ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao - Sailors tested on day 4

by ISAF on 18 Oct 2013 At the ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao, sailors’ focus and fitness were tested on the day four as a teasing light southerly breeze played its way across the race tracks. Qingdao has showcased a whole host of conditions taking the 131 sailors from 24 nations from extreme big breeze to patient light wind tests.

Coming in at five knots the southerly breeze at an average current of 1.5 knots made Thursday 17 October a testing race day.

Conditions on the RS:X race track were light with pumping aplenty across the Men's and Women's fleets.

Demonstrating the right amount of sailing know how and physical ability in the Women's RS:X was Great Britain's Bryony Shaw who bounced back from a slow start to the regatta.

'Today I had a good day,' exclaimed Shaw. 'I won the first race and second in the second race. It was an on-shore wind that I think was a little bit steadier so I felt like I could control my day. The other days when it was offshore I felt quite lost and felt like I wasn't in control of my day.'

Shaw's best result prior was a third in the opening race and with a DNF, an OCS and a 12th on her scorecard she was in unknown territory near the foot of the leader board. Controlling the day Shaw moves up to sixth, 17 points off Jiahui Wu in third.

The key to success on the fourth day, 'Power and endurance,' said Shaw. 'Power off the start line, maintaining that power and using it at the right time. Tactically if you hit a gust you know you've still got something spare in the tank.'

Power and endurance doesn't come overnight and Shaw works hard both on and off the water, 'I do a lot of my fitness for light winds on the water. We do tailored intervals on the water, really trying to push the body to its limit in some situations like an extended interval or keeping the interval really short and really explosive and really good technique. A lot of that on the water and then the endurance I'll get from road biking and time in the gym.'

Maintaining and extending her lead in the Women's RS:X is China's Peina Chen who was able to open up a nine point deficit over Maayan Davidovich (ISR). The Israeli was unable to find the form she had earlier in the week whilst Chen's light frame helped her clinch the Race 8 victory.

Shahar Zubari (ISR) picked up his fourth victory out of eight races in the Men's RS:X and leads Hong Kong's Michael Cheng by nine points.

Seasoned Olympic campaigners Ricardo Santos (BRA) and David Mier y Teran (MEX) did not enjoy the day and by their high standards were somewhat off the pace.

An 11th and seventh from Santos was fortunately enough to keep third overall whilst Teran popped up with a ninth and 11th and is seventh.

'It's a strange feeling when you are much faster than the Chinese guys in planing conditions, but they're much faster than me in this kind of wind,' said Santos.

On the strength needed for a light wind day Santos said, 'I feel strong, I'm working hard at home so I don't feel tired it's just this week my decisions aren't very good. Every time I choose a side everybody chooses the other and it's just much better.'

Teran added, 'It plays a critical part of the regatta but if you don't have the knowledge, tactics and view on the water then it's good for nothing.

'You need to understand and have the tactics right in order to get it right.'

Lucas Calabrese and Juan de la Fuente (ARG) took the lead off of Croatia's Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic with a strong double bullet day mixed in with a last race fourth. The Argentineans lead only stands at a solitary point making for a tantalising finale in Qingdao.

Paul Snow Hansen and Dan Wilcox (NZL) lost out on a point to China's Hao Lan and Chao Wang in the pursuit for third but a second place in the final race of the day brought a couple of Kiwi smiles ashore, 'The breeze was pretty tricky today, we had a lot of tide,' said Snow Hansen. 'Just to get through the start line was a challenge. We sailed quite well. We've got the potential to do well and we had a good last race but feel like we could do better.

'The balance of a pretty tricky breeze and a lot of tide made the decisions a lot more complicated than usual. Fun though and it's cool to have another element.'

Lan and Wang are third on 23 points with the Kiwis three behind on 26 points.

Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie (NZL) made it six race wins in a row and lead Hui Feng and Lizhu Huang by eight points.

Whilst the Kiwis are the runaway leaders a fight for the final podium spots looks on with just three points separating Feng and Huang in second, Qian Fu and Liyun Liu (CHN) in third and Nan Shanghai and Xue Li (CHN) in fourth.

China's Dong Zheng had a perfect day taking three race wins in the Laser Radial. The Chinese sailor was near faultless racing in her favourite conditions to take her race win tally up to five from eight races.

Although she holds five race wins the Chinese sailor hasn't run away with proceedings and is only seven points ahead of world number one Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR) who struggled in the lighter breeze taking a 5-8-8 scoreline into the penultimate day.

Ashley Stoddart (AUS) is third followed by Mathilde de Kerangat (FRA).

Reading the situation well once again was Croatia's Tonci Stipanovic. Whilst he was unable to match Radial sailor Zheng's perfection, he came pretty close taking a third and two bullets in the light breeze.

Stipanovic discards an OCS but has a healthy 16 point advantage over Pavlos Kontides (CYP) who had an up and down day with a discarded 11th, a second and third.

Dropping out of the last podium spot was New Zealand's Thomas Saunders as Kacper Zieminski (POL) sneaked through. The race for third has been a roller coaster ride with daily shuffling of places and just three points separates third to sixth.

Saunders has been making the most of the week, taking in the range of breeze Qingdao has offered, 'A good start is pretty key and then it's more about positioning on the race course. I got that right and wrong today, it's pretty hard to get it right all the time but that's sailing.

'There's a lot of planning ahead, that was pretty important today. It's been really good racing and awesome to race some of the world number 10 ahead of the Worlds.'

470 - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race							Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	Net
1	ARG	Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente	(4)	1	3	1	1	1	4	15.00	11.00
2	CRO	Sime Fantela Igor Marenic	1	3	1	3	(4)	3	1	16.00	12.00
3	CHN	hao lan chao wang	2	2	(11)	5	5	4	5	34.00	23.00
4	NZL	Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	6	(6.5)	4	2	6	6	2	32.50	26.00
5	CHN	weidong wang daokun deng	3	(8)	2	4	7	7	8	39.00	31.00
6	CHN	yong chen youjian wen	7	4	5	(10)	3	5	10	44.00	34.00
7	CHN	Mingcheng Ding Xiaojing Li	5	(11)	6	7	8	2	7	46.00	35.00
8	CHN	liangdao weng qiaowen lin	8	6.5	7	(9)	9	8	6	53.50	44.50
9	MAS	KU ANAS ANAS MOHAMMAD HAFIZZUDIN MAZELAN	(14) DNF	10	8	6	2	10	9	59.00	45.00
10	RSA	Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson	(14) DNC	5	9	11	14 OCS	9	3	65.00	51.00
11	PHI	ridgely balladares rommel chavez	9	9	10	8	(14) DNC	14 DNC	14 DNC	78.00	64.00
12	CHN	yuhao liu zixuan shao	(14) DNC	12	12	12	10	12	11	83.00	69.00
13	CHN	a kang li xingzheng wang	(14) DNC	13	13	13	11	11	14 OCS	89.00	75.00

 

470 - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race						Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Net
1	NZL	Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	(1)	1	1	1	1	1	6.00	5.00
2	CHN	Hui Feng Lizhu Huang	2	(5)	3	3	3	2	18.00	13.00
3	CHN	qian fu liyun liu	(9) DNC	2	2	5	2	4	24.00	15.00
4	CHN	Nan Shanghai Xue Li	3	(4)	4	2	4	3	20.00	16.00
5	CHN	shengnan ni changmei li	5	3	5	6	6	(7)	32.00	25.00
6	SIN	Dawn Xiaodan LIU Joan Poh Xue Hua	6	(8)	6	4	7	6	37.00	29.00
7	MAS	Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy Norashikin Mohd Sayed	(7)	6	7	7	5	5	37.00	30.00
8	CHN	Mingyue Liu Huali Zhu	4	7	(8)	8	8	8	43.00	35.00

 

Laser - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race								Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	CRO	Tonci Stipanovic	2	3	(19) OCS	1	2	3	1	1	32.00	13.00
2	CYP	Pavlos Kontides	1	1	8	5	9	(10)	2	3	39.00	29.00
3	POL	Kacper Zieminski	3	4	4	9	5	2	(10)	6	43.00	33.00
4	NZL	Thomas Saunders	4	6	1	8	3	4	(9)	8	43.00	34.00
5	POR	Gustavo Lima	6	2	3 DPI	12 DPI	5 DPI	2 DPI	5 DPI	(19) RET	54.00	35.00
6	CHN	Huichao Chen	5	7	(9)	6	6	5	3	4	45.00	36.00
7	AUS	Jeremy O'Connell	10	5	3	3	8	(13)	6	7	55.00	42.00
8	TRI	Andrew Lewis	8	(11)	10	7	1	7	7	9	60.00	49.00
9	CHN	yulong qiu	(14)	12	5	2	7	19 DNE	5	5	69.00	55.00
10	MAS	Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy	9	9	6	(14)	11	9	8	12	78.00	64.00
11	CHN	huaxiang lai	13	(19) DNC	12	4	13	8	11	11	91.00	72.00
12	CHN	NING ZHAO	7	8	7	12	10	(14)	14	19 DNE	91.00	77.00
13	IND	gajender singh	12 DPI	14 DPI	13	(15)	12	6	13	13	98.00	83.00
14	IND	Jasveer Singh	13 DPI	11 DPI	14	13	(16)	12	12	10	101.00	85.00
15	CHN	hongjun wang	15	(19) DNF	11	10	14	19 DNE	19 DNS	2	109.00	90.00
16	CHN	junzhe zou	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	17	17	11	15	14	131.00	112.00
17	CHN	yi zheng	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	16	18	15	16	15	137.00	118.00
18	CHN	jiaxin li	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	18	15	19 DNF	19 DNC	19 DNC	147.00	128.00

 

Laser Radial - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race								Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	CHN	Dongshuang Zhang	7	1	1	5	(10)	1	1	1	27.00	17.00
2	BLR	Tatiana Drozdovskaya	1	2	2	4	2	5	(8)	7	31.00	23.00
3	AUS	Ashley Stoddart	2	5	4	9	6	(13)	4	6	49.00	36.00
4	FRA	Mathilde de Kerangat	8	4	3	6	4	6	10	(13)	54.00	41.00
5	FRA	Marie BOLOU	6	8	7	3	7	(11)	3	8	53.00	42.00
6	FRA	Amélie Riou	3	3	5	8	1	7	18	(21) DSQ	66.00	45.00
7	POL	Paulina Czubachowska	9	7	6	2	8	8	5	(12)	57.00	45.00
8	LTU	Viktorija Andrulyte	(14)	14	8	1	12	4	2	5	60.00	46.00
9	NZL	Susannah Pyatt	10	9	10	(12)	3	3	11	3	61.00	49.00
10	RUS	Svetlana Shnitko	5	6	9	13	9	12	(17)	9	80.00	63.00
11	LTU	Milda Eidukeviciute	12	11	12	(16)	13	16	9	2	91.00	75.00
12	BRA	Fernanda Decnop	11	12	(14)	11	14	10	13	10	95.00	81.00
13	MAS	Nurul Elia Anuar	(21) DNF	21 DNS	11	10	5	9	15	11	103.00	82.00
14	THA	Kamolwan Chanyim	(16)	16	13	7	11	15	6	14	98.00	82.00
15	MAS	Rufina hong mui Tan	17	(21) DNF	15	17	15	2	16	4	107.00	86.00
16	AUS	Caitlin Davies	15	15	(21) OCS	15	16	14	7	21 DNC	124.00	103.00
17	NZL	Laura Lowther	13	13	(17)	14	17	17	14	16	121.00	104.00
18	CHN	Lijia Xu	4	10	(21) DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	140.00	119.00
19	CHN	wanting liu	(21) DNF	21 DNS	21 DNF	19	18	21 DSQ	12	15	148.00	127.00
20	MAS	khairunneeta Mohd Afendy	(21) DNF	21 DNS	16	18	21 DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	21 DNF	160.00	139.00

 

RS:X - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race								Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	ISR	Shahar Zubari	2	1	2	(6)	1	1	2	1	16.00	10.00
2	HKG	Cheng Chun Leung Michael	4	2	1	2	3	3	(8)	4	27.00	19.00
3	BRA	Ricardo Santos	1	3	4	4	2	4	(11)	7	36.00	25.00
4	HKG	Ho Tsun Leung	3	4	3	5	11	2	(12)	3	43.00	31.00
5	CHN	yikai huang	(15)	12	7	3	4	9	3	8	61.00	46.00
6	HKG	Gabriel Angelo Brettell	5	6	5	7	10	13	(14)	5	65.00	51.00
7	MEX	David Mier y Teran	7	7	6	(13)	7	7	9	11	67.00	54.00
8	CHN	Chunzhuang Liu	10	9	12	1	12	11	1	(14)	70.00	56.00
9	CHN	Bing Ye	9	(10)	8	8	6	10	7	10	68.00	58.00
10	CHN	mengfan gao	6	8	9	11	5	5	(19) OCS	16	79.00	60.00
11	CHN	zhi chao zhang	16	(19) DNC	19 DNF	9	9	6	6	2	86.00	67.00
12	CHN	jie yang	12	14	14	12	(15)	14	5	9	95.00	80.00
13	CHN	chaoli zeng	14	5	11	15	8	(17)	15	15	100.00	83.00
14	CHN	xueling jin	8	11	13	14	(16)	12	13	12	99.00	83.00
15	CHN	guoxing chen	13	13	10	10	(17)	15	10	13	101.00	84.00
16	CHN	wei li	17	(19) DNF	19 DNC	16	13	16	4	6	110.00	91.00
17	CHN	feng fu	11	(19) DNF	19 DNC	17	14	8	19 DNC	19 DNC	126.00	107.00
18	CHN	jiamao wu	18	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	18	18	16	17	144.00	125.00

 

RS:X - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race								Points
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	CHN	pei na chen	2	2	2	1	(6)	4	5	1	23.00	17.00
2	ISR	Maayan Davidovich	(13)	1	1	7	1	3	6	7	39.00	26.00
3	CHN	JIAHUI WU	1	6	5	5	(13)	1	4	4	39.00	26.00
4	CHN	Qiaoshan Weng	4	8	9	8	2	5	2	(10)	48.00	38.00
5	CHN	man jia zheng	5	4	3	(14)	10	6	3	9	54.00	40.00
6	GBR	Bryony Shaw	3	(17) DNF	4	17 OCS	4	12	1	2	60.00	43.00
7	HKG	Hei Man Hayley Victoria Chan	6	3	6	3	1 RDG	7.6 RDG	(17) DNC	17 DNC	60.60	43.60
8	CHN	YUNXIU LU	12	7	11	(13)	3	2	11	11	70.00	57.00
9	BRA	Patricia Freitas	9	5	7	2	(17) RET	9	8	17 OCS	74.00	57.00
10	CHN	yan jia lin	7	(17) DNC	13	10	8	7	9	3	74.00	57.00
11	CHN	pei ling chen	8	11	8	6	11	8	(12)	6	70.00	58.00
12	CHN	JIAO MA	14	9	10	11	(15)	10	10	8	87.00	72.00
13	CHN	hongmei shi	10	(17) DNF	15	9	14	14	7	5	91.00	74.00
14	CHN	haili dai	15	(17) DNF	14	4	7	11	14	12	94.00	77.00
15	CHN	Xueling Jin	11	10	12	12	9	(13)	13	13	93.00	80.00
16	CHN	xiumin zhang	(17) DNC	17 DNC	17 DNC	17 DNF	12	17 DNC	15	14	126.00	109.00

Racing resumes at 12:00 local time on Friday 18 October with three races scheduled in the Men's and Women's 470 fleets.

The Laser, Laser Radial and RS:X fleets get going at 13:00 local time. The Lasers will race two whilst the RS:X will sail three.