Julio Alsogaray (ARG) opens lead at Laser Worlds

by Di Pearson on 12 Feb 2008
Julio Alsogaray of Argentina opened a seven point lead over world champion Tom Slingsby of Australia after the first Gold fleet races at the Laser World Championships. Alsogaray regained the championship lead after finishing fourth in both races, he has yet to finish in double figures, while Slingsby had his worst results so far - a 14th and an 18th to move down into second place.

For Britain's Paul Goodison it was another good news, bad news day. A third place in the first race lifted him up the rankings but a 20th in the final race dropped him back to 15th overall.

For Nick Thompson it was also a dificult day and he was unable to build on his earlier scores. A 53rd and a 29th, his worst finishes of the series, puts him in 12th overall when really any decent results would have moved him into a top six place, as the scoring is very close.

The three other GBR sailors who made the Gold fleet could make no impression, Robert Godwin finished in 44th with a 47 and 48. Evan Scott 47th after a 51 and DNC, and Oliver Tweddell is 50th after a 39 and a 47.

In the Silver fleet, Evangelos Chimonas Of Greece leads from Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia, with Britain's Eifion Mon in third place scoring a third and a second.

A beautiful summer day in Terrigal on the first day of racing for the fleets now split in to gold, silver and bronze, sunny skies and a pleasant 10-15 knot north easterly breeze - ideal sailing conditions - for some.

In the 54 boat Gold fleet, World champion Tom Slingsby (AUS) lost his Championship lead to Julio Alsogaray from Argentina. Alsogaray continues to sail smartly and has moved back into the lead he had until yesterday. 'It was shifty and I went the wrong way every time; I had a really bad day,' an understandably unhappy Slingsby said after his worst results so far - a 14th and an 18th to move down into second place, seven points behind Alsogaray who is on 23 points following fourth places in Race 7 and 8.

'It was good racing. I had a good performance with fast speed. There were lots of shifts and I picked them,' the Argentinean said, revealing: 'Music from Argentina inspires me.' Not one of the hot favourites going in to the Championship, Alsogaray says: 'I expected to do well. I am very confident with my speed. I will do everything in my power I can to win the World's - that is why I came to Australia.'

Spanish entry Javier Hernandez is third overall, 19 points behind Alsogaray. Felix Privot (FRA) moves up into fourth place (44 points) and Michael Bullot (NZL) is fifth (49 points).

Like Slingsby, Championship favourites Paul Goodison and Andrew Murdoch (NZL) did not have a good day across the board and both slid down the results; Murdoch from eight to 12th after 28th and 15th finishes and Goodison to 15th.

Others were happy with their lot in life. Brazilian Bruno Fontes, in eighth place overall said: 'I had a good day - my first Final day was a really good day. I am happy,' he said. 'Sailing was nice. I went OK. I have been sick, but I am better today - it is nice to have the sun back,' said Arvid Claeson (SWE) who is currently 39th overall.

Overall in 20th place, Jean-Baptiste Bernaz was smiling. 'I finished second in Race 8, which is much better than my 27th in the earlier race,' he said. Athens Laser bronze medallist Vasilij Zbogar (SLO) is in seventh place overall. 'I did not do very good (he finished 13th and 16th), it was very patchy - the shifts went left and right - it was very hard to predict. Not easy.'

The ever-positive American Brad Funk had a better day and moved up from 27th to 19th overall. 'I had a really great day; I got the nerves out of my system and just went sailing. It was beautiful conditions. I saw a 6ft shark out there. He told me his name was Willy!'

Greek sailor Adonis Bougiouris in 28th overall: 'I had one bad race, finished 36th, then I had one good race, finished 10th! It was very very shifty, you couldn't predict what would happen next.'

Too many sailors came ashore early; most were Black Flagged following General Recalls. In fact four from the Silver fleet and a staggering 11 from the Bronze fleet were sent home from the last race of the day.

Irish sailor Anthony Craig, one of many trying to qualify his nation for the Beijing Games, was one of the first to go in the Silver fleet. 'I had a disaster in the first race and then I got done. It was great breeze out there though. It was around 10 knots in the earlier race and increased to around 15 knots from north-east,' Craig said.

Australian Simon Morgan came ashore with the same tale. 'I didn't do very well in the first race and then I got Black Flagged,' he said. Canadian Christopher Dold also went. 'I finished around 15th in the first race, but I was Black Flagged in the second. Apart from that, I'm enjoying the Championship,' he said.

World Laser Championship 2008

Results

Gold Fleet
No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	ARG 193001	Alsogaray Julio	23.0	1	1	5	(8)	7	1	4	4
2	AUS 193007	Slingsby Tom	30.0	3	5	1	1	4	2	14	(18)
3	ESP 193040	Hernandez Javier	42.0	6	1	(19)	7	2	2	5	19
4	FRA 193048	Pruvot Felix	45.0	4	8	5	10	2	8	8	(42)
5	NZL 193120	Bullot Michael	49.0	1	17	10	9	5	6	1	(dsq)
6	SLO 193133	Zbogar Vasilij	51.0	4	2	6	5	5	(19)	13	16
7	BRA 193011	Fontes Bruno	56.0	1	11	3	(13)	10	13	11	7
8	POR 193123	Lima Gustavo	59.0	15	1	9	9	9	1	15	(32)
9	NZL 193119	Weaver David	60.0	7	(26)	1	4	1	4	20	23
10	GER 193068	Schlonski Alexander	69.0	7	4	4	12	6	25	(41)	11
11	NZL 193117	Murdoch Andrew	70.0	20	(33)	3	2	1	1	28	15
12	GBR 193062	Thompson Nick	70.0	10	10	17	1	1	3	(53)	28
13	CHI 193025	Del Solar Matias	74.0	2	3	12	13	4	19	(22)	21
14	GBR 193064	Goodison Paul	74.0	8	33	4	3	3	(dsq)	3	20
15	POL 193122	Porozynski Karol	77.0	7	14	18	11	13	4	10	(46)
16	FRA 193050	Steyaert Jeremie	80.0	21	23	4	6	(25)	23	2	1
17	CRO 193033	Vujasinovic Milan	81.0	2	(48)	13	2	9	10	23	22
18	USA 193131	Funk Brad	82.0	5	2	3	3	(bfd)	raf	7	8
19	FRA 193049	Bernaz Jean-baptiste	87.0	(27)	3	11	14	23	7	27	2
20	USA 193153	Campbell Andrew	89.0	11	14	17	(23)	22	7	6	12
21	SWE 193140	Suneson Karl	91.0	10	18	8	9	5	9	32	(37)
22	CRO 193032	Arapov Mate	93.0	15	6	8	12	8	15	29	(40)
23	EST 193043	Karpak Deniss	94.0	19	(48)	2	1	16	32	18	6
24	NED 193111	de Haas Marc	97.0	13	21	(29)	5	12	3	17	26
25	SWE 193141	Mygren Rasmus	99.0	3	20	9	2	6	34	(37)	25
26	GRE 193074	Bougiouris Adonis	101.0	2	(45)	7	17	3	26	36	10
27	KOR 193102	Ha Jeemin	101.0	24	27	2	10	13	8	(52)	17
28	GER 193072	Grotel?schen Simon	101.0	6	26	10	8	3	24	24	(41)
29	URU 193152	Foglia Alejandro	102.0	20	10	13	3	11	12	(51)	33
30	CRO 193031	Radelic Luka	102.0	5	(ocs)	18	6	7	22	30	14
31	CAN 193016	Torchinsky Abe	105.0	3	5	12	12	11	(45)	26	36
32	FRA 193046	Pruvot Corentin	105.0	6	22	15	11	(23)	22	16	13
33	CAN 193024	Leigh Michael	107.0	14	23	13	15	19	4	19	(31)
34	FRA 193053	Le Breton Thomas	112.0	41	37	2	4	18	7	(46)	3
35	CAN 193017	Luttmer Bernard	113.0	17	25	15	16	14	5	21	(43)
36	NED 193114	Schaardenburg Rutger	117.0	12	(ocs)	1	7	9	raf	25	9
37	SWE 193138	Claeson Arvid	119.0	(38)	11	14	25	15	16	33	5
38	AUS 193003	Burman James	121.0	29	26	14	6	23	14	9	(raf)
39	CYP 193035	Kontides Pavlos	124.0	5	4	16	21	19	28	31	(39)
40	GER 193073	Schadewaldt Tobias	124.0	17	(dnf)	7	14	15	5	42	24
41	SWE 193139	Wigforss Johan	128.0	12	44	19	8	6	10	(49)	29
42	GER 193069	Kamrath Malte	130.0	25	(46)	10	19	16	18	12	30
43	BRA 193023	Wender Philip	135.0	16	3	25	7	12	37	35	(50)
44	GBR 193065	Godwin Robert	140.0	22	7	52	17	20	13	(dsq)	48
45	NOR 193116	Tuv Stian	148.0	27	8	30	13	2	23	(45)	45
46	CRO 193030	Mihelic Daniel	149.0	22	(41)	15	11	24	5	34	38
47	GBR 193058	Scott Evan	149.0	8	28	8	26	21	8	50	(dnc)
48	TUR 193146	Muslubas Kemal	150.0	19	13	11	18	27	22	40	(44)
49	CAN 193019	Wright David	152.0	23	35	17	5	24	13	(38)	35
50	GBR 193063	Tweddell Oliver	152.0	11	19	25	21	28	9	39	(47)
51	ITA 193086	Romero Diego	158.0	(bfd)	ocs	6	4	7	6	47	34
52	ITA 193088	Bottoli Giacomo	158.0	9	35	23	14	12	21	44	(raf)
53	NOR 193115	Ruth Kristian	160.0	(bfd)	5	26	15	4	40	43	27
54	SEY 193129	Julie Allan	174.0	19	(raf)	16	23	8	11	48	49
Silver Fleet
No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	GRE 193075	Chimonas Evangelos	111.0	4	(46)	26	20	30	15	12	4
2	CRO 193034	Stipanovic Tonci	114.0	24	(31)	7	22	11	26	23	1
3	GBR 193057	Mon Eifion	118.0	29	(31)	24	16	28	16	3	2
4	CHN 193026	Cai Qiushui	123.0	9	9	18	32	28	(40)	9	18
5	NED 193110	Vianen Eduardo	131.0	33	15	21	24	20	14	4	(44)
6	DEN 193037	Kjaergaard Kristian	133.0	9	(36)	6	35	30	17	20	16
7	FRA 193051	Borde Mickael	134.0	24	12	30	31	(bfd)	14	18	5
8	JPN 193098	Iijima Yoichi	135.0	(bfd)	2	11	22	38	24	29	9
9	NED 193113	Bouwmeester Roelof	137.0	16	27	24	28	10	31	1	(dnf)
10	DEN 193038	Schierup Thorbjoern	139.0	(bfd)	37	22	30	10	20	8	12
11	SIN 193130	Koh Seng Leong	143.0	22	7	(48)	40	24	35	7	8
12	JPN 193094	Nagai Hisaki	147.0	28	9	36	20	(bfd)	6	14	34
13	RUS 193127	Lisovenko Igor	148.0	30	4	20	37	(46)	30	21	6
14	ITA 193091	Gallo Marco	150.0	16	20	41	(46)	33	27	6	7
15	CAN 193022	Kalin Michael	151.0	8	9	37	39	19	29	10	(41)
16	FRA 193047	Taine Emmanuel	155.0	20	20	32	19	17	(41)	19	28
17	JPN 193099	Okinishi Yoshihiro	156.0	23	6	23	(41)	33	18	33	20
18	VEN 193159	Ruiz Jose	156.0	18	13	21	(43)	20	27	36	21
19	HUN 193078	Berecz Zsombor	156.0	25	(41)	14	32	17	28	26	14
20	SUI 193137	Bulley Max	157.0	14	40	22	25	(bfd)	3	30	23
21	ITA 193092	Regolo Michele	157.0	15	30	(34)	26	21	33	5	27
22	CZE 193036	Trcka Martin	157.0	10	18	(dnf)	18	31	17	dnc	10
23	CHN 193027	Shen Sheng	159.0	(45)	32	38	18	14	11	15	31
24	GER 193071	Thyen Oltmann	160.0	31	16	5	35	18	(42)	22	33
25	MAS 193106	Lim Kevin	160.0	29	(41)	26	15	14	25	32	19
26	SUI 193135	Bottoni Christoph	164.0	30	(dnf)	28	28	27	9	39	3
27	NZL 193118	Lindsay Blair	164.0	36	14	(39)	21	17	30	16	30
28	CHN 193028	Li Xiaojing	167.0	23	6	31	31	37	37	2	(38)
29	FIN 193045	Collura Pierre Angelo	167.0	11	(39)	28	37	35	17	13	26
30	NED 193109	Broekens Douwe	169.0	37	24	21	32	29	11	(38)	15
31	AUS 193002	Brunning Ashley	171.0	27	35	(dnf)	10	8	27	11	dne
32	POL 193121	Stelmaszyk Jonasz	171.0	(48)	22	27	16	37	15	37	17
33	DOM 193039	Aguayo Raul	173.0	(39)	8	33	26	26	18	27	35
34	ITA 193090	Nassini Luca	173.0	18	24	(42)	41	22	29	28	11
35	CAN 193021	Ramsay Luke	174.0	32	17	12	(42)	41	12	24	36
36	CAN 193018	Dold Christopher	180.0	21	16	22	34	36	34	17	(bfd)
37	FRA 193052	Cabaz Rodrigue	181.0	33	19	28	24	30	(41)	34	13
38	AUT 193008	Geritzer Andreas	182.0	13	32	16	19	13	36	(dnc)	dnf
39	GBR 193060	Gray James	184.0	39	42	9	17	18	24	35	(dsq)
40	GBR 193054	Belben Dan	191.0	40	23	34	20	21	12	41	(bfd)
41	EST 193042	Vooremaa Argo	192.0	32	30	37	30	29	2	(46)	32
42	GBR 193056	M?n Dyfrig	194.0	21	38	24	25	(39)	31	31	24
43	HUN 193077	Fazakas Gyorgy	200.0	(49)	34	19	23	32	21	49	22
44	NED 193112	Moerman Matthieu	200.0	34	28	32	27	26	28	(47)	25
45	GUA 193076	Maegli Juan	202.0	17	43	(45)	43	27	10	25	37
46	ESP 193041	Rogel Jesus	203.0	14	27	32	(45)	15	33	40	42
47	RUS 193128	Semerkhanov Maxim	205.0	36	33	29	28	16	20	(50)	43
48	AUS 193006	Morgan Simon	213.0	35	12	20	33	34	36	43	(bfd)
49	IRL 193082	Craig Roger Anthony	214.0	43	13	20	29	38	23	48	(bfd)
50	LUX 193105	Schmit Marc	216.0	12	(dnf)	34	34	31	32	44	29
51	LTU 193104	Milevicius Rokas	217.0	36	15	33	29	29	35	(42)	40
52	IRL 193083	Seaton Ryan	220.0	13	29	35	33	32	39	(45)	39
Bronze Fleet
No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	USA 193157	Moore Trevor	159.0	34	12	25	35	44	(ocs)	1	8
2	ISV 193084	Barrows Thomas	171.0	38	17	31	29	(40)	30	14	12
3	CAN 193015	Boueilh Anthony	172.0	26	21	33	30	(42)	40	2	20
4	BAR 193009	Douglas William	179.0	35	19	39	40	31	(43)	6	9
5	RUS 193126	Komissarov Sergey	183.0	(42)	21	36	36	34	25	30	1
6	USA 193158	Marks Zachary	183.0	37	(38)	35	34	22	16	10	29
7	UKR 193151	Kudryashov Valeriy	191.0	(46)	15	40	38	41	32	22	3
8	KOR 193100	Hwang Daewon	192.0	32	34	35	39	(dnf)	34	8	10
9	UKR 193150	Isakov Oleksandr	196.0	26	11	45	(48)	44	39	5	26
10	KOR 193103	Kim Junggon	198.0	(bfd)	45	23	31	34	36	27	2
11	CAN 193020	Parkhill Lee	199.0	25	36	46	41	(dnf)	21	19	11
12	ITA 193087	Strazzera Enrico	200.0	26	22	44	(46)	36	39	18	15
13	FIN 193044	Dannstrom Oscar	203.0	18	42	37	38	38	(47)	16	14
14	ITA 193089	Menza Gianpiero	205.0	48	36	41	22	25	26	7	(bfd)
15	AUS 193004	Murray Jye	207.0	28	29	40	44	42	(ocs)	20	4
16	GBR 193067	Godwin Stuart	211.0	45	(47)	39	46	39	20	15	7
17	IND 193080	Choudhary Rajesh	213.0	34	28	(43)	36	41	29	26	19
18	IRL 193081	Espey James	214.0	33	10	44	47	33	38	9	(bfd)
19	GBR 193061	Holloway Max	216.0	44	(ocs)	30	24	35	19	12	bfd
20	GBR 193059	Cooper George	218.0	(raf)	32	42	42	40	37	3	22
21	COL 193029	Quintero Andrey	220.0	40	43	40	44	44	(dnf)	4	5
22	POR 193124	Costa Jose	222.0	(49)	30	27	37	35	42	38	13
23	KOR 193101	An Gwangseok	224.0	37	31	38	(39)	37	31	33	17
24	UKR 193149	Didenko Maksym	228.0	30	25	43	(45)	43	41	23	23
25	GBR 193066	Evans Sean	231.0	28	34	29	33	26	(dnf)	29	bfd
26	JPN 193095	Hall Ian	238.0	(51)	44	43	42	25	42	24	18
27	SUI 193136	Steiger Christian	240.0	39	39	(dnf)	27	bfd	44	21	16
28	TRI 193143	Lewis Andrew	241.0	35	18	47	50	(53)	47	17	27
29	TUR 193147	Derebasi Onur	243.0	31	49	(dnf)	36	39	43	39	6
30	GBR 193055	Breen-turner Dominic	248.0	46	(ocs)	36	38	32	33	11	bfd
31	USA 193155	Vranizan Frederick	250.0	41	(ocs)	27	40	45	38	35	24
32	SRB 193134	Stanisic Dany	254.0	44	40	45	27	40	45	13	(bfd)
33	JPN 193097	Yasuda Shinnosuke	256.0	47	(49)	41	44	43	35	25	21
34	BRA 193012	Okretic Jucyan	265.0	42	16	38	43	46	49	31	(bfd)
35	BRA 193013	Tavares Mateus	282.0	41	7	31	45	(dnf)	dnf	dnc	dnc
36	AUS 193005	Palk Ryan	284.0	50	25	46	48	43	44	28	(bfd)
37	JPN 193096	Onodera Shoichiro	285.0	38	24	(49)	49	48	47	43	36
38	MNE 193108	Mrsic Dejan	285.0	44	38	42	49	36	46	(dnc)	30
39	SLO 193132	Domijan Luka	291.0	47	44	47	(48)	47	46	32	28
40	MDA 193107	Denisiuc Alexandr	298.0	43	43	46	(50)	47	46	40	33
41	IND 193079	Rau Ajay	304.0	45	39	50	(51)	49	50	46	25
42	JPN 193093	Saito Daisuke	306.0	(52)	42	48	51	45	43	45	32
43	ITA 193085	Vallesi Claudio	307.0	40	(dnf)	dne	47	42	38	34	bfd
44	BUL 193014	Nedyalkov Valentin	312.0	(51)	47	44	49	48	48	42	34
45	TUR 193145	Kaptan Guney	316.0	31	29	47	51	(bfd)	dnf	dnf	dnf
46	BAR 193010	Streeter Russell	316.0	52	50	48	(53)	51	44	36	35
47	ZIM 193160	Mccosh Patrick	322.0	50	45	51	50	45	(dnf)	44	37
48	UAE 193148	Mohammed Adil	327.0	53	40	(dnf)	dnf	dnf	dnf	41	31
49	TUR 193144	Tuna Barbaros	330.0	43	37	49	47	50	(dnf)	raf	bfd
50	GER 193070	Nissen Jonas	338.0	(53)	51	49	52	52	45	37	bfd
51	USA 193156	Lawrence Luke	362.0	42	(dnf)	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnf	dnc	dnc

 
 RDG-results are as follows:

GBR 193065

Godwin Robert

race 3:

13 scores

While this Championship is drawing to a close on Wednesday, a few of the keener competitors entered for the Laser Masters World Championship have been arriving over the last few days to get in some early practice before their racing starts on February 17.

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