Cotswold Competitions

Cotswold Competitions The home of the 2025 UK Junior Nationals and Cotswold Regional gliding competitions. Thrilling racing in the heart of the cotswolds.

Taking place from 16-25 August at Aston Down Airfield, Gloucestershire

A huge congratulations to our class winners this week so we can share a selection of photos from the prizegiving ceremon...
24/08/2025

A huge congratulations to our class winners this week so we can share a selection of photos from the prizegiving ceremonies (names from left to right).

Photo 1: The three class champions with their trophies.
Juniors: Henry Inigo-Jones
Donkey Class: Hugh Miller
Shrek Class: Miles Bailey

Photo 2: The Junior Nationals
Best Newcomer: Mikolaj Huk
2nd Place: Oli Ramsey
1st Place: Henry Inigo-Jones
3rd Place & Best Under 21: Oscar Butlin

Photo 3: Shrek Class
3rd Place: Tom Gooch
1st Place: Miles Bailey
2nd Place: Alistair Emson, with his P2s; Dad, Chris and Jono Bradford

Photo 4: Donkey Class
2nd Place: Dan Hayday
1st Place: Hugh Miller
3rd Place: James Alexander

To top off a competition of 7 days of flying out of a possible 9, we had tasks exceeding 100kph again today. However, as...
24/08/2025

To top off a competition of 7 days of flying out of a possible 9, we had tasks exceeding 100kph again today. However, as it's the last day we've already published the results for Day 9. We can now publish the results for the whole competition, and we want to congratulate those taking part. Full results have been published on Soaring Spot.

The results are as follows.

Junior Nationals
1st: Henry Inigo-Jones (LS8) - 3644 points
2nd: Oscar Butlin (LS8) - 3530 points
3rd: Oli Ramsey (LS8) - 3505 points

Shrek Class
1st: Miles Bailey (Nimbus 3) - 2715 points
2nd: Alistair Emson (Duo Discus XT) - 2542 points
3rd: Tom Gooch (ASW27b) - 2523 points

Donkey Class
1st: Hugh Miller (LS3) - 3418 points
2nd: Dan Hayday (DG200) - 3284 points
3rd: James Alexander (DG300) - 3234 points

With just a few hours left until the party, it's about time to release the results for Day 9 of the competition.Junior N...
24/08/2025

With just a few hours left until the party, it's about time to release the results for Day 9 of the competition.

Junior Nationals
1st: Henry Inigo-Jones (LS8) - 116.71kph - 757 points
2nd: Oscar Butlin (LS8) - 115.94kph - 749 points
3rd: Oli Ramsey (LS8) - 115.79kph - 747 points

Shrek Class
1st: Alistair Emson (Duo Discus XT) - 120.47kph - 557 points
2nd: Will Chappel (LS8) - 110.39kph - 464 points
3rd: Harriet Wilson (LS8) - 109.69kph - 458 points

Donkey Class
1st: Dan Hayday (DG200) - 116.04kph - 753 points
2nd: Basil Fairston (Silent 2 Electro) - 108.07kph - 688 points
3rd: Charlie Jordan (ASW20C) - 99.51kph - 619 points

It's now the final day of the Junior Nationals and Cotswold Regionals. Having flown 6 out of the last 8 days, we're now ...
24/08/2025

It's now the final day of the Junior Nationals and Cotswold Regionals. Having flown 6 out of the last 8 days, we're now gearing up to make that 7 out of 9 with tasks being set and gliders being gridded.

So far for Day 8's preliminary results we have:

Junior Nationals
1st: James Bartlett (ASW19B) - 69.70kph - 554 points
1st: Henry Inigo-Jones (LS8) - 69.65kph - 554 points
3rd: Seb Van Der Stichele (Std Cirrus) - 66.55kph - 525 points

Shrek Class
1st: Miles Bailey (Nimbus 3) - 71.50kph - 255 points
2nd: Dougie Wilson (Ventus 2cxm) - 61.79kph - 232 points
3rd: Will Chappel (LS8) - 59.94kph - 227 points

Donkey Class
1st: Tim Williamson (Std Cirrus) - 73.03kph - 400 points
2nd: Matt Waters (LS4) - 72.88kph - 399 points
3rd: Hugh Miller (LS3) -66.56kph - 370 points

A big thanks to members of the British Gliding Team, past and present, for their valuable insight on the daily debriefs....
23/08/2025

A big thanks to members of the British Gliding Team, past and present, for their valuable insight on the daily debriefs. The conversations help competitors to understand different options through the day and an avenue for pilots to talk through their flights.

You can find out a little bit more about what the British Gliding Team do and who the team is on the BGA wesbite:
https://team.gliding.co.uk/

It's now the penultimate day of our competition. Thank you for the amazing effort from competitors, crews and everyone e...
23/08/2025

It's now the penultimate day of our competition. Thank you for the amazing effort from competitors, crews and everyone else for their Shrek themed fancy dress. At last we got a thousand point day in all classes, with the preliminary results as follows. You can also see all results on Soaring Spot (https://www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/aston-down-2025/results).

Junior Nationals
1st: Jordan Johnson (ASW20) - 123.75kph - 1000 points
2nd: Oscar Butlin (LS8) - 123.63kph - 998 points
3rd: Henry Inigo-Jones (LS8) - 123.07kph - 992 points

Shrek Class
1st: Stephen Kenyon-Roberts (LS6b) - 109.03kph - 1000 points
2nd: Tom Gooch (ASW27b) - 106.40kph - 952 points
3rd: Will Chappel (LS8) - 105.42kph - 934 points

Donkey Class
1st: Dan Hayday (DG200) - 116.42kph - 1000 points
2nd: Hugh Miller (LS3) - 112.33kph - 941 points
3rd: Martyn Oliver (ASW20) - 111.07kph - 923 points

Morning! Well we actually went racing yesterday at some seemingly ridiculous speeds but we got almost everyone back. Pot...
22/08/2025

Morning! Well we actually went racing yesterday at some seemingly ridiculous speeds but we got almost everyone back. Potential for great weather today so another chance to go racing - with task A set as a 3 hour AAT. And today is fancy dress day, so expecting a lot of competitors to be dressed up!

Here are the results from Day 6.

Junior Nationals
1st: Theo Nellis (Discus CS) - 133.14kph - 349 points
2nd: Henry Inigo-Jones (LS8) - 132.82kph - 347 points
3rd: Jordan Johnson (ASW20) - 127.70kph - 327 points

Shrek Class
1st: Miles Bailey (3N) - 94.49kph - 531 points
2nd: Will Chappel (LS8) - 93.59kph - 522 points
3rd: Paul Copland (ASW28-18e) - 88.55kph - 471 points

Donkey Class
1st: Dan Hayday (DG200) - 126.92kph - 331 points
2nd: Matt Waters (LS4) - 121.11kph - 306 points
3rd: Martyn Oliver (ASW20) - 120.89kph - 305 points

Morning! Another scrub day yesterday so again no results. We're gearing up for a weekend packed full of socials with our...
21/08/2025

Morning! Another scrub day yesterday so again no results. We're gearing up for a weekend packed full of socials with our BBQ tonight, and karaoke so get your singing voices ready!

Well a couple of hours ago, we elected to scrub. This is what the sky looks like now, so no prospect of getting a task i...
20/08/2025

Well a couple of hours ago, we elected to scrub. This is what the sky looks like now, so no prospect of getting a task in today.

While we wait for a weather window today, we thought it would be a good time to share some photos from the competition s...
20/08/2025

While we wait for a weather window today, we thought it would be a good time to share some photos from the competition so far!

It's now Day 5. Briefing is underway and because we have no results to mention from yesterday, we'd just like to say tha...
20/08/2025

It's now Day 5. Briefing is underway and because we have no results to mention from yesterday, we'd just like to say thank you to and quickly share our sponsors for 2025. Without them, we wouldn't be able to hosts our competitions and support our competitiors.

British Gliding Association
https://www.gliding.co.uk/

Howden Insurance
https://www.howdeninsurance.co.uk/personal/leisure/aviation/

Navboys
https://www.navboys.com/

Redtail Telematics
https://www.redtailtelematics.com/

Robocontrol
http://robocontrol.uk/

Skylaunch
https://skylaunch.com/

Skysight
https://skysight.io/

WeGlide
https://www.weglide.org/

Wholly Gelato
https://www.whollygelato.co.uk/

Wiggle and Push Aviation
https://wiggleandpush.co.uk/

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Aston Down Airfield
Stroud
GL68HR

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01285 760415

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