European Laser Title win to Paul Goodison

by Sail-World Team/GJN on 13 Jul 2006 It was close but Paul Goodison is the Laser European Champions again. Pushed all the way by Maciej Grabowski of Poland, the world number one retained the title after a tense final race at Gdynia in Poland.

After leading the championship for the whole week, Goodison was pushed to the final race by Poland's Maciej Grabowski. Grabowski won two races on the penultimate day to close to within 16 points of Goodison with two races on the final day.

But in the first race of the day neither of the leading pair were in the front runners, Goodison finishing 21st and Grabowski 32nd with Brendan Casey of Australia taking the gun.

Casey finished in 22nd position, just behind Tom Slingsby in 20th spot. Best placed of the Aussies was Michael Blackburn in 15th position. Ashley Brunning concluded his campaign in 65th.

In the final race Tobias Schadewaldt of Germany won with Grabowski finishing sixth, and then Goodison crossed in 16th to take the title by three points.

Gustavo Lima (POR) finished in third place overall after his charge faltered in the final race, only managing 29th.

In the Youth championship, Danijel Mihelic of Croatia is the new Champion. He had a comfortable win after starting the week with a three bullet run. Second was Rutger Van Schaardenburg of Holland and third Daniel Jakobsson of Brazil.


Senior - Final Leading Gold fleet results:

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 GBR 186101 Goodison Paul 40,0 1 2 (5) 3 5 3 8 2 (21) 16
2 POL 185791 Grabowski Maciej 43,0 (13) 4 13 2 4 12 1 1 (32) 6
3 POR 186206 Lima Gustavo 48,0 8 4 (28) 4 12 5 2 9 4 (29)
4 AUT 186723 Geritzer Andreas 62,0 15 7 (ocs) 9 (25) 6 6 5 10 4
5 CRO 178794 Vujasinovi; Milan 64,0 9 1 17 (bfd) 10 4 14 7 (19) 2
6 FIN 181897 Suomalainen Roope 66,0 1 3 11 (18) 5 8 16 (28) 8 14
7 SWE 185800 Wigforss Johan 74,0 (19) 6 4 10 2 9 (47) 11 22 10
8 FRA 183081 Pruvot Felix 78,0 2 (34) (22) 1 9 7 5 19 13 22
9 CRO 185650 Radelic Luka 81,0 14 5 3 (21) 13 1 (36) 3 15 27
10 SWE 165852 Claeson Arvid 85,0 4 8 23 (30) 18 11 15 (39) 3 3
11 DEN 179704 Nyholm Anders 92,0 5 11 (33) 16 3 1 23 (48) 2 31
12 CHI 161167 Del Solar Matias 97,0 (25) 8 23 4 17 6 17 (53) 5 17
13 GER 185258 Schadewaldt Tobias 99,0 15 dnf (30) 21 14 4 13 (raf) 6 1
14 SLO 182672 Zbogar Vasilij 99,0 16 13 7 13 6 (30) (27) 13 23 8
15 AUS 185822 Blackburn Michael 103,0 7 12 20 (bfd) 1 10 10 (bfd) 24 19
16 NZL 184683 Weaver David 103,0 5 (41) 12 25 6 11 11 18 (57) 15
17 GRE 181018 Chimonas Evangelos 107,0 2 (42) 7 3 8 16 (dsq) 12 33 26
18 CAN 185371 Wright David 110,0 13 24 (16) 11 16 (46) 3 8 7 28
19 CRO 182662 Stipanovic Tonci 113,0 (26) 20 15 13 19 (27) 12 4 9 21
20 AUS 184675 Slingsby Tom 113,0 28 (ocs) 6 5 dnf 2 22 (bfd) 11 34


Youth - Final Leading positions:

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 CRO 180044 Mihelic Danijel 26,0 1 1 1 (3) 3 2 2 6 4 (10) 6
2 NED 183516 Van Schaardenburg Rutger 40,0 7 3 7 1 2 1 (14) 2 8 9 (13)
3 BRA 174394 Jakobsson Daniel 54,0 8 8 10 (15) 3 6 11 1 (28) 5 2
4 FRA 181012 Pruvot Corentin 59,0 6 (bfd) 3 (bfd) 2 1 1 8 9 20 9
5 SWE 183968 Vasternas Victor 65,0 10 (15) 11 4 9 3 4 (17) 17 2 5
6 CRO 181944 Taritaš Ivan 66,0 5 2 (dnf) 4 20 23 4 5 2 (24) 1
7 NZL 181999 Lindsay Blair 70,0 1 4 1 5 (7) 2 3 40 (43) 4 10
8 SWE 172790 Sundelin Martin 80,0 3 11 4 11 4 10 (30) 4 (42) 1 32
9 GER 179312 Thyen Oltmann 83,0 9 16 (ocs) 3 4 13 8 21 1 (44) 8
10 GER 185565 Schwerdt Frithjof 84,0 11 14 (dnf) 9 (bfd) 11 1 23 5 7 3
11 GRE 183256 Petridis Nikolas 97,0 3 12 6 (bfd) 6 11 (dnf) 3 20 13 23
12 CAN 181829 Dold Chris 103,0 2 (31) 7 19 11 12 16 12 (21) 8 16
13 NED 180923 Goosen Christiaan 107,0 18 10 5 20 (39) 6 6 9 (25) 16 17
14 GER 179578 Kurfeld Jan 125,0 21 (42) 2 12 29 4 6 (43) 18 6 27
15 GER 173615 Buhl Philipp 127,0 14 8 10 (33) 26 21 12 (48) 7 17 12
16 LTU 167036 Milevicius Rokas 129,0 12 (30) 13 14 5 10 19 15 (34) 19 22
17 POL 184168 Dumara Jakub 141,0 9 16 (dnf) 8 1 14 28 (47) 3 36 26
18 GBR 186009 Royston James 142,0 13 23 4 (bfd) (31) 20 8 20 22 12 20
19 GRE 170503 Tzortzis Antonios 148,0 2 5 (37) 11 12 7 17 31 33 30 (38)
20 NZL 182967 Hume-Merry Aaron 149,0 (23) 1 18 6 18 3 13 30 35 25 (41)


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