Belcher and Ryan lead from the start in Hyeres

by Rob Kothe and the Sail-World Team on 22 Apr 2014

ISAF Sailing World Cup Mallorca - Mat Belcher and Will Ryan (AUS), 470 Men Martinez Studio / Sofia http://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/

Olympic Gold Medallist and 2013 ISAF World Sailor of the Year Mat Belcher is leading a very strong Australian team into the last ISAF Sailing World Cup of the 2013-2014 season.

Having had his 18 regatta winning streak broken in Miami, Belcher and his crew Will Ryan are looking to defend their Hyeres win of 2013.

You can’t win a regatta in the first day, but an early OCS can affect your sailing strategy for the week. That’s what happened to ISAF World Sailor of the Year Matt Belcher and crew Will Ryan in Palma.

But today they had a much better start and are back on track with two bullets and a dropped seventh on day one

2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup Mallorca - Mat Belcher and Will Ryan (AUS) during the 470 Men’s medal race © Thom Touw http://www.thomtouw.com

Belcher commented ‘A good start is what we were looking for and we have that. We are looking for a better result than the third and second we’ve had in the last two World Cup events.

‘Expectations continue to be high. It’s probably over four years ago, since we missed the podium, I would say beginning of 2011. Quite a while. Almost 30 events.

Will Ryan 'We had an OCS early in Palma. You learn a lot about your team when you have a little set back like that. We sailed well after that. It makes you focus more. It is part of the process and ultimately the goal is still a little way away so whatever lessons we can learn now the better.‘

470 Men Overall

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	1	2	3	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS11	Mathew Belcher William Ryan	1	(7)	1	9.00	2.00
2	ESP	ESP9	Onan Barreiros Juan Curbelo Cabrera	(18)	2	1	21.00	3.00
3	SWE	SWE349	Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström	2	(9)	3	14.00	5.00
4	GRE	GRE1	Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis	(6)	4	2	12.00	6.00
5	FRA	FRA27	Sofian Bouvet Jeremie Mion	2	4	(12)	18.00	6.00
6	ARG	ARG7	Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente	1	(7)	6	14.00	7.00
7	FRA	FRA44	Pierre Leboucher Nicolas Le Berre	(17)	5	2	24.00	7.00
8	USA	USA1713	Stuart Mcnay David Hughes	(7)	3	5	15.00	8.00
9	FRA	FRA4	Vianney Guilbaud Vincent Guillarm	7	2	(14)	23.00	9.00
10	CRO	CRO83	Sime Fantela Igor Marenic	3	6	(7)	16.00	9.00
11	GRE	GRE165	Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos	(24)	3	8	35.00	11.00
12	ESP	ESP44	Jordi Xammar Joan Herp	3	8	(9)	20.00	11.00
13	GER	GER55	Jan-Jasper Wagner Dustin Baldewein	(11)	5	6	22.00	11.00
14	GBR	GBR863	Luke Patience Elliot Willis	(14)	9	3	26.00	12.00
15	GER	GER10	Ferdinand Gerz Oliver Szymanski	(19)	1	13	33.00	14.00
16	FRA	FRA7	Nicolas Charbonnier Achille Nebout-Javal	6	8	(16)	30.00	14.00
17	AUT	AUT437	David Bargehr Lukas Mähr	15	1	(21)	37.00	16.00
18	AUT	AUT3	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichsteaedter	12	(13)	4	29.00	16.00
19	FIN	FIN7	Joonas Lindgren Niklas Lindgren	4	12	(18)	34.00	16.00
20	CHN	CHN1267	Hao Lan Chao Wang	(16)	13	4	33.00	17.00
21	ITA	ITA5	Giulio Desiderato Andrea Trani	(13)	11	7	31.00	18.00
22	JPN	JPN12	Tetsuya Matsunaga Yugo Yoshida	8	(18)	10	36.00	18.00
23	NZL	NZL2	Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	4	(21)	16	41.00	20.00
24	CHN	CHN67	Zangjun Xu Wei Wang	(19)	11	9	39.00	20.00
25	ITA	ITA99	Francesco Rebaudi Matteo Ramian	10	(26)	10	46.00	20.00
26	BRA	BRA 1	Geison Mendes Dzioubanov Gustavo Thiesen	8	15	(18)	41.00	23.00
27	ITA	ITA29	Simon Sivitz Kosuta Jas Farneti	9	14	(29)	52.00	23.00
28	SUI	SUI16	Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser	5	(24)	20	49.00	25.00
29	GER	GER15	Julian Autenrieth Philipp Autenrieth	14	12	(15)	41.00	26.00
30	GRE	GRE10	Vasilis Papoutsoglou John Orfanos	12	14	(17)	43.00	26.00
31	CHN	CHN1041	Wuwei Liu Dongwu Lyu	13	(24)	13	50.00	26.00
32	RUS	RUS2	Mikhail Sheremetyev Maxim Sheremetyev	(20)	19	8	47.00	27.00
33	ITA	ITA7	Francesco Falcetelli Matteo Bernard	(28)	16	11	55.00	27.00
34	ISR	ISR17	Gal Cohen Dan Froyliche	23	(27)	5	55.00	28.00
35	RSA	RSA1	Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson	10	(42) DNC	19	71.00	29.00
36	SWE	SWE350	Carl-Fredrik Fock Marcus Dackhammar	17	(28)	12	57.00	29.00
37	POR	POR1	Gonçalo Pires Miguel Nunes	5	(28)	25	58.00	30.00
38	AUS	AUS6	Alexander Conway Patrick Conway	20	10	(22)	52.00	30.00
39	FRA	FRA76	Guillaume Pirouelle Sipan Valentin	16	15	(17)	48.00	31.00
40	BRA	BRA27	Henrique Haddad Bruno Bethlem De Amorim	9	(33)	23	65.00	32.00
41	ESP	ESP769	Jorge Martínez Doreste Aaron Sarmiento	27	6	(30)	63.00	33.00
42	GBR	GBR843	Mike Wood David Kohler	(25)	22	11	58.00	33.00
43	JPN	JPN 11	Kazuto Doi Kimihiko Imamura	11	(26)	23	60.00	34.00
44	POR	POR7	António Rosa Ricardo Schedel	27	10	(32)	69.00	37.00
45	ITA	ITA10	Matteo Capurro Matteo Puppo	21	16	(26)	63.00	37.00
46	GER	GER75	Denny Naujock Paul Kuebel	(25)	17	21	63.00	38.00
47	FRA	FRA8	Kevin PEPONNET Nicolas ROSSI	15	(29)	24	68.00	39.00
48	AUS	AUS 5	Matthew Crawford Robert Crawford	(23)	17	22	62.00	39.00
49	AUS	AUS7	Angus Galloway Timothy Hannah	(32)	27	14	73.00	41.00
50	RUS	RUS5	Pavel Sozykin Denis Gribanov	22	(25)	19	66.00	41.00
51	UKR	UKR67	Yurii Zhuravlov Pavlo Matsuyev	22	21	(31)	74.00	43.00
52	RUS	RUS7	Vladimir Chaus Denis Gorety	21	22	(32)	75.00	43.00
53	JPN	JPN4422	Ikuko Sakudo Shinji Hachiyama	(31)	20	24	75.00	44.00
54	GER	GER13	Malte Winkel Matti Cipra	(38)	18	28	84.00	46.00
55	ITA	ITA753	Niccolò Bertola Massimiliano Berta	(31)	19	27	77.00	46.00
56	DEN	DEN164	Balder Tobiasen Magnus Jung Johansen	(37)	32	15	84.00	47.00
57	FRA	FRA 18	Hugo Feydit Charlie Aganeau	(30)	23	25	78.00	48.00
58	CRO	CRO3	ANTE BOTICA Jure Vuletic	18	31	(36)	85.00	49.00
59	ITA	ITA300	Emanuele Savoini Enzio Savoini	(33)	30	20	83.00	50.00
60	FRA	FRA5	Rémy Thuillier Mathieu Corruble	(32)	20	31	83.00	51.00
61	JPN	JPN4420	Naoki Ichino Jyunpei Hokazono	28	23	(34)	85.00	51.00
62	GRE	GRE333	Alexandros Kavvas Georgios Kavvas	(36)	25	28	89.00	53.00
63	ESP	ESP 1	David Charles Vila Alex Charles	26	(38)	27	91.00	53.00
64	SUI	SUI1453	Philippe Erni Stephan Zurfluh	24	34	(38)	96.00	58.00
65	POR	POR10	Joao Villas-Boas Francisco Pinheiro de Melo	26	(34)	33	93.00	59.00
66	GER	GER11	Simon Diesch Patrick Aggeler	29	(31)	30	90.00	59.00
67	BEL	BEL16	Corentin Demanet Quinten Lauwers	29	30	(42) DNC	101.00	59.00
68	GBR	GBR828	Robert Gullan Sam Brearey	34	(35)	26	95.00	60.00
69	SUI	SUI2	Fabrice Rigot Guillaume Rigot	35	(38)	29	102.00	64.00
70	AUS	AUS3	Scott Cotton Tom Potter	(38)	29	35	102.00	64.00
71	GRE	GRE4	Antonios Tsimpoukelis Vasileios Kontakis	30	35	(36)	101.00	65.00
72	FIN	FIN77	Okko Konttinen Zacharias Still	(37)	32	35	104.00	67.00
73	GER	GER48	Julian Patrunky Max Schümann	34	33	(42) BFD	109.00	67.00
74	RUS	RUS10	Kristian Chekh Maxim Cherenkov	(40)	36	33	109.00	69.00
75	UKR	UKR1	OLEKSANDR IZAROV Ivan Savchenko	33	(39)	38	110.00	71.00
76	FIN	FIN111	Miikka Nikkilä Leo Tykkyläinen	(39)	37	34	110.00	71.00
77	FRA	FRA 77	Sacha Pelisson BERGER Amaury	36	36	(37)	109.00	72.00
78	POR	POR19	João Pestana Tomas Marques	35	(39)	39	113.00	74.00
79	AUT	AUT477	Stefan Scharnagl Helmut Schulz	(39)	37	37	113.00	74.00
80	CRO	CRO111	Sime Soric Marin Jakovcev	(41)	41	39	121.00	80.00
81	LTU	LTU4	Andrius Ramonaitis Emilis Valentinaitis	(40)	40	40	120.00	80.00