Competitors in the Kiwi Open flew 214 kilometres from Mount Borah to Boggabilla near the Queensland border on Saturday, setting the record for the longest race-to-goal distance in the world.

Event organiser Godfrey Wenness said 120 gliders had entered the record-setting race, with 32 crossing the finish line.

The previous world record was 201 kilometres, set in the United States of America, but only three pilots crossed the line there.

“To have 32 pilots beat the world record was fabulous,” Mr Wenness said.

Brazilian Donizete Lemos was the fastest, finishing the race in five hours and 20 minutes.

The conditions were so good, Mr Wenness said it probably would have been possible to travel more than 300 kilometres.

“We wanted people to enter the race, so we had to make it a realistic goal,” he said.

“The weather’s been perfect and yesterday we decided to go for it.”

Mr Wenness said the world record race had sent “a buzz through the competition”.

“We’re putting Manilla on the map again,” he said.

The Kiwi Open has been blessed with good weather, with competitors flying every day for the past week.

“It’s been a really tight competition,” Mr Wenness said.

“We’ve been getting around 40 to 50 crossing the line every day, which is a huge number.

“It’s tight in the leaderboard, too – the top 10 could go any way, depending on how they go today (Sunday).”

The competition wrapped up yesterday afternoon.

The final results will be published in The Leader this week.