25th Japan National Hot Air Balloon Championship 2008

Congratulations from the worldwide UltraMagic team to Yuudai Fujita on coming first and winning the 2008 Japan National Hot Air Balloon Championship held in Saga between the 30th October and 3rd November 2008. Yuudai Fujita also won the 24th Pacific Cup which was held at the same time. Well done Yuudai! Winning both competitions in only his second time competing at Saga is a fantastic achievement.

By winning the Japan National Championship, Yuudai is now classified as the official single Japanese entry to the next World Air Games. The father of Yuudai, Masahiko Fujita, who crewed for Yuudai in Saga, won the last World Air Games in Seville and has an automatic entry to the next Games. Therefore Masahiko will be defending his title against his son in the Games. It should also be noted that Yuudai, who is 23 years old also took 7th place in his first World Championship this year in Austria beating his father Masahiko. What a fantastic year for Yuudai.

Congratulations also to Takao Mizukami and Mamoru Endo on taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively in the Japan National Championship. All three pilots competed flying Ultramagic Racers!

2nd	1st	3rd

A special mention also to Yoshima Kodama in 4th position, Minoru Numata in 7th position and Hirotsugu Sakaguchi in 10th position. All of these pilots also competed flying Ultramagic Racers.

4th	7th	10th