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Star European Championship - Italian victory

by Star Europeans on 10 Sep 2011
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Another first place in the penultimate race for Italians Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini sealed their series-long domination and overall victory at the Star European Championship at Dun Laoghaire on Friday. Light and shifty conditions followed by a sea breeze completed the regatta that delivered a full range of conditions for the 27-boat fleet from 18 nations.

Negri and Voltolini kept their form for a fourth race win and typically enjoyed a comfortable lead at the finish of race seven. For the crews chasing the runner-up podium positions, the breeze proved as challenging as it has been all week, this time dying to a near calm on the final run before filling gently on the left hand-side side of the course catching the unwary, notably Guillaume Florent and Pascal Rambeau who had been vying with the Italian leaders for first place.

A wait followed for the eighth and final race of the week but only after a long wait for the sea breeze to build and settle. This took the fleet away from the now familiar area off Dun Laoghaire’s West Pier and southwards towards this historic Dalkey Island side of Dublin Bay. After starting in ideal conditions of 18 knots, halfway through the race the breeze died completely to be followed by a 90-degree wind-shift that saw 2008 World Champion Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki emerge with a substantial lead on the water and, having led from the outset were confirmed as second overall runners-up. Negri and Voltolini had already retired as their position was no better than their already discarded eighth in race six and were busy packing their boat as the final ended.

Irish hopes of a podium result on home waters were denied to London 2012 Olympic contenders Peter O’Leary and David Burrows who placed fourth in the last race but a ninth earlier in the day left them fourth overall as Canada’s Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn took third place.

Star European Championship 2011 at Royal St. George YC, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

International Star Class European Championship 2011

Overall

Sailed: 8, Discards: 1, To count: 7, Entries: 27, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank Nat Sail No Bow Number Skipper Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total Nett
1st ITA 8266 12 Diego Negri Enrico Voltolini 1.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 8.0 1.0 (28.0 DNF) 45.0 17.0
2nd POL 8417 14 Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Zycki 5.0 8.0 2.0 5.0 1.0 (9.0) 3.0 1.0 34.0 25.0
3rd CAN 8361 1 Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn 9.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 13.0 7.0 2.0 (14.0) 53.0 39.0
4th IRL 8418 10 Peter O'Leary David Burrows 3.0 6.0 3.0 6.0 12.0 (13.0) 9.0 4.0 56.0 43.0
5th NOR 8317 13 Eivind Melleby Petter Morland Pedersen 13.0 (17.0) 7.0 10.0 6.0 3.0 7.0 2.0 65.0 48.0
6th POR 8309 15 Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo 6.0 4.0 10.0 8.0 14.0 5.0 4.0 (28.0 DNF) 79.0 51.0
7th GER 8414 8 Johannes Polgar Markus Koy (19.0) 12.0 4.0 12.0 9.0 1.0 8.0 6.0 71.0 52.0
8th FRA 8270 5 Guillaume Florent Pascal Rambeau 2.0 3.0 6.0 4.0 11.0 (19.0) 17.0 13.0 75.0 56.0
9th USA 8423 31 Andrew Campbell Ian Coleman 14.0 16.0 13.0 13.0 4.0 (17.0) 5.0 5.0 87.0 70.0
10th USA 8434 30 George Szabo Mark Strube 10.0 15.0 (28.0 DNF) 7.0 18.0 2.0 11.0 10.0 101.0 73.0
11th ESP 8209 19 Fernando Echavarri Fernando Rodriguez Rivero 7.0 14.0 9.0 3.0 (21.0) 20.0 16.0 8.0 98.0 77.0
12th FRA 8237 6 Xavier Rohart Pierre Alexis Ponsot 4.0 5.0 (28.0 DNF) 14.0 8.0 23.0 14.0 9.0 105.0 77.0
13th POR 8276 16 Gustavo Roxo Lima Rubrio Basilio 16.0 9.0 12.0 16.0 7.0 12.0 (21.0) 7.0 100.0 79.0
14th CRO 7287 2 Mate Arapov Ante Sitic (20.0) 13.0 8.0 18.0 16.0 4.0 6.0 16.0 101.0 81.0
15th UKR 8240 23 Arthur Anosov Vitalii Kushnir 18.0 10.0 11.0 11.0 (19.0) 6.0 10.0 17.0 102.0 83.0
16th GBR 8333 29 John Gimson Stephen Milne 11.0 20.0 14.0 17.0 2.0 (28.0 RAF) 18.0 12.0 122.0 94.0
17th GER 8426 7 Alexander Schlonski Matthias Bohn 17.0 19.0 (28.0 DNF) 9.0 5.0 11.0 15.0 19.0 123.0 95.0
18th IRL 8385 11 Maxwell Treacy Anthony Shanks 15.0 11.0 (28.0 DNF) 15.0 10.0 22.0 13.0 11.0 125.0 97.0
19th UKR 8205 24 Denis Khashina Dmitriy Mechetin (24.0) 18.0 17.0 22.0 20.0 21.0 23.0 3.0 148.0 124.0
20th UKR 8247 26 Vasyl Gureyev Volodymyr Korotkov 12.0 (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 19.0 15.0 10.0 22.0 20.0 154.0 126.0
21st SWE 8351 20 Tom Loefstedt Hakan Lundgren (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 16.0 21.0 17.0 15.0 12.0 21.0 158.0 130.0
22nd GBR 8396 28 Ante Razmilovic Brian Hammersley 22.0 21.0 15.0 20.0 23.0 14.0 (24.0) 15.0 154.0 130.0
23rd SUI 7829 22 Michel Niklaus Vincent Hagin 21.0 22.0 (28.0 DNF) 24.0 24.0 16.0 19.0 22.0 176.0 148.0
24th SUI 8075 21 Jean-Pascal Chatagny Patrick Ducommun 25.0 24.0 (28.0 OCS) 23.0 22.0 18.0 20.0 18.0 178.0 150.0
25th GBR 8371 27 Iain Percy Andrew Simpson 8.0 7.0 (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 183.0 155.0
26th RUS 8359 17 Andrey Berezhnoy Sergey Masalov 23.0 23.0 (28.0 DNF) 25.0 28.0 DNE 24.0 25.0 28.0 DNF 204.0 176.0
27th HUN 8386 9 Tibor Tenke Miklos Bezereti 26.0 (28.0 DNF) 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 222.0 194.0

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