The 10th FAI Women's World Gliding Championships have been flown and won, but not without some controversy.
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The Australian team pilots all received penalty points after complaints were made alleging that they had attained a competitive advantage by gaining unauthorized access to undelayed data from the official tracking system.
In a statement, competition director Mandy Temple said: "On the final day of competition, a complaint was lodged by team captains of all teams with the exception of Australia."
"The complaint alleged that the Australian team had gained unauthorized access to undelayed data from the official competition tracking system - which has a mandated 15 minute delay. This was a system that all competitors were compelled to use.
"The complaint stated this information gave Australian team pilots a competitive advantage.
"Following an investigation, a team penalty of 250 points was applied to all Australian team pilots."
Four protests were then subsequently lodged in both support (three asking for further penalties including disqualification) and defence (removal of the penalty).
"The jury committee deliberated for over five hours and called on the assistance of a number of IT experts that included the system designer. The ultimate decision being a penalty of 25 points per day. The penalty was levied as a team penalty and was therefore applied to all pilots equally," the statement read.
Jo Davis was especially impacted by the points deduction with the Darling Downs pilot dropping from first position to fourth by a mere five points in club class.
It was a disappointing end to what was a strong overall campaign from the Australian team, the host nation punching above their weight so to speak.
"They had many day wins and overall as a team Australia did perform as well as, if not better, than can be expected," Media liaison for the competition Sean Young said.
"The European teams in particular the Germans, the French, the British, the Polish and the Czechoslovakians are all extremely strong teams. They have big populations and have many more times glider pilots than we do."
They also have more infrastructure and receive more government funding.
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France went on to claim the overall team gold with Great Britain taking the silver and Italy the bronze.
The French dominated the 18m class with Melanie Gaduolet and Anne Ducarouge consistently finishing either first or second, and claiming the gold and silver respectively. Reigning champion Katrin Senne of Germany finished third.
USA pilot Sarah Arnold won the standard class from Aude Grangeray (France) and Ayala Truelove (Great Britain), while in the club class Italy's Elena Fergnani finished on top from Christine Grote (Germany) and Céline Rault (France).
Hosted by the Lake Keepit Soaring Club, the controversy aside, Young said it was "an extremely positive event".
"Out of a potential 12 racing days, they flew 10 days which is actually a lot," he said.
"Normally more days would be cancelled due to weather."
He admitted they were concerned that they could potentially lose several days of flying due to bushfire smoke but they only lost one.
For many of the international competitors it was their first time in Australia and Young said "all of them had a really positive feeling for Australia".
Competitors experienced a full gamete of conditions - heat, smoke, dust and even rain, Thursday's welcome downpour leaving the runway surface a fine river of flowing muddy silt.
The next World Championships will be held in England in 2021.