelagia Majewska
1961 Adolph Gehriger
1962 Paul Bikle
1963 Heinz Huth
1964 Alvin H. Parker
1965 Edward Makula
1966 Anne Burns
1967 Lennart Stahlfors
1968 Alejo Williamson
1969 Eric Nessler
1970 Hans-Werner Grosse
1971 Karl Striedieck
1972 Jan Wróblewski twice World Champion, 1965 Open and 1972 Standard Class
1973 Ann Welch
1974 August Hug
1975 Adela Dankowska for her world records & winning the 1975 International Women's Gliding Competition
1976 Louis A. de Lange
1977 George B. Moffat, Jr.
1978 Helmut Reichmann
1980 Hans Wolf
1981 George Lee World gliding champion on three consecutive occasions
1982 Hans Nietlispach
1984 C.E. Wallington
1985 Sholto Hamilton Georgeson
1986 Dick Johnson
1987 Juhani Horma
1988 Ingo Renner
1990 Fred Weinholtz
1991 Raymond W. Lynskey
1992 Franciszek Kępka
1993 Bernald S. Smith
1994 Terrence Delore
1995 Tor Johannessen
1997 Manfred Reinhardt
1998 Oran Nicks
1999 Hana Zejdova
2000 Klaus Ohlmann
2001 James M. Payne
2002 John Hamish Roake
2003 Piero Morelli
2004 Janusz Centka
2005 Ian Strachan
2006 Alan Patching
2007 Derek Piggott
2008 Roland Stuck
2009 Ross Macintyre
2010 Reiner Rose
2011 Giorgio Galetto[4]
2012 Bob Henderson
2014        Not awarded
2015 Loek Boermans
2016 Rainer Wienzek
2017 Patrick Pauwels
2018        Not awarded
2019 Dick Bradley
2020 Gisela Weinreich

See also

References
  1. "SSA Awards and SSA Recognized Awards - International Awards". Soaring Society of America. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
  2. "IGC Awards". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  3. https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1954/1954%20-%202191.PDF
  4. "Galetto awarded with the Lilienthal Gliding Medal". www.fai.org. 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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