The European Hot Air Balloon Championships are the FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship and the FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship. These biennial events for hot air ballooning are conducted under the direction of the FAI Ballooning Commission (CIA or Comité International d'Aérostation). ^[1]

FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship

Year	City	Country	Date	Winners	No. of Athletes
1976 [2]	Skövde	Sweden	14 - 18 April	Simon Faithful ( NED)   Wilf Woollett ( IRE)   Axel Madsen ( SWE)	32
1980 [2]	Arc-et-Senans	France	10 - 13 October	Josef Starkbaum ( AUT)   Patrice Terrin ( FRA)   Mathijs de Bruijn ( NED)	25
1982 [2]	Ettelbruck	Luxembourg		Josef Starkbaum ( AUT)   Mathijs de Bruijn ( NED)   Henning Sørensen ( DEN)	41
1984 [2]	Castle Howard	Great Britain	27 - 31 August	Victor Trimble ( GBR)   Tomás Feliú ( ESP)   David Bareford ( GBR)	38
1986 [2]	Stubenberg	Austria	14 - 19 September	Martin Messner ( SUI)   Ian Bridge ( GBR)   Mathijs de Bruijn ( NED)	53
1988 [2]	Leszno	Poland	4 - 9 September	David Bareford ( GBR)   Mathijs de Bruijn ( NED)   Uwe Schneider ( FRG)	60
1990 [2]	Lleida	Spain	8 - 15 September	Csaba Molnar ( HUN)   Uwe Schneider ( FRG)   Bengt Gunnarsson ( SWE)	54
1992 [2]	Belfort	France		Uwe Schneider ( GER)   Benedikt Haggeney ( GER)   Hans Kordel ( GER)	70
1994 [2]	Murska Sobota	Slovenia	12 - 17 September	Jean-Marie Huttois ( FRA)   Uwe Schneider ( GER)   Claude Sauber ( LUX)	56
1996 [2]	Schielleiten	Austria		David Bareford ( GBR)   Claude Sauber ( LUX)   Miklos Kardos ( HUN)	80
1998 [2]	Katrineholm	Sweden	20 - 27 June	Stéphane Bolze ( FRA)   Peter Blaser ( SUI)   Uwe Schneider ( GER)	77
2000 [2]	Larochette	Luxembourg	5 - 13 August	David Bareford ( GBR)   François Messines ( FRA)   Josf Scherzer ( AUT)	79
2003 [2]	Vilnius	Lithuania		Uwe Schneider ( GER)   Sándor Vegh ( HUN)   Jan Timmers ( BEL)	68
2005 [2]	Debrecen	Hungary	23 - 28 May	Uwe Schneider ( GER)   Zoltán Nemeth ( HUN)   Josep María Llado ( ESP)	81
2007 [2]	Magdeburg	Germany	17 – 26 August	François Messines ( FRA)   Uwe Schneider ( GER)   Markus Pieper ( GER)	79
2009 [2]	Brissac	France	21 – 29 August	Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   François Messines ( FRA)   Richard Parry ( GBR)	83
2011 [3]	Lleida	Spain	15 – 23 September	Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   Iván Ayala ( ESP)   David Bareford ( GBR)	77
2013 [4]	Włocławek	Poland	6 – 14 September	Rokas Kostiuškevičius ( LTU)   Rimas Kostiuškevičius ( LTU)   Iván Ayala ( ESP)	81
2015 [5]	Debrecen	Hungary	11 – 18 August	Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   Sven Goehler ( GER)   Vito Rome ( SLO)	96
2017 [6]	Brissac	France	21 – 27 August	Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   Sergey Latypov ( RUS)   Roman Hugi ( SUI)	82
2019	Mallorca	Spain	22 - 27 October	Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   Laurynas Komža ( LTU)   Nicolas Schwartz ( FRA)	83
2021	Szeged	Hungary	13 - 17 September	Roman Hugi ( SUI)   Stefan Zeberli ( SUI)   David Spildooren ( BEL)	84

FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship

Year	City	Country	Date	Winners	No. of Athletes
2010 [7]	Alytus	Lithuania	15–20 June	Gabriela Slavec ( SLO)   Lindsay Muir ( GBR)   Jolanta Matejczuk ( POL)	27
2012 [8]	Frankenthal	Germany	18–22 September	Lindsay Muir ( GBR)   Daiva Rakauskaitė ( LTU)   Ann Herdewyn ( BEL)	25
2015 [9]	Orvelte/Drenthe	Netherlands	14–19 September	Ewa Prawicka-Linke ( POL)   Daiva Rakauskaitė ( LTU)   Elisabeth Kindermann ( AUT)	30
2017 [10]	Leszno	Poland	5–9 September	Beata Choma ( POL)   Agnė Simonavičiūtė ( LTU)   Elisabeth Kindermann ( AUT)	28

See also

• World Hot Air Ballooning Championships
• World Junior Hot Air Ballooning Championships

References

External links

• FAI Ballooning Commission (CIA)
• 20th FAI European Hot Air Balloon Championship Archived 2018-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
• 4th FAI Women's European Hot Air Balloon Championship

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