| BREST, FRANCE-(12-7-2003) A 6 hour wait onshore before the first shots in anger of the final series
in the 2003 European Championships here in Brest France.
Once on water the water the 22 female teams in the Gold Girls Group and the
38 men representing over 20 nations had a cruicial decision to make.
The decision was clear ; the right side and less current but less breeze as
well, or the left and more current and more breeze.
For those those picked the middle it was going to be a long day, but in the
women's fleet the Germans Rothweiler & Leu sailed a beautiful race in
picking the Right side and stronger breeze ; from there making every post a
winner. Slovakian duo Dekleva & Maucec lead the overall results though
tonight with a consistant 3rd today . Russians and Spanish make of the top
3 overall wityh regatta favorite and reigning ISAF sailor of the year
Bekatorou & Tsoulfa having another day to forget and laying in 18th
overall.
It is always impressive to see 3 World Champions rounding the top mark in
the top 4 and today was no exception. Reigning World Champion New
Zealanders Cooke & Nicholas looked totally in control in the buiding 10
knot breeze before 1998 World Champion , frenchmen Phillippe & LeBerre took
over briefly at the last top mark. SUI 3 Emi Lucas & Simon Brugger split
the World Champions with the Ukrains Braslavets & Matienko in 4th place.
The GBR's Nick Rogers still holds 1st overall but with a bad 28th drop race
today the pressure is on him to produce in days to come..
Racing continues here tomorrow at 1pm
MEN / GOLDEN FLEET (_A_) after 5 races
Rgs Ident Concurrents Pts_Ret c.1 c.2 c.3 c.4 c.5 Club / Pays
1 GBR 811 ROGERS Nocholas GLANFIELD Joe 8.00 2 3 2 1 28 EXE SC - Great
Britain
2 NZL 55 COOKE Simon NICHOLAS Pete 11.00 7 8 1 2 1 KYC - New Zealand
3 FRA 2588 PHILIPPE Gildas LE BERRE Nicolas 11.00 5 1 7 3 2 DOUARNENEZ
VOILE S R BREST
4 USA 1722 FOERSTER Paul BURNHAM Kevin 11.00 3 5 2 1 16 RCYC - United
States Of America
5 SWE 317 MOLUND Johan ANDERSSON Martin 18.00 5 2 3 8 9 KKKK - Sweden
6 GRE 131 KOSMATOPOULOS Andreas TRIGONIS Kostas 21.00 4 5 11 1 12 N.O.T.H
- Greece
7 GER 4896 ZELLMER Lucas KRABBE Felix 22.00 2 3 10 7 17 SPYC - Germany
8 UKR 7 BRASLAVETS Eugeny MATVIENKO Igor 23.00 8 12 5 6 4 NAVY - Ukraine
9 SUI 3 LUKAS Emi BRUEGGER Simon 27.00 4 9 11 11 3 RCO - Switzerland
10 ESP 1769 MARTINEZ DORESTE Gustavo WOOD Dimas 28.00 17 8 1 4 15 RCN GRAN
CANARIA - Spain
11 ESP 1733 PATINO Marc MORENO Omar Juan 28.00 6 10 4 8 30 CN EL ARENAL -
Spain
12 AUS 311 WILMOT Nathan PAGE Malcolm 29.00 DSQ 2 8 13 6 MIDDLE HARBOUR -
Australia
13 ISR 7 KLIGER Gideon GAL Udi 30.00 21 4 12 6 8 HAPOAL TEL-AVIV - Israel
14 AUS 35 BELCHER Mathew BELCHER Daniel 30.00 5 5 9 12 11 SOUTHPORT -
Australia
15 ITA 4342 ZANDONA Gabrio TRANI Andrea 31.00 10 6 12 3 25 CIVMM - Italy
WOMEN / GOLDEN FLEET (_A_) after 6 races (
1: Dekleva Vesna / Maucec Klara (18 pts) SLO (Detail courses :
9,1,5,7,2,3,)
2: Ilienko Vlada / Gaponovich Natalia (19 pts) RUS (Detail courses :
4,3,2,nc,1,9,)
3: Via Dufresne Natalia / Azon Sandra (19 pts) ESP (Detail courses :
1,20,3,6,4,5,)
4: Sesto Maria Fernanda / Reinoso Paula (20 pts) Argentine (Detail courses
: 2,12,6,1,1,10,)
5: Petitjean Ingrid / Douroux Nadege (24 pts) U.Sportive Personnel
Elect.Gazier (Detail courses : 7,5,10,1,7,4,)
6: Torgersson Therese / Zachrisson Vendela (25 pts) SWE (Detail courses :
11,2,4,2,6,15,)
7: Orel Janja / Orel Alenka (28 pts) SLO (Detail courses : 15,1,1,16,5,6,)
8: Provan Jennifer / Girke Nikola (28 pts) CAN (Detail courses :
6,2,9,9,16,2,)
9: Grobe Alina / Kussatz Vivien (32 pts) GER (Detail courses : DSQ
,9,8,2,2,11,)
10: Rothweiler Stefanie / Leu Monika (34 pts)GER (Detail courses :
1,14,DSQ ,10,8,1,)
11: Armstong Jenny / Stowell Belinda (38 pts) AUS (Detail courses :
5,15,2,4,12,16,)
12: Kornecki Nike / Bouskila Vered (40 pts) ISR (Detail courses :
13,6,6,5,11,12,)
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