Kingston Laser Standard Worlds - Day 4 - Qualifying complete
by Marianne Davis on 6 Jul 2015
Ryan Palk representing Australia Luka Bartulovic
Qualifying series is finished with three races completed today, and a total of seven races for the series. Racing began with five - seven knots from the South West. The wind then picked up for the last race to 10-12 knots. Based on the current results, eight of the nine Olympic Laser Standard spots available at this event were taken today by competitor who qualified for gold fleet.
Regatta leader Juan Ignacio Maegli representing Guatemala placed third in the first race of the day, with Kristian Ruth representing Norway in first and previous regatta leader Matthew Wearn in second. Maegli GUA then fell back in the fleet in the second and third race, and is now sitting third overall. Race two was won by Aleksander Arian representing Poland, followed by Andy Maloney representing New Zealand in second and, Benjamin Vadnai representing Hungary in third. For the last race of the day, Yellow Flight was dominated by the Italians. Giovanni Cooccoluto, Alessio Spadoni, Enrico Strazzera representing Italy places one, two, and three respectively.
Blue Flights’ first race was won by Tonci Stipanovic representing Croatia, Sam Meech representing New Zealand placed second and James Espey representing Ireland finished third. Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini representing Great Britain placed first in race seven for his second bullet of the regatta. He was followed by Colin Cheng representing Singapore in second and Charlie Buckingham representing the United States in third. Blue Flight Race seven began with Bruno Fontes representing Brazil in the lead. Colin Cheng SIN was able to pull ahead of Fontes BRA, to place first overall. He was followed by Julio Alsogaray representing Argentina in second, Marco Gallo representing Italy in third and Fontes BRA in fourth.
Red Flights’ race five consisted of a tacking duel between Tom Burton representing Australia and Christopher Barnard representing the United States. On the last leg of the race, Burton and Barnard were locked tack for tack, before Burton was able to fake a tack to get clean air and win the race. Race six for the Red Flight was won by Nick Thompson representing Great Britain, moving him up to second overall. The final race of the day in the red flight was won with a huge lead by Stefano Peschiera representing Peru. Barnard USA was able to place third in the last race, moving him up from 28th to ninth overall.
Tomorrow marks the first day of final series which completes on Wednesday July 8! Come on down to Portsmouth Olympic Harbour to check out all the on and off water action.
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