ISAF Sailing World Cup Mallorca - Australia 1,2,3 in Laser Medal Race

by Rob Kothe and the Sail-World team on 5 Apr 2014

Tom Burton wins in Palma Martinez Studio / Sofia http://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/

ISAF Sailing World Cup - Mallorca - Tom Burton blasted to World Cup victory winning the medal race from Ash Brunning (who finished eighth overall) and Matt Wearn( who finished sixth overall.)

Burton took World Cup Gold from Jean-Baptiste Bernaz (FRA) and Tonci Stipanovic (CRO). Andy Maloney (NZL) finished fifth overall and Sam Meech (NZL) 10th.

A very strong performance from Burton who had finished fourth in Miami behind Stipanovic, Robert Scheidt (BRA) who finished ninth here and Nick Thompson (GBR) who finished 12th here.

Today Burton said ‘ I came here to win. Two years ago I came third and last year I came second and I wanted to keep stepping it up. I was really disappointed to not win here last year with the points I had and I’m really stoked to win it.

'It’s been a tough week and I haven’t been as consistent as I would have liked to have been but I had a good first day of finals to put me back in the game. All the points were pretty close. I wanted to have a good start. I had a really good first beat and all the guys were around me but it was a really close bunch in the end.çç

'Earlier in the week I said the Aussies would be there or thereabouts, but to have 1, 2, 3 in the medal race was awesome. To win against this field was very satisfying.’

Sail-World spoke to Australia's Laser coach Michael Blackburn about his squad. ‘A great result for Tom, Matt Wearn and Ash Brunning.

‘Tom’s last Worlds in Oman were below his expectations and we have been working on fine detail over the Southern hemisphere summer and it’s paying off and I think we will see a lot better performance at the next Worlds.

‘Our target this year is the Worlds in Santander so we are looking at getting more race experience and putting some good things into the practice at these couple of World Cups and the Europeans in the lead up to that and also we will be taking a couple of guys to Rio to get more familiar with that which is pretty important part of this year as well.
‘Our results show the depth in the Australian Squad is really good and there is even younger guys beyond the seven we had here this week who are looking to take their places in coming years.

‘Tom Slingsby had an Olympics experience before he won the Laser Gold in London. These guys haven’t really had that. They associated with Tom and they have seen it all happen a bit but to be up in contention now and have it open in front of them is exciting for them and the pressure will be on in the coming years.’

Pos	Nation	Sail No	Crew	Race												Points
Pos	Nation	Sail No	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS 199012	Tom Burton	5	(17)	10	2	11	6	2	3	12	8	14	2	92.00	75.00
2	FRA	FRA 203800	Jean Baptiste Bernaz	(12)	6	11	7	5	8	5	7	8	7	4	8	88.00	76.00
3	CRO	CRO 204731	Tonci Stipanovic	1	3	4	(49) UFD	8	7	14	15	10	3	2	18	134.00	85.00
4	NED	NED 204566	Nicholas Heiner	4	5	1	12	15	4	9	6	14	(51)	7	20	148.00	97.00
5	NZL	NZL 203776	Andy Maloney	15	13	14	1	2	13	1	12	5	10	(39)	12	137.00	98.00
6	AUS	AUS 203770	Matthew Wearn	7	9	9	6	4	2	16	19	9	(30)	12	6	129.00	99.00
7	CYP	CYP 205124	Pavlos Kontides	20	2	15	2	25	1	(27)	16	1	1	1	16	127.00	100.00
8	AUS	AUS 199014	Ashley Brunning	16	1	2	4	8	17	12	18	16	(36)	3	4	137.00	101.00
9	BRA	BRA 176622	Robert Scheidt	6	6	1	10	1	3	4	24	(61) BFD	39	13	10	178.00	117.00
10	NZL	NZL 196871	Sam Meech	14	2	7	10	1	20	8	28	13	19	(37)	14	173.00	136.00
11	EST	EST 203724	Karl-Martin Rammo	35	20	24	7	4	12	13	2	3	5	(46)		171.00	125.00
12	GBR	GBR 201402	Nick Thompson	20	2	16	2	3	(61) BFD	3	1	22	47	10		187.00	126.00
13	GER	GER 203170	Philipp Buhl	1	4	9	9	15	5	7	5	(61) BFD	45	26		187.00	126.00
14	POL	POL 196898	Kacper Zieminski	14	6	1	6	5	9	44	4	(61) BFD	26	18		194.00	133.00
15	BEL	BEL 202016	Wannes Van Laer	3	(25)	20	13	22	11	6	10	23	18	15		166.00	141.00
16	ITA	ITA 205243	Francesco Marrai	6	9	8	11	9	(30)	21	11	24	16	27		172.00	142.00
17	BRA	BRA 203765	Bruno Fontes	11	26	2	3	30	18	28	(35)	2	2	23		180.00	145.00
18	CAN	CAN 200610	Robert Davis	10	4	12	9	4	25	(49)	44	18	21	16		212.00	163.00
19	GBR	GBR 205648	Martin Evans	16	12	15	30	23	19	11	8	29	(31)	5		199.00	168.00
20	POR	POR 202210	Gustavo Lima	2	21	4	29	20	22	22	(61) DNC	19	20	11		231.00	170.00
21	CRO	CRO 202974	Daniel Mihelic	1	19	4	22	10	14	31	25	28	(34)	17		205.00	171.00
22	USA	USA 182345	Charlie Buckingham	3	18	20	21	3	15	42	13	26	12	(43)		216.00	173.00
23	ITA	ITA 206448	Giovanni Coccoluto	2	3	13	4	10	45	36	23	4	35	(53)		228.00	175.00
24	AUS	AUS 203759	Mitchell Kennedy	17	8	10	11	28	29	10	22	(61) BFD	14	32		242.00	181.00
25	RUS	RUS 202692	Sergey Komissarov	21	16	28	19	7	10	25	26	(61) BFD	11	20		244.00	183.00
26	NZL	NZL 197250	Thomas Saunders	7	11	6	3	2	(61) BFD	15	20	37	61 UFD	21		244.00	183.00
27	SWE	SWE 204437	Emil Cedergårdh	8	3	2	1	16	16	38	36	(61) BFD	17	49		247.00	186.00
28	ITA	ITA 196685	Marco Gallo	9	15	23	1	12	27	17	39	(61) DNC	4	44		252.00	191.00
29	AUS	AUS 206382	Jeremy O'Connell	12	1	3	26	8	40	35	29	(41)	6	38		239.00	198.00
30	ITA	ITA 199697	Alessio Spadoni	3	10	19	13	19	(47)	20	37	7	40	34		249.00	202.00
31	GBR	GBR 206491	Elliot Hanson	15	1	3	49 UFD	34	(61) BFD	30	9	30	29	8		269.00	208.00
32	AUS	AUS 206019	Ryan Palk	27	11	14	13	22	44	19	(47)	6	22	30		255.00	208.00
33	ITA	ITA 179057	Enrico Strazzera	19	7	8	5	14	21	32	38	27	38	(45)		254.00	209.00
34	NOR	NOR 204758	Kristian Ruth	18	12	27	17	16	23	18	14	40	(61) UFD	29		275.00	214.00
35	GBR	GBR 204539	Michael Beckett	15	35	19	27	5	26	29	17	35	(61) UFD	9		278.00	217.00
36	GBR	GBR 200490	Alex Mills-Barton	18	22	22	5	13	(61) BFD	23	31	20	48	22		285.00	224.00
37	BRA	BRA 191342	Matheus L Dellagnelo	5	4	16	31	19	39	(59)	40	15	24	33		285.00	226.00
38	FRA	FRA 200239	Antony Munos	6	23	21	35	16	(61) BFD	24	21	25	32	24		288.00	227.00
39	CAN	CAN 197120	Lee Parkhill	4	13	5	14	14	31	39	(48)	42	43	25		278.00	230.00
40	POL	POL 205300	Jonasz Stelmaszyk	12	7	31	3	17	28	(54)	33	21	37	41		284.00	230.00
41	IRL	IRL 192703	James Espey	10	13	8	27	7	34	33	41	(61) BFD	9	55		298.00	237.00
42	FRA	FRA 196713	Mattis Naud	2	24	17	4	33	43	(57)	30	39	33	19		301.00	244.00
43	CRO	CRO 197294	Filip Jurišic	29	9	5	12	24	24	26	(50)	43	25	48		295.00	245.00
44	FIN	FIN 198227	Mattias Lindfors	7	14	39	16	2	36	52	(53)	34	15	31		299.00	246.00
45	AUS	AUS 203004	Luke Elliott	42	8	11	17	24	42	41	43	31	(61) UFD	6		326.00	265.00
46	ESP	ESP 197295	Joaquín Blanco	13	11	12	15	34	33	46	32	17	(61) UFD	56		330.00	269.00
47	FRA	FRA 205708	Eliot Merceron	11	30	26	18	6	32	34	(51)	32	46	35		321.00	270.00
48	SWE	SWE 205123	Anders Karlsson	17	17	14	22	9	37	40	45	(61) BFD	50	28		340.00	279.00
49	CZE	CZE 202887	Viktor Teply	40	25	18	6	3	(61) BFD	58	27	11	41	50		340.00	279.00
50	RUS	RUS 171513	Maxim Nikolaev	19	16	11	8	21	46	47	56	33	27	(57)		341.00	284.00
51	ISV	ISV 204048	Cy Thompson	11	14	36	27	7	38	48	(55)	36	28	40		340.00	285.00
52	SUI	SUI 199025	Guillaume Girod	13	28	9 SCP	16	27	(61) DNC	43	34	45	44	42		362.00	301.00
53	POL	POL 205643	Tadeusz Kubiak	16	12	7	20	12	48	55	(61) DNC	48	52	51		382.00	321.00
54	USA	USA 203751	Erik Bowers	5	5	36	43	12	(61) BFD	45	61 DNC	46	23	47		384.00	323.00
55	CAN	CAN 197731	Evert McLaughlin	28	24	20	8	11	(61) BFD	56	42	38	61 UFD	36		385.00	324.00
56	RUS	RUS 195737	Dmitry Tretyakov	42	27	9	9	17	50	60	(61) DNC	44	13	58		390.00	329.00
57	CAN	CAN 184589	Tom Ramshaw	4	49 UFD	21	18	23	41	37	46	47	49	(54)		389.00	335.00
58	EST	EST 192655	Kaarel Kruusmägi	24	28	6	8	27	49	53	54	(61) BFD	42	52		404.00	343.00
59	GRE	GRE 150374	Adonis Bougiouris	25	20	26	5	14	35	50	52	(61) DNC	61 DNC	61 DNC		410.00	349.00
60	ITA	ITA 206683	Marco Benini	8	7	3	14	35	(61) BFD	51	49	61 DNC	61 DNC	61 DNC		411.00	350.00
61	NOR	NOR 201382	Mathias Mollatt	23	(36)	28	25	1	3	5	3	20	1	1		146.00	110.00
62	GBR	GBR 201481	Jack Wetherell	10	27	23	(34)	20	4	4	4	9	12	3		150.00	116.00
63	FIN	FIN 202978	Kaarle Tapper	(49) UFD	10	13	17	30	18	10	9	4	6	15		181.00	132.00
64	SWE	SWE 204666	Jesper Stalheim	(29)	15	19	23	29	1	1	1	3	43 DNE	10		174.00	145.00
65	NZL	NZL 202687	Andrew McKenzie	(32)	23	12	25	18	15	15	16	17	7	4		184.00	152.00
66	NOR	NOR 201111	Hermann Tomasgaard	21	17	34	19	(45)	22	28	6	2	5	5		204.00	159.00
67	GER	GER 203739	Tobias Schadewaldt	41	29	(49) UFD	24	13	2	18	5	1	28	2		212.00	163.00
68	ESP	ESP 204673	Jesus Rogel Sanchez	23	24	(32)	15	6	9	14	43 DNE	7	13	11		197.00	165.00
69	HUN	HUN 197711	Balázs Tomai	24	(35)	16	30	15	17	30	19	5	2	12		205.00	170.00
70	CHN	CHN 205040	Huichao Chen	(38)	32	25	11	11	6	3	24	28	16	23		217.00	179.00
71	NOR	NOR 201735	Henrik Begby	31	26	30	29	(46)	11	8	8	6	4	26		225.00	179.00
72	TRI	TRI 184116	Andrew Lewis	(41)	21	21	21	6	29	7	20	33	10	16		225.00	184.00
73	MDA	MDA 204929	Alexandr Denisiuc	28	22	10	29	28	19	(32)	13	15	14	7		217.00	185.00
74	SLO	SLO 195998	Zan Luka Zelko	30	19	18	35	9	13	19	12	(43) DNC	19	14		231.00	188.00
75	CRO	CRO 179403	Toma Višic	34	26	5	31	36	7	2	7	(37)	11	31		227.00	190.00
76	LTU	LTU 202989	Karolis Janulionis	13	29	22	20	24	(36)	16	28	8	31	9		236.00	200.00
77	NED	NED 206431	Yuri Hummel	21	19	15	28	31	8	26	2	18	(34)	32		234.00	200.00
78	USA	USA 194180	Christopher Barnard	19	8	22	(33)	30	26	20	31	11	21	17		238.00	205.00
79	CAN	CAN 197116	Matthew Ryder	9	28	30	(37)	32	10	12	17	23	26	20		244.00	207.00
80	POR	POR 206227	Rui Silveira	26	14	(39)	7	36	14	24	29	14	18	27		248.00	209.00
81	UKR	UKR 171268	Valeriy Kudryashov	14	20	26	20	21	12	25	18	25	(32)	29		242.00	210.00
82	POL	POL 196962	Aleksander Arian	(33)	30	24	32	20	33	6	15	27	3	22		245.00	212.00
83	LTU	LTU 202773	Martis Pajarskas	26	5	27	(34)	19	23	23	26	34	22	13		252.00	218.00
84	SWE	SWE 203145	Philip Claesson	30	36	(40)	23	22	30	35	10	19	9	8		262.00	222.00
85	BEL	BEL 188816	Sam Vandormael	22	33	28	(49) UFD	28	20	21	11	36	8	18		274.00	225.00
86	DEN	DEN 203067	Michael Hansen	17	29	31	26	26	(43) DNC	13	14	13	24	43 DNC		279.00	236.00
87	CAN	CAN 197160	Alexander Heinzemann	24	(33)	25	23	25	21	29	22	30	20	21		273.00	240.00
88	ARG	ARG 200626	Agust Vidal	28	(46)	6	30	40	16	22	35	24	39	6		292.00	246.00
89	FIN	FIN 200870	Matias Mikkola	39	39	(41)	16	18	28	33	25	21	15	19		294.00	253.00
90	ITA	ITA 206455	Michele Benamati	23	35	24	39	17	27	(43) DNC	21	10	17	43 UFD		299.00	256.00
91	FRA	FRA 205657	Loïc Queyroux	34	10	17	32	26	34	17	27	(38)	36	28		299.00	261.00
92	GBR	GBR 204005	Matthew Reid	22	27	18	15	36	5	9	(43) DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC		304.00	261.00
93	ESP	ESP 190992	Guillermo Flores Martin	37	18	13	32	(49) DNC	31	31	23	26	33	24		317.00	268.00
94	SWE	SWE 201727	Emil Bengtson	35	42	33	(47)	10	38	11	33	16	25	30		320.00	273.00
95	SWE	SWE 201729	Claes Törnsten	36	16	29	(41)	33	37	27	32	12	23	34		320.00	279.00
96	BRA	BRA 204596	Alex Veeren	8	22	27	28	(47)	25	34	43 DNC	43 DNC	35	35		347.00	300.00
97	MNE	MNE 203345	Igor Les	25	25	17	26	(44)	35	43 DNC	43 DNC	29	29	33		349.00	305.00
98	TUR	TUR 111905	Güney Can Kaptan	36	38	29	10	21	32	(43) DNC	30	35	38	43 UFD		355.00	312.00
99	ESP	ESP 203771	Juan Kevin Cabrera Gonzalez	39	41	(47)	12	27	24	43 DNC	43 DNC	32	27	25		360.00	313.00
100	CZE	CZE 192589	Stepan Novotny	9	32	38	(46)	13	40	36	34	39	37	43 DNC		367.00	321.00
101	ESP	ESP 206336	Gastón Cruz Tolón	27	38	39	21	33	39	(43) DNC	43 DNC	22	30	43 DNC		378.00	335.00
102	ESP	ESP 189278	Joan Cardona	31	23	23	(44)	42	41	43 DNC	43 DNC	31	40	43 DNC		404.00	360.00
103	UKR	UKR 188822	Vladymyr Volodymyrov	20	(46)	36	40	37	1	1	1	6	11			199.00	153.00
104	GER	GER 194755	Fabian Gielen	32	37	32	33	(38)	3	2	17	1	2			197.00	159.00
105	UKR	UKR 204532	Georgij Paches	39	34	(41)	18	32	15	18	4	14	1			216.00	175.00
106	GBR	GBR 206852	Henry Wetherell	(43)	37	35	38	39	10	4	7	12	5			230.00	187.00
107	BEL	BEL 202638	Matthias Van de Loock	45	(49) UFD	37	14	31	19	8	2	17	16			238.00	189.00
108	RUS	RUS 192777	Artem Grishnyakov	38	(47)	47	22	35	7	11	13	15	3			238.00	191.00
109	FRA	FRA 205111	Jean-Baptiste Ducamin	(43)	33	38	37	25	8	3	5	3	43 DNC			238.00	195.00
110	DEN	DEN 206366	Christian Guldberg Rost	(44)	41	30	42	29	4	13	15	8	15			241.00	197.00
111	CRO	CRO 194830	Bogoslav Bugarin	43	15	29	42	(45)	2	10	30	5	24			245.00	200.00
112	ESP	ESP 197683	Miguel Moncada	27	18	37	41	(44)	28	25	12	9	6			247.00	203.00
113	TUR	TUR 192611	Onur Bilgen	18	(43)	43	37	26	14	5	23	2	43 DNC			254.00	211.00
114	POR	POR 202211	Eduardo Marques	22	36	(43)	34	38	6	43 BFD	8	24	4			258.00	215.00
115	GER	GER 204691	Hannes Hollaender	32	32	25	(45)	40	32	19	6	21	8			260.00	215.00
116	RUS	RUS 201737	Dmitry Bondarenko	26	41	38	19	(46)	17	16	31	19	10			263.00	217.00
117	FRA	FRA 201769	Damian Michelier	(41)	31	32	40	40	26	6	28	16	7			267.00	226.00
118	UKR	UKR 201120	Denys Saidukov	40	46	48 SCP	(49) DNF	18	5	9	11	11	43 DNC			280.00	231.00
119	FRA	FRA 202111	Antoine Devineau	31	31	(45)	36	35	24	12	21	28	14			277.00	232.00
120	ESP	ESP 185048	Carlos Rosello	(45)	34	42	25	31	13	43 DNF	19	7	19			278.00	233.00
121	FIN	FIN 204023	Niklas Areschoug	(49) UFD	21	42	38	41	12	14	20	4	43 UFD			284.00	235.00
122	ITA	ITA 204249	Rocco Cislaghi	36	30	34	31	(46)	18	43 BFD	16	23	9			286.00	240.00
123	RSA	RSA 186900	Stefano Marcia	39 SCP	40	42	39	(43)	23	22	3	31	13			295.00	252.00
124	ESP	ESP 202382	Borja Mas	35	39	44	44	(47)	11	29	25	10	20			304.00	257.00
125	ESP	ESP 185152	Hector Dominguez Lizan	42	(44)	43	44	23	33	30	9	22	12			302.00	258.00
126	FRA	FRA 201176	Arnaud Derrendinger	(44)	44	41	36	41	9	20	24	20	25			304.00	260.00
127	ITA	ITA 204704	Giovanni Gallego	33	40	(47) SCP	41	37	29	26	18	26	17			314.00	267.00
128	RUS	RUS 181807	Konstantin Starunov	37	(45)	33	40	38	34	27	10	29	21			314.00	269.00
129	TUR	TUR 195559	Mustafa Cakir	(44)	31	33	24	39	16	7	34	43 DNC	43 DNC			314.00	270.00
130	RUS	RUS 200902	Grigorii Kharlamov	(48)	44	45	38	39	36	34	14	18	18			334.00	286.00
131	ITA	ITA 206458	Valerio Galati	38	39	37 SCP	28	34	21	31	33	30	(43) DNC			334.00	291.00
132	RSA	RSA 160031	Rudolph Holm	33	42	35	33	(47)	37	24	29	32	27			339.00	292.00
133	ESP	ESP 205753	Pau Schilt	40	34	31	24	37	25	15	(43) DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC			335.00	292.00
134	BRN	BRN 197151	Abdulla Janahi	25	40	44	(46)	29	22	21	32	43 DNC	43 DNC			345.00	299.00
135	SUI	SUI 200287	Cyrill Knecht	(46)	45	46	43	45 SCP	27	23	22	27	26			350.00	304.00
136	AUT	AUT 196226	Claus Maria Dapeci	30	38	40	(43)	32	20	17	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC			349.00	306.00
137	ESP	ESP 203561	Xavier Tous	34	(45)	37	35	45	31	43 BFD	27	13	43 UFD			353.00	308.00
138	SUI	SUI 200895	Janik Roempp	(48)	43	44	47	43	30	28	37	33	22			375.00	327.00
139	IRL	IRL 201482	Chris Russell	29	(43)	34	36	41	38	43 DNC	36	35	43 UFD			378.00	335.00
140	ESP	ESP 180845	Eduard Cabot Talens	45	(47)	46	45	44	35	33	35	34	23			387.00	340.00
141	RUS	RUS 202973	Alexey Koltsov	47	47	(48)	42	48	43 BFD	32	26	25	43 UFD			401.00	353.00
142	ESP	ESP 189295	Antonio Salva Ginard	(46)	37	40	39	42	40	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC			416.00	370.00
143	ESP	ESP 183933	Hugo Dominguez	47	42	(48)	45	42	39	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC			435.00	387.00
144	ITA	ITA 204254	Marco Traversa	(49) DNC	49 DNC	49 DNC	49 DNC	49 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC	43 DNC			460.00	411.00