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Sail-World.com : Tornado World Championship warm-up event
Tornado World Championship warm-up event
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The Tornado New Zealand Nationals are being sailed this weekend at Takapuna. Three weeks from now racing will start off Takapuna Beach for the 2008 Tornado World Championship. 44 entries are confirmed with representatives from 19 different countries coming to North Shore City for this World Championships which doubles as the final Olympic qualifier.
With the Olympic Games now just seven months away this 44 boat Tornado fleet is world class and includes a multitude of Olympic and World Champions and medallists. An important lead-up regatta for those on the road to Qingdao, China the Tornado World Championships has attracted an unprecedented fleet of Olympic multi-hull sailors to New Zealand.
Britain's Olympic representatives, Leigh McMillan and Will Howden head-up a GBR team of Andrew Walsh and Ed Barney, Rob Wilson and Mark Bulkeley, Tom Phipps and Marcus Lynch, and Stephen Medwell and Stuart Offer.
Racing will start on Monday 25 February with a practice race scheduled for Sunday 24th. The regatta concludes with the crowning of the new Tornado World Champions on Saturday 1 March.
The Tornado catamaran has been an Olympic class since its debut in 1976 and is touted as the fastest production catamaran in the world. Fast and spectacular the Tornado World Championship regatta off Takapuna Beach promises to be an exciting spectacle.
The current entry list for the 2008 Tornado World Championships has been published, currently there are 46 crews entered and organisers expect this to increase as the start date of the event 22 February 2008, approaches.
Bow numbers will be allocated in order of ISAF World Rankings as of 20 January 2008.
The Tornado Nationals are being sailed this weekend, at Takapuna, an entry of 12-15 crews are expected.
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2008 WORLD TORNADO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
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RACE ENTRY DETAILS |
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As at 29 Jan 2008 |
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Nation |
Sail # |
Skipper |
ISAF Rank |
Crew |
| 1 |
AUS |
8 |
Darren Bundock |
1 |
Glenn Ashby |
| 2 |
ESP |
1 |
Fernando Echavarri |
2 |
Anton Paz |
| 3 |
GER |
7 |
Johannes Polgar |
4 |
Florian Spalteholy |
| 4 |
GBR |
436 |
Leigh McMillan |
6 |
Will Howden |
| 5 |
CAN |
7 |
Oskar Johansson |
7 |
Kevin Stittle |
| 6 |
NED |
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Mitch Booth |
8 |
Pim Nieuwenhuis |
| 7 |
RUS |
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Kirilyuk Andrey |
9 |
Ushkov Valeriy |
| 8 |
AUT |
3 |
Roman Hagan |
10 |
Hans Peter Steinacher |
| 9 |
FRA |
5 |
Billy Besson |
13 |
Arnaud Jarlegan |
| 10 |
ESP |
23 |
Tony Rivas |
14 |
Fabian Escude |
| 11 |
USA |
808 |
John Lovell |
16 |
Charlie Ogletree |
| 12 |
GBR |
447 |
Andrew Walsh |
17 |
Edward Barney |
| 13 |
ITA |
257 |
Francesco Marcolini |
18 |
Edoardo Bianchi |
| 14 |
GBR |
7 |
Rob Wilson |
19 |
Mark Bulkeley |
| 15 |
GER |
1 |
Roland Gaebler |
20 |
Gunnar Struckmann |
| 16 |
PUR |
1 |
Enrique Figueroa |
21 |
Jorge Hernandez |
| 17 |
AUT |
8 |
Thomas Zajac |
22 |
Thomas Czajka |
| 18 |
BEL |
7 |
Carolijn Brouyer |
23 |
Sebastien Godefroid |
| 19 |
DEN |
1 |
Allan Norregaard |
27 |
Michael Risoer |
| 20 |
GBR |
5 |
Chris Rashley |
28 |
(Withdrawn) |
| 21 |
RUS |
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Dzhienbaev Sergey |
29 |
Semenov Maxim |
| 22 |
UKR |
11 |
Pavlo Kalynchev |
30 |
Andriy Shanfranyuk |
| 23 |
ARG |
1 |
Santiago Lange |
32 |
Carlos Espinola |
| 24 |
NZL |
70 |
David Mead |
33 |
Chris Burgess |
| 25 |
NZL |
121 |
Aaron McIntosh |
37 |
Mark Kennedy |
| 26 |
NZL |
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Bruce Kendall |
40 |
Blair Tuke |
| 27 |
BRA |
7 |
Bruno Di Bernardi |
43 |
Mario Tinoco |
| 28 |
GBR |
3 |
Tom Phipps |
45 |
Marcus Lynch |
| 29 |
POL |
1 |
Piotr Kowalewski |
50 |
Maciey Klosowicz |
| 30 |
NZL |
74 |
David Shaw |
58 |
Susan Shaw |
| 31 |
CHN |
58 |
You Jia Lao |
61 |
Xiu Ke Chen |
| 32 |
GER |
17 |
Eckart Kaphengst |
72 |
Rasmus Topsch |
| 33 |
NZL |
84 |
Rex Sellers |
77 |
Nigel Williams |
| 34 |
GBR |
406 |
Stephen Medwell |
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Stuart Offer |
| 35 |
AUS |
305 |
Alan Gamble |
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Kim Nicholas |
| 36 |
AUS |
O13 |
Rohan Langworthy |
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Jack Punch Benson |
| 37 |
AUS |
322 |
Brett Burvill |
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Ryan Duffield |
| 38 |
NZL |
77 |
Paul Francis |
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Aaron Duncan |
| 39 |
AUS |
300 |
Damien Ford |
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Mark Edmonds |
| 40 |
AUS |
285 |
Paul Peterson |
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Matt Thackray |
| 41 |
NZL |
86 |
William Caunce |
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Liam Blair-Caunce |
| 42 |
NZL |
1 |
Brett Sellers |
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Peter Fyfe |
| 43 |
AUS |
287 |
Paul Raymond |
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Nicholas Raymond |
| 44 |
GER |
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Justus Wolf |
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| 45 |
CHN |
1 |
Bo Lin |
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Shanfeng Yang |
| 46 |
CHN |
2 |
An Jie Lu |
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Xue Hai Zhuang |
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by Janet Watkins, Takapuna BC
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