It was a thrilling last day on course Golf, where the Hobie 14 class found it’s new World Champion on Saturday (July 26) within the 114th Travemuende Week. Three races where on the schedule on the last day of racing in the bight of Luebeck. And Thorin Zeilmaker from the Netherlands made it even more exciting, when he fell into the water in the last race of the day. He could grap his boat in the last moment, prevented capsizing and managed to win the eleventh run. Zeilmaker won the world title with a comfortable margin of 12 points in the fleet of 64 boats. Second and therefore vice world champion became German multi-talent Frank Suchanek from Krefeld. He just scored the fourth place in the Hobie 16 Europeans on the Neusiedler See, Austria, a week ago. Third place went to Joachim Wegener from Hamburg, Germany.

Tom Smedley and Steve Wilson from Great Britain, who scored third in the just finished Worlds in Laredo, Spain, could secure the European title in the 29er class after the last fight was fought in the protest room, bringing Lauri Lethinen and Miikka Pennanen from Finland on second place. The world champions David Evans and Richard Peacock (Great Britain) had to be satisfied with bronze after a disqualification in the third last race. And Bettini/Villambrosa (Argentia) who finished second in the worlds and lead the ranking in Travemuende until the last day, became fourth in the end.

In the Hobie Tiger class Joerg Gosche and Christoph Bock from Luebeck, Germany steered their catamaran faster than all other 47 competing teams from eight nations and won the European Championship 2003 after nine races. The vice title went to Will Howden and Cori Carmenisch starting for Switzerland, who could defend the second place with a first in the last start and left the third rank for Bredendiek/Froehmer from Duesseldorf, Germany.

The high score in the Olympic single handed Laser class went to Alexander Nikolaev. The dominating Russian took over the lead in Travemuende from the beginning and did not give it away until the end after nine races. The 45-year old Russian won with five points ahead of second placed Thomas Endom from Krefeld, Germany and Claus Wimmer (Bendorf, Germany). In the second Olympic class that finished on Saturday, the winner was Danish: Emil and Simon Toft Nielsen, followed by Felix Oehme and Julien Kleine (Hamburg, Germany).

The title in the British dominated Musto Skiff Euro Cup was won by Richard Stenhouse. Matthew Toone scored second and Ian Turnbull could secure third place in the single handed trapeze dinghy. On Sunday, July 27, the 114th Travemuende Week will finish with the semi finals and finals of the German match racing championship.

Final results of the 114th Travemuende week from Thursday 24 July 2003

Hobie Cat 14 World Championship (11 races)
1. Thorin Zeilmaker (Netherlands) 48 points; 2. Frank Suchanek (Krefeld;
Germany) 60; 3. Joachim Wegener (Hamburg; Germany) 69; 4. Peter Manvis
(Netherlands) 79; 5. Jochen Sierck (Kronshagen; Germany) 106; 6. Arnaud
Thieme (France) 108.

Hobie Tiger European Championship (9 races)
1. Gosche/Bock (Bremen; Germany) 16 points; 2. Howden/Camenisch
(Switzerland) 24; 3. Bredendiek/Froehmer (Duesseldorf; Germany) 31; 4.
Beike/Bannert (Luebeck; Germany) 42; 5. Hahn/Hahn (Kiel; Germany) 46; 6.
Fequet/Filippi (France) 47.

29er European Championship (10 races)
1. Smedley/Wilson (Great Britain) 29 points; 2. Lehtinen/Pennanen (Finland)
33; 3. Evans/Peacock (Great Britain) 36; 4. Bettini/Villambrosa (Argentina)
41; 5. Chapman/Dawson (Great Britain) 41; 6. Metcalfe/Haywood (Great
Britain) 53.

Olympic 49er class (9 races)
1. Toft Nielsen/Toft Nielsen (Denmark) 8 points; 2. Oehme/Kleine (Hamburg,
Germany) 13; 3. Homeyer/Sibbersen (Kiel, Germany) 24; 4.
Briesenick-Pudenz/Massmann (Flensburg, Germany) 28; 5. Conrad/Conrad (Essen,
Germany) 30; 6. Beucke/Beucke (Hamburg, Germany) 41

Olympic Laser class (9 races)
1. Alexander Nikolaev (Russia) 10 points; 2. Thomas Endom (Krefeld, Germany)
15; 3. Claus Wimmer (Bendorf, Germany) 27; 4. Moritz Almes (Hamburg,
Germany) 33; 5. Thomas Grosse (Marienfeld, Germany) 35; 6. Ingmar Kirchner
(Elmenhorst, Germany) 35.

Musto Skiff Euro Cup (10 races)
1. Richard Stenhouse 12 points; 2. Matthew Toone 20; 3. Ian Turnbull 32; 4.
Kit Stenhouse 32; 5. Graeme Oliver 34; 6. Phil Kennard (all Great Britain)
43; 7. Gabriel Wicke (Gehrden, Germany) 43.

Hobie FX-One Euro Cup (9 races)
1. Pool (Netherlands) 13 points; 2. Zwitser (Netherlands) 19; 3. Deurloo
(Netherlands) 22; 4. Schrader (Cuxhaven, Germany) 27; 5. Spellen
(Netherlands) 38; 6. Rooij (Netherlands) 45.

Sportsboats Euro Cup/German Open (8 races):
1. „www.Juwel-28.com” Christian Hedlund (Denmark) 6 points, 2. „Team
TBS/Quienta“ Patrik Heinrichs (Berlin, Germany) 19, 3. ”www.berlinsegler.de“
Jens Hartwig (Berlin, Germany) 21, 4. “Tyvado” Milah Hajek (Czech Republic)
23, 5. „Lekkerbek“ Axel Stegner (Berlin, Germany) 28, 6. “HDW I” Tim Ross
(Hamburg, Germany) 31.

Contender (8 races)
1. Jan von der Bank (Kiel, Germany) 12 points; 2. Karsten Kraus (Kiel,
Germany) 12; 3. Marcus Hamilton (Australia) 22; 4. Søren Andreasen (Denmark)
22; 5. Oliver Brandt (Hamburg, Germany) 25; 6. Matt Hosie (Australia) 34.

Hobie 16 Spi `Open` (12 races)
1. Phipps/Cook (Great Britain) 24 points; 2. Crawford/Crawford (Great
Britain) 36; 3. Colby/Riców (France) 38; 4. Christoph/Alban (France) 44; 5.
Booth/Booth (Australia) 60; 6. Cooper/Martin (Great Britain) 63.

Hobie 16 Spi `Youth` (12 races)
1. Phipps/Cook (Great Britain) 14 points; 2. Crawford/Crawford (Great
Britain) 22; 3. Cooper/Martin (Great Britain) 41; 4. Tayler/Tayler (Great
Britain) 42; 5. Pimenta/Dinsdale (France) 56; 6. Lecointe/Le Bayon (France)
60; 7. Heitsch/Bockelmann (Fassberg, Germany) 62.

Hobie Dragoon (12 races)
1. Newton/Tayler (Great Britain) 14 points; 2. Barche/Osterloh (Luebeck,
Germany) 34; 3. Hinzpeter/Texdorf (Herrnburg, Germany) 37.

Source: Event Editor