ISAF Worlds - GBR gets windsurfing title chase off to a flying start

by Lindsey Bell on 14 Sep 2014

2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, Santander - Bryony Shaw, RS:X Women Richard Langdon/British Sailing Team

Britain’s leading windsurfers saw a positive start on their first day of World Championship racing in Santander at the ISAF Worlds on Saturday (13 September).

Wind conditions proved testing for both sailors and race committees on the second day of this Olympic qualifying regatta, with the Laser, Laser Radial and RS:X classes all enduring disruptions.

But the women’s RS:X windsurfing fleet managed to complete their schedule of three races, with Bryony Shaw ending her opening day on a high with a race win from the third race.

Shaw will start Sunday’s second day of racing for the windsurfers with the red bib for overall third place, and said she was happy with her opening day’s efforts amid the shifty conditions.

'It was really tricky out there – the wind was up and then it was down and it was shifting 30 degrees so it was about trying to minimise that damage,' explained the 31-year-old, who claimed silver – he first World Championship medal at last year’s edition in Buzios, Brazil.

'To get that race win at the end [of the day] just kind of showed that I had a bit more of a handle on things. It was so important to have fine positioning and I was always slightly off in the first two races and then I managed to really nail it in the last one, so I was really pleased.'

2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, Santander - Izzy Hamilton, RS:X Women © Richard Langdon/British Sailing Team

Fellow British Sailing Team talent Izzy Hamilton also saw a consistent start to her event, with 5,2,7 seeing her in overall seventh place.

The Holsworthy sailor – a former double Youth World Champion – is hoping that her opening day’s form continues.
'This is as strong as the fleet gets – everyone’s at the World Championships so we’ll have to see how it goes but I’m happy with my first day,' she explained.

'I’ve done a lot of training running into this regatta and I feel really prepared. Hopefully I can reach the goals that we’ve set and I can come away feeling like I’ve done my best.'

2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, Santander - Nick Dempsey, RS:X Men © Richard Langdon/British Sailing Team

Elsewhere, Nick Dempsey got his world title defence off to a steady start, posting 5,6 from the only two races the RS:X men’s fleet could complete to sit in overall tenth place at the end of the first day, while Dempsey’s training partner, Tom Squires, also enjoyed

Dempsey’s training partner, Tom Squires, also enjoyed a promising first day, picking up a fifth and a ninth in the men’s RS:X yellow fleet to sit in 13th place.

2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, Santander - Tom Squires, RS:X Men © Richard Langdon/British Sailing Team

The Laser and Laser Radial classes faced a long wait on the water in a bid to try and complete the planned two races on their second day of competition, to allow for the fleets to split into their gold, silver and bronze finals series in line with the schedule on Sunday.

Eventually, after general recalls, race abandonments and testing conditions, the races were completed and four British sailors made the cut for the top 49 boats through to the Laser gold fleet, and in doing so have secured the British country qualification berth in the class for the Rio 2016 Games. Alex Mills Barton so nearly made it all five British competitors through to gold fleet with a strong 4,7 from today, but couldn’t quite make up for a tough opening day on Friday.

Nick Thompson pulled up to 11th overall with 11,7 for his second day’s efforts, while Podium Potential sailor Lorenzo Chiavarini hit back after a 29th in his first race to place sixth in the second and secure his gold fleet berth in 17th place overall.

Elliot Hanson is 24th, and Martin Evans 35th in the 147-boat men’s single-handed fleet – the biggest to be contested in Santander.

In the Laser Radial event, four British boats have qualified for the 60-boat gold fleet. Chloe Martin is poised in ninth place overall with 4,16 from her two races today, with Hannah Snellgrove 17th, Alison Young 21st and Georgina Povall in 38th.

Racing will continue in the RS:X Men’s and Women’s windsurfing classes, and the Laser and Laser Radial on Sunday (14 September) when the 470 Men’s and Women’s events will also get underway.

Racing in Santander sees a staggered schedule across the ten classes:

12-18 September: Laser and Laser Radial
13-19 September: RS:X Men and RS:X Women
14-20 September: 470 Men and 470 Women
15-21 September: 49er, 49erFX, Finn and Nacra 17

Laser Men – Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race				Points
Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	1	2	3	4	Total	Net
1	BRA	BRA 206755	Robert Scheidt	(13)	2	1	3	19.00	6.00
2	NED	NED 204566	Nicholas Heiner	3	(10)	1	4	18.00	8.00
3	AUS	AUS 199012	Tom Burton	5	3	(8)	2	18.00	10.00
4	BRA	BRA 206757	Bruno Fontes	4	7	(9)	3	23.00	14.00
5	SWE	SWE 199617	Jesper Stalheim	(12)	4	5	5	26.00	14.00
6	AUS	AUS 206019	Ryan Palk	5	9	(13)	1	28.00	15.00
7	NED	NED 206745	Rutger van Schaardenburg	14	1	1	(50) RET	66.00	16.00
8	USA	USA 182345	Charlie Buckingham	6	(23)	2	8	39.00	16.00
9	CYP	CYP 206766	Pavlos Kontides	(20)	12	4	1	37.00	17.00
10	GUA	GUA 204113	Juan Ignacio Maegli Aguero	3	1	(50) BFD	14	68.00	18.00
11	GBR	GBR 201402	Nick Thompson	1	(18)	11	7	37.00	19.00
12	USA	USA 194180	Christopher Barnard	7	(11)	10	2	30.00	19.00
13	AUS	AUS 199015	Matthew Wearn	7	2	10	(29)	48.00	19.00
14	NZL	NZL 196871	Sam Meech	12	6	2	(43)	63.00	20.00
15	NZL	NZL 197250	Thomas Saunders	11	5	(22)	5	43.00	21.00
16	CAN	CAN 197120	Lee Parkhill	8	7	6	(22)	43.00	21.00
17	GBR	GBR 206940	Lorenzo Chiavarini	2	14	(29)	6	51.00	22.00
18	ITA	ITA 188953	Giovanni Coccoluto	1	9	(36)	13	59.00	23.00
19	GER	GER 207189	Philipp Buhl	15	2	(20)	6	43.00	23.00
20	CRO	CRO 204731	Tonci Stipanovic	6	12	5	(27)	50.00	23.00

Laser Radial Women – Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race				Points
Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	1	2	3	4	Total	Net
1	CZE	CZE 207167	Veronika Kozelska Fenclova	3	1	(12)	3	19.00	7.00
2	LTU	LTU 202781	Viktorija Andrulyte	(11)	3	1	4	19.00	8.00
3	NED	NED 206333	Marit Bouwmeester	(8)	1	2	7	18.00	10.00
4	CHN	CHN 201213	Dongshuang Zhang	5	4	(32)	1	42.00	10.00
5	BEL	BEL 207177	Emma Plasschaert	2	5	(24)	5	36.00	12.00
6	FIN	FIN 202670	Tuula Tenkanen	(20)	2	3	10	35.00	15.00
7	SWE	SWE 202659	Josefin Olsson	2	(16)	8	5	31.00	15.00
8	USA	USA 184454	Erika Reineke	1	(31)	9	8	49.00	18.00
9	GBR	GBR 206363	Chloe Martin	10	6	4	(16)	36.00	20.00
10	BEL	BEL 207179	Evi Van Acker	(15)	7	1	14	37.00	22.00
11	FRA	FRA 196544	Mathilde de Kerangat	(27)	15	6	3	51.00	24.00
12	ITA	ITA 206452	Joyce Floridia	5	9	10	(20)	44.00	24.00
13	DEN	DEN 207195	Sarah Gunni Toftedal	1	(29)	22	2	54.00	25.00
14	CRO	CRO 199082	Tina Mihelic	10	9	7	(39)	65.00	26.00
15	NZL	NZL 202441	Sara Winther	7	(19)	10	13	49.00	30.00
16	ISR	ISR 189296	Oren Jacob	4	(24)	13	14	55.00	31.00
17	GBR	GBR 206886	Hannah Snellgrove	9	(34)	5	17	65.00	31.00
18	FRA	FRA 204062	Pernelle Michon	8	17	(20)	6	51.00	31.00
19	DEN	DEN 207194	Anne-Marie Rindom	14	7	(16)	12	49.00	33.00
20	GBR	GBR 206251	Alison Young	13	12	(36)	8	69.00	33.00

RS:X Men – Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race		Points
Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	1	2	Total	Net
1	FRA	FRA 77	Pierre le Coq	1	1	2.00	2.00
2	FRA	FRA 1	Louis Giard	1	3	4.00	4.00
3	POL	POL 82	Piotr Myszka	4	2	6.00	6.00
4	NED	NED 9	Kiran Badloe	2	5	7.00	7.00
5	FRA	FRA 6	Julien Bontemps	4	3	7.00	7.00
6	GER	GER 3	Toni Wilhelm	3	4	7.00	7.00
7	BRA	BRA 1	Ricardo Santos	7	1	8.00	8.00
8	POL	POL 126	Przemyslaw Miarczynski	2	7	9.00	9.00
9	GRE	GRE 8	Byron Kokkalanis	6	4	10.00	10.00
10	NED	NED 8	Dorian Van Rijsselberge	3	8	11.00	11.00
11	GBR	GBR 1	Nick Dempsey	5	6	11.00	11.00
12	ESP	ESP 7	Ivan Pastor Lafuente	11	2	13.00	13.00
13	ITA	ITA 88	Mattia Camboni	6	7	13.00	13.00
14	GBR	GBR 931	Tom Squires	5	10	15.00	15.00
15	POL	POL 182	Pawel Tarnowski	13	5	18.00	18.00
16	NZL	NZL 151	Jon-Paul Tobin	9	10	19.00	19.00
17	POR	ARG 8		14	6	20.00	20.00
18	SUI	SUI 36	Mateo Sanz Lanz	11	9	20.00	20.00
19	POR	POR 75	João Rodrigues	14	8	22.00	22.00
20	CHN	CHN 1	Aichen Wang	9	13	22.00	22.00

RS:X Women – Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race			Points
Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	1	2	3	Total	Net
1	FRA	FRA 4	Charline Picon	1	1	(4)	6.00	2.00
2	MEX	MEX 9	Demita Vega de Lille	1	4	(17)	22.00	5.00
3	GBR	GBR 9	Bryony Shaw	5	(11)	1	17.00	6.00
4	FRA	FRA 22	Eugénie Ricard	(9)	1	5	15.00	6.00
5	POL	POL 8	Zofia Noceti-Klepacka	(16)	3	3	22.00	6.00
6	NED	NED 171	Lilian De Geus	2	(10)	5	17.00	7.00
7	GBR	GBR 30	Isobel Hamilton	6	2	(7)	15.00	8.00
8	POL	POL 21	Malgorzata Bialecka	(6)	5	3	14.00	8.00
9	ISR	ISR 10	Maayan Davidovich	4	(10)	6	20.00	10.00
10	ISR	ISR 9	Hadar Heller	(21)	9	2	32.00	11.00
11	BRA	BRA 8	Patricia Freitas	(9)	2	9	20.00	11.00
12	FIN	FIN 1	Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén	7	6	(15)	28.00	13.00
13	CHN	CHN 3	Qiaoshan Weng	13	(14)	1	28.00	14.00
14	RUS	RUS 271	Stefania Elfutina	(21)	12	2	35.00	14.00
15	ITA	ITA 157	Marta Maggetti	(12)	4	10	26.00	14.00
16	ITA	ITA 11	Laura Linares	7	7	(8)	22.00	14.00
17	NZL	NZL 8	Natalia Kosinska	10	5	(18)	33.00	15.00
18	ITA	ITA 46	Flavia Tartaglini	2	(17)	14	33.00	16.00
19	BRA	BRA 49	Bruna Martinelli Cesário de Mello	(20)	7	9	36.00	16.00
20	POL	POL 104	Kamila Smektala	8	8	(12)	28.00	16.00