420 World Championship - Singapore and Spain out front

by 420 International Class Association on 31 Jul 2014 Racing got underway on day three of the 420 Worlds in a 12-15 knot breeze from the north, perfect conditions to complete the final two races of the race qualification series. With the discard kicking in after race 5, some shuffling on the leaderboard as teams discarded their worst score in the 420 Open and 420 Ladies fleets.

The 111 teams in the 420 Open fleet are now split into a 56-boat Gold fleet and 55-boat Silver fleet for the six race final series, which gets underway on Friday 1 August. The 84 teams in the 420 Ladies fleet will be split into equal Gold and Silver fleets of 42 boats in each.

The lay day on Thursday 31 July gives teams a chance to enjoy the party tonight at the Championship venue, with boat work, sight seeing and relaxing on the agenda for tomorrow.

Spain continues to hold the top overall nation slot, with five teams in the top 10 across both the 420 Open and 420 Ladies fleets, putting themselves in a good position to retain the Francis Mouvet Trophy they have held since 2012.

A win in race 5, briefly handed the overall lead to Portugal's Diogo Pereira/Manuel Macedo in the 420 Open fleet, as overnight leaders Adrian Domminguez/Calixto Abalo (ESP) scored a 32, their worst result so far, and dropped down to fifth.

But the discard after race 5 soon changed the leader board again, and a new team surfaced at the front in the shape of Jose Manuel Ruiz/Fernando Davila (ESP) who finished second in race 6 and jumped up to take the lead by six points. Team mates Dominguez/Abalo were back on form to claim a sixth place finish in race 6 and end the qualification series in second overall. ISAF Youth World gold medallists Jia Yi Loh/Jonathan Yeo from Singapore are in third, after recovering from a now discarded 31st in race 5.

Pereira/Macedo held on to their place within the top ten and move through to the final series in sixth overall.

Of the twenty-seven nations competing in the 420 Open fleet, twenty-two have teams advancing through to Gold fleet for the final series.

420 Open –Top 10 Overall after six races
1. Jose Manuel Ruiz/Fernando Davila (ESP) – 19 pts
2. Adrian Dominguez/Calixto Abalo (ESP) – 25 pts
3. Jia Yi Loh/Jonathan Yeo (SIN) – 26 pts
4. Hippolyge Machetti/Sidoine Dantes (FRA) – 27 pts
4. Muhamad Faizal Norizan/Ahmad Syuki Abdul Aziz (MAS) – 31 pts
6. Diogo Pereira/Manuel Macedo (POR) – 34 pts
7. Maxime Pedron/Eliott Michal (FRA) – 39 pts
8. Ido Bilik/Ofek Shalgi (ISR) – 41 pts
9. Aggelos Arvanitis/Theofanis Kanakaris (GRE) – 43pts
10. Swann Hayewski/Alexis Thomas (FRA) – 44 pts

Kimberly Lim/Savannah Siew (SIN) retain their overnight lead and go into the final series heading up the gold fleet. Italy's Carlotta Omari/Francesca Russo Cirillo move up to second overall and Greece's Aikaterini Tavoulari/Fotini Koutsoumpou (GRE) are in third.

The Greek pair enjoyed a massive leap up the leaderboard after their disqualification in race 2 saw them well down in the pack, but with that now discarded from their results they count an all top-10 scoreline. But, their race 2 result will still haunt them, as the teams around them count all top ten results, the pair have no margin for more double digit scores. Another new team moving into the top 10 are Germany’s Theres Dahnke/Birte Winkel who finished with a 3,4 today.

Early leaders and ISAF Youth World Champions Silvia Mas/Marta Davila end the qualification series in fourth.

A close outcome for Germany’s Silke Hahlbrock/Juliane Zepp who were the final team to complete the gold fleet line-up on tiebreak over Theresa Loeffler/Theresa Heilingbrunner, with both teams on an equal 97 points.

Of the 21 nations competing in the eighty-four boat 420 Ladies fleet, 14 are represented in the Gold fleet. With all the top teams now racing against each other, the game plans and race tactics are likely to unfold just a bit differently as the competition intensifies over the final six races.

Ladies – Top 10 Overall after six races
1. Kimberly Lim/Savannah Siew (SIN) – 9 pts
2. Carlotta Omari/Francesca Russo Cirillo (ITA) – 10 pts
3. Aikaterini Tavoulari/Fotini Koutsoumpou (GRE) – 14 pts
4. Silvia Mas/Marta Davila (ESP) - 19 pts
5. Souzana Bakatsia/Nikoletta Papageorgiou (GRE) – 20 pts
6. Paula Barcelo/Margarita Alba (ESP) – 20 pts
7. Nuraisyah Jamil/Umi Nurwahida Sallehuddin (MAS) – 22 pts
8. Carmen Davila/Julia Davila (ESP) – 23 pts
9. Elena Picotti/Maria Coluzzi (ITA) – 24 pts
10. Theres Dahnke/Birte Winkel (GER) – 31 pts

A reserve day on Thursday, ahead of the final series getting underway on Friday 1 August 2014. Two races for each fleet on Friday with the Gold fleets starting first, followed by Silver.

Participating nations in the 420 World and Ladies World Championships are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, USA.

420 Open

Scoring System : Low Point

Rating System : One Design

Discard(s) after race : 5;

Published : 7/30/2014 1:45:15 PM

Nr	Bow Nr	Sail Number	Skipper	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	T	N
1	028	ESP 55289	Ruiz Jose Manuel		4.0	(8.0)	3.0	4.0	6.0	2.0	27.0	19.0
2	025	ESP 53140	Domínguez Adrián	Liceo Casino de Vilagarcía	2.0	1.0	9.0	7.0	(32.0)	6.0	57.0	25.0
3	104	SIN 53658	Loh Jia Yi		1.0	5.0	10.0	8.0	(31.0)	2.0	57.0	26.0
4	062	FRA 55096	Machetti Hippolyte	SR Antibes	4.0	8.0	4.0	10.0	1.0	(21.0)	48.0	27.0
5	108	MAS 55154	Norizan Muhamad Faizal	Malaysia	6.0	11.0	5.0	8.0	(18.0)	1.0	49.0	31.0
6	070	POR 55029	Pereira Diogo	Clube Naval de Cascais	10.0	(26.0) DPI	2.0	2.0	1.0	19.0	60.0	34.0
7	058	FRA 54286	Pedron Maxime	SR Antibes	11.0	3.0	12.0	5.0	8.0	(24.0)	63.0	39.0
8	094	ISR 54148	Bilik Ido	haifa	10.0	17.0	2.0	(18.0)	9.0	3.0	59.0	41.0
9	078	GRE 55291	Arvanitis Aggelos		5.0	14.0 DPI	1.0	11.0 RDG	(19.0)	12.0	62.0	43.0
10	063	FRA 55226	Hayewski Swann	SR Rochelaise	2.0	15.0	4.0	16.0	(17.0)	7.0	61.0	44.0
11	093	ISR 54144	Hasson Nitai	sdit yam	3.0	15.0	8.0	12.0	(24.0)	6.0	68.0	44.0
12	004	GER 54347	Hibler Maximilian	BYC	(24.0)	7.0	13.0	6.0	7.0	12.0	69.0	45.0
13	036	ITA 55282	Ferraro Edoardo		1.0	4.0	7.0	10.0	(57.0) BFD	25.0	104.0	47.0
14	012	GER 55357	Gwendal Lamay	NRV	11.0	(19.0)	5.0	12.0	15.0	5.0	67.0	48.0
15	059	FRA 54512	Follin Robin	CN Sainte-Maxime	19.0	12.0	1.0	(24.0)	9.0	8.0	73.0	49.0
16	026	ESP 54544	Mas Santiago		(20.0)	16.0	16.0	2.0	4.0	11.0	69.0	49.0
17	103	SUI 52967	Wagen Kilian		7.0	16.0	15.0	(33.0)	12.0	1.0	84.0	51.0
18	055	JPN 54628	Takayama Daichi	Sairin	(37.0)	18.0	8.0	7.0	3.0	18.0	91.0	54.0
19	113	HKG 54935	Gregor Calumlain	RHKYC	17.0	9.0	(25.0)	5.0	16.0	17.0	89.0	64.0
20	100	ARG 54841	Diniz Felipe	Yacht Club Argentino	(38.0)	2.0	11.0	14.0	13.0 DPI	27.0	105.0	67.0
21	024	ESP 52781	Antich Xavier	Clube Nautic s´Avenal	8.0	26.0	13.0	15.0	7.0	(30.0)	99.0	69.0
22	021	USA 55162	Parkin Jack	Riverside YC	(27.0)	1.0	26.0	19.0	10.0	18.0	101.0	74.0
23	013	GER 55364	Hamann Daniel	SCBC	22.0	7.0	23.0	(47.0)	18.0	5.0	122.0	75.0
24	079	BRA 52523	Brito Tiago	Clube dos Jangadeiros	14.0	6.0	14.0	11.0	30.0	(56.0) UFD	131.0	75.0
25	052	NZL 54589	Barnett Sam	Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club	6.0	(57.0) BFD	22.0	1.0	43.0	4.0	133.0	76.0

 

420 Women

Scoring System : Low Point

Rating System : One Design

Discard(s) after race : 5;

Published : 7/30/2014 1:44:56 PM

Nr	Bow Nr	Sail Number	Skipper	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	T	N
1	81	SIN 54822	Lim Kimberly		(5.0)	2.0	1.0	1.0	3.0	2.0	14.0	9.0
2	28	ITA 54800	Omari Carlotta	Sirena	(7.0)	1.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	1.0	17.0	10.0
3	65	GRE 54484	Tavoulari Aikaterini		1.0	(43.0) DSQ	2.0	8.0	1.0	2.0	57.0	14.0
4	23	ESP 54635	Mas Silvia		4.0	1.0	3.0	3.0	(8.0)	8.0	27.0	19.0
5	64	GRE 53460	Bakatsia Souzana		1.0	(23.0)	5.0	6.0	1.0	7.0	43.0	20.0
6	19	ESP 53162	Barcelò Paula		7.0	4.0	4.0	(11.0)	4.0	1.0	31.0	20.0
7	84	MAS 55156	Jamil Nuraisyah	MALAYSIA	(14.0)	4.0	7.0	2.0	2.0	7.0	36.0	22.0
8	24	ESP 55385	Davila Carmen		4.0	6.0	9.0	1.0	(13.0)	3.0	36.0	23.0
9	27	ITA 54551	Picotti Elena	F.V. Peschiera	(15.0)	9.0	1.0	3.0	5.0	6.0	39.0	24.0
10	14	GER 55115	Dahnke Theres	PWV	10.0	6.0	(11.0)	8.0	3.0	4.0	42.0	31.0
11	21	ESP 53847	Caba Maria		(19.0)	2.0	10.0	4.0	14.0	9.0	58.0	39.0
12	55	FRA 54902	Lefort Marina	SR Antibes	5.0	(12.0)	10.0	9.0	11.0	5.0	52.0	40.0
13	52	FRA 54546	Fauroux Paulina	UY Cannois	3.0	3.0	8.0	(22.0)	18.0	12.0	66.0	44.0
14	31	ITA 54968	Simoni Karen Yohana	C.N.Cervia	13.0	5.0	13.0	9.0	6.0	(14.0)	60.0	46.0
15	32	ITA 55101	Addari Clara	C.V. 3V	3.0	3.0	13.0	(19.0)	13.0	15.0	66.0	47.0
16	39	GBR 54849	Norbury Sarah	South Staffordshire SC	6.0	13.0	6.0	5.0	(20.0)	17.0	67.0	47.0
17	66	GRE 54803	Drouga Evangelia		2.0	7.0	12.0	(25.0)	22.0	9.0	77.0	52.0
18	25	ESP 54986	Garrido Marta		8.0	10.0	(18.0)	14.0	7.0	15.0	72.0	54.0
19	08	GER 54645	Meier Johanna	SKBUE	16.0	24.0	3.0	4.0	9.0	(41.0)	97.0	56.0
20	49	JPN 54630	Tanaka Misaki	Kansaidaiichi	17.0	5.0	(23.0)	13.0	15.0	6.0	79.0	56.0
21	22	ESP 54315	Medina Patricia		(23.0)	9.0	6.0	21.0	6.0	14.0	79.0	56.0
22	72	AUS 54798	Jerwood Nia	Fremantle SC/SoPYC	12.0	(18.0)	17.0	17.0	7.0	5.0	76.0	58.0
23	50	FRA 54520	Yven Charlotte	SR Terenez	14.0	8.0	(32.0)	22.0	12.0	3.0	91.0	59.0
24	20	ESP 53732	Arana Sonia		10.0	(43.0) BFD	16.0	18.0	9.0	11.0	107.0	64.0
25	80	SIN 54140	Yokoyama Elisa Yukie		(28.0)	18.0	15.0	14.0	8.0	10.0	93.0	65.0

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