Rogers and Glanfield just miss out on medals
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470 European Championship - GBR Team - Rogers and Glanfield just miss out on medals |
BREST, FRANCE-(15-7-2003) Team GBR sailors Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield finished in
fifth place overall and fourth Europeans at the 470 European Championships
in France.
The championship has been plagued by lack of wind and during the week-long
event only seven races have been completed in the men's fleet and eight in
the women's, with no racing on the final day.
Sydney Olympic silver medallists Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham of America
took the overall championship win from Gildas Philippe and Nicolas Le Berre
of France who won the European title. Lucas Zellmer and Felix Krabbe of
Germany finishing third overall and second Europeans from Johan Molund and
Martin Andersson of Sweden who won the European bronze medal. Fellow team
GBR sailors Graham Vials and Bevis Field who have been sailing together just
eight months finished seventh Europeans and ninth overall.
In the women's fleet three crews were tied for first place, but the
championship win went to Natalia Via Dufresne and Sandra Azon of Spain on
count-back, who took gold from Vesna Dekleva and Klara Maucec of Slovenia
with Therese Torgersson and Vendela Zachrisson of Sweden finishing third
overall. Team GBR sailors Christina Bassadone and Katherine Hopson finished
in sixteenth place overall.
Rogers summed up his week by saying, `Sailing is all about putting the right
pieces together in the right place and at the right time. We managed this at
the beginning of the week but towards the end of the regatta it got harder
to do so and it reflected in our results. On the whole we are really pleased
with fourth place, but no one likes coming fourth and we really want to get
some top three's from here on in.`
Vials said, `Considering that Bevis and I only started sailing together
eight months ago it is great that we are on pace especially considering it
has been such a tricky event. It is incredibly hard to keep focused when the
racing is start-stop but I suppose it is a disadvantage to everyone and part
of the game is to be able to adapt to the situations.`
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Source: Sacha Oswald |