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World Human Powered Vehicle Association WHPVA

Newsflash 7th November 2011

The venue for the HPV World Championship 2013 has also been fixed. HPV Deutschland e. V. has decided to host this at Leer, Germany on 21.- 23. June 2013.

Also, here are the results from the HPV World Chmpionship 2011: http://www.monzaworldchampionship.it/en/home

Newsflash 6th October 2011

It's official -- The BHPC AGM voted to host the HPV World Championship 2012 at Fowlmead, a 200-acre country park near the sea, in Kent, 2nd weekend in June.

Fowlmead Country Park,
off A258,
Sholden,
Nr Deal,
Kent CT14 0BF

It's a lovely site, with a purpose-built 2-mile road cycle track.

More details soon.

Richard Ballantine, Chairman WHPVA and BHPC

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The WHPVA website has been offline due to loss of hardware and data. It is being restored.

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The WHPVA

The World Human Powered Vehicle Association is an association of national associations and organizations, dedicated to promoting improvement, innovation and creativity in the use of human power, especially in the design and development of human-powered vehicles. The current members of the WHPVA are:

Records

The WHPVA maintains speed and distance records for various times and distances for land, water and air vehicles.

History

The WHPVA was originally called the IHPVA (International Human Powered Vehicle Association), which was founded in 1976 in the USA and was for many years an association of individual members. In 1997 the IHPVA was reorganised into an international association with national organisations as members and an American association which adopted the name Human Powered Vehicle Association HPVA. Due to conflicts regarding record keeping and copyrights, the HPVA left the IHPVA in 2004. In 2008 the HPVA decided to rename itself to IHPVA while the IHPVA of this time decided to keep its name, resulting in two organisations with the same name. In a hostile takeover, the American IHPVA seized control of the domain name ihpva.org away from the international IHPVA. The IHPVA tried to regain its domain by appealing to the ICANN but was unsuccessful and in 2009 itself renamed to WHPVA.