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Co-pilot
Balloon
Team Country Flown
distance
Flown
time
2001 45° GORDON BENNETT – Warstein, Sauerland (Germany)
   
1 Leÿs, Vincent
Leÿs, Jean-Francois
F-PPSE ‘Le Petit Prince’
France 1626,6 km 77:47 hr
2 Jurg, Rien
van Houten, Ron
PH-KTS ‘Festo Flyer’
Netherlands 1473,2 km 68:22 hr
3 De Cock, Philippe
Van Havere, Ronny
OO-BCX ‘Belgica II’
Belgium 1432,6 km 66:32 hr
4 Levin, David
Sullivan, Mark
D-OAGH ‘The Goodie’
USA 1420,1 km 65:54 hr
5 Eimers, Wilhelm
Landsmann, Bernd
D-OWBA ‘Deutschland II’
Germany 1247,6 km 48:28 hr
6 Ichiyoshi, Saburo
Oiwa, Maco
JA-01044
Japan 1187,3 km 38:39 hr
7 Höhl, Josef
Handl, Stefan
D-OCOL ‘Columbus II’
Germany 1151,3 km 59:11 hr
8 Abruzzo, Richard
Rymer-Davis, Carol
D-OGGY ‘Doggy’
USA 1032,0 km 40:58 hr
9 Fürstner, Johann
Stürzlinger, Gerald
D-OUEE ‘Rosie O’Grady’
Austria 1022,8 km 41:24 hr
10 Stoll, Christian
Najer, Werner
D-OCFT ‘The Nameless’
Switzerland 1006,4 km 40:03 hr
11 Brachtendorf, Heinrich
Huthmacher, Karl-Heinz
D-OBCW
Germany 944,3 km 34:25 hr
12 Frieden, Kurt
Knobelspiess, Manuel
D-OPMB
Switzerland 941,3 km 41:14 hr
13 Krebs, Max
Vollenweider, Walter
HB-BZH ‘Erdbeere’
Switzerland 553,8 km 23:21 hr
14 Akerstedt, Hans
Balkedal, Janne
D-OWML ‘Münsterland’
Sweden 386,1 km 16:43 hr
15 Donnelly, Tom
Sutcliffe, David
D-OARH ‘Karstadt’
United Kingdom 152,8 km 10:23 hr
16 Bradley, Troy
Miller, D. Earl
N69RW ‘Delta Aspen’
USA No result 18:11 hr
16 Disqualified after flying in Italy during the night (634,70 Km)