| The 49er European title goes to German crew Marcus Baur/Max Groy |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(19-7-2003) 49er European Championship |
| Laredo, Spain - The last day of finals with 4 races sailed in the Gold fleet brought changes in the overall standings. With a total of 16 races sailed and 2 discards, German crew Marcus Baur/Max Groy (55 points)have become the European Champions followed by British team Chris Draper/Simon Hiscocks (67 points) and third place is for Spanish crew Iker Martinez/Xabier Fernández (69 points). |
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| Baur/Groy (GER) get Gold, British sailors win silver medal at Europeans |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(19-7-2003) 49er European Championship - GBR Team |
| Laredo, Spain - Team GBR sailors Chris Draper and Olympic silver medallist
Simon Hiscocks have won the silver medal at the 49er European championships,
matching their result at this event last year. |
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| Light Northeastern breeze on the second day of Finals |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(18-7-2003) 49er European Championship |
| Laredo, Spain - The strong winds of yesterday have become a light NE breeze today with a maximum of 7 knots.
The bronze fleet that was sent out first today sailed two races and no races have been sailed in the Silver fleet. |
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| Superb racing at the 29er Worlds and 49er Europeans in Laredo. |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(17-7-2003) 49er European Championship and 29er Worlds |
| Laredo, Spain - Following some cloudy, rainy days, the 29ers could not expect to have such a sunny day with excellent wind conditions on their day of final series. |
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| Full schedule of racing completed in all groups today |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(16-7-2003) 49er European Championship |
| Laredo, Spain - The first races of the day started according to schedule with starts at 11.00 in the morning and the last race of the day was completed at 18.53. |
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| Late afternoon races abandoned due to big storm |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(15-7-2003) 49er and 29er European Championship |
| Laredo, Spain - All groups sailed two races with North easterly, 6- 12 knots of breeze, enabling some results to be posted and some leaders to emerge. At 4 o’clock the blue 49er and 29er groups saw their races abandoned due to a big storm and all boats returned ashore. |
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| Difficult conditions on day one |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(15-7-2003) 49er and 29 European Championship |
| Laredo, Spain - Difficult conditions meant a difficult start at the 49er and 29er Europeans. After the first day barely half the fleet could complete any qualification races, and racing was cancelled at 17:00 for the 49ers and 17:45 for the 29ers. |
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| Battle of the Brits to commence in Spain |
| LAREDO, SPAIN-(14-7-2003) 49er European Championship - GBR Team |
| Laredo, Spain - The battle between the British 49er teams will continue this
week as they compete at the 49er European Championships in Spain. |
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