2015 Kieler Woche – Day 1

by Kieler Woche on 21 Jun 2015 Sun, wind and waves: The first day of the 133. 2015 Kieler Woche offered everything to make a sailor happy. So the day in the office for the sailors in the Olympic classes could be finished quickly. All planned races were done in less than three hours - with top results for the teams of the national German sailing team, who took the lead in nine Olympic and Paralympic classes.

„That was a good start in all aspects', Dirk Ramhorst is happy. But the new head of organisation of the Kieler Woche did nevertheless mark an issue. „The expectations are high after this day, it can only get worse.' He would have loved to let the sailors sail even more, but had to stick to the framework.

'A good start and a fast sail!' That is the simple winning formula of Max Boehme. Together with helmsman Justus Schmidt, the 49er crew from the Kiel Yacht Club is on his way up into the top fleet since this year. At the World Cup in Hyères, they managed to get their best result of their career with rank six. After three races at the Kieler Woche, they even took the leading position, keeping the Danish 2008 Olympic winner, Jonas Warrer with crew Anders Thomsen and the 2014 European Champions Erik Heil/Thomas Ploessel (Kiel) in control on rank two and four. All three teams are a training community and can now hope to take home the overall prize money of 6000 Euro at the end of the Kieler Woche and extend their training sessions even more.

The twins Jule and Lotta Goerge did deliver a surprisingly strong series in the women's 49er skiff. Crew Lotta Goerge did break her left arm when capsizing at the Eurosaf regatta at Lake Garda in May this year, but now skilfully pulls the sheets again. Their start was fulminant by winning the race, followed by two third ranks. They are now on rank two, just behind the Dutch crew Annemiek Bekkering/Daniel Bramervaer.

Paul Kohlhoff/Carolina Werner did sail on their home territory without any mistake. Three starts, three victories was the amazing statement of the young mixed crew in the future Olympic catamaran Nacra17. After a good spring, the sailors from Kiel are well prepared for the World Championship in Aarhus in July.

Rebooking the tickets for the Worlds in Toronto,Canada could have been the right decision for Laser sailor Tobias Schadewaldt (Oldenburg). While Germany's strongest sailor at the moment, Philipp Buhl (Kiel), will be flying to Canada on the day of the Medal Races and did miss out on the Kieler Woche, Schadewaldt is currently on rank one after winning two races and can thus hope to receive the prize money in the end.

A safe German victory will be by Heiko Kroeger (Ammersbek). Having already won the Kieler Woche seven times, the Paralympic sailor from 2000 is again leading the 2.4mR fleet.

But the German sailors in the 470, the Finn and the Laser Radial are currently not in the position to fight for the title at the Kieler Woche. The Croation 470 World Champion from 2009, Sime Fantela/Igor Marenic, have their class well under control a few days before the European Championship in Aarhus just like Lara Vadlau/Jolanta Ogar, the Austrian World Champions of the previous year, the small women's team in this class. And Deniss Karpak from Estonia is heading for his third Kieler Woche victory in the Finn - after his successes in 2012 and 2014. The Danish Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, who became second at the Olympics in 2012, did not really reach his speed yet after two races. On rank eight he even is watching the junior talent Phillip Kasueske (Berlin) from behind, who is currently on rank four.

For the German Laser women, it will be a hard fight to even get into the Medal Race of the best ten. Pia Kuhlmann (Schaumburg-Lippe) is on rank twelve the best German sailor in the fleet, which is dominated by by Croatian Tina Mihelic.

Results Kieler Woche - Part one day one

2.4mR (open):
1. Heiko Kröger (Ammersbek,2/1/3) Points 6
2. Michael Leydon (AUS,8/2/1) 11
3. Bjørnar Erikstad (NOR,5/5/2) 12
4. Kevin Cantin (FRA,3/3/7) 13
5. Henrik Johnsson (SWE,1/11/5) 17
6. Per Ahrbom (SWE,6/7/9)22

49er:
1. Justus Schmidt / Max Boehme (Kiel,3/1/2) Points six
2. Jonas Warrer / Anders Thomsen (DEN,1/8/1) 10
3. Dominik Buksak / Grzegorz Gozdzik (POL,2/2/6) 10
4. Erik Heil / Thomas Ploessel (Kiel,5/6/8) 19
5. Chris Taylor / Sam Batten (GBR,6/12/3) 21
6. Benjamin Bildstein / David Hussl (AUT,7/4/10)21

49er FX
1. Annemieke Bekkering / Daniel Bramervaer (NED,3/1/1) Points five
2. Jule Görge / Lotta Görge (Kiel,1/3/3) Seven
3. Leonie Meyer / Elena Stoffers (Hamburg,4/2/2) Eight
4. Victoria Jurczok / Anika Lorenz (Kiel,2/5/5) 12
5. Klara Wester / Rebecca Netzler (SWE,6/8/4) 18
6. Randi Forsaa / Nathalie Lagergren (SWE,9/4/7) 20

Nacra 17
1. Paul Kohlhoff / Carolina Werner (Strande,1/1/1) Points three
2. John Casey / Kristen Lane (USA,4/3/8) 15
3. Andre Mirsky / Kyra Mirsky (BRA,2/9/6) 17
4. Justin Liu / Denise Lim (SIN,3/5/14) 22
5. Eckart Kaphengst / Tine-Marie Kaphengst (Sören,5/11/7) 23
6. Francesco Sabatini / Marcella Mamusa (ITA,20/2/3) 25

Finn
1. Deniss Karpak (EST,1/2) Points three
2. Stig Steinfurth (DEN,3/1) Four
3. Mads Bendix (DEN,4/3) Seven
4. Phillip Kasüske (Kiel,2/6) Eight
5. Anders Pedersen (NOR,6/4) 10
6. Lauri Väinsalu (EST,5/5) 10

470 M
1. Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic (CRO,1/1) Points two
2. Mikhail Sheremetev / Maksim Sheremetev (RUS,2/4) Six
3. Panagiotis Kampouridis (GRE,4/3) Seven
4. Asenathi Jim / Roger Hudson (RSA,6/2) Eight
5. David Bargehr / Lukas Mähr (AUT,3/5) Eight
6. Deniz Cinar / Ates Cinar (TUR,5/6) 11

470 W
1. Lara Vadlau / Jolanta Ogar (AUT,1/1) Points two
2. Dimitra Pagida / Sofia Papadopoulou (GRE,2/2) Four
3. Antonina Marciniak / Karolina Soltaniuk (POL,3/3) Six
4. Muriel-natalie Schröder / Fanny Popken (Potsdam,4/5) Nine
5. Lena Stückl / Lorena Abicht (Tutzing,6/4) 10
6. Domenique Freund / Annabell Prockat (Berlin,5/6) 11

Laser Standard: (2)
1. Tobias Schadewaldt (Oldenburg,1/1) Points two
2. Michael Hansen (DEN,2/2), Four
3. Tadeusz Kubiak (POL,4/1), Five
4. Toma Visic (CRO,1/5), Six
5. Mattis Naud (FRA,3/3), Six
6. Rui Silveirä (POR,6/2), Eight

Laser Radial: (2)
1. Tina Mihelic (CRO,1/1) Points two
2. Erika Reineke (USA,5/1), Six
3. Marthe Enger Eide (NOR,4/2), Six
4. Tiril Hartvedt Bue (NOR,3/5), Eight
5. Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR,7/2), Nine
6. Elena Vorobeva (RUS,2/8) 10

Melges 24: (3)
1. Kim Christensen / Peter Jakobsen, Jamie Lea, Henriette Frislev, Celine Carlsen (DEN,1/1/2) Points four
2. Martin Trcka / Michal Kotek, Michaela Zarubova, Jan Skoda, Petr Fiala (CZE,2/3/1), Six
3. Kicker Schäfer / Eddy Eich, Walter Rothlauf, Oliver Oczyc, Adrian Hoesch (München,5/2/4) 11
4. Marc Wain Pedersen / Simon Østergaard, Brun Bojland, Claes Bohn-Willeberg (DEN,4/4/3) 11
5. Peter Warrer / Michael Risør, Kasper Sohn, Jakob Ege Friis, Lea Høy (DEN,3/5/6) 14
6. Peter Havn / Kristian Schaldemose, Josefine Boel Rasmussen, Søren Andersen (DEN,6/6/5) 17

J/70: (3)
1. Hubert Merkelbach / Jörg Munck, Jonathan Koch, Max Kurfürst (Ueberlingen,1/1/4) Points six
2. Oscar Lundqvist / Jacob Lundqvist, Frederik Wahlberg, Christian Harding (SWE,5/2/1), eight
3. Hugo Rocha / Alexey Semenov, Fran Palacios, Ruben Castells (ESP,3/4/2), nine
4. Gordon Nickel / Morten Nickel, Nils Merten Färber, Nick Schlomka (Stade,7/5/7) 19
5. Claas Lehmann / Marc-daniel Mählmann, Björn Athmer, Tom Stryi (Hamburg,2/10/11) 23
6. Philipp Kadelbach / Hendrik Kadelbach, Yannick Wloch, Henry De Bokay (Berlin,6/7/14) 27

J/80: (3)
1. Björn Beilken / Jork Homeyer, Tobias Teichmann, Alexander Beilken (Berne,1/2/2) Points five
2. Martin Menzner / Frank Lichte, Mika Rolfs, Carsten Hopp (Stein,2/3/1), Six
3. Sven Vagt / Tjark Schwebe, Mathes Schwebe, Hendrik Conradi (Hamburg,4/1/5) 10
4. Sören Hadeler / Peer Schickedanz, Simon Bodermann, Henning Buchmann (Bremen,3/4/7) 14
5. Martin Christiansen / Henrike Rolf, Tesch Ullrich, Hengstmann Andreas (Seevetal,8/5/3) 16
6. Hauke Krüss / Ole Sartori, Felix Koester, Jens Tschentscher, Luca Sartori (Hemelingen,5/14/4) 23

Albin Express: (3)
1. Arne K Larssen / Nils Albrecht, Steffen Mühlenkamp, Merle Risy, Sebastian Hantke (SWE,1/1/1) Points three
2. Morten Arndal / Dennis Petersen, Anette B. Hansen, Martin Dyxenburg, Brian n.n. (DEN,2/2/3) Seven
3. Andreas Pinnow / Nora Weger, Andreas Körnig, Johann Tamme, Martin Rosenthal (Kiel,6/3/2) 11
4. Jan Brink / Jörg Rüterhenke, Jan Günther, Lasse Waltje (Flensburg,3/5/4) 12
5. Martin Görge / Rasmus Görge, Julius Köhnlein, Claus Köhnlein (Kiel,5/7/5) 17
6. Kim Lago Nørgaard / Magnus Brønd, Jesper Misfeldt, John Jørgensen, Ulrik Staalros (DEN,4/4/12) 20

WR Kiel/Eckernförde Albin Ballad:
1. Jens Becker (Schwentine,1) Points one
2. Willi Decker / Heiko Schumann, Marcel Möller, Steffen Tiedemann, Sören Beckmann (Freiburg,2) Two
3. Klaus Lange (Hamburg,3) Three
4. Christiane Waldmann / Torsten Volkholz, Alessandro Stoltenberg, Rahel Druen (Kiel,4) Four
5. Karl-Heinz Wulf (Kiel,5), Five
6. Michael Langhans / Thomas Wiese, Jan Lok (Otterndorf,8), Eight

WR Kiel/Eckernförde ORC I:
1. „IMMAC ONE4ALL“ Kai Mares (Hamburg,1) Points one
2. „Xenia“ Ralf Lässig (Bremerhaven,2) Two
3. „X-Day“ Niels Gauter (Hamburg,3) Three
4. „El Pocko“ Thomas Jungblut (Hamburg,4) Four
5. „Desna“ Sven Wackerhagen (Kiel,5) Five

WR Kiel/Eckernförde ORC II:
1. Xen Sven Christensen (Flensburg,1) Points one
2. Speedy Gonzales Werner Jensen (Kiel,2) Two
3. Solconia Gerd Schneider (Lübeck,3) Three
4. Halbtrocken Xpress, Michael Berghorn (Amrum,4) Four
5. Lutzifer, Lutz Martin (Kiel,5) Five
6. „Resulute“ Andi Lochbrunner (Lindau,6) Six

WR Kiel/Eckernförde ORC III/VI:
1. Patent3 Henning Tebbe (Hamburg,1) Points 1
2. Static Electric Heiko Päsler (Cuxhaven,2) 2
3. Halbtrocken Knut Freudenberg (Bad Laer,3) 3
4. Siouxsie Søren Jepsen (Heikendorf,4) 4
5. Varuna X Press Kai Haupthoff (Eckernförde,5) 5
6. Quattro Klaus-Peter Boock (Schellhorn,6) 6

WR Kiel/Eckernförde Multihull:
1. Musandam – OmanSail, Sidney Gavignet (OMA,1) Points one.

Race calendar of the Kieler Woche 2015 (20. to 28. June)
Olympic part, EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup: 20. to 24. June:
Charly: 470 M+W, Finn M
Echo: Laser Std. M, Laser Rad. W
Golf: 2.4mR (open), Sonar (open)
Hotel: 49er M
Juliett: Nacra 17 Mix, 49erFX W

International part (25. to 28. June)
Charlie: 505, FD
Echo: 420
Foxtrott: J/24, Folkboat, H-boat
Golf: Musto Performance Skiff, RS 800
Hotel: 29er
India: Contender, OK dinghy
Juliett: Europe, Laser Radial (open), Laser 4.7
Kilo: Formula 18, Hobie 16, A-Cat

Offshore courses (20. to 27. June):
20. - 21. June: Welcome Race (ORC Club I-IV, Albin Ballad, Multihull)
20. - 23. June: Kiel Cup Foxtrott (Melges 24, J/70, J/80, Albin Express, SB 20, Platu 25)
22. to 24. June: Kiel-Cup Alpha (ORC Int. I-IV)
25.- 26. June: 'Silbernes Band' (ORC Club I-IV)
27. June: 'Senatspreis' (ORC Club I-IV)