T'wins for Jo Aleh in Laser Radial Worlds

by Sail-World on 1 Aug 2006 New Zealand sailor, Jo Aleh, has won two races in the second day of racing in the Laser Radial Worlds being sailed from the California Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey.

She now lies in eight place overall. If she can hold form, her position will dramatically improve once the first discard is allowed, and she is able to drop her 21st place she scored in the second race on the first day of sailing.

The Womens Championship for the Olympic Singlehander is being contested by 89 boats sailing in two divisions. French sailor Sarah Steyaert had another inconsistent day winning her race (the same as she did yesterday) and scoring a 32nd place this morning which sits alongside the 24th place she scored yesterday afternoon.

Miranda Powrie is the next best performed of the other New Zealand women, sitting in 28th overall with a 34, 19, 8, and 12 scorecard. She is another who will improve significantly if she can hold today's form when a discard race is allowed.

Sarah Winther is 40th overall, with Olivia Powrie in 50th abd Cushla Hume-Merry in 71st overall after two days of racing.

Defending world champion, Paige Railey (USA) who was invincible last year is in fourth place overall with a 2,5,10 and 8 scorecard, and would appear to have lost the edge she enjoyed on the 2005 regatta circuit.

In the Open Series, Josh Junior is the best performed New Zealander lying in eighth place overall with 24th and 10th places. He is followed by max Andrews in 11th overall who scored 26th and eighth today. James Sandall is 13th overall and scored the best place of the Kiwi men finishing second in the fourth race preceded by a 38th place in Race 3.

From the California Yacht Club website:

'Schotka' and a Kiwi show way in light wind

There were two big winners Monday in the women's corner of the 2006 Laser Radial World Championships, and they came from different worlds.

Jo Aleh, 20, of New Zealand, a near novice at this level despite her No. 6 ranking, won both races in the Blue fleet while three-time world champion Katarzyna Szotynska, 26, of Poland may have launched her career comeback with a 1-2 in the Yellow fleet. With eight of 12 races still remaining through Friday, Szotynska is now in third place, while Aleh jumped from 21st to eighth.

Anna Tunnicliffe, the class's No. 2-ranked competitor from Florida, sailed a quiet 3-7 day that was enough to break out of a first-place tie into a one-point lead over France's
Solenne Brain (No. 16), who was 2-3 on the day.

No. 1-ranked and defending champion Paige Railey, 19, of Florida sailed a 10th and a ninth Monday---not yet dominant but good enough to keep her solidly among the leaders.

Brazil's Fabio Pillar moved into the men's lead by winning the last race as first-day leader Steven Krol of The Netherlands suffered 20th and 15th places.

To ease congestion, the 89 women entrants are being divided into Blue and Yellow fleets with separate starts for the first three days of qualifying races, with the fleets shuffled daily to balance the competition. Then, according to the standings, the top half will advance into the last six races over the last three days as the Gold fleet, going for the world title. The lower half becomes the Silver fleet. Both will carry over their qualifying results.

Winds were a painfully light 6-8 knots, even lighter than opening day Sunday, but Aleh and Katarzyna had the magic touch on their tillers.

Szotynska, who answers to the nickname 'Schotka,' dominated the women's Laser Radials with successive global titles from 2001 to 2003 before it was declared an Olympic class beginning with the competition at Qingdao, China in 2008. She came into this event ranked a modest 15th.

'It wasn't as competitive then as it is now,' she said. 'There were only 50 girls in the fleet. Before I was good sailing in heavy wind, but now I'm better when it's light. I'm much better than I used to be. I knew I'd have to get better if I wanted to go to the Olympics.'

By contrast, Aleh said, 'I'm just starting international sailing. I was second in the Youth Worlds two years ago.'

She also was ninth and 21st in two previous Worlds before and after the class's Olympic leap.

So how did she solve the fluky nuances of Santa Monica Bay Monday?

'I didn't have a strategy,' she said. 'I was just sailing, getting the shifts and the pressure. It changes every beat.'

And, of course, all eyes are on Railey.

'It's pretty tricky out there,' she said. 'The wind fills in but sometimes at the wrong time in the wrong place. It changes very upwind leg. You think you have it figured out and then you don't.

'So far I've been conservative . . . just gotta get my scores better, maybe sail a bit more aggressively. I've got to step it up.'

Fair warning for the rest of the fleet.

The Laser Radial Worlds are supported by sponsors Nestlé, producer of Arrowhead Water and PowerBar©; Vanguard Boats, Sailing World Magazine, Body Glove and the John B. and Nelly Llanos Kilroy Foundation.



2006 Laser Radial World Championships

Results Women

 

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4
1	USA 187361	Tunnicliffe Anna	14.0	3	1	3	7
2	FRA 187297	Brain Solenne	15.0	6	2	2	5
3	POL 187319	Szotynska Katarzyna	22.0	12	7	1	2
4	USA 187345	Railey Paige	25.0	2	5	10	8
5	SWE 187291	Soderstrom Karin	26.0	7	6	9	4
6	CHN 187369	Shen Xiaoying	27.0	4	12	9	2
7	MEX 187285	Elias Calles Wolf Tania	27.0	8	8	8	3
8	NZL 187318	Aleh Jo	28.0	5	21	1	1
9	GER 187321	Niemann Petra	35.0	5	1	4	25
10	FIN 187399	Multala Sari	42.0	16	2	21	3
11	BRA 187364	Ginaid Odile	42.0	7	8	17	10
12	CRO 187316	Mihelic Tina	43.0	10	9	16	8
13	GBR 187403	Dobson Charlotte	44.0	19	16	2	7
14	ITA 187406	Nevierov Larissa	44.0	9	17	7	11
15	CRO 187360	Petronijevic Mateja	45.0	11	17	4	13
16	CHN 187373	Xu Lijia	49.0	6	4	6	33
17	BEL 187294	Van Acker Evi	50.0	2	3	25	20
18	GBR 187302	Brewster Andrea	50.0	10	13	23	4
19	GER 187387	Goltz Franziska	50.0	18	9	18	5
20	NED 187334	Jutjens Gea	55.0	25	12	5	13
21	BLR 187379	Drozdovskaya Tatiana	56.0	11	14	15	16
22	USA 187343	Dennis Claire	57.0	8	10	13	26
23	FRA 187323	Steyaert Sarah	58.0	1	24	32	1
24	AUS 187398	Blanck Sarah	59.0	14	4	29	12
25	GBR 187303	Clark Penny	60.0	1	31	14	14
26	GRE 187331	Kravarioti Virginia	67.0	19	5	14	29
27	CAN 187381	Crowder Victoria	71.0	24	21	21	9
28	NZL 187305	Powrie Miranda	73.0	34	19	8	12
29	CZE 187309	Fenclova Veronika	75.5	27	27	12	9
30	FRA 187314	De Turkheim Sophie	76.0	25	10	30	11
31	CRO 187378	Barbic Gea	76.0	31	23	12	10
32	CHN 187395	Mao Yuting	81.0	15	29	20	17
33	NED 187287	Bouwmeester Marit	83.0	dsq	28	3	6
34	SUI 187283	Brugger Nathalie	83.0	18	30	19	16
35	GBR 187295	Vickers Lizzie	84.0	23	32	11	18
36	USA 187299	Brennan Myrdal Danielle	85.0	3	26	35	21
37	NED 187392	Bouwmeester Anneke	85.0	24	19	13	29
38	CAN 187397	Ross Lisa	86.0	12	23	33	18
39	DEN 187308	Abrahamsen Trine Julie	86.0	15	22	27	22
40	NZL 187400	Winther Sara	87.0	30	7	23	27
41	GBR 187320	Young Alison	89.0	40	11	18	20
42	ESP 187307	Reyes Lucia	90.0	22	3	44	21
43	GRE 187631	Mantzaraki Eftychia	93.0	16	38	5	34
44	SIN 187389	Chan Victoria	98.0	35	38	19	6
45	GBR 187386	Baldwin Laura	99.0	42	25	15	17
46	AUS 187394	Weir Krystal	99.0	20	15	32	32
47	CAN 187401	Mclean Hayley	101.0	39	6	37	19
48	ESP 187296	Reyes Fatima	101.0	17	15	29	40
49	ARG 187410	Carranza Saroli Cecilia	101.0	21	25	28	27
50	NZL 187292	Powrie Olivia	102.0	9	34	34	25
51	AUS 187313	Dennison Melanie	102.0	31	14	38	19
52	GER 187412	Schröder Wiebke	103.0	21	18	34	30
53	NOR 187348	Samdal Elin Maria	105.0	33	20	26	26
54	USA 187347	Lihan Sarah	106.0	32	11	35	28
55	DEN 187352	Lindberg Alberte Holm	106.0	27	31	33	15
56	POR 187289	Carmo Sara	106.0	29	16	25	36
57	GBR 187284	Chapman Rosie	108.0	26	30	6	ocs
58	CHN 187376	Fan Huiyu	108.0	35	35	7	31
59	CHN 187327	Zhu Jianyan	108.0	28	26	40	14
60	GER 187328	Jansch Hanne	108.0	14	27	31	36
61	CAN 187374	Spalding Jennifer	108.0	33	20	24	31
62	CHN 187371	Shen Huanqi	113.0	32	dne	11	24
63	ESP 187298	Cebrian Alicia	113.0	36	18	24	35
64	GER 187326	Puls Janika	114.0	26	28	20	40
65	CAN 187365	Dube Danielle	115.0	23	36	41	15
66	CAN 187383	Rasa Keamia	116.0	22	13	37	44
67	USA 187349	Billing Emily	116.0	30	37	26	23
68	IRL 187357	Peelo Ciara	117.0	13	34	31	39
69	CRO 187329	Petani Renata	118.0	dnf	40	10	22
70	CHN 187306	Su Zhen	118.0	13	24	43	38
71	NZL 187350	Hume-Merry Cushla	119.0	20	33	36	30
72	BRA 187375	Kostiw Adriana	119.0	34	32	30	23
73	USA 187391	Shea Margaret	119.5	27	37	22	33
74	IRL 187332	Hanna Debbie	124.0	37	22	28	37
75	USA 187368	Prioleau Carolyn	130.0	4	dnf	39	41
76	USA 187388	Maxim Katie	132.0	17	35	42	38
77	JPN 187340	Ishikawa Ayumi	132.0	39	42	27	24
78	ESP 187341	Echegoyen Tamara	132.0	29	33	42	28
79	CHI 187385	Gumucio Arantza	133.0	40	41	17	35
80	USA 187333	Griffin Genoa	139.0	38	39	16	ocs
81	CAN 187358	Bertold Isabella	140.0	41	29	36	34
82	SUI 187355	Meyer Corinne	148.0	41	dnf	22	39
83	FRA 187282	Borsi Manon	151.0	43	36	40	32
84	JPN 187311	Hamaguchi Mutsumi	161.0	36	39	43	43
85	AUS 187670	De Lange Megan	161.0	37	43	44	37
86	ISV 187407	Jones Sydney	162.0	38	41	41	42
87	JPN 187405	Hasegawa Satako	166.0	42	44	39	41
88	IRL 187377	Murphy Claudine	168.0	44	40	38	ocs
89	CAN 187317	Lombard Jessica	175.0	43	45	45	42

 
 RDG-results are as follows:

CAN 187381

Crowder Victoria

race 1:

20 scores

Results Men

 

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4
1	BRA 175368	Pillar Fabio	33.0	15	12	5	1
2	NED 174736	Krol Steven	38.0	2	1	20	15
3	BER 181779	Kirkland Jesse	50.0	1	19	27	3
4	NED 158085	Le Fevre Steven	50.0	4	4	1	41
5	SIN 185328	Cheng Colin	53.0	25	13	11	4
6	SIN 179815	Koh Seng Leong	55.0	12	3	33	7
7	AUS 166021	Palk Ryan	55.0	9	20	21	5
8	NZL 176918	Junior Josh	59.0	20	5	24	10
9	GBR 180043	Emmett Jon	61.0	18	2	25	16
10	JPN 168190	Eiraku Hiromitsu	77.0	10	8	48	11
11	NZL 181880	Andrews Max	81.0	33	14	26	8
12	TUR 153021	Sevinc Mehmet	81.0	23	28	17	13
13	NZL 184685	Sandall James	82.0	24	18	38	2
14	IRL 173086	Seaton Ryan	85.0	5	25	9	46
15	POR 174127	Neves Paulo	85.0	8	17	40	20
16	MAS 172246	Muhamad Mohd Romzi	88.0	26	22	15	25
17	USA 182070	Cullman Cam	89.0	3	16	28	42
18	CAN 181829	Dold Chris	92.0	6	15	32	39
19	TAH 177765	Besson Jessee	95.0	29	31	12	23
20	BER 157789	Kirkland Alexander	97.0	22	11	14	50
21	AUS 177729	Skulander Zac	98.0	19	39	8	32
22	USA 174270	Barnard Chris	101.0	17	50	7	27
23	USA 171608	Deermount Adam	105.0	37	38	13	17
24	ITA 181652	Lo Bue Marco	107.0	32	60	6	9
25	USA 173220	Raab Chris	108.0	14	6	16	dnf
26	KOR 180157	Saugkyu Kim	115.0	27	49	10	29
27	CAN 182411	Ramsay Luke	115.0	11	35	41	28
28	USA 187260	Norris Phillip	120.0	28	43	4	45
29	IND 183064	Choudhary Rajesh	120.0	31	9	46	34
30	GBR 182523	Paton Ben	120.0	38	10	35	37
31	USA 182345	Buckingham Charlie	122.0	7	46	39	30
32	USA 179458	Hartranft Randy	123.0	30	7	53	33
33	ITA 184963	Crivelli Visconti Uberto	137.0	34	42	18	43
34	ARG 148390	Lopez Segura Eduardo	141.0	16	62	44	19
35	CRO 182661	Longin Matija	142.0	21	41	36	44
36	USA 174011	Fahey Brendan	143.0	40	24	23	56
37	NED 178640	Van Mackelenbergh Rodie	144.0	dsq	33	3	36
38	USA 175086	Dugdale Nick	144.0	45	48	29	22
39	USA 187000	Sam Padnos	147.0	61	dnf	2	12
40	PER 163267	Zúñiga Javier	148.0	41	32	57	18
41	CAN 177143	Torchinsky Abe	148.0	39	23	37	49
42	USA 171221	Fulmer Chuck	149.0	46	34	34	35
43	USA 172495	Schalka Michael	151.0	55	53	22	21
44	AUS 180057	Langford Mark	151.0	43	40	30	38
45	BRA 168889	Guimarães Neto Ruy	153.0	36	37	49	31
46	USA 181131	Marks Zack	155.0	13	27	54	61
47	KOR 178197	Yeongmin Lee	158.0	57	30	31	40
48	AUS 171094	Ormsby Kelsey	160.0	42	36	58	24
49	JPN 175453	Maeda Hiroshi	160.0	48	44	42	26
50	USA 179433	Summers Cameron	164.0	49	45	19	51
51	USA 177325	Sterett Matthew R.	169.0	47	26	43	53
52	CAN 182867	Grierson Kevin	174.0	54	21	47	52
53	BRA 166184	Wender Philip Alexander	176.0	35	29	65	47
54	USA 178615	Hoeven Ryan	185.0	51	61	59	14
55	IND 183084	Singh Dharmendra	207.0	60	54	45	48
56	USA 171212	Cottrell Brian	208.0	58	bfd	dne	6
57	IND 186146	Sabir Salil	210.0	44	51	51	64
58	FRA 177281	Luigi Donat-Pierre	214.0	52	55	52	55
59	ITA 182955	Alberico Daniele	226.0	53	59	56	58
60	USA 181847	Martinelli Dennis	229.0	56	57	62	54
61	NED 171726	Veldman Stephan	239.0	59	52	61	67
62	USA 151830	Johnston Paige	243.0	dnf	47	67	57
63	JPN 180026	Hayashi Masakazu	243.0	62	66	50	65
64	TAH 177754	Combescure Guillaume	244.0	66	56	60	62
65	USA 147390	Vaught Alexander	246.0	64	67	55	60
66	USA 179463	Smith Steven C.	248.0	63	63	63	59
67	JPN 164166	Harada Takayuki	250.0	65	58	64	63
68	ARG 173910	Palombo Carlos	254.0	50	64	68	dnf
69	USA 186539	Yioulos George	266.0	67	65	66	68
70	USA 183890	Jackson Gregory	273.0	69	69	69	66
71	USA 162040	Mikulich Vladislav	278.0	68	68	70	dnc