TRAVEMÜNDE, GERMANY-(24-7-2003) For the start of the German Match Racing Championship during
the 114th Travemuende Week, wind god Aeolus was pretty confused. After dead
calm followed a sea breeze and in the afternoon a thunderstorm ended racing.
Nevertheless on all courses one or two races were completed. The Hobie 14
Worlds managed to sail three races on course foxtrot. Frank Suchanek from
Krefeld, Germany used the conditions best and took over the lead. Pepe
Bettini und Frederico Villambrosa from Argentina sailed to the top of the
list in the 29er Euro and Glenn Ashby demonstrated its dominance in the
A-Cat class with seven firsts of eight races.
The world championship of the single handed sailed Hobie 14 catamarans
showed thrilling results after five races. The Dutch Thorin Zeilmaker had an
OCS (over early start) and two firsts afterwards, but while no result was
discarded so far he scores only 14th by now. In front Frank Suchanek and
Joachim Wegener from Hamburg have tied points with Suchanek leading. 22
points behind follows Peter Manvis from the Netherlands again tied with
Jochen Sierck. “The conditions have been tactically difficult”, said
Suchanek, “that’s why the results change so much”.
The only lately crowned vice world champion of the 29er class
Bettini/Villambrosa showed everyone their stern in the two races of the day.
The bronze winners of the Worlds, which where just held in Laredo/Spain, Tom
Smedley and Steve Wilson (Great Britain) followed in second place. And the
team from Finland, Lethinen/Pennanen scored third. The current World
Champions Evans/Peacock from Great Britain lost their lead from the day
before and dropped to fifth place in the fleet of 52 starters.
The European Championship of the single handed A-Cat construction class has
been a complete domination by the current world champion Glenn Ashby. The
Australian, who crewed for Darren Bundock in the Tornado trapeze for the
Kiel week has his discard in the first race, but since then he has
outclassed his competitors by scoring seven firsts in eight races. Fellow
countrymen Scott Anderson came in second in most of the races and it looks
as if he doesn’t have a chance to win. This continues Ashby’s dominance from
last year when he won the North American, German, Australian, European and
World Championships.
A straight walk into the next round of the German Match Racing Championship
had Carsten Kemmling from Hamburg, Germany with his crew Peter Stein and
Claas de Jong. The 23rd of the world ranking list won every duel in his
group. The other two places had to be decided in a tie break, because
Sven-Erik Horsch from Hamburg, Timo Ellegast (Konstanz) and Franziska
Unkelbach, Kiel with an all female crew scored two wins each. “It was very
thrilling”, said Andreas John (Hamburg) sailing with Horsch, “in the pre
start action, the tension is extremely high, while everyone wants to avoid
mistakes”.
And Jan Hamester who qualified himself for the German Championship by
becoming second in the streamline class in the first half of the Travemuende
Week fleet races made too many mistakes and ended without a chance. Just
before the thunderstorm covered the bay of Luebeck, local hero Alex Hagen
lost one match to Stefan Meister from Berlin, after winning two matches.
Meister currently leads group number two.
Results of the 114th Travemuende week from Thursday 24 July
Hobie 14 Worlds / after 5 races 1. Suchanek (Krefeld, Germany) 31 points; 2. Wegener (Hamburg, Germany) 31; 3. Manvis (Netherlands) 53, 4. Sierck (Kronshagen, Germany) 53, 5. du Toit (Republic of South Africa) 54; 6. Moritz Mueller (Remscheid, Germany) 69.
29er Europeans / after 5 races 1. Bettini/Villambrosa (Argentina) 10 points; 2. Smedley/Wilson (Great Britain) 12; 3. Lehtinen/Pennanen (Finland) 15; 4. Chapman/Dawson (Great Britain) 17; 5. Evans/Peacock (Great Britain) 19; 6. Mueller/Keller (Switzerland) 26.
A-Cat Europeans / after 8 races 1. Glenn Ashby (Australia) 6 points; 2. Scott Anderson (Australia) 11; 3. Sascha Wallmer (Switzerland) 22; 4. Reinhard Egner (Stephanskirchen, Germany) 33; 5. Penco Paolo (Italy) 44; 6. Luigi Blancato (Italy) 45.
Musto Skiff Euro Cup / after 5 races 1. Richard Stenhouse (Great Britain) 6 points; 2. Matthew Toone (Great Britain) 7; 3. Ian Turnbull (Great Britain) 11; 4. Kit Stenhouse (Great Britain) 15; 5. Graeme Oliver (Great Britain) 17; 6. Phil Kennard (Great Britain) 18.
Hobie FX-One Euro Cup / after 4 races 1. Pool (Netherlands) 6 points; 2. Zwitser (Netherlands) 8; 3. Deurloo (Netherlands) 10; 4. Schrader (Cuxhaven, Germany) 18; 5. Rooij (Netherlands) 22; 6. Spellen (Netherlands) 29; 7. Goosen (Netherlands) 32.
Hobie Tiger Euro Cup / after 4 races 1. Gosche/Bock (Bremen, Germany) 10 points; 2. Hahn/Hahn (Kiel, Germany) 18; 3. Bredendiek/Froehmer (Duesseldorf, Germany) 20; 4. Fequet (France) 25; 5. Beike/Bannert (Luebeck, Germany) 26; 6. Reinke/Weber (Klein Barnitz, Germany) 28;
Sportsboats / after 2 races 1. `Bull-Y-Hoo` Manfred Schreiber (Schleswig, Germany) 4 points, 2. `HDW I` Tim Ross (Hamburg, Germany) 10, 3. `Lekkerbek` Axel Stegner (Berlin, Germany) 10, 4. `Playmate` Hans-H. Rüggesiek (Berlin, Germany) 16, 5. `Gemini` Jan Satrapa (Czech Republic) 17, 6. www.Juwel-28.com Christian Hedlund (Denmark) 19.
German Championship Match Racing: Group A: 1. Kemmling/Stein/de Jong (Hamburg, Germany) 4 points, 2. Ellegast/Ellegast/Guelzow 2, 2. Horsch/Simmendinger/John (Hamburg, Germany) 2, 2. Unkelbach/Mueller/Erfurt (Kiel, Germany) 2, 5. Hamester/Dabelstein/Hammerich (Luebeck, Germany) 0.
Group B: 1. Meister/Borkowski/Semmer (Berlin, Germany) 2, 2. Hagen/Wolfrom/Gosch (Hamburg, Germany) 2, 3. Kadelbach/Bodo/Schmidt (Berlin, Germany) 1, 3. Fratz/Bauer/Moeller 1, 5. Sothmann/Sievers/Avanchovik (Bornhoeved, Germany) 0.
Olympic 49er / after 3 races 1. Toft Nielsen/Toft Nielsen (Denmark) 4 points; 2. Gernhardt/Erdmann (Kiel, Germany) 8; 3. Oehme/Kleine (Hamburg, Germany) 9; 4. Conrad/Conrad (Essen, Germany) 13; 5. Homeyer/Sibbersen (Kiel, Germany) 18; 6. Briesenick-Pudenz/Massmann (Flensburg, Germany) 18.
Olympic Laser / after 4 races 1. Alexander Nikolaev (Russia) 12 points; 2. Thomas Endom (Krefeld, Germany) 16; 3. Ingmar Kirchner (Elmenhorst, Germany) 18; 4. Moritz Almes (Hamburg, Germany) 21; 5. Claus Wimmer (Bendorf, Germany) 24; 6. Ulf Neumann (Francfurt, Germany) 24.
Contender / after 4 races 1. Jan von der Bank (Kiel, Germany) 13 points; 2. Soren Andreasen (Denmark) 20; 3. Marcus Hamilton (Australia) 22; 4. Karsten Kraus (Kiel, Germany) 24; 5. Matt Hosie (Australia) 26; 6. Oliver Brandt (Hamburg, Germany) 27.
FD / after 3 races 1. Langefeld/Wilbert (Mayen, Germany) 8 points; 2. Koenig/Brack (Waldeck-Niederwerbe, Germany) 9; 3. Prenzler/Bollweg (Hannover, Germany) 10; 4. Koenig/Greten (Marburg, Germany) 12; 5. Altenhain/Mende (Berlin, Germany) 19; 6. Frank/Frank (Karlsruhe, Germany) 22.
Pirat IDM / after 5 races 1. Kemper/Mattonet (Havixbeck, Germany) 11 points; 2. Bogumil/Bogumil (Berlin, Germany) 15; 3. Saeger/Gluschke (Hohen Neuendorf, Germany) 18; 4. Schoenfeldt/Gundlage (Hamburg, Germany) 18; 5. Muencheberg/Steffen (Rostock, Germany) 19; 6. Babendererde/Oehme (Luebeck, Germany) 21.
Dyas / after 3 races 1. Suesse/Bender (Cologne, Germany) 11 points; 2. Breuer/Breuer (Simmerath, Germany) 12; 3. Woiwode/Kraemer (Simmerath, Germany) 16; 4. Zinsli/Iten (Switzerland) 17; 5. Leicher/Andreas (Koblenz, Germany) 19; 6. Seyfarth/Schmidt (Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany) 19.
Korsar / after 3 races 1. Tscherneck/Linnemann (Ahlen, Germany) 3 points; 2. Duncker/Geyer (Berlin, Germany) 10; 3. Schaber/Pabst (Duisburg, Germany) 14; 4. Arlt/Kluke (Berlin, Germany) 14; 5. Huber/Rogers (Herrsching, Germany) 15; 6. Heidrich/Mauer (Potsdam, Germany) 20.
Folkeboat / after 1 race 1. Ziegler/Hausch/Richter (Stralsund, Germany), 2. Larsson/Schreiber/Michels (Bad Schwartau, Germany), 3. Kiewning/Rhodus/Boydau (Berlin), 4. Rosehr/Zwesper/Jungkamp (Luebeck, Germany), 5. Pfuhl/Rosehr/Berlin (Laboe, Germany), 6. Reinberg/Reinberg/Hafke (Luebeck, Germany).
Sprinta Sport German Cup / after 1 race 1. Stephan Groeger (Ueberlingen, Germany); 2. Volker Rehfeld (Dortmund, Germany); 3. Ralf Neumann (Kiel, Germany); 4. Thies Schenkelberg (Cuxhaven, Germany); 5. Michael Berghorn / Freudenberg (Bad Laer, Germany); 6. Peter Kalweit (Hamberge, Germany).
SZV / after 7 races 1. Kopplin/Lueters (Berlin, Germany) 9 points; 2. Braendle/Hau (Wuppertal, Germany) 17; 3. Antrecht/Garzmann (Neustadt, Germany) 21; 4. Hotho/Gensch (Wunstorf, Germany) 32; 5. Friedhoff/Friedhoff (Steinhude, Germany) 35; 6. Maibohm/Nalup (Wetter, Germany) 48.
Hobie 16 Spi `Open` / after 6 races 1. Phipps/Cock (Great Britain) 8 points; 2. Colby/Riców (France) 13; 3. Booth/Booth (France) 20; 4. Crawford/Crawford (Great Britain) 22; 5. Christoph/Alban (France) 23; 6. Tayler/Tayler (Great Britain) 25.
Hobie Dragoon / after 6 races 1. Newton/Tayler (Great Britain) 5 points; 2. Barche/Osterloh (Luebeck, Germany) 11; 3. Hinzpeter/Texdorf (Herrnburg, Germany) 13.
Hobie 16 Spi `Youth` / after 6 races 1. Phipps/Cock (Great Britain) 5 points; 2. Crawford/Crawford (Great Britain) 14; 3. Tayler/Tayler (Great Britain) 14; 4. Cooper/Martin (Great Britain) 19; 5. Heitsch/Bockelmann (Germany) 23; 6. Pimenta/Dinsdale (France) 27; 7. Lecointe/Le Bayon (France) 27.
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