Santander City Trophy - British sailors secure golden double

by Lindsey Bell on 15 Sep 2013 At the Santander City Trophy on Saturday (14 September) British sailors secured a golden double with Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark adding the 470 women’s title to the 470 men’s crown secured day early by Luke Patience and Joe Glanfield on Friday.

Sophie Weguelin and Eilidh McIntyre made it a second step on the podium in the women’s double-handed class, finishing second in the medal race behind their teammates to take bronze at this test regatta for the 2014 World Championships.

Patience and Glanfield had already amassed enough points to sail a pressure-free medal race on Saturday, and drew a line under the regatta with a second place in the ten-boat medal race, but the fight for gold was very much on in the women’s division.

The 2012 silver medallists Mills and Clark, competing in just their second event after a post-Olympic break, got the better of the Austrian series leaders on the second lap of their ten-boat double points medal race to take the race victory and with it the regatta title.

'The plan was to stick quite close to the Austrians in the pre-start, get to the windward mark and see where we were and what needed to be done,' explained the 34-year-old Clark.

'We were actually just a bit behind the Austrians at that point in time, so we just kept our options open for the next upwind. We had an opportunity to get across them and actually they made a big loss so that gave us the boats between us that we needed.'

'It’s always nice to win an event – especially an international one,' added Mills.

'To be honest, Sas and I are just finding our rhythm again really. It’s taking a bit longer than we’d have hoped it would take, but definitely the last part of this week we’ve really felt like we’ve made steps forward again in getting back towards where we were last summer, so it’s been a really positive event for us regardless of the outcome.'

With the competition season now coming to an end, the 25-year-old Cardiff sailor feels there are plenty more gains to be made over their winter training period.

'We’ve got a good couple of months now to actually get some training in and really establish our equipment for next year and where we want to go with that, but also get our teamwork back up to where it was last summer. We’re definitely on a good route for that now and we just need to keep it going over the winter.'

For Weguelin and McIntyre, their bronze medal rounds off a successful first season for the new team, which includes two World Cup podium finishes and a European Championship bronze.

'It’s been a great event – we’re really happy to have been out here and have the chance to race in these waters,' the 24-year-old Weguelin explained. 'We’re really pleased to come away with a bronze medal.
'Next year’s going to be really exciting,' added McIntyre.

'I just think [as a team] we have a really good dynamic and we understand each other quite well. We’ve got quite a good feel of the boat so we work together really nicely and have a really good conversation and flow as we’re sailing along. And we have fun, which is pretty key!'

There’ll be more medal race action for the British Sailing Team on Sunday’s final day of this Santander City Trophy, with Nick Thompson assured of a podium finish in the Laser division.

The points couldn’t be closer, with the three-time World Championship medallist in a three-way tussle for gold with Sweden’s Jesper Stalheim and Guatemala’s Juan Ignacio Maegli with the medals to be determined by their finishing order tomorrow.

Podium Potential duo Alex Mills Barton and Martin Evans will head into the medal race in fourth and fifth respectively.

Ben Saxton and Hannah Diamond will head into the final Nacra 17 medal race in equal first with Austria’s Thomas Zajac and Tanya Frank, with fellow British Sailing Team crews Rupert White-Nikki Boniface, Lucy Macgregor-Tim Carter and Pippa Wilson-John Gimson occupying the third to fifth places in the multihull leaderboard with one day to go.

In the windsurfing events, Bryony Shaw and Nick Dempsey have both advanced into the podium positions each with a first and a second from their two RS:X races today. Shaw is in overall second, 12 points behind series leader Charline Picon, while Dempsey is third, four points behind silver, and four points from fourth.

Chloe Martin picked up another race win and a ninth to head into the Laser Radial medal race in bronze medal position, with Hannah Snellgrove also qualifying in seventh.

Medal racing on Sunday 15 September kicks off at 1100 (local time).

The 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander will form part of the country qualification process for the 2016 Olympic Games.

470 Men

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	GBR 863	Luke Patience	41	6	USA 1713	Stuart McNay	101
2	FIN 7	Joonas Lindgren	68	7	FRA 44	Pierre Leboucher	104
3	SWE 349	Anton Dahlberg	81	8	GER 10	Ferdinand Gerz	105
4	FRA 27	Sofian Bouvet	87	9	JPN 4421	Kazuto Doi	111
5	RUS 7	Vladimir Chaus	97	10	POR 1	Gonçalo Nunes	113

 

470 Women

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	GBR 118	Hannah Mills	30	6	EST 20	Marjaliisa Umb	61
2	AUT 431	Lara Vadlau	35	7	NED 216	Afrodite Kyranakou	67
3	GBR 862	Sophie Wegelin	39	8	BRA 18	Renata Decnop	67
4	USA 1712	Annie Haeger	51	9	POL 11	Agnieszka Skrzypulec	70
5	SWE 348	Lisa Ericson	59	10	FRA 9	Camille Lecointre	83

 

49er

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	ESP 900	Diego Botin	30	4	ESP 800	Victor Paya	40
2	USA 1281	Frederick Strammer	36	5	AUT 192	Benjamin Bildstein	41
3	JPN 81	Yukio Makino	38

 

49er FX

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	JPN 611	Chika Hatae	12	2	AUT 911	Laura Schöfegger	36

 

Finn

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	NZL 24	Josh Junior	13	4	RUS 9	Eduard Skornyakov	34
2	ESP 7	Alejandro Muscat	26	5	BRA 109	Pedro Henrique Trouche de Souza	47
3	RUS 57	Terpigorev Egor	29	6	ESP 755	Victor Gorostegui	57

 

Laser

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	SWE 204666	Jesper Stålheim	19	6	AUS 199014	Ashley Brunning	49
2	GUA 192384	Juan Ignacio Maegli	19	7	EST 203724	Karl-Martin Rammo	53
3	GBR 201402	Nick Thompson	21	8	SWE 204437	Emil Cedergardh	60
4	GBR 203084	Alex Mills Barton	43	9	CZE 192589	Martin Trcka	60
5	GBR 205648	Martin Evans	49	10	TUN 4	Akrout Youssef	63

 

Laser Radial

Pos.	Sail Number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sal Number	Crew	Total points
1	JPN 199066	Manami Doi	18	6	UKR 204534	Sofiia Larycheva	49
2	TUR 201111	Cagla Donertas	25	7	GBR 202551	Hannah Snellgrove	51
3	GBR 201124	Chloe Martin	40	8	CZE 196989	Marketa Audyova	55
4	VEN 191954	Daniela Rivera	44	9	RUS 203245	Elena Vorobeva	56
5	SWE 200696	Josefin Olsson	48	10	TUR 202353	Pinar Kaynar	56

 

Nacra 17

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	AUT 035	Thomas Zajac	20	6	SUI 041	Matías Bühler	53
2	GBR 2	Ben Saxton	20	7	AUT 034	Maria Kotnig	55
3	GBR 14	Rupert White	29	8	ESP 20	Elisabet Llargués	72
4	GBR 56	Lucy Macgregor	36	9	RUS 164	Sergey Dzhienbaev	72
5	GBR 58	Pippa Wilson	37	10	VEN 168	Yamil Saba	73

 

RS:X Men

Pos.	Sail Number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail Number	Crew	Total points
1	NED 8	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	20	6	FRA 77	Pierre Le coq	55
2	FRA 6	Julien Bontemps	33	7	FRA 155	Louis GIARD	70
3	GBR 1	Nick Dempsey	37	8	ESP 36	Mateo Sanz Lanz	70
4	ESP 7	Ivan Pastor Lafuente	41	9	POR 75	Joao Rodrigues	83
5	JPN 11	Makoto Tomizawa	51	10	ESP 8	Juan Manuel Moreno	88,2

 

RS:X Women

Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points	Pos.	Sail number	Crew	Total points
1	FRA 4	Charline Picon	18	6	ISR 5	Maayan Davidovich	52
2	GBR 94	Bryony Shaw	30	7	ITA 46	Flavia Tartaglini	81
3	ESP 1	Blanca Manchón	35	8	NZL 8	Natalia Kosinska	84
4	FRA 22	Eugénie Ricard	36	9	GBR 30	Isobel Hamilton	97
5	GER 13	Moana Delle Delle	45	10	THA 57	Siripon Kaewduang-ngam	99

 

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