Medal Results - 470 European Championships

by Lindsey Bell/GJN on 20 Jun 2006 France dominated the men`s event at the Open Nissan Cup 470 European Championships in Balatonfüred, Hungary. The French team of Nicolas Charbonnier and Oliver Bausset won the final medal race on Sunday but did not figure in the overall medal positions.

The Bonnaud brothers, Benjamin and Romain did enough to take the European title finishing one point ahead of Ronan Drano and Ronan Floch, with Pierre Leboucher and Vincent Garos taking the Bronze and completing the all French podium.

Nic Asher and Elliot Willis were the highest placed Brits, in 34th. Defending champions and Olympic silver medallists Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield missed the event due to Rogers' fractured wrist.

In the women´s event the German pair, Stefanie Rothweiler and Vivien Kussatz, went into the medal race with the Gold already theirs. The Japenese pair, Ai Kondo and Midori Ikemoto, won the final race but it was the second place finishers, Sylvia Vogl and Caroline Flatscher from Austria who moved up to take the Silver with the Spanish, Marina Gallego and Laia Tutzo, the Bronze.

Christina Bassadone and Saskia Clark posted Skandia Team GBR's best result at these Championships, finishing seventh overall in the women's fleet. The World Championship silver medallists had a strong start at the beginning of their Europeans campaign, in second place up until racing on Thursday. But a disappointing 19 and 14 from the fourth and fifth dropped them down to eighth place. With Friday's racing cancelled through lack of wind and just one race each day on Saturday and Sunday, Bassadone-Clark had little chance to shake off the double figures and make their way back through the fleet. A third in Sunday's final medal race, featuring the top ten boats from the fleet, allowed for a small improvement with Bassadone-Clark moving up to finish the regatta in seventh.

Open 470 Women final leading positions:
1 GER 4978 Stefanie ROTHWEILER Vivien KUSSATZ 1.0 1.0 2.0 16.0 1.0 1.0 4.0 26.0 10.0 pts
2 AUT 431 Sylvia VOGL Caroline FLATSCHER 1.0 5.0 6.0 6.0 8.0 2.0 2.0 30.0 22.0 pts
3 ESP 1833 Marina GALLEGO Laia TUTZO 7.0 3.0 4.0 18.0 1.0 4.0 5.0 42.0 24.0 pts
4 SWE 323 Therese TORGERSSON Vendela ZACHRISSON 2.0 6.0 1.0 2.0 17.0 7.0 6.0 41.0 24.0 pts
5 JPN 4151 Ai KONDO Midori IKEMOTO 4.0 1.0 14.0 2.0 15.0 4.0 1.0 41.0 26.0 pts
6 AUS 357 Elise RECHICHI Tessa PARKINSON 8.0 2.0 10.0 3.0 6.0 1.0 7.0 37.0 27.0 pts
7 GBR 819 Christina BASSADONE Saskia CLARK 2.0 2.0 2.0 19.0 14.0 8.0 3.0 50.0 31.0 pts
8 ISR 6 Noa BOTZER Laia TRAJTENBERG 4.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 22.0 6.0 8.0 53.0 31.0 pts
9 DEN 143 Henriette KOCH Lene SOMMER 6.0 6.0 4.0 12.0 12.0 3.0 9.0 52.0 40.0 pts
10 ISR 13 Adi GILBOA Vered BOUSKILA 12.0 9.0 1.0 8.0 3.0 12.0 10.0 55.0 43.0pts
Other GBR :
26. Pippa Wilson-Sheena Craig (15,12,(19),9,12,5) 53pts

Open 470 Men final leading positions:
1 FRA 11 Benjamin BONNAUD Romain BONNAUD 3.0 4.0 1.0 1.0 9.0 3.0 8.0 29.0 20.0 pts
2 FRA 24 Ronan DREANO Ronan FLOCH 4.0 3.0 18.0 6.0 4.0 1.0 3.0 39.0 21.0 pts
3 FRA 44 Pierre LEBOUCHER Vincent GAROS 14.0 1.0 4.0 2.0 9.0 4.0 5.0 39.0 25.0 pts
4 ITA 7 Enrico FONDA Marco GUERRA 1.0 2.0 3.0 11.0 BFD 2.0 7.0 65.0 26.0 pts
5 FRA 7 Nicolas CHARBONNIER Oliver BAUSSET 9.0 4.0 6.0 3.0 5.0 17.0 1.0 45.0 28.0 pts
6 SLO 141 Tomaz COPI Aljaz JADEK 3.0 2.0 7.0 4.0 22.0 11.0 4.0 53.0 31.0 pts
7 POR 22 Alvaro MARINHO Miguel NUNES 2.0 11.0 19.0 5.0 1.0 12.0 2.0 52.0 33.0 pts
8 ITA 2 Gabrio ZANDONA Andrea TRANI 3.0 7.0 7.0 6.0 12.0 4.0 6.0 45.0 33.0 pts
9 ISR 7 Gideon KLIGER Udi GAL 9.0 6.0 3.0 3.0 8.0 5.0 10.0 44.0 35.0
10 AUT 3 Matthias SCHMID Florian REICHSTEADER 7.0 12.0 2.0 21.0 1.0 8.0 9.0 60.0 39.0pts
GBR:
34. Nic Asher-Elliot Willis (6,20,14,(22),19,1) 60pts
43. John Gimson-Stuart Bithell (15,3,19,9,(25),24) 70pts
44. Jonny McGovern-Tom Mapplebeck (21,9,(26),25,3,13) 71pts
58. Luke Patience-Chris Grube (4,22,(28),7,21,28) 82pts