Laser Radial European Championships - Day 4

by Sail-World/GJN on 15 Jun 2006 Gintare Volungeviciute of Lithuania is tied in a three-way lead in the Women's fleet of the ISAF Grade C1 Laser Radial European Championships in Riccione, Italy. Volungeviciute added a win in the first race before blowing out with an OCS in the final race of the day, she is now tied on points with Evi Van Acker (BEL) and Penny Clark (GBR) - all on 23 points.

The other race winner of the day was Jo Aleh of New Zealand who is in fifth overall.

In the men’s fleet Steven Le Favre (NED) continues to dominate proceedings adding another win and now with a 17 point lead over Timofey Zhbankov (RUS). Rodie Van Mackelenbergh (NED) has moved into third overall ahead of countryman Steven Krol.

Briton's Ross Harvey continued to improve with an eight and fourth to be in sixth overall. Ben Paton (GBR) is in 12 place.

Finals are Thursday and Medal races Friday.

Women - Leading positions after Wednesday, 7 races:

1 LTU 182613 Volungeviciute Gintare 23,0 2 16 1 2 1 1 (ocs)
2 BEL 185785 Van Acker Evi 23,0 4 6 1 4 6 2 (19)
3 GBR 184298 Clark Penny 23,0 3 3 (18) 1 3 8 5
4 ESP 181396 Reyes Lucia 39,0 12 1 (27) 6 3 7 10
5 NZL 177775 Aleh Jo 42,0 11 7 2 6 15 (22) 1
6 CRO 181971 Mihelic Tina 42,0 (30) 3 14 7 8 8 2
7 POL 185617 Szotynska Katarzyna 46,0 6 (40) 9 5 2 9 15
8 USA 183275 Railey Paige 48,0 1 5 4 9 6 23 (ocs)
9 CRO 184759 Petronijevic Matea 48,0 9 (26) 6 8 2 14 9
10 POL 180752 Pic Katarzyna 48,0 9 4 (22) 10 11 10 4
11 AUS 184233 Blanck Sarah 50,0 3 (24) 9 1 7 20 10
12 BLR 186237 Drozdovskaya Tatiana 52,0 15 15 13 3 4 (18) 2
13 GBR 182213 Brewster Andrea 52,0 8 12 6 10 (14) 12 4
14 ITA 182590 Nevierov Larissa 57,0 7 9 12 8 18 (35) 3
15 NOR 186007 Samdal Elin Maria 59,0 15 11 7 16 7 (ocs) 3
16 CZE 182267 Fenclová Veronika 60,0 14 (26) 10 5 14 10 7
17 CAN 182095 Spalding Jennifer 64,0 10 (36) 8 2 11 17 16
18 GBR 186067 Vickers Lizzie 68,0 (20) 10 3 19 17 13 6
19 POL 176711 Gladysz Zuzanna 73,0 14 8 8 4 20 19 (28)
20 AUS 185828 Weir Krystal 74,0 11 7 32 3 8 (ocs) 13

Men - Leading positions after Wednesday, 7 races:

1 NED 158085 Le Fevre Steven 8,0 1 3 1 1 1 1 (8)
2 RUS 176564 Zhbankov Timofey 25,0 (9) 2 3 9 2 3 6
3 NED 177598 V. Mackelenbergh Rodie 34,0 (14) 5 8 4 12 2 3
4 NED 174736 Krol Steven 39,0 3 10 13 3 5 5 (18)
5 ITA 181536 Marino Gianluca 40,0 4 9 2 (19) 9 6 10
6 GBR 182293 Harvey Ross 41,0 11 (23) 4 6 8 8 4
7 ITA 184829 Buchberger Igor 50,0 12 (14) 7 14 6 10 1
8 ITA 179282 Mecozzi Alfredo 51,0 dnf 6 (14) 7 13 11 5
9 NED 180830 Damen Paul 51,0 6 7 12 10 7 (22) 9
10 ITA 176527 Motta Dario 54,0 15 1 17 5 3 13 (ocs)
11 ITA 184963 Crivelli Visconti Uberto 59,0 7 15 5 13 (dnf) 12 7
12 GBR 182523 Paton Ben 61,0 18 8 9 2 (36) 9 15
13 ITA 182121 Meciani Stefano 64,0 8 4 10 24 (25) 4 14
14 CRO 176932 Roki Luka 76,0 5 (22) 11 15 17 16 12
15 ESP 182288 Pardo Galdo Jose Ramon 77,0 17 11 (22) 11 11 7 20
16 NED 183046 Legierse Patrick 78,0 (25) 12 6 8 21 14 17
17 ITA 177971 Montis Marco 88,0 2 (dnf) 21 12 10 dnf 2
18 ITA 181537 Vosa Andrea 89,0 21 16 (25) 18 4 19 11
19 ITA 183511 Lercara Riccardo 102,0 10 (34) 16 20 16 18 22
20 NED 164676 Thomassen Michiel 110,0 19 13 19 (25) 22 21 16