Briton and Norway lead at IFDS Worlds

by Media/G New on 24 Jan 2006 After day four of the 2006 Alcoa IFDS World Disabled Sailing Championships Briton´s Sonar team, John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas, are tied in first place with the German team of Jens Kroker/Schoenberg/Schuetz.

After races six and seven the two leading teams retain their overall positions but the opposition made considerable gains. Jostein Stordhal of Norway won both of the days races and is now fourth overall, five points behind the leading pair. In third ovearall is Australia´s Jamie Dunross and his Royal Perth YC crew of Colin Harrison and Graeme Martin, who are four points off the leaders after a third and second.

In the 2.4mR Bjorner Erikstad of Norway is the new leader after Briton´s Helen Lucas had her worst day so far in the series. Nick Scandone, USA, won the first race from Bruce Millar of Canada with Erikstad third. Lucas was DSQ for the race.

In race two Heiko Kroeger of Germany won with Erikstad taking second and thus the overall lead. Fabrizio Olmi of Italy was in third and Lucas in fourth to finish the day third overall after discarding the mornings result.

Four races remain.

Positions in Sonar after 7 races, 1 discard:
1 GBR702 John Robertson 1 2 5 2 1 [ 9] 6 26 17

2 GER11 Jens Kroker 6 1 2 1 3 4 [ 9] 26 17

3 AUS721 Jamie Dunross 3 5 1 [ 9] 7 3 2 30 21

4 NOR1 Jostein Stordahl 5 4 [ 9] 3 8 1 1 31 22

5 ISR1 Dror Cohen 8 3 3 4 5 7 [ 8] 38 30

6 IRL697 Paul McCarthy 4 9 8 [ 10] 4 5 3 43 33

7 ISR5 Shimon Ben Yakov 10 6 7 5 2 10 [ 17] 57 40

8 AUS621 Peter Thomson 2 [ 12] 10 7 11 8 7 57 45

9 ISR1000 Avi Tzur 9 10 12 12 [ 13] 2 4 62 49

10 CAN644 Ken Kelly 7 11 14 8 6 [ 17] 5 68 51

11 IRL694 JohnTwomey 12 8 4 11 12 6 [ 13] 66 53

12 GRE1 Vasilis Christoforou 11 7 6 [ 17] 10 12 12 75 58

13 AUS716 Stephen Churm 13 13 11 [ 13] 9 11 10 80 67

14 USA732 Jen French 14 [ 17] 13 6 14 13 11 88 71

15 JPN1 Hidehiro Kodaira 16 14 15 14 [ 16] 15 14 104 88

16 SIN99 Tan Wei Qiang Jovin 15 15 17 15 15 14 [ 17] 108 91


Positions in 2.4mR after 7 races, 1 discard:

1 NOR102 Bjornar Erikstad 2 3 [ 19] 2 2 3 2 33 14

2 GER1 Heiko Kroeger 4 2 1 [ 7] 5 6 1 26 19

3 GBR75 Helena Lucas 1 1 2 11 1 [ 20] 4 40 20

4 CAN39 Bruce Millar 6 [ 17] 5 5 4 2 13 52 35

5 CAN99 Paul Tingley 3 6 6 9 9 [ 9] 5 47 38

6 GBR60 Megan Pascoe [ 13] 8 4 1 10 8 9 53 40

7 CAN1 Danny McCoy 8 [ 14] 10 6 3 4 10 55 41

8 NZL1 Andrew May [ 12] 5 11 3 8 11 6 56 44

9 USA114 Nick Scandone 9 9 8 [ 18] 6 1 15 66 48

10 USA109 Roger Cleworth 5 7 3 8 13 12 [ 14] 62 48

11 GBR79 Michael Cogswell 7 11 12 4 [ 16] 10 7 67 51

12 AUS13 Aaron Hill 10 4 7 [ 18] 11 14 12 76 58

13 GRE2 George Delikouras 14 12 13 10 7 5 [ 17] 78 61

14 PUR1 Julio Reguero Hernandez 11 13 9 [ 20] 12 15 11 91 71

15 ITA84 Fabrizio Olmi 20 [ 20] 14 18 14 7 3 96 76

16 AUS21 Rachael Cox 16 15 16 [ 18] 15 16 8 104 86

17 GBR80 Brian Harding 15 10 17 13 18 [ 20] 18 111 91

18 ITA19 Fabio Vignudini 20 [ 20] 15 12 17 13 16 113 93

19 AUS7 Maryanne Ireland 18 20 20 20 [ 20] 17 19 134 114