World leaders prevail in first day of 470 Euros

by Event Media on 13 Jun 2006 The first day of racing has concluded in the Nissan 470 Eurpoean Championships being sailed in Hungary.

Two New Zealand crews are competing - the Keen brothers from Christchurch who lie in 37th place overall after two races, and Geoff Wooolley and Mark Overington who are 53rd overall.

The participants competed in two races; males compete in three groups (White, Blue and Pink), while females in two groups (White and Pink) because of the high number of competitors.

There were no great surprises, in case of both men and women the world leaders took the leading positions.

In the women’s event, after two races the pair Stefanie Rothweiler – Vivien Kussatz is leading, who won both competitions today in the Blue group. The British pair leading the world rank, Christina Bassadone – Saskia Clark finished second, both times, in the White Group, therefore, overall, they have the second place. The third place is occupied by the Japanese crew, Ai Kondo-Midori Ikemoto, who won the second race in the White group. The European Champion French unit, Ingrid Petitjean-Nadège Douroux, is the sixth for the time being.


In the men’s competitions the Italian pair, Enrico Fonda - Marco Guerra, won the first race in the Pink group by confident sailing and as they finished second in the second run, they are the current overall leaders. The Slovenian couple Tomaz Copi-Aljaz Jadek is second and the Argentin Javier Conte-Juan de la Fuente are third.

The result of the Hungarian unit, Sallai Gábor-Olosz Dávid, could only be mentioned, however they performed a fairly weak start in the first race and could not achieve substantial advantage later but their performance in the second run, reaching the sixth place, could be evaluated as good.

The couple D’Albini András-Szépfy Zsombor can also be mentioned; they sailed in the fourth-fifth place in the first race but finally they finished in the twelvth place. The second race did not work well for them, therefore they are currently the overall 72th. Unfortunately one Hungarian crew (Cserép Csongor-Brencsán Dávid) was remonstrated for early start and another one (Sipos Ágoston-Damokos Attila) was forced to give up the second race due to technical difficulties.

According to the newly introduced rules the members of the different groups will be drawn again on Tuesday; this rule allows the participants to compete with different opponents. If the weather is good there will be again two races, starting from 10 a.m.



Source: www.470euro.com

Balatonfüred-HUNGARY, 10-18 JUNE 2006
OPEN NISSAN CUP 470 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

After 2 Races

Sailed:2, Discards:0, To count:2, Ratings:None, Entries:112, Scoring system:My scoring system
Rank	SailNo	Helm	Crew	Q1	Q2	Total	Nett
1st	ITA 7	Enrico FONDA	Marco GUERRA	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
2nd	SLO 141	Tomaz COPI	Aljaz JADEK	3.0	2.0	5.0	5.0
3rd	ARG 70	Javier CONTE	Juan de la FUENTE	2.0	5.0	7.0	7.0
4th	FRA 24	Ronan DREANO	Ronan FLOCH	4.0	3.0	7.0	7.0
5th	FRA 11	Benjamin BONNAUD	Romain BONNAUD	3.0	4.0	7.0	7.0
6th	ESP 9293	Marc PATINO	Juan OMAR	1.0	8.0	9.0	9.0
7th	ITA 2	Gabrio ZANDONA	Andrea TRANI	3.0	7.0	10.0	10.0
8th	ARG 61	Matias BUHLER	Marcos LAMAS	10.0	1.0	11.0	11.0
8th	FRA 8	Fabian DELAHAYE	Etienne BOSSE	10.0	1.0	11.0	11.0
10th	UKR 27	Andriy KLOCHKO	Oleksandr KAPUSTIN	8.0	3.0	11.0	11.0
11th	RUS 2	Mikhail SHEREMETYEV	Maxim SHEREMETYEV	11.0	2.0	13.0	13.0
12th	POR 22	Alvaro MARINHO	Miguel NUNES	2.0	11.0	13.0	13.0
13th	FRA 7	Nicolas CHARBONNIER	Oliver BAUSSET	9.0	4.0	13.0	13.0
14th	AUS 361	Mathew BELCHER	Nick BEHRENS	6.0	7.0	13.0	13.0
15th	FRA 44	Pierre LABOUCHER	Vincent GAROS	14.0	1.0	15.0	15.0
16th	ISR 7	Gideon KLIGER	Udi GAL	9.0	6.0	15.0	15.0
17th	RUS 4	Dimitry BEREZKIN	Alexander ZYBIN	2.0	14.0	16.0	16.0
18th	CRO 83	Sime FANTELA	Igor MARENIC	12.0	4.0	16.0	16.0
19th	ITA 11	Fabio ZENI	Nicola PITANTI	11.0	5.0	16.0	16.0
20th	FRA 17	Alexandre PALLU	Aymeric CHAPPLIER	8.0	8.0	16.0	16.0
21st	GBR 822	John GIMSON	Sheena CARIG	15.0	3.0	18.0	18.0
22nd	GER 4964	Christopher LORENZ	Friedrich GEBERT	7.0	11.0	18.0	18.0
23rd	ITA 4390	Alfredo CAPODANNO	Guglielmo GIORDANO	4.0	15.0	19.0	19.0
24th	AUT 3	Matthias SCHMID	Florian REICHSTEADER	7.0	12.0	19.0	19.0
25th	AUS 311	Nathan WILMOT	Malcom PAGE	6.0	14.0	20.0	20.0
26th	GRE 182	Georgios VASILAS	E. Vasilios MITAKIS	14.0	7.0	21.0	21.0
27th	TUR890	Deniz CINAR	Ates CINAR	12.0	9.0	21.0	21.0
28th	NED 8	Bart PEETERS	Olivier BAKKER	13.0	11.0	24.0	24.0
29th	SUI 51	Tobias ETTER	Felix STEIGER	16.0	9.0	25.0	25.0
30th	GBR 826	Luke PATIENCE	Twiggy GRUBE	4.0	22.0	26.0	26.0
31st	ESP 1	Francisco SANCHEZ	Alejandro RAMOS	5.0	21.0	26.0	26.0
32nd	GBR 816	Nick ASHER	Elliot WILLIS	6.0	20.0	26.0	26.0
33rd	NED 1	Sven COSTER	Kalle COSTER	22.0	5.0	27.0	27.0
34th	GER 4931	Lucas ZELLMER	Heiko SEELIG	7.0	20.0	27.0	27.0
35th	GRE 165	Kambouris PANAGIOTIS	Orologas GERASIMOS	5.0	23.0	28.0	28.0
36th	AUS 355	Mathieu HIGGINS	Tim LYNCH	22.0	6.0	28.0	28.0
37th	NZL 201	Stephen KEEN	Philip KEEN	15.0	13.0	28.0	28.0
38th	POL 50	Patryk PIASECKI	Kacper ZIEMINSKI	19.0	10.0	29.0	29.0
38th	ISR 9	Levin EYAL	Amir YAM	19.0	10.0	29.0	29.0
40th	POL 470	Rafal SAWICKI	Piotr SZWOCH	11.0	18.0	29.0	29.0
41st	GRE 131	Andreas KOSMATOPOULOS	Andreas PAPADOPOULOS	16.0	13.0	29.0	29.0
42nd	USA 1734	Mike ANDERSON	David HUGHES	13.0	16.0	29.0	29.0
43rd	HUN 391	Gábor SALLAI	Dávid OLOSZ	24.0	6.0	30.0	30.0
44th	GBR 811	Jonny MACGOVERN	Tom MAPPLEBECK	21.0	9.0	30.0	30.0
45th	CRO 111	Pavle KOSTOV	Petar CUPAC	14.0	16.0	30.0	30.0
46th	GER 4962	Jens LEHMANN	Jochen STEINHAGEN	23.0	8.0	31.0	31.0
47th	ISR 12	Aviv Ben HORIN	Eran SELA	9.0	22.0	31.0	31.0
48th	ESP 9	Onan BAREIROS	Aaron SARMENTO	18.0	13.0	31.0	31.0
49th	GER 77	Morten BOGACKI	Christian LINDEMANN	5.0	27.0	32.0	32.0
50th	UKR 71	Vitaly MOSHKOVSKY	Igor MATIVIYENKO	8.0	24.0	32.0	32.0
51st	AUT 434	Nico HOESS	Benedikt HOESS	20.0	12.0	32.0	32.0
52nd	GRE 136	Mantis PANAGIOTIS	Theodoros POLYCHRONIDIS	17.0	15.0	32.0	32.0
53rd	NZL 198	Geoff WOOLEY	Mark OVERINGTON	19.0	16.0	35.0	35.0
54th	ITA 5	Giulio DESIDERATO	Alessandro SEATTONE	10.0	26.0	36.0	36.0
55th	GER 4944	Patrick FOLLMANN	Nico LUTZ	24.0	14.0	38.0	38.0