2014 Melges 20 World Championship - Countdown begins
by Melges 20 on 20 Aug 2014
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2014 Melges 20 World Championship - In less than two weeks, the commencement of the second Audi Melges 20 World Championship will take place with a record-breaking entry of 55 teams expected to participate in the four-day racing affair. The Italian fleet is the largest in attendance with additional representation from Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Monaco, Russia and the United States.
As of late, Riva del Garda has been the center of International Melges Class racing. The Audi Melges 20 held its fourth act of the 2014 Audi-Tron Sailing Series in Riva during late July. The World Championship is organized by B.Plan Sports and Events and Fraglia Vela Riva, with the full support and coordination of Melges Europe and the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association (IAM20CA). It will serve as the fifth and final event of the Melges 20 Audi-Tron Sailing Series in 2014.
With a quick review of the entry roster, who will be the next World Champion is difficult to predict. The winner of a World Championship by definition is one who defies conventional logic and dynamics, handles intense concentration and management of psychological pressure to deliver consistency in performance. These factors make anything possible, and for certain will add new stories to the already prestigious, on-going legacy that is the Audi Melges 20.
However, there are the standouts and among them are reigning World Champion John Taylor on Ninkasi, current World Ranking leader Wes Whitmyer on Slingshot, current European Ranking leader and International Class Chairman Manfredi Vianini Tolomei on Maolca, and North American Ranking leader Richard Davies on Section 16. Other potential teams to beat (but certainly not limited to) include Guido Miani's Monaco Racing Fleet in pole position who won Sailing Series Act No. Four last month in Riva, Audi-Tron Series leader and former Gold Cup Champion Dario Levi on Fremito D'Arja, Pasquale Orofino's Raffica, and Achille Onorato on Mascalzone Latino Jr.
And, then there are the great underdogs who are more than worth cheering for. Russ Lucas on Shimmer, Paul Reilly on Red Sky, 2014 Russian Open Champion Valentin Zavadnikov on Synergy, Alexandr Ezhkov's Pirogovo Sailing, Mirko de Falco's Peccere, Francesco Farnetti on ITA-157 and Alessandro Rombelli's STIG all have the potential to be the next World Champion of the Audi Melges 20 Class.
Another exciting notable as the championship draws close is the attendance of 11-year-old Liam Kilroy. Earlier in 2014, the North American fleet welcomed the young son of 2013 U.S. National Champion John Kilroy, to the competitive ring. He will race his Audi Melges 20 Wildman in his first World Championship ever.
2014 Audi Melges 20 World Championship Current Entries:
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Sail Number |
Yacht Name |
Owner's Name |
Home Port |
Yacht Type |
Length |
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1. |
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ITA 205 |
3menda |
Federico Albano |
La Spezia, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
2. |
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CZE 180 |
Aloha |
Jan Kuchar |
Prague, Czech rep, CZE |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
3. |
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RUS 36 |
Anna |
Maxim Logutenko |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
4. |
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RUS 7 |
ANYWAYANYDAY |
Kirill Podolsky |
RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
5. |
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ITA 106 |
Asante Sana Sailing Team |
Claudio Dutto |
Riva del Garda, Trento, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
6. |
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ITA 124 |
Audi G-Tron F.lli Giacomel |
Riccardo Simoneschi |
Milano, MI, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
7. |
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CAN 170 |
Batteries 4 Bacio |
Rhonda Joyce |
Toronto, Ont, CAN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
8. |
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USA 231 |
Blind Squirrel |
John Brown |
Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
9. |
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ITA 149 |
CAMAY |
Lauro Bonora |
Ferrara, Ferrara, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
10. |
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ITA 027 |
Chimera |
Gambardella / Cupane / Candela |
Palermo, Palermo, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
11. |
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JPN 277 |
Contious |
Norikatsu Aizawa |
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, JPN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
12. |
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MON 81 |
Customly |
Corrado Agusta |
Monaco, MON |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
13. |
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GER 135 |
Fantastichina |
Fritz Homann |
München, BY, GER |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
14. |
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RUS 262 |
Fly or die |
Denis Lankin |
RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
15. |
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ITA 50 |
Fremito D'arja |
Dario Levi |
London, England, GBR |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
16. |
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ITA 181 |
Hanneken |
Simone Anichini |
Florence, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
17. |
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GER 164 |
Hellcat |
Juergen Fuchs |
Munich, Bavaria, GER |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
18. |
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ITA 157 |
ITA 157 |
Francesco Farneti |
Rimini, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
19. |
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RUS 047 |
Kotyara |
Oleg Evdokimenko |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
20. |
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ITA 107 |
Leviathan |
Davide Albertini Petroni |
Milano, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
21. |
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MON 108 |
Lucifer |
Matteo Marenghi Vaselli |
Fontvieille, MON |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
22. |
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JPN 271 |
Mamma Aiuto! |
Naofumi Kamei |
Tokio, Baleares, JPN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
23. |
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ITA 167 |
Maolca |
Manfredi Vianini Tolomei |
Milan, Italy, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
24. |
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GER 204 |
Maroi |
Jan Kowalski |
München, BY, GER |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
25. |
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ITA 23 |
Mascalzone Latino |
Achille Onorato |
Milano, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
26. |
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ITA 192 |
Mezza Luna |
Marco Franchini |
ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
27. |
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MON 333 |
Monaco Racing Fleet |
Guido Miani |
Monaco, MON |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
28. |
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MON 104 |
Money Time |
Philippe Pizzichini |
Monaco, MON |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
29. |
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AUT 159 |
N.N. |
Klaus Schober |
Zell am See, AUT |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
30. |
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USA 1315 |
Ninkasi |
John Taylor |
Jupiter, FL, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
31. |
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RUS 173 |
Ost Legal |
Vladimir Lipavsky |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
32. |
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RUS 44 |
Ottobre Rosso |
Artem Kuznetsov |
RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
33. |
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ITA 112 |
Peccere' |
Mirko de Falco |
Napoli, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
34. |
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RUS 2 |
PIRogovo Sailing |
Alexandr Ezhkov |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
35. |
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ITA 136 |
Raffica |
Pasquale Orofino |
Naples, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
36. |
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USA 14 |
Red Sky Sailing Team |
Paul Reilly |
Chicago, IL, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
37. |
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RUS 265 |
Russotrans |
Yuriy Morozov |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
38. |
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ITA 189 |
Sailing Lab |
Andrea Bruschi |
Codogno, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
39. |
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USA 13131 |
Samba Pa Ti |
John Kilroy |
Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
40. |
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USA 276 |
Section 16 |
richard Davies |
Winnetka, IL, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
41. |
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USA 008 |
Shimmer |
Russ Lucas |
Bay Head, NJ, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
42. |
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ITA 206 |
Shimmer (2) |
Christof Petter |
Bad Goisern, Öberösterreich, AUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
43. |
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USA 217 |
Slingshot |
Wes Whitmyer Jr |
Stamford, CT, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
44. |
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JPN 233 |
Sokokumaru |
Sumio Shimoyama |
Tokyo, JPN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
45. |
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ITA 154 |
Spirit of Nerina |
Mirko Bargolini |
Albavilla, Como, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
46. |
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ITA 65 |
STIG |
Alessandro Rombelli |
Milano, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
47. |
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MON 13 |
Synergy |
Valentine Zavadnikov |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
48. |
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ITA 125 |
T2R |
Tommaso Pavan |
Vicenza, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
49. |
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ITA 137 |
Tachicardia |
Michele Dandolo |
Napoli, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
50. |
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ITA 158 |
Tomahawk |
Stefano Santucci |
Roma, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
51. |
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ITA 220 |
Turnover |
Renato Vallivero |
mongrando, biella, ITA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
52. |
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DEN 150 |
upupup |
Bo Boje Pedersen |
Copenhagen, DEN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
53. |
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RUS 25 |
Versya |
Anatoly Karachinskiy |
Moscow, RUS |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
54. |
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CAN 222 |
Wild Deuces |
Paul Currie |
Toronto, Ont, CAN |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
55. |
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USA 311 |
Wildman |
Liam Kilroy |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
Audi Melges 20 |
20 |
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