| BREST, FRANCE-(14-7-2003) In truly difficult conditions here in Brest (France) for the penultimmate
day of competition in the 40th Anniversary Regatta and European
Championships the fleets hit the water at 4pm local time.
In a
breathless morning and a record 34 degrees competitors waited until the
gradiant NorWesterly finally filled in for racing to begin.
Again as on previous days sailors tended to select a side of the course
they felt best for current and breeze but with 38_ men's boats reaching the
top mark within 4 minutes, boat speed was a premium as normal.
Olympic Silver medallists Paul Foerster & Kevin Burnham of the USA sailed
consistantly, risking when needed and consolidating when possible to
register two 4ths for the day when consistant results were rare.
In race
2 of the day far out on the left hand side the pair showed tremendous
ability to hold height and speed to round in 4th place and to hold onto it.
The 2 4ths put the Anericans in front by --- Points
While Local hero Gildas Phillippe proved that no local knowledge was an
advantage in this regatta.. (It's never like this) But stil the 1998 World
Champion holds onto 2nd Overall.
In the Woman's, the regatta was almost over at the second last mark with
Olympic Silver Medallists Natalia Via DuFresne & Sandra Azon in 2nd Place
before a desarsterous last run that saw them fall to 16th and be equal on
points with overnight leader Slovenian VesnaDekleva & Klara Maucec and a
consistant day brought rewards to the crew in 3rd .
A 6th and 5th from the Swedish pair of Torgersson & Zachrisson creates a 3
way tie for 1st overall in the Women's 22 boat fleet.
French Favorite Inki Petitjean sits just 4 points Back.
With todays 2 races the Championships are a series and tomorrow teams will
tussle for the final places, but with more hot conditions on the way
anything is possible..
Racing continues at 1pm local Tuesday..
Overall results
Men / GOLD FLEET after 7 races
1: Foerster Paul / Burnham Kevin (19 pts) USA (Detail courses :
3,5,2,1,15,4,4,)
2: Philippe Gildas / le Berre Nicolas (32 pts) Douarnenez Voile (Detail
courses : 5,1,7,3,2,14,22,)
3: Molund Johan / Andersson Martin (35 pts) NZL (Detail courses :
5,2,3,8,8,9,13,)
4: Zellmer Lucas / Krabbe Felix (36 pts) GER (Detail courses :
2,3,10,7,16,5,9,)
5: Rogers Nocholas / Glanfield Joe (40 pts) GBR (Detail courses :
2,3,2,1,27,15,17,)
6: Wilmot Nathan / Page Malcolm (42 pts) AUS (Detail courses : DSQ
,2,8,13,6,6,7,)
7: Kosmatopoulos Andreas / Trigonis Kostas (44 pts) GRE (Detail courses :
4,5,11,1,11,12,15,)
8: Kjaergaard Kristian / Moeller Mads (49 pts) DEN (Detail courses :
6,15,9,9,9,19,1,)
9: Vials Graham / Field Bevis (51 pts) GBR (Detail courses :
6,17,12,5,12,10,6,)
10: Cooke Simon / Nicholas Pete (53 pts) NZL (Detail courses :
7,8,1,2,1,36,34,)
11: Marinho Alvaro / Nunes Miguel (53 pts) Portugal (Detail courses :
9,7,19,3,13,37,2,)
12: Conte Javier / de la Fuente Juan (59 pts) ARG (Detail courses :
4,2,8,18,25,17,10,)
13: Braslavets Eugeny / Matvienko Igor (59 pts) UKR (Detail courses :
8,12,5,6,4,24,35,)
14: Patino Marc / Moreno Omar Juan (59 pts)ESP (Detail courses :
6,10,4,8,29,8,23,)
15: Yogev Yosef / Shahaf Amir (61 pts) ISR (Detail courses :
3,1,7,23,30,2,25,)
Women / GOLD FLEET after 8 races
1 ESP 1788 VIA DUFRESNE Natalia AZON Sandra 36.00 56.00 1 20 3 6 4 5 1 16
C.N.H. - Spain
2 SLO 142 DEKLEVA Vesna MAUCEC Klara 36.00 46.00 9 1 5 7 2 3 10 9 YC
PORTORZ - Slovenia
3 SWE 321 TORGERSSON Therese ZACHRISSON Vendela 36.00 51.00 11 2 4 2 6 15
6 5 GKSS - Sweden
4 FRA 2594 PETITJEAN Ingrid DOUROUX Nadege 40.00 52.00 7 5 10 1 7 4 12 6 U
S PEG MARSEILLE - France
5 CAN 520 PROVAN Jennifer GIRKE Nikola 40.00 56.00 6 2 9 9 16 2 5 7 ROYAL
VANCOUVER Y.C. - Canada
6 ARG 104 SESTO Maria Fernanda REINOSO Paula 42.00 57.00 2 12 6 1 1 10 15
10 Y.C. ARGENTINO - Argentina
7 GER 4918 ROTHWEILER Stefanie LEU Monika 45.00 68.00 1 14 DSQ 10 8 1 9 2
WYC - Germany
8 AUS 341 ARMSTONG Jenny STOWELL Belinda 50.00 66.00 5 15 2 4 12 16 4 8
RFBYC - Australia
9 RUS 700 ILIENKO Vlada GAPONOVICH Natalia 52.00 75.00 4 3 2 --- 1 9 18 15
Russia
10 SLO 19 OREL Janja OREL Alenka 53.00 69.00 15 1 1 16 5 6 13 12 YC JADRO
- Slovenia
11 DEN 127 WARD Suzanne WARD Michaela 53.00 74.00 9 7 21 5 11 13 7 1 ROYAL
DANISH YACHTCLUB - Denmark
12 GER 4911 GROBE Alina KUSSATZ Vivien 54.00 77.00 DSQ 9 8 2 2 11 11 11
PYC / SPYC - Germany
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