Tornado World Championship - Plenty of chances to win or lose

by Roland Gaebler on 7 Oct 2013

Team Gaebler in action Martina Barnetova

At the Tornado World Championship, we had one of the best sailing conditions ever. 10 races with winds between six and 25 knots. Every race day had its own tactical challenge with plenty of chances to win or lose a race. On the first thee days the racing was also combined with big waves, which creates high jumps on the Tornadoes.

Team Gaebler in action at the Tornado Worlds Ibiza © Martina Barnetova

Sometimes the boats were out of control and the 32 Teams from 10 Nations had a lot of emotional moments and some crashes. Our Team had a difficult start at the Championship. The heavy gusts in the beginning were quite challenging for us too. But with two wins in the last final races it can’t end better for us. It was real sailracing at its best!

We are very happy to win the Mixed Worlds title and the Open Vice title again. After our victory at the Open and Mixed European Championship this year on Lake Constance in May, this fantastic racing in Ibiza is a real happy end of the season 2013.

Team Gaebler in action © Martina Barnetova

We sailed in front of the wonderful City Santa Eularia. The city and the club did their very best to serve us with a fabulous hospitality and a great race management. Each course they put the race-area was in the in the perfect place to deliver fair racing.

In many races we end up in a very fair racing duel with the Greek Team Jordanis Paschalides/Kostas Trigonis. In the beginning of the series they won a lot of races and it was looking they were unbeatable. With two race victories at the end, we went a bit closer to them. But they took their lead to win the title.

Team Gaebler in action © Martina Barnetova

For sure it was one of the best Championship the Tornado Class ever had. Ibiza is not only party life, it’s one of the best sailing places in Europe too! Next year we have the Worlds in Perth/Australia in December and the Europeans in Travemuende in July 2013.

Results

Pos	Nº.Vela	Patrón	Tripulación	Federación	Categoría	1	2	3	4	5	Puntos
1	GRE-7	IORDANIS PASCHALIDIS	KONSTANTINOS TRIGONIS	GREECE	OPEN	1	2	1	1	1	4
2	GER-1	ROLAND GAEBLER	NAHID GAEBLER	GERMANY	MIXED	5	3	3	4	4	14
3	AUS-328	BRETT BURVILL	FARIS AZNAN	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	4	6	2	3	7	15
4	CZE-686	DAVID KRIZEK	ZDENEK ADAM	CZECH REPUBLIC	OPEN	3	8	4	5	6	18
5	GER-2	MAKUS BETZ	NIKOLAS BETZ	GERMANY	OPEN	6	4	6	6	5	21
6	SUI-232	JEAN-MARC CUANILLON	GUDRUN KOLB	SWITZERLAND	MIXED	11	5	8	10	8	31
7	GER-100	JOSEF GUNKEL	DAVID GUNKEL	GERMANY	OPEN	7	7	5	17	13	32
8	AUS-325	ALLAN GAMBLE	KIM NICHOLAS	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	8	9	7	14	10	34
9	GRE-11	NIKOLAOS MAUROS	ALEXANDROS TAGAROPOULOS	GREECE	OPEN	2	1	31 DNC	31 DNC	2	36
10	FRA-294	JEAN CARON	THOMAS JULES	FRANCE	OPEN	31 DNC	11	13	9	15	48
11	GER-69	DIETER MAURER	KATRIN OLDENBURG	GERMANY	MIXED	10	13	9	20	18	50
12	AUT-372	MICHAEL SCHÖNLEITNER	PHILIPP RAKUSCHAN	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	16	14	11	9	50
13	GRE-77	MARIA TSAOUSIDOU	MICHAEL PAPADOPOULOS	GREECE	MIXED	12	31 DNC	10	12	16	50
14	AUS-326	PAUL RAYMOND	STEPHEN HERMANSON	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	9	17	31 DNF	15	11	52
15	AUS-8	PAUL PETERSON	PHIL PETERSON	AUSTRALIA	OPEN	19	31 DNC	15	7	12	53
16	ESP-211	JÜRGEN JENTSCH	SARAH STEIMER KLEES	SPAIN	MIXED	17	20	12	16	14	59
17	AUT-377	MANFRED SCHÖNLEITNER	GEORG HIRSCH-STRONSTORFF	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	15	11	8	31 DNC	65
18	ITA-8	MATTEO FERRAGLIA	LORENZO BIANCHINI	ITALY	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 OCS	2	3	67
19	GBR-415	MICHAELA DOWLEY	ANDREW DOWLEY	GREAT BRITAIN	MIXED	14	18	31 DNF	13	31 DNF	76
20	GBR-424	LEE HARRISON	PAUL HARRISON	GREAT BRITAIN	OPEN	18	21	18	21	19	76
21	AUS-226	STEFAN BERNSDORF	CHRISTINE MYERS	AUSTRALIA	MIXED	15	22	21	23	31 DNC	81
22	GER-4	WILFRIED JODORF	STEFAN LIPPERT	GERMANY	OPEN	31 DNC	14	19	22	31 DNC	86
23	CZE-62	ZDENEK PAVLIS	MICHAELA PAVLISOVA	CZECH REPUBLIC	MIXED	31 DNC	12	22	24	31 DNF	89
24	GER-947	WILHELM GUGGENMOS	ALEXANDER MAIER	GERMANY	OPEN	16	23	20	31 DNC	31 DNF	90
25	ESP-11	VICENTE AMENGUAL RIBAS	NEUS TORRES RAMIS	SPAIN	MIXED	20	19	31 DNC	31 DNC	20	90
26	AUT-379	DOMINIK KOPP	FLORIAN KOPP	AUSTRIA	OPEN	31 DNC	10	31 DNF	19	31 DNC	91
27	GER-44	INGO GEBHARDT	CLAUS LUGER	GERMANY	OPEN	13	31 DNC	16	31 DNC	31 DNC	91
28	GBR-431	STEVE CLYNN	TOM DUCKMANTON	GREAT BRITAIN	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	17	18	31 DNC	97
29	GER-99	KLAUS ROCHOLL	SVEN RAUSCH	GERMANY	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 DNF	31 DNC	17	110
30	ESP-19	PHILIPPE DUPIEREUX	MANUEL SCIARRA	SPAIN	OPEN	31 DNC	31 DNC	31 OCS	31 DNC	31 DNC	124