ISAF Sailing World Cup Final - Belcher/Ryan and Tom Burton take lead

by Cora Zillich on 28 Nov 2014 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final - Abu Dhabi - The Australian Sailing Team kicked-off racing with a bang on the first race day at the inaugural ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

World #1 and Men’s 470 World Champions Mat Belcher (QLD) and Will Ryan (QLD) lead the fleet after the first two races of this new event. The pair strolled into pole position following a two - four scoreline. Greece’s Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis are second on eight points with Austria’s David Bargehr and Lukas Mahr in third on ten points.

Laser World #1 Tom Burton (NSW) followed suit by grasping the Laser lead after the opening day of racing. Burton was strong on the race track and took a fifth and a bullet and was pleased after racing, 'It was pretty solid day all around,' commented Burton, 'The top guys are all here and with the 20 boat fleet you can’t afford to have a bad race because the guys that will win this regatta, won’t do that so you won’t have a chance to catch up.'

'We’ve had really close racing here and I expect it to be close every day. We haven’t had much time here, but it’s a really nice place to be and it’s good that I’m sailing well,' he added.

Australian Sailing Squad’s Laser sailor Matt Wearn (AUS) finished the day in fourth.

The strong Australian results on the opening day of racing in Abu Dhabi continued with Finn Sailor Jake Lilley (QLD), who trails leading Slovenia by five points in second place. Victorian Oliver Tweddell is ranked 15th.

In the Skiffs Australian Sailing Team’s David Gilmour (WA) and Rhys Mara (NSW) are ranked seventh in the 49er, while Tess Lloyd (VIC) and Caitlin Elks (WA) sit in eigth place in the 49erFX fleet. The racing on the 49er race course was exceptionally close with little separation of the fleet across three races.

The first day of racing at Abu Dhabi has been described as spectacular, fantastic and perfect. A north westerly breeze that ranged between nine - fourteen knots greeted the sailors across the four race tracks. The outside courses saw big waves to add some spice to the sailors lives whilst the flat water on the inside Corniche course tested the sailors all round abilities.

Racing for the 270 sailors from 38 nations across the ten Olympic commenced at 12:00 local time and wrapped up with a full complement of races in the Olympic events.

Australia is represented in Abu Dhabi with seven crews in five of the events.

Racing across the fleets is scheduled to continue at 12:00 local time (19:00 AEST) on Friday 28 November.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Abu Dhabi – AST and ASS entries and results (Day 1):

470M (Men’s Two Person Dinghy) – Seven races:

Mat Belcher (QLD) / Will Ryan (QLD) – AST: 2, 4 – first

Laser (Men's One Person Dinghy) – Seven races:

Tom Burton (NSW) – AST: 5, 1 – first
Matthew Wearn (WA) – ASS: 3, 8 – fourth

49er (Men's Skiff - 49er) – 10 races:

David Gilmour (WA) and Rhys Mara (NSW) – AST: 5, 6, (11) – seventh

49erFX (Women's Skiff) – 10 races:

Tess Lloyd (VIC) and Caitlin Elks (WA) – ASS: 6, 7, (8) – eighth

Finn (Men’s One Person Dinghy Heavy) – Seven races:

Jake Lilley (QLD) – ASS: 2, 5 – second
Oliver Tweddell (VIC) – ASS: 16, 10 – 15th

 Complete Results:

470 - Men - Overall Results:

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race		Points
				1	2	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 11	Mathew Belcher William Ryan	2	4	6.00	6.00
2	GRE	GRE 1	Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis	3	5	8.00	8.00
3	AUT	AUT 437	David Bargehr Lukas Mähr	4	6	10.00	10.00
4	ESP	ESP 9	Onan Barreiros Juan Curbelo Cabrera	8	3	11.00	11.00
5	AUT	AUT 3	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichsteaedter	11	1	12.00	12.00
6	USA	USA 1713	Stuart Mcnay David Hughes	1	11	12.00	12.00
7	JPN	JPN 12	Tetsuya Matsunaga Yugo Yoshida	12	2	14.00	14.00
8	SUI	SUI 16	Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser	5	10	15.00	15.00
9	ITA	ITA 29	Simon Sivitz Kosuta Jas Farneti	6	14	20.00	20.00
10	RSA	RSA 1	Jim Asenathi Roger Hudson	14	7	21.00	21.00
11	GER	GER 15	Julian Autenrieth Philipp Autenrieth	13	8	21.00	21.00
12	ESP	ESP 44	Jordi Xammar Joan Herp	9	12	21.00	21.00
13	CRO	CRO 83	Sime Fantela Igor Marenic	7	16	23.00	23.00
14	CHN	CHN 1267	Hao Lan Chao Wang	10	13	23.00	23.00
15	SWE	SWE 350	Carl-Fredrik Fock Marcus Dackhammar	15	9	24.00	24.00
16	ITA	ITA 27	Matteo Pilati Francesco Rubagotti	16	15	31.00	31.00

Laser - Men - Overall Results:

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race		Points
				1	2	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 199012	Tom Burton	5	1	6.00	6.00
2	CRO	CRO 204731	Tonci Stipanovic	4	2	6.00	6.00
3	GBR	GBR 201402	Nick Thompson	2	7	9.00	9.00
4	AUS	AUS 199015	Matthew Wearn	3	8	11.00	11.00
5	CYP	CYP 206765	Pavlos Kontides	1	11	12.00	12.00
6	SWE	SWE 199617	Jesper Stalheim	10	5	15.00	15.00
7	NZL	NZL 206426	Sam Meech	9	6	15.00	15.00
8	EST	EST 203724	Karl-Martin Rammo	13	4	17.00	17.00
9	FRA	FRA 203800	Jean Baptiste Bernaz	7	12	19.00	19.00
10	USA	USA 206151	Charlie Buckingham	11	9	20.00	20.00
11	ITA	ITA 205243	Francesco Marrai	18	3	21.00	21.00
12	NED	NED 206745	Rutger van Schaardenburg	8	13	21.00	21.00
13	CRO	CRO 207268	Filip Jurišic	6	19	25.00	25.00
14	CAN	CAN 197120	Lee Parkhill	19	10	29.00	29.00
15	ITA	ITA 207955	Giovanni Coccoluto	12	17	29.00	29.00
16	SIN	SIN 197538	Colin Cheng	15	14	29.00	29.00
17	POR	POR 207025	Gustavo Lima	16	16	32.00	32.00
18	NZL	NZL 181961	Andy Maloney	14	20	34.00	34.00
19	ITA	ITA 199697	Alessio Spadoni	20	15	35.00	35.00
20	BEL	BEL 202016	Wannes Van Laer	17	18	35.00	35.00

49er - Men - Overall Results:

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	POL	POL 52	Tomasz Januszewski Jacek Nowak	(13)	1	1	15.00	2.00
2	GBR	GBR 33	Dylan Fletcher-Scott Alain Sign	1	2	(19) RET	22.00	3.00
3	SWE	SWE 16	Carl P Sylvan Otto Hamel	3	3	(14)	20.00	6.00
4	FRA	FRA 9	Manu Dyen Stéphane Christidis	(4)	4	4	12.00	8.00
5	USA	USA 150	Bradley Funk Trevor Burd	(17)	7	2	26.00	9.00
6	GBR	GBR 10	John Pink Stuart Bithell	2	(8)	8	18.00	10.00
7	AUS	AUS 7	David Gilmour Rhys Mara	5	6	(11)	22.00	11.00
8	GBR	GBR-99	David Evans Edward Powys	7	(15)	5	27.00	12.00
9	POR	POR 27	Jorge Lima José Costa	(19) DNF	5	7	31.00	12.00
10	NZL	NZL 34	Marcus Hansen Josh Porebski	(15)	12	3	30.00	15.00
11	ESP	ESP 32	Carlos Paz Anton Paz Blanco	(10)	10	6	26.00	16.00
12	AUT	AUT 84	Nico Delle - Karth Nikolaus Resch	6	(16)	13	35.00	19.00
13	FRA	FRA 6	Julien d'Ortoli Noé Delpech	9	(11)	10	30.00	19.00
14	CRO	CRO 13	Pavle Kostov Petar Cupac	12	9	(19) DSQ	40.00	21.00
15	FRA	FRA 14	Mathieu Frei Yann Rocherieux	(16)	13	9	38.00	22.00
16	SWE	SWE 500	Victor Bergstr?m Victor Vasternas	11	(14)	12	37.00	23.00
17	ITA	ITA 26	Ruggero Tita Giacomo Cavalli	8	(19) RET	19 RET	46.00	27.00
18	ITA	ITA 444	Luca Dubbini Roberto Dubbini	14	17	(19) DSQ	50.00	31.00

49erFX - Women - Overall Results: 

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
				1	2	3	Total	Net
1	NZL	NZL 1	Alexandra Maloney Molly Meech	1	(10)	1	12.00	2.00
2	ITA	ITA 4	Giulia Conti Francesca Clapcich	(2)	1	2	5.00	3.00
3	SWE	SWE 381	Lisa Ericson Hanna Klinga	(7)	6	3	16.00	9.00
4	SIN	SIN 33	Griselda Khng Sara Li Ching Tan	(14)	4	5	23.00	9.00
5	ESP	ESP 23	Tamara Echegoyen Berta Betanzos	3	(11)	7	21.00	10.00
6	DEN	DEN 136	Jena Hansen Katja Salskov-Iversen	(8)	5	6	19.00	11.00
7	NED	NED 15	Nina Keijzer Claire Blom	4	8	(11)	23.00	12.00
8	AUS	AUS 11	Tess Lloyd Caitlin Elks	6	7	(8)	21.00	13.00
9	ARG	ARG 19	Victoria Travascio Maria Sol Branz	12	2	(13)	27.00	14.00
10	SWE	SWE 25	Julia Gross Cecilia Jonsson	5	(16)	10	31.00	15.00
11	AUT	AUT 911	Laura Schöfegger Elsa Lovrek	(15)	3	15	33.00	18.00
12	FRA	FRA 13	Sarah Steyaert Johann BOUIC	9	9	(14)	32.00	18.00
13	GER	GER 777	Leonie Meyer Elena Christine Stoffers	(16)	15	4	35.00	19.00
14	FIN	FIN 101	Noora Ruskola Camilla Cedercreutz	10	(14)	9	33.00	19.00
15	FIN	FIN 17	Sinem Kurtbay Sami Jokinen	11	(12)	12	35.00	23.00
16	GBR	GBR 99	Kate Macgregor Kirstie Urwin	13	13	(16)	42.00	26.00
17	IND	IND 171	Varsha Gautham Aishwarya Chezhiyan	(17)	17	17	51.00	34.00

Finn - Men - Overall Results: 

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race		Points
				1	2	Total	Net
1	SLO	SLO 573	Vasilij Zbogar	1	1	2.00	2.00
2	AUS	AUS 41	Jake Lilley	2	5	7.00	7.00
3	CRO	CRO 524	Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic	5	3	8.00	8.00
4	NED	NED 842	Pieter-Jan Postma	9	2	11.00	11.00
5	GRE	GRE 77	Ioannis Mitakis	7	4	11.00	11.00
6	USA	USA 6	Caleb Paine	3	14	17.00	17.00
7	NZL	NZL 24	Josh Junior	4	13	17.00	17.00
8	POL	POL 17	Piotr Kula	11	7	18.00	18.00
9	ITA	ITA 117	Giorgio Poggi	10	9	19.00	19.00
10	ITA	ITA 146	Michele Paoletti	12	8	20.00	20.00
11	GBR	GBR 11	Edward Wright	8	12	20.00	20.00
12	ITA	ITA 123	Filippo Baldassari	6	15	21.00	21.00
13	SWE	SWE 6	Björn Allansson	13	11	24.00	24.00
14	NOR	NOR 1	Anders Pedersen	19	6	25.00	25.00
15	AUS	AUS 261	Oliver Tweddell	16	10	26.00	26.00
16	RUS	RUS 1	Alexey Selivanov	14	17	31.00	31.00
17	EST	EST 2	Deniss Karpak	15	18	33.00	33.00
18	EST	EST 11	Lauri Väinsalu	18	16	34.00	34.00
19	ITA	ITA 66	Enrico Voltolini	17	20 DNF	37.00	37.00