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International Laser Australian Championship - Fitness key to success
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'2012 International Laser Australian championships'
Dane Lojek
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Sailing a Laser dinghy at its optimum performance at national championship level not only requires seamanship and tactical skills, but also physical fitness, and today the 141 competitors in the Audi Australian championships certainly needed to be fit.
With the west to south-westerly winds ranging from five to 30 knots, and more, during their five hours on the water to complete two races, the fittest sailors got the top results in all three Laser divisions, Standard Rigs, Radials and 4.7.
'Today was a day for the fittest, the strongest sailors certainly did best,' Tasmania’s high performance coach Richard Scarr said after the racing.
'Anyone who has not been working on a fitness plan for the past eight or nine months would have founding conditions very tough today,' he added,
The three fleets spent more than five hours on the water today, sailing in two races totalling nine nautical miles, as well as having to re-start several races because of general recalls.
At least they have a lay day tomorrow because of the King of the Derwent keelboat race on the river.
Today’s results, and overall standings, certainly bore out the comments of coaches such as Richard Scarr and Olympic bronze medallist in Lasers, Michael Blackburn, who is coaching Laser Standard Rig sailor Tom Burton and a group of other NSW sailors.
After eight races in the Standard Rig (Olympic class) division, Burton heads the leader board with a net 11 points after a third and a second place yesterday. On 15 points is another NSW sailor Ashley Brunning on 15 points who also had a second and a third.
However, honours on the day went to Singapore sailor Colin Cheng with two wins, but he is still sixth overall.
In the Laser Radial class, still being sailed in two fleets, world champion Tristan Brown from Western Australia had two firsts yesterday to hold a one point lead over Victorian Thomas Vincent who also won both races in his fleet.
Third overall on 11 points is another WA sailor, Mark Spearman, who had two seconds.
Best placed Tasmanian is Rohan Langford who is 14th overall who finished fifth in both races.
Heading the Laser 4.7 division is Australian champion Jack Felsenthal from Victoria continued to dominate the results, yesterday adding to more wins to his early five first places.
He is on a net nine points, a margin of 17 points over his nearest rivals, leading junior Conor Nicholas (WA) on 26 points and Sam Hannah (Vic) on 29 points.
Top placed Tasmanian is Ed Hargreaves who had a seventh and 17th place today to be 14th overall in the 40-boat fleet. In 18th place is Gabriel Morrison.
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