Wells Fargo Private Bank Star World Championship

by Diane Dorr on 6 Sep 2006
Seventyfour teams will line up for the Wells Fargo Private Bank Star World Championship, taking place from 27 September to 8 October in San Francisco, USA. A fascinating entry list features a star studded role call of Olympic medallists, round the world sailors and match racing champions.

Reigning World Champions Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau (FRA) face a formidable line up to defend their title, not least from Athens Olympic gold medallists Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira (BRA). Fellow Brazilian and double Olympic gold medallist in the Laser, Robert Scheidt (BRA) also lines up with crew Bruno Ptada.

Another Olympic champion and America's Cup helm will be representing Britain.

With an impressive record of gold and three bronze finishes in the last four years, Iain Percy and crewman Steve Mitchell will be looking for gold again this time round.

Greal's fellow Volvo Ocean Race skipper Paul Cayard (USA), sailing with crew Brian Sharp, is part of a massive USA entry which also includes world number one crew George Szabo and Eric Monroe (USA) and recent winners of the Olympic Test Event in Qingdao, Andy Horton and Brad Nichol (USA).

Australia meanwhile is represented by three crews, one of which features 2005 ISAF Match Racing World Champion and Luna Rossa helm James Spithall, sailing with Rodney Hagebols.

Entries for Star Worlds:

Country - Skipper - Crew - Sail # - Yacht #

1 ARG Juan Kouyoumdjian Nicolas Rosas 8212 8212
2 ARG Fabian Mac Gowan Federico Engelhard 7907 8122
3 AUS Peter Conde Andrew Hunn 8234 8234 or 8254
4 AUS Iain Murray Andrew Palfrey 7836 8214
5 AUS James Spithill Rodney Hagebols 8269 8269
6 AUT Roberto Tomasini Grinover Walter Passegger 8216 8216
7 BAH Steven Kelly William Holowesko 8265 8265
8 BRA Peter Ficker Ronald Seifert 8109 8109
9 BRA Torben Grael Marcelo Ferreira 8210 8271
10 BRA Robert Scheidt Bruno Prada 8127 8251
11 BUL Nedko Vassilev Paul Erickson 7437 7437
12 CAN Dennis Burgess Dave Kershaw 7451 7451
13 CAN Brian Cramer Tyler Bjorn 8143 8229
14 CAN Alex Fox Dunnery Best 7899 ?
15 CHI Vicente Gimeno Luis Felipe Herman 7237 7237
16 CHI Rodrigo Zuazola Marcos Fuentes 8181 8181
17 CHN Shaojun Wang He Wang 1049 7784
18 CRO Marin Lovrovic Jr Marin Lovrovic Sr 7955 7955
19 ESP Jose F Garcia De Soto Alvaro Elorza 7420 7420
20 FRA Xavier Rohart Pascal Rambeau 8107 8237
21 GBR Iain Percy Steve Mitchell 8144 8144
22 GER Marc Pickel Ingo Borkowski 8213 8179
23 GER Robert Stanjek Frithjof Kleen 7971 8262
24 HUN Robert Forintos Andras Komm 7900 7900
25 HUN Tibor Tenke Jozsef Bendicsek 8166 8166
26 IRL Maurice O'Connell Edmund Peel 8028 8028
27 ITA Alberto Barovier Umberto Coppola 8014 ?
28 ITA Francesco Bruni Gilberto Nobili 8180 8193
29 ITA Luca Modena Michele Marchesini 8224 8224
30 ITA Diego Negri Luigi Viale 8266 8266
31 ITA Luca Simeone Ferdinando Colaninno 8076 8065
32 ITA Antonio Tamburini Renzo Ricci 8183 8060
33 JPN Kunio Suzuki Daichi Wada 7979 ?
34 LAT Eizens Cepurnieks Aleksander Muzicenko 813 8135
35 NED Erik Broekhof Erik Veldhuizen TBA TBA
36 NZL Steve Johnson Stephan Cohen 7609 7609
37 NZL Rohan Lord Miles Addy 8061 8061
38 NZL Hamish Pepper Carl Williams 8187 8187
39 POL Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Zycki 8252 8252
40 POL Arkadiusz Wierzbicki Piotr Zawistowski 7858 7858
41 RUS Dmitriy Vokhmintsev Vladimir Lyasnikov 7805 7347
42 SUI Henrik Dannesboe Idor Kaptourovitch 8232 ?
43 SUI Christoph Gautschi Jurg Konig 8009 8009
44 SUI Flavio Marazzi Etienne Huter 8138 8138
45 SUI Daniel Stegmeier Beat Stegmeier 7990 7829
46 SWE Ingvar Krook Per Nilsson 7978 7855
47 SWE Fredrik Lööf Anders Ekstrom 8256 8256
48 UKR Arthur Anosov David Caesar 8157 8157
49 UKR Vasyl Gureyev Volodymyr Korotkov 8205 8240
50 USA Bill Allen Brad Lichter 8215 8215
51 USA Karl Anderson Edward Morey 8177 8177
52 USA Bill Buchan Erik Bentzen 8260 8260
53 USA Jim Buckingham Mike Dorgan 8207 8207
54 USA Paul Cayard Brian Sharp 8259 8259
55 USA John Dane III Austin Sperry 8268 8268
56 USA William Fields Richard Burgess 8189 8189
57 USA Steve Gould Greg Sieck 8088 8088
58 USA Andy Horton Brad Nichol 8156 8156
59 USA Brian Huse Scott Killam 6890 6890
60 USA Philippe Kahn Joe Londrigan 8246 8246
61 USA Jock Kohlhas Roman Gotsulyak 8043 8043
62 USA Erik Lidecis Michael Marzahl 8176 8176
63 USA Joe Londrigan David Giles 8238 8238
64 USA John MacCausland Bob Schofield 8195 8195
65 USA Andrew Macdonald Brian Fatih 8250 8250
66 USA Mark Mendelblatt Mark Strube 8267 8267
67 USA Scot Merrick Crystine Lee 4103 4103
68 USA Rick Merriman Rick Peters 8222 8222
69 USA Foss Miller Greg Newhall 7844 7844
70 USA Jed Miller Rick Sassara 7469 7469
71 USA Mark Reynolds Hal Haenel 8239 8239
72 USA Doug Smith TBD 8072 8072
73 USA George Szabo Eric Monroe 8273 8273
74 USA Peter Vessella J. Darin Jensen 8059 8059

Event website : http://www.stfyc.com