470 Junior World Championship - 'We love to fight'

by SVG Verlag on 26 Jun 2016 A protest in the evening brings excitement to the men's fleet. The Spanish women’s crew will start starting as title favourites in the Super Sunday Medal Race.

The tension caused by a thunderstorm above Kiel was also evident on shore as the top two teams in the Mens title race meet in the protest room this evening. The Japanese Keiju Okada and Naoya Kimura meet the local heroes Malte Winkel and Matti Cipra for a protest hearing. The outcome is not known yet.

For the top ten of men and women only, the Medal Race will prove who can follow in the wake of the prominent sailors who addressed the young sailors soiree last night, including gold medallists, Kevin Burnham (USA) and Matthew Belcher (Australia) as well as top coach Victor Kovalenko who all answered the questions of the young sailors.

Junior Worlds men: Nothing much changed about the Japanese lead after today races. They are still chased by Winkel/Cipra (Kiel/Germany). But the points differential may change subject to the outcome of tonight’s protest. Meantime Spaain’s favoured Charles brothers from Spain lost their podium place to the title defenders from France. 'At the second start, we were very defensive, because we did not want to risk anything, so we started really late. Then a shift came, that was a disadvantage for us. We have to see, what we can do tomorrow', said Alex Charles.

There is a lot of movement in the top of the fleet, but he point scores are close together. Only the leading team Okada/Kimura could clearly increase their lead to Winkel/Cipra. It is now ten points. The Vice Champions from the previous year would have to cross the finish line five places ahead of the Japanese to become World Champion.

Winkel/Cipra look simply to stay focused and rely on their own game. „We simply sail our race. Each medal is a medal; it doesn't help to put ourselves under pressure. We have proven many times, that we can do it', said crew Cipra. Theoretically the French, Spanish, Italians and Israeli can still win the title.

Junior Worlds women: In the Women’s Fleet the outcome is still not decided. But Spain’s. Silvia Mas and Paula Barcelo have a good lead with 14 points difference and are thus in the favourite position, enhanced by two race wins today.

'But everything can happen in the Medal Race. It will be very important to keep control of the fleet', said Mas. 'We have been in the Medal Race two times already and love it. We love to fight.' On rank two, the French team Marina Lefort and Lara Granier are surprisingly entering the Medal Race.

According to the changes at the top of the fleet, they are also cautiously optimistic: 'It will be complicated', states Lefort. The current Vice Junior World Champion Maria Bozi and Rafailina Klonaridou (Greece) are one point behind the duo from France at the end of the fourth race day. The French female sailors as well as the Greece women could still take the title away from Mas/Barcelo.

Frederike Loewe and Anna Markfort (Germany), who are currently fourth the chances for gold are gone, but they can still get a place on the podium. The current Junior World Champions di Salle/Dubbini (Italy), who are currently on rank five, can only move up to rank four at the best. The Medal Races of the men and women will be sailed on the media race course. The start of the women on Sunday is scheduled for 11:30am, the fleet of the men is supposed to start at 12:15pm.

Results:

470 M JWM: (1/n0)

1. Keiju Okada / Naoya Kimura (JPN,2/1/2/5/7/4/8/1(12)10) Punkte 40
2. Malte Winkel / Matti Cipra (Kiel,1/4/1/2/4/17/10(26)8/3)50
3. Guillaume Pirouelle / Valentin Sipan (FRA,(17)2/3/3/6/9/1/7/16/5)52
4. David Charles / Alex Charles (ESP,4/11/1/4/3/1(24)2/20/8)54
5. Giacomo Ferrari / Giulio Calabro (ITA,7/8/4/1/1/15(19)18/1/2)57
6. Maor Abu / Yoav Rooz (ISR,6/6/6/1/2/8/12(22)4/13)58;

470 W JWM: (10)

1. Silvia Mas Depares / Paula Barcelo Martin (ESP,5/10/1/2/4/2(17)1/14/1) Punkte 40
2. Marina Lefort / Lara Granier (FRA,1/2/10/5/8/14/6/5/3(20))54
3. Maria Bozi / Rafailina Klonaridou (GRE,3/3/4/6/10/3(14)11/9/6)55
4. Frederike Loewe / Anna Markfort (Kiel,4/4/11(31)1/5/7/6/18/7)63
5. Benedetta Di Salle / Alessandra Dubbini (ITA,(24)14/3/4/3/7/13/15/13/5)77
6. Ilaria Paternoster / Bianca Caruso (ITA,12/12/12/11(14)9/8/8/5/3)80;

Kieler Woche (18. until 26. June):

Part 1 (18. until 21. June):

29er, 505, Albin Express, Contender, Europe, Flying Dutchman, Folkboat, F18, Hobie 16, J24, Laser 4.7, Laser Radial (open), Musto Skiff, OK Dinghy.

Part 2 (22. until 26. June):

2.4mR (IGC), 470 (W), 470 (M/both with JWC), 49er, 49er FX, Finn, Laser Radial (W), Laser Std (M), Nacra 17, Sonar (IGC).

Part 2 (23. until 26. June):

Melges 24, J/70 (EC), J/80, 420.

Part 3 - Offshore (18. until 25. June):

Welcome Race 1. race (Sat, 18. June) Kiel-Eckernfoerde, 2. race (Sun, 19. June) Eckernfoerde – Kiel: ORC Club I-IV, Mulithulls 3 classes (>39 ft, 30 up to 39 ft, < 30 ft), Albin Ballad.
Senatspreis (Thu, 23. June): ORC Club I - IV.
Silbernes Band (24. until 25. June): ORC Club I - IV.

Offshore (Seesegel-) IGC (International German Championship):

Long Distance (Sat,18. June, until Sun,19. June): ORCi I - IV.
Kiel-Cup Alpha (Mon, 20. June, until Wed, 22. June): Short races: ORCi I - IV.