Talk:Bruce Goldsmith

Speedy Tag

 * I don't normally do sport, but IMHO the 2007 Paragliding World Champion is notable, so does anyone object if I remove the speedy tag?  Were Spiel  Chequers  15:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I created this page, and intend to expand it soon.

I contend that Bruce Goldsmith is a notable person, as the world champion of paragliding in 2007. World champions in other sports, even much more obscure ones, have Wikipedia articles about them; for example Vidar Benjaminsen the ski-orienteering champion, or Lita dela Rosa who won the Bowling World Cup in 1978.

Goldsmith is also notable as a rare example of a person who won a sporting world championship using equipment that he designed himself.Manormadman (talk) 15:09, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Query How many 2007 world Paraglider champions were there? [2007]  Were Spiel  Chequers  15:13, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Only one. Some confusion might arise because there is a Paragliding World Championship every two years - a single event at one location, consisting of a number of daily legs, producing an overall winner. This is what Goldsmith won. However, there is also every year the Paragliding World Cup. The winner of this is the pilot who does best in a series of events over the year at various locations. You might compare the former format to the Tour de France; and the latter to the Formula One championship.Manormadman (talk) 15:58, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks that makes sense, the link I found was to the 2007 World Cup.  Were Spiel  Chequers  16:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag now removed, I will try to add some more stuff on this article. refs e.t.c  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 15:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Sailor
There's also a Bruce Goldsmith who sailed for the US in 1969. Currently he is only a redlink from List of World Championships medalists in sailing (centreboard classes) and I've shifted him from pointing here to Bruce Goldsmith (sailor). Obviously if someone creates that article we can have a note at the top of this one, but in the meantime I'm making a note on this talk page.  Were Spiel  Chequers  19:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

comment from Bruce Goldsmith
I would like to propose this update to my biography which is a bit more complete.

Bruce Goldsmith is a British paraglider pilot and designer, and the 2007 Paragliding World Champion. He won the title at Manilla in Australia, flying an Airwave Magic FR3 of his own design.[1] He has been British paragliding champion three times, most recently in 2004.[2] He has also been twice British hang gliding champion. Skywings magazine He has been a British Hang Gliding and Paragliding team member for over 20 years winning numerous FAI team medals as well as individual victories. Here is a summary of his main achievements:

1st Italian Championships in Poggio Bustone 2003

World record holder, 274km declared Goal, Texas, USA, 2003

1st British Paragliding Open 2001

1st Brazilian Championships Andradas, Brazil 2000

1st Brazilian Open 2000

World Cup Paragliding Champion (Serial Class) 1999

1st British Paragliding Open 1998 and 1997

1st Paragliding World Cup, Spain 1995

1st High Level Paragliding Open, Rio, Brazil 1994

1st Criterium de la Reunion 1992

British Hang Gliding Champion 1991 and 1992

1st Bassano Open, Hang Gliding 1991

Hang Gliding Superleague Champion 1990

2nd European Hang Gliding Championships 1988

In 1998 he was awarded the Salemon Trophy by HRH Prince Andrew, at the Royal Aero Club, for outstanding British design achievement.

Goldsmith is by profession a designer, who started designing hang gliders in 1979 and paragliders in 1989 [3] and was the designer of paragliders for Airwave. He set up the paragliding division of Airwave - which was already a manufacturer of hang gliders - in 1989. He left to found Ozone paragliders in 1998, and returned to Airwave in 2000.[4] He has now moved to the Swiss paraglider manufacturer Advance. (source: paraglidingforum.com)

Goldsmith is also a journalist and has his own long standing column in Cross Country Magazine (www.xcmag.com) called Icaristics. The articles are normally of a technical or instructional nature and these articles are often translated and reprinted. Goldsmith has also produced two films, Instability and Instabiliy 2, both instructional paragliding videos.

He lives in the south of France with his wife and three children. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brucegol (talk • contribs) 10:42, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

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 * ✔️ - Ahunt (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Date of birth
Date of birth is needed.--109.252.195.255 (talk) 16:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure that would be good to add. Got a reference for that? - Ahunt (talk) 16:33, 28 November 2020 (UTC)