Awards
The Commission makes awards for great achievements and meritorious service. For gliding it presents:
- The Lilienthal Gliding Medal
- Pelagia Majewska Gliding Medal (for female pilots)
- The Pirat Gehriger Diploma (for services to international gliding)
The Lilienthal Medal was instituted in 1938 "to reward a particularly remarkable performance in gliding, or eminent services to the sport of gliding over a long period of time". The first recipient was Tadeusz Gora in recognition of the his 577.8KM flight. Its recipients include:
- Paul Bikle
- Anne Burns
- Janusz Centka
- Tadeusz Gora
- Hans-Werner Grosse
- Wolf Hirth
- Dick Johnson
- George Lee
- Paul MacCready
- Edward Makula
- George B. Moffat, Jr.
- Klaus Ohlmann
- Derek Piggott
- Helmut Reichmann
- Ingo Renner
- Richard Schreder
- Karl Striedieck
- Ann Welch
- Philip Wills
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