21/05 - And there it is... the outcome of the Dutch Sailplane Grand Prix!!

NetherlandsSerie 12
Written By frankhiemstra .

After the half-time update, the weather changed; like our talkshow host Sander said: our painted clouds finally arrived on our last competition day! So, our participants enjoyed the new circumstances. And the exciting weather forecast for the final day triggered the task setter to compose a challenging and longer task.

However, the forecast did not come true; the pilots had to struggle with sea breeze from the Ijsselmeer that came in sooner than projected. But that made the last day to a very special competition, as still 6 pilots had an opportunity to become overall winner of this Qualifying Grand Prix!

And the overall winner… Tijl Schmelzer came home first and passed Peter Millenaar in the competition; Peter as a second also qualified for the SGP finals, and Roelof Corporaal, scoring points every day, added 4 points to his total which made him third. All three of them were honored with a specially designed, typically Dutch, Delft Blue plate.

To sum up, from the competition director Robert Jungblut:

The Dutch Sailplane Grand Prix was great!

A lot of orange and a lot of happy faces during the closing ceremony of the first Dutch Sailplane Grand Prix last Saturday.
7 days out of 7 great flying weather did even amaze the world best competition pilots.
Not only that; our team of volunteers did an excellent job and that was appreciated by the pilots. Our coverage on social media, PR, taks-setting, field-organization were critical success factors. You will find all this and much more on our website: https://sgp.aero/netherlands2025

Some statistics of the online coverage:

  • WEBSITE: Average of ~4.000 unique visitors per competition day on the DSGP website https://sgp.aero/netherlands2025

  • SOCIALS: On our DSGP Instagram account we have reached 35.771 accounts, with 216.088 viewing on posts. And this was only during the racing days…

  • YOUTUBE: Highest is 1.7K views on a daily live show. Average over 800 viewers per daily live show (and counting...)

  • TRACKING: Since september 2023 there was the highest number of visitors to the live tracking platform Onglide.

On the highest podium overall winner Tijl Schmelzer 2nd place Peter Millenaar and 3rd place Roelof Corporaal.

After a beautiful aerobatic display of world champion Lars Hofman, alderman Bob Roelofs officially closed the competition and we want to thank him and the city of Arnhem for their support of this event.
We also want to thank all our DSGP Sponsors & Partners: KNVvL, Gelderse Zweefvliegclub, Amsterdamsche Zweefvliegclub, Flight Deck Consultancy, De Heren van Security, Vibe Energy, Restaurant de Thermiekbel, Glider-Equipment, Studio Basta, Stichting Nationaal Zweefvliegcentrum Terlet and all others for their contribution🙏

Thank you all for coming to our beautiful Terlet and making this a remarkable event and a great week of soaring over our beautiful country!

Signing off and passing the baton to the next QSGP in Poland.

Kind regards,

Robert Jungblut
DSGP Competition Director

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Feeling a bit of a void now that it’s over? Each evening during the competition, there was a live daily recap. Did you miss them or want to watch them again? You can find them via the link below on the FAI YouTube page: SGP Serie XII - Netherlands 2025 - YouTube

And for a complete daily media (video + pictures) oversight, please visit our website: https://sgp.aero/dsgp-media-coverage/

👉 Website: sgp.aero/netherlands2025
👉 Daily and total results: Results DSGP — Sailplane Grand Prix
👉 Daily Media Coverage: sgp.aero/dsgp-media-coverage
👉 Day recaps on Youtube: SGP Serie XII - Netherlands 2025 - YouTube
👉 Facebook: Dutch Sailplane Grand Prix
👉 Instagram: Dutch Sailplane Grand Prix



 

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