49er European and Youth World Championship - Qualifying underway

by Jerelyn Biehl on 11 Sep 2012 At the 49er European and Youth World Championship, two races were held for the first days of Qualifying. Recovering from their epic long distance race held the day before, the 63 boat fleet were split into two groups and sent to two courses on Lake Garda with seemingly two separate winds.  

The yellow fleet seemed to have the better wind and sailed near the eastern side of the lake, near Torbole.  The wind seemed more consistent in strength yet shifty with the sailors still heading to the cliffs off the line. The Alonso brothers of Spain sailed well posting a 1-3 and carrying a one from the previous days long distance race to take the overall lead for the regatta. Also sailing in the yellow fleet, the Polish team of Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski sailed a consistent 2-2 and sit tied for second overall with 13 points. 

Third place are Julian d’Ortoli and Noe Delpech (FRA) who led the blue fleet with a 4-4 after today’s racing.  The blue fleet had much lighter winds and had one race that barely made the time limit as the wind began to die.

Leading the Youth Worlds are Jan Hauke Erichsen and Max Lux (GER) who have been sailing well and posted a 6-11 to put them fifth overall.

Racing continues with one more day of qualifying with the top 25 teams advancing to the finals. The top 12 teams from the Olympic Games receive an automatic invitation to the Gold fleet. The final series will be held in Theatre style with a 4-round knock-out style racing and a Grand Final series to be held on the last day with the final four boats.

Results after 3 Race 10.09.2012

 

Total rank	Competitor	Name	LDR	R2	R3	R4	Σ
1	ESP 9	Federico Alonso Tellechea	1	1	3		5
2	IRL 300	Ryan Seaton	RDG	6	1		10.5
3	POL 042	Lukasz Przybytek	9	2	2		13
4	FRA 8	Julien d'Ortoli	6	3	4		13
5	POL 052	Tomasz Januszewski	7	9	2		18
6	GER 216	Jan Hauke Erichsen	2	6	11		19
7	CRO 113	Pavle Kostov	3	3	13		19
8	FRA 1309	Thomas Ribeaud	2	10	8		20
9	ITA 023	Jacopo Plazzi	14	4	3		21
10	ITA 111	Ruggero Tita	18	7	1		26
11	ITA 058	Dubbini Leonardo	5	17	5		27
12	ESP 1283	Carlos Paz	19	2	7		28
13	ITA 044	Luca Dubbini	4	18	6		28
14	NED 1159	Remy Oomens	10	14	4		28
15	SWE 1270	Charlie Ekberg Enlund	5	1	24		30
16	ITA 040	Andrea Savio	1	17	13		31
17	FRA 114	Mathieu Frei	16	9	7		32
18	RUS 945	Pavel Kalinchev	20	4	9		33
19	GER 1155	Philipp Kramer	3	14	18		35
20	ESP 1167	Alfredo Gonzalez	13	10	12		35
21	GER 1211	Tim Elsner	7	5	24		36
22	GER 1260	Tom Lange	11	18	10		39
23	ITA 1256	Stefano Cherin	4	20	17		41
24	GER 1150	Justus Schmidt	8	29	5		42
25	SWE 1219	Carl P Sylvan	26	7	10		43
26	AUS 1287	James Sly	6	15	25		46
27	ESP 986	Diego Botin	24	8	14		46
28	USA 1222	Ryan Pesch	21	22	6		49
29	AUS 1189	David Gilmour	24	8	17		49
30	GBR 1027	James McIntosh	8	11	31		50
31	ITA 1107	David Bondi	18	22	11		51
32	BEL 1232	Yannick Lefebvre	13	15	23		51
33	ESP 1122	Victor Paya Canal	25	13	15		53
34	IRL 1191	Ross Vaughan	15	16	22		53

 

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