Tornado World Championships – Day 4
by Icarus Sports on 5 Sep 2017
Day 4 – Tornado World Championships Nikos Pantis
One day is left to reveal the winners of the 50th World Championship of the Tornado class held in Thessaloniki. The fight for the winners’ podium continues and everything will be judged on the final day.
In the seventh and eighth consecutive races of the event, the boat of Dany Paschalides and Petros Konstantinidis, who stands on top of the overall ranking, finished in the second and first place respectively heading for the Trophy conquest. Without a change, the second place of the overall stays to Nikolaos Mavros and Alex Tagaropoulos after having a fifth and a second place in today’s races.
In the third place of the overall ranking is the German boat with Bob Baier and Marc Baier. In the seventh race they were fourth, while the eighth race was their worst one so far. Fourth in the general standings are Kostas Trigonis with Stavros Tavoularis, who were the first to finish in the seventh race but also had their worst at last.
However, the battle in the mixed category is very very interesting for the top three positions. The crew from the Czech Republic with Zdenek Pavlis and Michaela Pavlisova is ahead with 64 points. Following are Markus Betz and Monica Schuster, while in third place is the boat of the president of the class Jurgen Jentsch class with his crew Sarah Jentsch. Fourth is Zibi Piekarski and Dominika Halmatarova.
The second, third and fourth mixed crews are in equal points (66 points) and just two points behind the first!
Regarding the one of the two Greek crews in the mix category, Maria Tsaousidou and Michalis Papadopoulos, are in fifth place (13th of the general). After the damages that they had since the beginning of the event with the loss on their mast and pole, they now cover the lost ground, having their best performance today by finishing fifth in the last race.
Tuesday, September 5th will be the last two races with start being scheduled for 12 o’clock. After the end of the games, trophies will be awarded to the new World Champions at the closing ceremony of the event at the Nautical Club of Thessaloniki.
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