Laser Standard Junior (Under 21) Worlds - Day 1 and 2

by Laser Standard Junior Worlds/ISAF/Sail-World.com on 12 Apr 2012 The MacLaren Laser Standard Junior (Under 21) World Championship is underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two races were sailed on day 1.

29 sailors from 19 different countries are competing for the Laser Standard Junior title: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Curaçao, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovene, Ukraine, Uruguay and United States.

Racing kicked off at 13:00 local time and they sailed two races with wind of eight knots from the east southeast.

The winner of the first race was Ignasi Lopez Carcare, from Spain. He was ahead the entire course and crossed the line followed by Agustín Vidal (ARG) and Stig Steinfurth (DEN).

The second race was won by an Argentine sailor, Juan Ignacio Biava, who reached the front in the first downwind leg and stayed there until the end. Giovanni Coccoluto (ITA) was second and Filip Kobielski (POL) third.

After these two races Ignasi Lopez Carcare (ESP) holds the lead. Racing continues until Sunday.

Day 2 of races for Laser Standard under 21 fleet.

Wiind was very light and at 1 pm, the programmed time for the first race, there were only 3.5 knots.

The Race Committee decided to raise the AP flag and keep the fleet in land while waiting for the wind to increase. Around 2 pm the AP flag was lowered and the boats started sailing to the race area.

No	Nº.Vela	Nombre	Puntua.	1	2
1	ESP 195551	Lopez Carcare Ignasi, 1992, U21	8	1	7
2	ARG 192111	Biava Juan Ignacio, 1994, U21	9	8	1
3	POL 192638	Kobielski Filip, 1992, U21	9	6	3
4	DEN 201408	Steinfurth Stig, 1993, U21	9	3	6
5	ARG 197335	Vidal Agustin, 1992, U21	11	2	9
6	ITA 202398	Coccoluto Giovanni, 1993, U21	15	13	2
7	ARG 195321	Cosacow Cesar, 1993, U21	17	5	12
8	ARG 171386	Falasca Santiago, 1995, U18	18	14	4
9	UKR 202435	Paches Georgii, 1995, U18	18	10	8
10	SLO 195998	Zelko Zan Luka, 1994, U21	20	9	11
11	POL 188824	Arian Aleksander, 1992, U21	21	4	17
12	AUT 194469	Schmidinger Fabian, 1992, U21	25	12	13
13	POR 197170	Mourao Antonio, 1992, U21	27	22	5
14	AHO 199343	Van Otterdijk Kevin, 1995, U18	29	19	10
15	USA 200514	Rizika Jake, 1995, U18	31	16	15
16	ARG 168643	Dalibalta Rachid, 1994, U21	33	15	18
17	JPN 196466	Nanri Kenji, 1992, U21	34	11	23
18	NOR 201735	Begby Henrik Andreas, 1994, U21	34	18	16
19	ESP 190992	Flores Martin Guillermo, 1992, U21	37	7	ocs
20	CRO 192596	de Micheli Vitturi Marko, 1992, U21	38	24	14
21	SLO 181971	Krasevac Uros, 1992, U21	38	17	21
22	PER 167223	de Trazegnies Jean Paul, 1993, U21	39	20	19
23	ITA 201673	Traversa Marco, 1995, U18	45	23	22
24	AUS 191645	Howe Nicholas, 1992, U21	47	27	20
25	AUT 197013	Hollwerth Lukas, 1993, U21	51	21	ocs
26	ARG 202580	Juarez Dover Maximiliano, 1992, U21	51	26	25
27	CAN 196134	Wood Bryant, 1992, U21	53	29	24
28	CHI 201945	Kitzing Sebastian, 1995, U18	54	28	26
29	URU 187262	Blanco Juan Manuel, 1992, U21	55	25	ocs

Laser Standard Junior (Under 21) World Championship website