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Medal race line-up decided after Day 2 of no racing at Finn Gold Cup

by Robert Deaves on 10 Sep 2017
Day 6 - Opel Finn Gold Cup 2017 Robert Deaves
The Finn Gold Cup is an extraordinary collective experience that is second to none in the Finn sailor’s calendar. It brings together sailors from across the world, and across the spectrum of experience and ability. It matches Olympic champions against the best youth in the world; it matches experienced helms against the inexperienced; the young against the old; the knowledgeable against the knowledge hungry; the elite against the club sailor. There is nothing quite like it on the Olympic campaign trail. It is unique to the Finn class and something that is valued and respected by Finn sailors across the world.

It is a fantastic university of sailing with knowledge and experience flowing down and through the fleet, with sailors sharing an understanding of how to sail this simple and yet complex sailboat, both within their own pier groups and most importantly to the new generation of Finn sailors. There are 35 U23 sailors on Balaton this week, all soaking up the experience of the exceptional level of knowledge on offer from the top sailors.



The insight that sailors learn from competing alongside and against such a world-class fleet stay with them for the rest of their lives and set them up to be the world and Olympic champions of the future. You cannot buy this experience; it has to be earned through competing at the Finn Gold Cup. The 113 sailors here are learning this valuable lesson day by day. Even a day spent on shore turns into a valuable learning and bonding experience with conversations and sharing of experience and stories that educate and clarify the magic of sailing a Finn.



Max Salminen of Sweden will go into Sunday’s medal race at the Opel Finn Gold Cup with a seven-point advantage at the top of the leader board after no more races were sailed on Day 6 in Balatonföldvár.

For the second day running no racing was possible, despite a promising forecast. The expected wind arrived far too late to be useful and the time limit expired before a race could be held.

The sailors were held on shore until mid afternoon, until, with the time limit of 16.00 approaching, the fleet was released at 14.20 to wait on the lake to make the best use of any wind. Within 10 minutes the decision was rewarded with a sailable wind, however by the time the sailors arrived at the start line the wind had evaporated.



Thirty minutes later the race committee smelt some wind further south and moved over to investigate. It soon signalled everyone to follow and all support and coach boats were called upon to tow the fleet half a mile south to meet the incoming wind.

Time was tight with the deadline fast approaching, and the race committee did a fantastic job setting up a course and a start line in time to hoist the orange flag at 15.55, the latest possible time.

However at 1 minute to go before the start the wind shifted 30 to 40 degrees, skewing the start line and the upwind, which meant the race committee had no option but to abandon racing for the day, as the time limit had passed.



So the results from Thursday decide the medal race line-up.

The medal race is planned to be held first on Sunday with any of the top five sailors mathematically capable of winning the title. Only Ed Wright, of Britain, has won the title before, in 2010. After that race has been sailed the final race from 11th and up is scheduled.



The tentative plan is to stream the medal race live on the Finn Class Facebook page, with commentary, so hopefully the technology will work. Keep your eyes on the social media for updates from 10.00.



Medal race sailors

1 SWE 33 Max Salminen 31
2 GBR 11 Ed Wright 38
3 FRA 112 Jonathan Lobert 38
4 NED 89 Nicholas Heiner 48
5 HUN 40 Zsombor Berecz 49
6 GRE 77 Ioannis Mitakis 53
7 POL 17 Piotr Kula 60
8 ARG 48 Facundo Olezza 65
9 NOR 1 Anders Pedersen 81
10 CRO 69 Milan Vujasinovic 84

Overall

Sailed: 7, Discards: 1, To count: 6, Entries: 113, Scoring system: Appendix A
Rank BowNumber SailNo HelmName R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 Total Nett
1st 32 SWE-33 Max Salminen 9.0 4.0 (17.0) 1.0 6.0 6.0 5.0         48.0 31.0
2nd 4 GBR-11 Ed Wright 1.0 (58.0) 1.0 19.0 4.0 5.0 8.0         96.0 38.0
3rd 115 FRA-112 Jonathan Lobert 2.0 14.0 9.0 2.0 8.0 (60.0) 3.0         98.0 38.0
4th 8 NED-89 Nicholas Heiner 20.0 9.0 2.0 (21.0) 1.0 3.0 13.0         69.0 48.0
5th 10 HUN-40 Zsombor Berecz 3.0 6.0 12.0 (36.0) 10.0 16.0 2.0         85.0 49.0
6th 35 GRE-77 Ioannis Mitakis 15.0 10.0 3.0 10.0 11.0 (21.0) 4.0         74.0 53.0
7th 9 POL-17 Piotr Kula 5.0 7.0 14.0 16.0 (68.0) 1.0 17.0         128.0 60.0
8th 119 ARG-48 Facundo Olezza 28.0 2.0 4.0 3.0 (114.0 BFD) 12.0 16.0         179.0 65.0
9th 6 NOR-1 Anders Pedersen (114.0 DSQ) 12.0 11.0 11.0 31.0 7.0 9.0         195.0 81.0
10th 17 CRO-69 Milan Vujasinovic 31.0 8.0 (39.0) 4.0 5.0 13.0 23.0         123.0 84.0
11th 16 GBR-71 Henry Wetherell 11.0 34.0 20.0 9.0 3.0 (45.0) 10.0         132.0 87.0
12th 20 AUS-1 Jake Lilley 13.0 56.0 10.0 (114.0 DSQ) 2.0 4.0 7.0         206.0 92.0
13th 12 AUS-261 Oliver Tweddell 6.0 (42.0) 25.0 6.0 12.0 31.0 24.0         146.0 104.0
14th 114 FIN-8 Oskari Muhonen 21.0 23.0 5.0 40.0 18.0 2.0 (54.0)         163.0 109.0
15th 2 BRA-109 Jorge Zarif (114.0 UFD) 11.0 6.0 42.0 33.0 25.0 1.0         232.0 118.0
16th 48 GER-25 Max Kohlhoff 10.0 20.0 27.0 (114.0 BFD) 19.0 22.0 21.0         233.0 119.0
17th 7 FRA-17 Pic Fabian 14.0 (66.0) 21.0 34.0 15.0 15.0 25.0         190.0 124.0
18th 5 EST-2 Deniss Karpak 18.0 3.0 30.0 24.0 22.0 29.0 (37.0)         163.0 126.0
19th 1 GBR-91 Ben Cornish 16.0 30.0 8.0 12.0 (47.0) 36.0 29.0         178.0 131.0
20th 19 CZE-5 Ondrej Teply 8.0 13.0 34.0 7.0 (54.0) 20.0 51.0         187.0 133.0
21st 13 CRO-52 Nenad Bugarin 4.0 1.0 7.0 (114.0 BFD) 7.0 114.0 RET 6.0         253.0 139.0
22nd 117 POL-16 Mikolaj Lahn 30.0 5.0 18.0 38.0 (70.0) 10.0 40.0         211.0 141.0
23rd 11 CRO-1 Josip Olujic 23.0 15.0 (40.0) 31.0 20.0 40.0 12.0         181.0 141.0
24th 70 SUI-38 Nils Theuninck (45.0) 16.0 26.0 33.0 28.0 8.0 36.0         192.0 147.0
25th 18 ESP-17 Pablo Guitián 35.0 27.0 22.0 13.0 24.0 26.0 (38.0)         185.0 147.0
26th 107 RUS-6 Arkadiy Kistanov 42.0 50.0 (114.0 UFD) 5.0 9.0 11.0 32.0         263.0 149.0
27th 81 NOR-9 Lars Johan Brodtkorb 17.0 19.0 38.0 22.0 45.0 (54.0) 11.0         206.0 152.0
28th 40 GER-259 Phillip Kasueske 34.0 21.0 (41.0) 23.0 16.0 27.0 31.0         193.0 152.0
29th 14 CAN-18 Tom Ramshaw 12.0 55.0 24.0 18.0 32.0 (114.0 BFD) 22.0         277.0 163.0
30th 64 ITA-123 Filippo Baldassari 22.0 29.0 19.0 43.0 (61.0) 34.0 19.0         227.0 166.0
31st 33 ITA-59 Alessio Spadoni (46.0) 25.0 36.0 26.0 36.0 19.0 26.0         214.0 168.0
32nd 94 ESP-235 Joan Cardona 26.0 (35.0) 31.0 29.3 RDGa 21.0 33.0 30.0         205.3 170.3
33rd 108 RUS-57 Terpigorev Egor 29.0 (61.0) 42.0 14.0 37.0 23.0 27.0         233.0 172.0
34th 62 SWE-11 Johannes Pettersson 36.0 (52.0) 15.0 15.0 50.0 24.0 33.0         225.0 173.0
35th 68 USA-91 Luke Muller (48.0) 32.0 16.0 17.0 23.0 47.0 39.0         222.0 174.0
36th 3 TUR-21 Alican Kaynar 19.0 54.0 43.0 (114.0 BFD) 27.0 18.0 18.0         293.0 179.0
37th 37 GBR-29 Peter McCoy 39.0 33.0 23.0 28.0 (60.0) 43.0 14.0         240.0 180.0
38th 28 ITA-66 Enrico Voltolini 7.0 44.0 37.0 (114.0 BFD) 56.0 14.0 28.0         300.0 186.0
39th 15 ESP-7 Alejandro Muscat 43.0 22.0 28.0 30.0 49.0 17.0 (55.0)         244.0 189.0
40th 118 RUS-1 Evgenii Deev 33.0 51.0 48.0 (114.0 BFD) 14.0 39.0 15.0         314.0 200.0
41st 106 DEN-24 André Hojen Christiansen 38.0 24.0 45.0 44.0 30.0 28.0 (52.0)         261.0 209.0
42nd 101 AUS-32 Jock Calvert 47.0 45.0 33.0 41.0 43.0 9.0 (49.0)         267.0 218.0
43rd 36 FIN-218 Tapio Nirkko (114.0 DSQ) 47.0 13.0 8.0 17.0 114.0 RET 20.0         333.0 219.0
44th 93 IRL-22 Fionn Lyden 32.0 36.0 32.0 50.0 34.0 (55.0) 35.0         274.0 219.0
45th 22 AUS-41 Lewis Brake 56.0 17.0 47.0 29.0 39.0 (76.0) 42.0         306.0 230.0
46th 42 GER-595 Simon Gorgels 44.0 (71.0) 35.0 51.0 25.0 32.0 47.0         305.0 234.0
47th 39 GBR-98 Cameron Tweedle 52.0 26.0 44.0 27.0 52.0 (73.0) 50.0         324.0 251.0
48th 113 FIN-225 Mikael Hyrylainen 25.0 (75.0) 29.0 37.0 65.0 41.0 56.0         328.0 253.0
49th 26 IRL-6 Oisin Mcclelland 24.0 67.0 46.0 25.0 (72.0) 49.0 43.0         326.0 254.0
50th 82 FRA-9 Guillaume Boisard (51.0) 38.0 50.0 39.0 46.0 38.0 46.0         308.0 257.0
51st 47 GBR-96 Hector Simpson 41.0 39.0 49.0 46.0 51.0 (62.0) 34.0         322.0 260.0
52nd 75 FRA-75 Lauret Hay 64.0 18.0 52.0 60.0 (79.0) 30.0 45.0         348.0 269.0
53rd 30 UKR-4 Andrii Gusenko 37.0 (114.0 UFD) 51.0 20.0 57.0 63.0 44.0         386.0 272.0
54th 88 FRA-2 Antoine Devineau 55.0 37.0 (68.0) 56.0 13.0 59.0 61.0         349.0 281.0
55th 67 FRA-111 Valerian Lebrun 59.0 31.0 54.0 61.0 29.0 50.0 (68.0)         352.0 284.0
56th 78 EST-1 Taavi Valter Taveter 49.0 40.0 60.0 47.0 42.0 52.0 (73.0)         363.0 290.0
57th 23 NZL-64 Brendan McCarty 54.0 70.0 (71.0) 52.0 26.0 35.0 58.0         366.0 295.0
58th 52 CZE-1 Micael Maier (60.0) 49.0 56.0 48.0 35.0 53.0 60.0         361.0 301.0
59th 34 GBR-81 James Skulczuk 62.0 43.0 62.0 54.0 48.0 37.0 (74.0)         380.0 306.0
60th 60 RUS-711 Dmitriy Petrov 27.0 63.0 70.0 35.0 (80.0) 58.0 57.0         390.0 310.0
61st 25 CAN-2 Kyle Martin (66.0) 41.0 55.0 53.0 58.0 44.0 63.0         380.0 314.0
62nd 95 TUR-35 Can Akdurak 50.0 28.0 74.0 49.0 (83.0) 71.0 53.0         408.0 325.0
63rd 29 POL-8 Lukasz Lesinski 53.0 46.0 59.0 58.0 (75.0) 69.0 48.0         408.0 333.0
64th 71 ESP-57 Victor Gorostegui 40.0 (81.0) 53.0 32.0 114.0 DNE 56.0 41.0         417.0 336.0
65th 73 BRA-177 Andre Mirsky 63.0 73.0 61.0 45.0 44.0 74.0 (114.0 DNC)         474.0 360.0
66th 58 BER-9 Rockal Evans 61.0 68.0 58.0 66.0 (89.0) 48.0 59.0         449.0 360.0
67th 91 ARG-1 Santiago Falasca 57.0 (82.0) 69.0 57.0 63.0 42.0 79.0         449.0 367.0
68th 61 RUS-161 Aleksander Kulyukin 58.0 57.0 66.0 65.0 (73.0) 57.0 70.0         446.0 373.0
69th 105 AUS-2 Rob McMillan 65.0 64.0 (114.0 UFD) 55.0 38.0 92.0 62.0         490.0 376.0
70th 79 SLO-99 Jan Orel 82.0 (85.0) 72.0 71.0 40.0 66.0 67.0         483.0 398.0
71st 102 HUN-911 Elemér Péter Haidekker (86.0) 84.0 67.0 77.0 53.0 46.0 71.0         484.0 398.0
72nd 45 GBR-707 Callum Dixon 72.0 60.0 75.0 63.0 (87.0) 51.0 77.0         485.0 398.0
73rd 83 FRA-99 Marc Allain des Beauvais 76.0 79.0 (85.0) 85.0 41.0 61.0 64.0         491.0 406.0
74th 38 GBR-703 Markus Bettum 68.0 65.0 57.0 62.0 91.0 (93.0) 66.0         502.0 409.0
75th 49 ESP-117 Carlos Ordónez Sánchez 79.0 48.0 (81.0) 68.0 76.0 68.0 72.0         492.0 411.0
76th 100 UKR-8 Taras Havrysh 69.0 53.0 65.0 72.0 85.0 (114.0 BFD) 69.0         527.0 413.0
77th 55 AUS-22 Joe McMillan 67.0 76.0 64.0 (114.0 DNF) 69.0 82.0 65.0         537.0 423.0
78th 112 FIN-99 Jesse Kylanpaa 81.0 (103.0) 63.0 70.0 66.0 67.0 80.0         530.0 427.0
79th 46 HUN-7 Antal Székely 75.0 59.0 73.0 69.0 (93.0) 75.0 91.0         535.0 442.0
80th 80 SLO-11 Liam Orel 74.0 (114.0 DNC) 80.0 91.0 59.0 64.0 78.0         560.0 446.0
81st 43 GER-279 Nicolaus Schmidt 70.0 72.0 91.0 75.0 67.0 (103.0) 76.0         554.0 451.0
82nd 111 FIN-118 Waltteri Moisio 71.0 89.0 79.0 (114.0 BFD) 71.0 70.0 75.0         569.0 455.0
83rd 86 HUN-80 Domonkos Németh 93.0 (104.0) 86.0 67.0 55.0 89.0 83.0         577.0 473.0
84th 109 HUN-50 Ákos Lukáts 88.0 (94.0) 93.0 64.0 74.0 83.0 82.0         578.0 484.0
85th 51 IRI-1 Ahmad Ahmadi (101.0) 78.0 88.0 59.0 90.0 80.0 90.0         586.0 485.0
86th 65 POL-73 Andrzej Romanowski 84.0 77.0 89.0 79.0 (107.0) 65.0 92.0         593.0 486.0
87th 89 ESP-337 Miguel Cabrerizo (105.0) 87.0 82.0 83.0 62.0 77.0 98.0         594.0 489.0
88th 72 HUN-907 Botond Berecz 95.0 69.0 83.0 76.0 77.0 (104.0) 89.0         593.0 489.0
89th 57 CZE-67 Jozef Jochovic 85.0 74.0 78.0 78.0 (99.0) 91.0 84.0         589.0 490.0
90th 77 CZE-80 Martin Jozif 78.0 (102.0) 77.0 80.0 86.0 81.0 93.0         597.0 495.0
91st 59 CZE-75 Vladimir Skalicky 77.0 93.0 (98.0) 81.0 84.0 87.0 81.0         601.0 503.0
92nd 66 HUN-5 Pallay Tibor 80.0 98.0 76.0 (114.0 BFD) 94.0 78.0 85.0         625.0 511.0
93rd 85 HUN-75 Örs Németh 83.0 88.0 87.0 88.0 82.0 84.0 (102.0)         614.0 512.0
94th 21 AUS-69 John Alexander 87.0 62.0 92.0 94.0 92.0 88.0 (104.0)         619.0 515.0
95th 69 HUN-56 Martin Tenke 94.0 (101.0) 84.0 74.0 95.0 72.0 97.0         617.0 516.0
96th 110 GBR-26 Joe Stocker (104.0) 91.0 96.0 95.0 64.0 79.0 96.0         625.0 521.0
97th 31 UKR-5 Oleksandr Gusenko 73.0 96.0 95.0 73.0 (104.0) 100.0 87.0         628.0 524.0
98th 84 UKR-10 Valentin Klymentyev 96.0 83.0 94.0 84.0 81.0 86.0 (99.0)         623.0 524.0
99th 103 HUN-11 Péter Haidekker 89.0 92.0 90.0 82.0 100.0 90.0 (101.0)         644.0 543.0
100th 27 ESP-99 Gerardo Seeliger 97.0 90.0 (102.0) 93.0 101.0 97.0 86.0         666.0 564.0
101st 98 HUN-41 Zoltán Bartos 98.0 86.0 97.0 97.0 103.0 85.0 (109.0)         675.0 566.0
102nd 63 GER-231 Denny Jeschull 91.0 80.0 103.0 89.0 105.0 (114.0 BFD) 100.0         682.0 568.0
103rd 96 HUN-59 László Taubert 90.0 95.0 (104.0) 101.0 102.0 98.0 88.0         678.0 574.0
104th 76 HUN-8 Zsolt Mészáros 100.0 97.0 101.0 87.0 (109.0) 102.0 94.0         690.0 581.0
105th 104 HUN-30 Zsigmond Kántor (103.0) 99.0 99.0 90.0 96.0 101.0 103.0         691.0 588.0
106th 44 AUT-1 Moritz Spitzauer (108.0) 106.0 105.0 100.0 88.0 95.0 95.0         697.0 589.0
107th 53 HUN-6 Mihány Zoltán Demeczky 102.0 100.0 (106.0) 92.0 98.0 96.0 106.0         700.0 594.0
108th 87 RUS-142 Polovinkin Yuri 92.0 (107.0) 100.0 96.0 97.0 106.0 105.0         703.0 596.0
109th 116 SVK-21 Michal Hrivnák 107.0 (109.0) 107.0 98.0 78.0 99.0 108.0         706.0 597.0
110th 54 HUN-2 Péter Sipos 99.0 (108.0) 108.0 86.0 108.0 94.0 107.0         710.0 602.0
111th 50 GBR-631 Richard Hart 106.0 105.0 109.0 99.0 106.0 105.0 (110.0)         740.0 630.0
112th 41 HUN-33 Zsuzsa Komm 109.0 (114.0 DNC) 110.0 102.0 114.0 DNC 107.0 111.0         767.0 653.0
113th 24 GRE-21 Antonis Tsotras (114.0 DNC) 114.0 DNC 114.0 DNC 114.0 DNC 114.0 DNC 114.0 DNC 114.0 DNC         798.0 684.0
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