Nissan 470 Europeans - Friday final qualifying

by Sail-World/GJN on 18 Jun 2006 With racing on the final day of qualification reduced to one race, Stefanie Rothweiler and Vivien Kussatz of Germany added another win to lead by 12 points after six races.

Other top places also remained the same. Second are Therese Torgersson and Vendela Zachrisson of Sweden and third Marina Gallego and Laia Tutzo of Spain.


In the men's competition the French Bonnaud brothers have a six point lead over compatriates, Ronan Dreano and Ronan Floch, with Enrico Fonda and Marco Guerra of Italy one point further back in third place.

The two New Zealand crews, Steven and Philip Keen (Christchurch) and Geoff Woolley and Mark Overington lie in 32nd and 45th places overall in the Mens Fleet.

Report from the official website:

Day 6
The weather was merciful to the sailors of the Open Nissan Cup 470 European Championships in Balatonfüred. At 9 am this morning, however, it seemed that the most desperate dead calm of the world arrived to Füred.

The summer heat started attacking the participants already at 9 am and the surface of the lake looked picture-perfect still.

By 11 am the air appeared to move from Southwest and a kind of acceptable wind started to blow. The organizers waited for one more hour and the boats could take off for the upcoming race.

The competition was especially important for the best Hungarian couple, Sallai Gábor and Olosz Dávid as they had two weaker places after their excellent victory and therefore fell back from heaven (17th place) to the waiting hall of hell (46th place).

After such events the Hungarians performed rather well: the Sallai-Olosz unit got the third place ahead of the Polish Piaseczki-Zieminski and the German Zellmer-Seelig in an exciting competition of the last race. Vígh András and Perjés Bálint got the 7th place in the same race while the D'Albini-Szépfy couple arrived to the finish line 9th. By doing so, the first couple came up nine places (from the 68th to the 59th), the latter came up ten places (from the 71st to the 61st). The Sallai-Olosz crew occupies the 32nd place in the overall rank and if they can keep their form on Sunday they will be able to achieve the objective of the Hungarian Sailing Association: to finish the competition in the first 40% of the 112 participants.

There are foreign winners and losers of the last qualification race of Saturday. The German Bogaczki-Lindemann, leaders after the Friday race, finished 33rd and fell back to the 15th place of the overall rank. The same happened to the Portuguese Marinho-Nunes crew: they were 9th after five races and due to their 12th place on Saturday they eliminated themselves from the finals.

The world rank leader Italian couple, Zandona and Trani excelled on Saturday (came up from the 11th to the 8th place) and are therefore in the finals. The Austrian Schmid-Reichsteader couple, in the meantime, came up from the 11th place to the 10th. It is characteristic to the power relations of the boat class that four of the participants of the Medallion run are French, two are Italians and the rest are Israeli, Russian, Slovenian and Austrian crews.


Event website: http://www.470euro.com/news/

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

RESULTS AFTER 6 RACES - MEN'S

Sailed:6, Discards:1, To count:5, Ratings:None, Entries:112, Scoring system:My scoring system
Rank	SailNo	Helm	Crew	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	Total	Nett
1st	FRA 11	Benjamin BONNAUD	Romain BONNAUD	3.0	4.0	1.0	1.0	(9.0)	3.0	21.0	12.0
2nd	FRA 24	Ronan DREANO	Ronan FLOCH	4.0	3.0	(18.0)	6.0	4.0	1.0	36.0	18.0
3rd	ITA 7	Enrico FONDA	Marco GUERRA	1.0	2.0	3.0	11.0	(39.0 BFD)	2.0	58.0	19.0
4th	FRA 44	Pierre LEBOUCHER	Vincent GAROS	(14.0)	1.0	4.0	2.0	9.0	4.0	34.0	20.0
5th	ISR 7	Gideon KLIGER	Udi GAL	(9.0)	6.0	3.0	3.0	8.0	5.0	34.0	25.0
6th	SLO 141	Tomaz COPI	Aljaz JADEK	3.0	2.0	7.0	4.0	(22.0)	11.0	49.0	27.0
7th	FRA 7	Nicolas CHARBONNIER	Oliver BAUSSET	9.0	4.0	6.0	3.0	5.0	(17.0)	44.0	27.0
8th	ITA 2	Gabrio ZANDONA	Andrea TRANI	3.0	7.0	7.0	6.0	(12.0)	4.0	39.0	27.0
9th	AUT 3	Matthias SCHMID	Florian REICHSTEADER	7.0	12.0	2.0	(21.0)	1.0	8.0	51.0	30.0
10th	POR 22	Alvaro MARINHO	Miguel NUNES	2.0	11.0	(19.0)	5.0	1.0	12.0	50.0	31.0
11th	NED 1	Sven COSTER	Kalle COSTER	(22.0)	5.0	1.0	12.0	4.0	9.0	53.0	31.0
12th	ARG 61	Matias BUHLER	Marcos LAMAS	10.0	1.0	12.0	6.0	(39.0 OCS)	3.0	71.0	32.0
13th	RUS 2	Mikhail SHEREMETYEV	Maxim SHEREMETYEV	11.0	2.0	2.0	1.0	17.0	(39.0 DSQ)	72.0	33.0
14th	AUS 361	Mathew BELCHER	Nick BEHRENS	6.0	7.0	13.0	10.0	2.0	(15.0)	53.0	38.0
15th	GER 77	Morten BOGACKI	Christian LINDEMANN	5.0	27.0	4.0	2.0	2.0	(33.0)	73.0	40.0
16th	FRA 8	Fabian DELAHAYE	Etienne BOSSE	10.0	1.0	(26.0)	5.0	15.0	11.0	68.0	42.0
17th	GER 4931	Lucas ZELLMER	Heiko SEELIG	7.0	(20.0)	8.0	19.0	6.0	2.0	62.0	42.0
18th	AUS 311	Nathan WILMOT	Malcom PAGE	6.0	14.0	(22.0)	4.0	6.0	12.0	64.0	42.0
19th	ITA 11	Fabio ZENI	Nicola PITANTI	11.0	5.0	20.0	(26.0)	1.0	8.0	71.0	45.0
20th	ESP 9293	Marc PATINO	Juan OMAR	1.0	8.0	(25.0)	10.0	13.0	13.0	70.0	45.0
21st	ISR 12	Aviv Ben HORIN	Eran SELA	9.0	22.0	4.0	2.0	8.0	(31.0)	76.0	45.0
22nd	GRE 165	Kambouris PANAGIOTIS	Orologas GERASIMOS	5.0	(23.0)	8.0	7.0	3.0	23.0	69.0	46.0
23rd	CRO 83	Sime FANTELA	Igor MARENIC	12.0	4.0	14.0	5.0	12.0	(15.0)	62.0	47.0
24th	GER 4964	Christopher LORENZ	Friedrich GEBERT	7.0	11.0	7.0	18.0	(32.0)	4.0	79.0	47.0
25th	RUS 4	Dimitry BEREZKIN	Alexander ZYBIN	2.0	14.0	19.0	(24.0)	14.0	2.0	75.0	51.0
26th	FRA 17	Alexandre PALLU	Aymeric CHAPPLIER	8.0	8.0	(22.0)	9.0	7.0	19.0	73.0	51.0
27th	GRE 131	Andreas KOSMATOPOULOS	Andreas PAPADOPOULOS	16.0	13.0	3.0	14.0	(27.0)	6.0	79.0	52.0
28th	AUS 355	Mathieu HIGGINS	Tim LYNCH	22.0	6.0	10.0	8.0	6.0	(31.0)	83.0	52.0
29th	USA 1734	Mike ANDERSON	David HUGHES	13.0	16.0	(26.0)	10.0	7.0	7.0	79.0	53.0
30th	ISR 9	Levin EYAL	Amir YAM	(19.0)	10.0	6.0	13.0	12.0	13.0	73.0	54.0
31st	ITA 4390	Alfredo CAPODANNO	Guglielmo GIORDANO	4.0	15.0	18.0	8.0	10.0	(27.0)	82.0	55.0
32nd	NZL 201	Stephen KEEN	Philip KEEN	15.0	13.0	9.0	4.0	(19.0)	18.0	78.0	59.0
33rd	HUN 391	Gábor SALLAI	Dávid OLOSZ	24.0	6.0	1.0	(30.0)	26.0	3.0	90.0	60.0
34th	GBR 816	Nick ASHER	Elliot WILLIS	6.0	20.0	14.0	(22.0)	19.0	1.0	82.0	60.0
35th	ESP 1	Francisco SANCHEZ	Alejandro RAMOS	5.0	21.0	(23.0)	7.0	13.0	14.0	83.0	60.0
36th	IRL 66	Gerald OWENS	Sam HUNT	21.0	17.0	11.0	9.0	3.0	(22.0)	83.0	61.0
37th	POL 50	Patryk PIASECKI	Kacper ZIEMINSKI	19.0	10.0	10.0	(32.0)	22.0	1.0	94.0	62.0
38th	UKR 27	Andriy KLOCHKO	Oleksandr KAPUSTIN	8.0	3.0	(39.0 DSQ)	29.0	5.0	18.0	102.0	63.0
39th	ARG 70	Javier CONTE	Juan de la FUENTE	2.0	5.0	16.0	(28.0)	20.0	21.0	92.0	64.0
40th	SUI 51	Tobias ETTER	Felix STEIGER	16.0	9.0	6.0	17.0	20.0	(39.0 BFD)	107.0	68.0
41st	USA 1713	Stuart McNAY	Graham BIEHL	1.0	(39.0 OCS)	17.0	39.0 OCS	7.0	6.0	109.0	70.0
42nd	CRO 69	Ante CESIC	Ante KUJUNDZIC	26.0	15.0	16.0	1.0	(39.0 BFD)	12.0	109.0	70.0
43rd	GBR 822	John GIMSON	Sheena CARIG	15.0	3.0	19.0	9.0	(25.0)	24.0	95.0	70.0
44th	GBR 811	Jonny MACGOVERN	Tom MAPPLEBECK	21.0	9.0	(26.0)	25.0	3.0	13.0	97.0	71.0
45th	NZL 198	Geoff WOOLEY	Mark OVERINGTON	19.0	16.0	15.0	(39.0 OCS)	5.0	16.0	110.0	71.0
46th	CRO 111	Pavle KOSTOV	Petar CUPAC	14.0	16.0	9.0	21.0	(27.0)	11.0	98.0	71.0
47th	POL 470	Rafal SAWICKI	Piotr SZWOCH	11.0	18.0	13.0	12.0	18.0	(23.0)	95.0	72.0
48th	RUS 7	Vladimir CHAUS	Denis GRIBANOV	27.0	19.0	5.0	14.0	8.0	(29.0)	102.0	73.0
49th	RUS 11	Artem BASALKIN	Egor IGNATENKO	(32.0)	10.0	31.0	25.0	2.0	7.0	107.0	75.0
50th	SLO 16	Karlo HMELJAK	Luka VERZEL	(26.0)	19.0	5.0	24.0	22.0	5.0	101.0	75.0