This is the year that confirmed the X-Pyr as one of the most important hike & fly races in the world.

And the increase in the number of teams and the route certainly proved this.

32 participating teams (more than twice as many were not selected), with some of the biggest names in the world.

A new route, which already included several zig-zags, which made the race go either north or south.

Once again, the team of Chrigel Maurer and Tobias Dimmler would win the race. Despite the longer and more complex course, the time was less than in 2014, with a winning time of just over 3 days.

Only 3 teams managed to reach the goal at El Port de la Selva. Up to 12 teams had to withdraw.

Route 2016

477 km of “coast to coast” race through the Pyrenees, from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean sea.
The teams will have to go through the following waypoints.

Waypoints

WAYPOINT	ALTITUDE	RADIO (meters)	DISTANCE PREVIOUS	DISTANCE NEXT	DISTANCE START	DISTANCE GOAL
0 – Hondarribia	0			15.1		476.5
1 – Larun	870	10	15.1	62.4	15.1	461.4
2 – Orhi	2003	100	62.4	50.5	77.5	399
3 – Anayet	2574	400	50.5	62.6	128	348.5
4 – Peña Montañesa	2290	1000	62.6	40.6	190.6	285.9
5 – Ceciré	2403	400	40.6	124.5	231.2	245.3
6 – Berguedà	895	10	124.5	55.5	355.7	120.8
7 – Canigó	2784	3000	55.5	61.7	411.2	65.3
8 – Santa Helena de Rodes	512	10	61.7	3.6	472.9	3.6
9 – El Port de la Selva	0		3.6		476.5

Results

Rank	Pilot	Dist. to Goal / Dist. Covered / Time
1	Christian Maurer / Tobias Dimmler	0 km / 466.9 km / GOAL 72:21:51
2	Stanislav Mayer / Denisa Mayerova	0 km / 466.9 km / GOAL 80:48:21
3	Aaron Durogati / Ondrej Prochazka	0 km / 466.9 km / GOAL 93:35:30
4	Jose Ignacio Arevalo Guede / Javier Delgado	109.1 km / 357.8 km [6]
5	Jesse Williams / Pavel Cibulka	112.6 km / 354.3 km [6]
6	Juraj Koren	164.0 km / 302.9 km [5]
7	Adrian Keller / Dina Sägesser	200.0 km / 266.9 km [5]
8	Zlatko Korenv / Tomaž Bavdaž	210.4 km / 256.5 km [5]
9	Giuseppe Mastromichele / Bernard Alex Tatschke	266.6 / 240.3 km [5]
10	Eduardo Garza / Hector Martin	246.6 km / 220.3 km [4]
11	Francu Claudiu Felician / Chira Septimiu	253.9 km / 213.0 km [4]
12	Maximo Vela de Pablos / Jordi Estaper	254.8 km / 212.7 km [4]
13	Willi Ludwig / Patrick Ludwig	268.4 km / 198.5 km [4]
14	Lars Budack / Pedro Citoler	269.0 km / 197.9 km [4]
15	Greg Hamerton / James Hope-Lang	273.9 km / 193.0 km [4]
16	Joao Luis Veiga de Faria Rodrigues / Anna Zletek	275.2 km / 191.7 km [4]
18	Jose Isidro Gordito Giró / Marga Sanz	278.1 km / 188.8 km [4]
19	Cyriaque Wagner Ballon / Alexandre Scelsi	278.1 km / 165.1 km [3]
20	Stephane Garin / Patrice Arias	326.0 km / 130.9 km [3]
21	Gerald Gold / David Knittl	344.4 km / 122.5 km [2]
22	Demetrio Lozano Jarque / Antonio Ramos	353.0 km / 113.9 km [2]
23	Alokkumar Mihani / Gurpreet Dhindsa	364.3 km / 102.6 km [2]
24	Martin Petz / Nadya Kambanova (OUT)	375.5 km / 91.4 km [2]
25	Herbert Tamegger / Michael Fahringer (OUT)	388.9 km / 78.0 km [2]
26	Michal Krysta / Tomáš Matera (OUT)	390.3 km / 76.6 km [1]
27	Marc Boyer / Laurent Pascal (OUT)	420.8 km / 46.1 km [1]
28	Iván Colás / Carlos Apesteguía (OUT)	428.2 km / 38.7 km [1]
29	Michael Mühlbach / Benjamin Newin (OUT)	428.5 km / 38.5 km [1]
30	Martin Gruber / Andreas Gruber (OUT)	428.5 km / 38.4 km [1]
31	David Liaño González / Alejandro González (OUT)	429.6 km / 37.3 km [1]