ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao - Close knit racing on day 3

by ISAF on 17 Oct 2013

Igor Marenic CRO Men’s 470 - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 ISAF

On day three of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao, exciting close knit racing was the dish of the day as racing ramped up. The cool front that brought strong winds the day prior passed through enabling racing to commence at 11:00 local time. Northerly breeze at 16 knots at the start time slowly dropped down to 14 knots allowing three races across all fleets to be completed.

Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie have been head and shoulders above the fleet in Qingdao winning every race so far in a convincing manner.

Jo Aleh Polly Powrie NZL Women’s 470 - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

The current Olympic and World Champions have raised the bar in the Women's 470 and hold the current Olympic and World Championship titles and after a superb year thus far have been nominated for ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year.

'I was quite surprised we were nominated but it was a really good surprise just to be nominated,' said Aleh. 'Just to read through the list, the previous winners were people we both looked up to. We're just really proud to be nominated; it's been a big year.'

Previous Kiwi winners include Sir Peter Blake, Mike Sanderson and Russell Coutts but New Zealand is yet to see a female sailor, or duo take the coveted honour.

Powrie added, 'For Jo and myself it's really good recognition for the people that have helped us along the way and the wider New Zealand sailing community as well. We get a lot of help back home and it's nice for them to be recognized as well.'

Having had a short break from racing after the 470 Worlds, the pair have seamlessly found their feet at ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao.

A strong opening race win kick started their day and even penalty turns at the start of the second didn't affect their mentality as they pushed forward taking the bullet before closing their day with a fourth victory in a row.

'It's cool to get back into it,' said Aleh. 'We haven't really raced since the Worlds so it's fun to get out there. It was pretty tricky today and pretty all over the place and we've got a boat that we're not quite used to so we're dropping things at the wrong time but it's good fun.'

Huimin Feng and Lizhu Huang (CHN) Nan Zhang and Yixiao Lv (CHN) trail the New Zealanders in second and third on 13 points apiece.

Lucas Calabrese and Juan de la Fuente 2 ARG Men’s 470 - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Lucas Calabrese and Juan de la Fuente (ARG) brought themselves within a point of early leaders Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic (CRO) with two race wins and a third.

After racing de la Fuente was delighted with how things went, 'For us the results were really good, the conditions were really tricky with the northerly and a lot of patches. It was really difficult. We've been fast and have good tactics.

'We thought it would be less windy but it's been fun racing and there's lots more to come.'

The Croatians took the days other race win and there is some daylight between the top two and China's Dongwei Wang and Daokun Deng in third.

Tonci Stipanovic CRO Laser - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Despite discarding an OCS in Race 3 Tonci Stipanovic (CRO) has moved into the overall lead in the Laser.

Stipanovic regrouped from the OCS, sailing conservatively at the start of the next two races, using his knowledge of the race track to secure a bullet and a second.

'Pavlos beat me with two first places on the opening day and I was missing some good shifts but today I was much better,' said the Croatian. 'Unfortunately I was OCS but it's okay as I'm happy with my sailing. The next two races I was a bit more careful but with good sailing and reading the shifts I was first and second. I'm very happy because the rest of the fleet didn't sail so good so I'm first and can't wait to sail again.'

Thomas Saunders NZL Laser - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Kontides dropped to third overall after a disappointing third day whilst Thomas Saunders (NZL) climbed up second, six points behind Stipanovic.

Andrew Lewis TRI Laser - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Taking the final bullet of the day was Trinidad and Tobago's Andrew Lewis who read the conditions perfectly, 'I had a good idea on the current and I knew there was a lot more pressure on the right side downwind but everyone was trying to compensate by going as far left as possible because they thought the current was going to push them more. I stayed the most right and I moved from seventh to first.

'I fought first, second, first, second with Kacper from Poland but on the second downwind I did the same thing and I'm grateful for the race win.' The victory promotes Lewis to eighth overall on 26 points.

Laser Radial - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

World number one Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR) held onto her lead in the Laser Radial with another consistent day of racing. Two seconds and a fourth gives her a five point advantage over Amelie Riou (FRA).

The day's race wins went to third place Dongshuang Wang (CHN), Viktorija Andrulyte (LTU), who sits tenth and France's Riou.

Israel's Shahar Zubari continued his good form on the third day of racing, picking up two out of three race victories.

China's Chunzhuang Liu opened the day with day with a Race 4 bullet. The Chinese sailor had to fight hard throughout the race as Michael Chen (HKG) and Yikai Huang (CHN) breathed down on him. But holding firm he took the bullet just seven seconds ahead of Chen and Huang.

Liu could not capitalise on his bright start fading in the proceeding races as Zubari's experience shone through. He beat Ricardo Santos (BRA) by a single second in Race 5 and his exceptional speed was prevalent in Race 6, taking the win by over 90 seconds.

Zubari leads on seven points, closely followed by Hong Kong's Chen and world number two Santos is third.

Peina Chen's (CHN) bright start to the competition continued on Wednesday, but she is just two points clear of Maayan Davidovich (ISR).

Both sailors took a win apiece to sit first and second whilst Hong Kong's Chan Hei was given a redress in Race 5 and 6 and is third overall.

Kamolwan Chanyim THA Laser Radial - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Sime Fantela Igor Marenic CRO Men’s 470 - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

Laser Fleet - 2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Qingdao Day 3 © ISAF

470 - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race				Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	Total	Net
1	CRO	Sime Fantela Igor Marenic	1	3	1	3	8.00	8.00
2	ARG	Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente	4	1	3	1	9.00	9.00
3	CHN	weidong wang daokun deng	3	8	2	4	17.00	17.00
4	NZL	Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	6	6.5	4	2	18.50	18.50
5	CHN	hao lan chao wang	2	2	11	5	20.00	20.00
6	CHN	yong chen youjian wen	7	4	5	10	26.00	26.00
7	CHN	Mingcheng Ding Xiaojing Li	5	11	6	7	29.00	29.00
8	CHN	liangdao weng qiaowen lin	8	6.5	7	9	30.50	30.50
9	PHI	ridgely balladares rommel chavez	9	9	10	8	36.00	36.00
10	MAS	KU ANAS ANAS MOHAMMAD HAFIZZUDIN MAZELAN	14 DNF	10	8	6	38.00	38.00
11	RSA	Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson	14 DNC	5	9	11	39.00	39.00
12	CHN	yuhao liu zixuan shao	14 DNC	12	12	12	50.00	50.00
13	CHN	a kang li xingzheng wang	14 DNC	13	13	13	53.00	53.00

470 - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race				Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	Total	Net
1	NZL	Jo Aleh Polly Powrie	1	1	1	1	4.00	4.00
2	CHN	Hui Feng Lizhu Huang	2	5	3	3	13.00	13.00
3	CHN	Nan Shanghai Xue Li	3	4	4	2	13.00	13.00
4	CHN	qian fu liyun liu	9 DNC	2	2	5	18.00	18.00
5	CHN	shengnan ni changmei li	5	3	5	6	19.00	19.00
6	SIN	Dawn Xiaodan LIU Joan Poh Xue Hua	6	8	6	4	24.00	24.00
7	CHN	Mingyue Liu Huali Zhu	4	7	8	8	27.00	27.00
8	MAS	Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy Norashikin Mohd Sayed	7	6	7	7	27.00	27.00

Laser - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race					Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Net
1	CRO	Tonci Stipanovic	2	3	(19) OCS	1	2	27.00	8.00
2	NZL	Thomas Saunders	4	6	1	(8)	3	22.00	14.00
3	CYP	Pavlos Kontides	1	1	8	5	(9)	24.00	15.00
4	POR	Gustavo Lima	6	2	3 DPI	(12) DPI	5 DPI	28.00	16.00
5	POL	Kacper Zieminski	3	4	4	(9)	5	25.00	16.00
6	AUS	Jeremy O'Connell	(10)	5	3	3	8	29.00	19.00
7	CHN	Huichao Chen	5	7	(9)	6	6	33.00	24.00
8	TRI	Andrew Lewis	8	(11)	10	7	1	37.00	26.00
9	CHN	yulong qiu	(14)	12	5	2	7	40.00	26.00
10	CHN	NING ZHAO	7	8	7	(12)	10	44.00	32.00
11	MAS	Khairunnisa Mohd Afendy	9	9	6	(14)	11	49.00	35.00
12	CHN	huaxiang lai	13	(19) DNC	12	4	13	61.00	42.00
13	CHN	hongjun wang	15	(19) DNF	11	10	14	69.00	50.00
14	IND	Jasveer Singh	13 DPI	11 DPI	14	13	(16)	67.00	51.00
15	IND	gajender singh	12 DPI	14 DPI	13	(15)	12	66.00	51.00
16	CHN	jiaxin li	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	18	15	90.00	71.00
17	CHN	yi zheng	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	16	18	91.00	72.00
18	CHN	junzhe zou	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	17	17	91.00	72.00

Laser Radial - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race					Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	Total	Net
1	BLR	Tatiana Drozdovskaya	1	2	2	(4)	2	11.00	7.00
2	FRA	Amélie Riou	3	3	5	(8)	1	20.00	12.00
3	CHN	Dong Zheng	7	1	1	5	(10)	24.00	14.00
4	AUS	Ashley Stoddart	2	5	4	(9)	6	26.00	17.00
5	FRA	Mathilde de Kerangat	(8)	4	3	6	4	25.00	17.00
6	POL	Paulina Czubachowska	(9)	7	6	2	8	32.00	23.00
7	FRA	Marie BOLOU	6	(8)	7	3	7	31.00	23.00
8	RUS	Svetlana Shnitko	5	6	9	(13)	9	42.00	29.00
9	NZL	Susannah Pyatt	10	9	10	(12)	3	44.00	32.00
10	LTU	Viktorija Andrulyte	(14)	14	8	1	12	49.00	35.00
11	MAS	Nurul Elia Anuar	(21) DNF	21 DNS	11	10	5	68.00	47.00
12	THA	Kamolwan Chanyim	(16)	16	13	7	11	63.00	47.00
13	BRA	Fernanda Decnop	11	12	(14)	11	14	62.00	48.00
14	LTU	Milda Eidukeviciute	12	11	12	(16)	13	64.00	48.00
15	CHN	Lijia Xu	4	10	(21) DNC	21 DNC	21 DNC	77.00	56.00
16	NZL	Laura Lowther	13	13	(17)	14	17	74.00	57.00
17	AUS	Caitlin Davies	15	15	(21) OCS	15	16	82.00	61.00
18	MAS	Rufina hong mui Tan	17	(21) DNF	15	17	15	85.00	64.00
19	MAS	khairunneeta Mohd Afendy	(21) DNF	21 DNS	16	18	21 DNF	97.00	76.00
20	CHN	wanting liu	(21) DNF	21 DNS	21 DNF	19	18	100.00	79.00

RS:X - Men - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race						Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Net
1	ISR	Shahar Zubari	2	1	2	(6)	1	1	13.00	7.00
2	HKG	Cheng Chun Leung Michael	(4)	2	1	2	3	3	15.00	11.00
3	BRA	Ricardo Santos	1	3	(4)	4	2	4	18.00	14.00
4	HKG	Ho Tsun Leung	3	4	3	5	(11)	2	28.00	17.00
5	HKG	Gabriel Angelo Brettell	5	6	5	7	10	(13)	46.00	33.00
6	CHN	mengfan gao	6	8	9	(11)	5	5	44.00	33.00
7	MEX	David Mier y Teran	7	7	6	(13)	7	7	47.00	34.00
8	CHN	yikai huang	(15)	12	7	3	4	9	50.00	35.00
9	CHN	Bing Ye	9	(10)	8	8	6	10	51.00	41.00
10	CHN	Chunzhuang Liu	10	9	(12)	1	12	11	55.00	43.00
11	CHN	chaoli zeng	14	5	11	15	8	(17)	70.00	53.00
12	CHN	xueling jin	8	11	13	14	(16)	12	74.00	58.00
13	CHN	zhi chao zhang	16	(19) DNC	19 DNF	9	9	6	78.00	59.00
14	CHN	guoxing chen	13	13	10	10	(17)	15	78.00	61.00
15	CHN	jie yang	12	14	14	12	(15)	14	81.00	66.00
16	CHN	feng fu	11	(19) DNF	19 DNC	17	14	8	88.00	69.00
17	CHN	wei li	17	(19) DNF	19 DNC	16	13	16	100.00	81.00
18	CHN	jiamao wu	18	(19) DNF	19 DNC	19 DNF	18	18	111.00	92.00

RS:X - Women - Overall Results

Pos	NOC	Crew	Race						Points
Pos	NOC	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Net
1	CHN	pei na chen	2	2	2	1	(6)	4	17.00	11.00
2	ISR	Maayan Davidovich	(13)	1	1	7	1	3	26.00	13.00
3	HKG	Hei Man Hayley Victoria Chan	(6)	3	6	3	1 RDG	3.8 RDG	22.80	16.80
4	CHN	JIAHUI WU	1	6	5	5	(13)	1	31.00	18.00
5	CHN	Qiaoshan Weng	4	8	(9)	8	2	5	36.00	27.00
6	CHN	man jia zheng	5	4	3	(14)	10	6	42.00	28.00
7	BRA	Patricia Freitas	9	5	7	2	(17) RET	9	49.00	32.00
8	CHN	YUNXIU LU	12	7	11	(13)	3	2	48.00	35.00
9	GBR	Bryony Shaw	3	(17) DNF	4	17 OCS	4	12	57.00	40.00
10	CHN	pei ling chen	8	(11)	8	6	11	8	52.00	41.00
11	CHN	yan jia lin	7	(17) DNC	13	10	8	7	62.00	45.00
12	CHN	haili dai	(17) DNF	17 DNF	14	4	7	11	70.00	53.00
13	CHN	JIAO MA	14	9	10	11	(15)	10	69.00	54.00
14	CHN	Xueling Jin	11	10	12	12	9	(13)	67.00	54.00
15	CHN	hongmei shi	10	(17) DNF	15	9	14	14	79.00	62.00
16	CHN	xiumin zhang	(17) DNF	17 DNC	17 DNC	17 DNF	12	17 DNC	97.00	80.00