Palamos Christmas Race - 30 Anniversary

by Jaume Soler on 28 Dec 2005 The 30th edition of the Christmas Race has started today in Palamós with N winds, 8 to 14 knots, with the schedule of the first days races completed. Spanish teams are in the lead in classes Tornado, 470 men and 470 women.

The great attraction of this Palamós-Christmas Race are the current Tornado class World and Europe champions and number 1 ranking list sailors Fernando Echavarri/Antón Paz (Movistar). They won today’s three races with no option for the other teams. Spanish teams Toni Rivas/Fabián Escudé (Cambrils a bon port) and team Javier Padrón/Antonio Cuervas were second and third respectively.

In 470 Men, sailors Marc Patiño/Omar Juan are in the lead of the class standings. Second place is for Finnish sailors Lindgren Joonas/Lautianen (Jouko Lindren oy) and third place for Spanish team Francisco Sánchez Ferrer/Alejandro Ramos (Movistar).

Spanish team Marina Gallego/Florence Van Vianen is the leader in the 470 Women's class followed by team Merili Randmaa/Agnes Lill from Estonia and third place the Italian sailors Giulia Conti/Girovanna Micol.

The lead in the Finn class is for Swedish sailor Daniel Birgmark (SKF) followed by two Spanish sailors Alberto Vadell (Malomalote) and Diego Fructuoso (Gargamel).

German brothers Peckolt/Peckolt (T-Systems) are in the lead in the 49er class followed by Portuguese team Jorge Lima/Francisco Andrade (Lusodiete). Third place is for Spanish team Alberto Padrón/Javier de la Plaza (Audi Canarias).

German sailor Arne Berg leads the Europe class followed by Spanish sailors Dani Codina and Ascensión Roca. Europe class European champion Finnish sailor Teemu Rantanen is fourth overall.

The Laser Radial class has German sailor Martje Uecker (Rudolph) leading the overall results, followed by Spanish sailor Silvia Roca and German sailor Janika Puls (Marinepool) in third place.

The Laser class which has the largest number of entries is led by Danish sailor Anders Nyholm, followed by Italian competitors Regolo Michele (Solvin) and Giacomo Bottoli.

North winds, 8 to 15 knots, are forecast for Wednesday, with ground-sea in the outer racing areas. Partly cloudy skies and low temperatures are also forecast.


The 30th edition of the Palamós-Christmas Race can be followed live through the race-on-line on the website http://www.christmasrace.org

Full overall results available at: http://www.christmasrace.org