Sunfish World Championship - David Mendelblatt leads after 3 races

by ISAF on 18 Oct 2012 At the 2012 Sunfish World Championship, racing out of St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Mendelblatt leads on nine points the 74-boat fleet after three consistent results from the opening races. A fifth in Race 1 was followed up by two second places as he took an early eight point lead.

Following behind is Peru's Alexander Zimmerman who won the third race but a 12th in the opening race of the series sees him trailing the American.

Colombian Olympic Laser sailor Andrey Quintero took the bullet in the second race but like Zimmerman failed to find the consistency of the leader and sits fifth overall and Race 1 victor Andres Eduardo Herkrath (COL) is down in ninth.

Ahead of the Open Worlds, the Youth Worlds took place with a three way tie for first place. The title went to Addison Hackstaff (USA) who had a better series than Nic Baird (USA) who settled for second and Liam McCarthy (USA) who came third.

Sunfish worlds sailor ranking

		Points last year						Points this year
#	Name	Worlds	NA	SA	EU	IM	Points	Worlds	NA	SA	EU	IM	Points	Total
1	Chapman, Rich	77	89	0	0	0	1477	0	94	0	0	97	2865	4342
2	Hanselman, Fritz	52	61	0	0	94	1708	0	82	0	0	93	2625	4333
3	Smith, Malcolm	86	96	0	0	100	2373	0	96	0	0	0	1440	3813
4	Koehler, Jim	0	77	0	0	93	1275	0	77	0	0	83	2400	3675
5	McHenry, Ronald	0	49	0	0	89	1035	0	70	0	0	88	2370	3405
6	Woodman, Eric	0	70	0	0	0	525	0	73	0	0	99	2580	3105
7	Brangiforte, Bill	0	98	0	0	0	735	0	50	0	0	100	2250	2985
8	Katterheinrich, Tom	0	45	0	0	72	877	0	53	0	0	77	1950	2827
9	Kerst, Josh	68	0	0	0	86	1359	0	0	0	0	92	1380	2739
10	Evans, Brent	35	79	0	0	90	1634	0	71	0	0	0	1065	2699

Full rankings list available here.


Sunfish World Championship website