French pair lead Tornado Europeans

by S-W UK on 5 Apr 2007
Billy Besson and Arnaud Jarlegan of France lead the Tornado European Championship taking place in Palma, Mallorca.

After eight races completed the French pair have a two point lead from Pashalidis Iordanis and Trigonis Konstantinos of Greece. Third are Revil Xavier and Espagnon Christophe of France.

Best placed Brits are Leigh McMillan and Will Howden in fifth place. They are 12 point off the leaders but only three points from the Bronze medal position. Rob Wilson and Mark Bulkeley are next best placed, down in 13th in the 47 boat fleet.

In the combined Tornado fleet event (58 entries) Darren Bundock and and Glenn Ashby (AUS) lead ahead of Pashalidis Iordanis and Trigonis Konstantinos (GRE) with the French pair Besson and Jarlegan in third.

Tornado European Overall results:

1 FRA 5 Billy Besson/Arnaud Jarlegan 43pts 25 12 6 3 11 1 1 9
2 GRE 7 Pashalidis Iordanis/Trigonis Konstantinos 45 7 11 4 12 6 3 16 2
3 FRA 1 Revil Xavier/Espagnon Christophe 52 11 10 17 6 9 10 3 3
4 RUS 97 Kirilyuk Andrey/Ushkov Valery 55 3 1 14 5 10 15 11 11
5 GBR 436 Leigh Mc Millan/Will Howden 55,4 2 6 11 13 14 RDG 10 4
6 GER 1104 Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann 63 5 7 7 9 4 5 30 26
7 GER 5 Tino Mittelmeier/Niko Mittelmeier 66 8 14 5 16 DNC 18 4 1
8 GER 7 Johannes Polgar/Florian Spalteholz 66 12 3 12 11 7 8 15 13
9 NED 1 Mitch Booth/Pim Nieuwenhuis 76 33 2 15 1 2 17 20 19
10 ESP 104 Javier Padron/Juan Gonzalez 80 13 13 RAF 8 23 11 6 6
11 ESP 1 Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz 84 9 5 26 2 1 DSQ 29 12
12 AUT 3 Roman Hagara/Hans Peter Steinacher 88 6 4 1 OCS 8 OCS 14 7
13 GBR 7 Rob Wilson/Mark Bulkeley 97 19 15 23 10 15 6 22 10
14 ITA 5 Vincenzo Sorrentino/Giorgio Colombo 97 28 8 10 20 20 7 8 24
15 ESP 23 Toni Rivas/Fabian Escude 101 23 22 24 15 17 4 12 8
16 FRA 3 Olivier Backes/Paul-Ambroise Sevestre 102 1 OCS 22 4 16 13 25 21
17 GBR 430 Andrew Walsh/Edward Barney 106 15 23 8 18 38 14 13 15
18 ITA 257 Marcolini/Edoardo Bianchi 114 4 OCS 31 DNC 5 2 19 5
19 BEL 7 Carolijn Brouwer/Sebastien Godefroid 115 14 OCS 2 14 3 OCS 17 17
20 UKR 11 Pavlo Kalynchev/Andriy Shafranyuk 118 10 9 29 19 22 OCS 9 20
21 AUT 381 Zajac/Czajka 122 26 17 13 23 29 9 18 16
22 RUS 007 Dzhienbaev Sergey/Semenov Maxim 124 27 18 16 25 21 19 7 18
23 GBR 5 Christopher Rashley/Marcus Lynch 130 17 25 25 7 18 12 26 OCS
24 GBR 431 John Gimson/Stuart Bithell 135 22 20 DNF 21 26 16 5 25
25 FRA 298 Matthieu Souben/Gurvan Bontemps 143 16 BFD 9 17 12 20 21 OCS
26 FRA 7 Guichard/Guyader Alaxandre 149 OCS 21 3 DNC 13 OCS 2 14
27 GRE 1 Theodorakis Dimitrios/Kosmoglou Efstratios 166 34 19 27 24 24 21 24 27
28 RUS 9 Kuzmin Maxim/Shirokov Alexandr 167 24 27 21 22 31 23 27 23
29 GBR 415 Leo Farrow/Richard Heasman 204 36 29 33 29 27 24 31 31
30 GBR 437 Jonnie Hutchcroft/Mark Self 205 37 24 28 32 30 26 37 28
31 NED 3 Coen De Koning/Max Blom 211 20 16 18 27 DNC DNC 34 OCS
32 UKR 38 Golimbiyevskyy Stanislav/Volosheniuk Alexey 214 35 28 30 30 32 27 35 32
33 DEN 1 Allan Norregaard/Michael Risoer 217 21 BFD 34 28 25 DNC 32 29
34 NED 11 Mischa Heemskerk/Bastiaan Tentij 217 32 OCS 38 26 28 22 23 OCS
35 GBR 99 Tom Phipps/Jon Cook 229 29 DNF 19 35 DNC DNC 28 22
36 GBR 417 William Sunnucks/Ryan Crawford 229 OCS 31 35 33 33 25 39 33
37 POL 1 Piotr Kowalewski/Maciej Klosowicz 230 OCS 30 32 31 19 DNC 40 30
38 ITA 263 Clemente Paolo/Clemente Fabrizio 241 30 BFD 40 34 34 28 38 37
39 GBR 398 John Payne/Mathew Hunt 245 38 32 36 38 35 30 41 36
40 POL 8 Hermach Zbigniew/Ratajczyk Piotr 253 39 35 43 39 37 31 33 39
41 RUS 27 Chekrygin Alexey/Seleznev Valeriy 256 18 26 20 OCS DNC DNC DNC DNC
42 ITA 259 Michele Saponara/Marco Valerio Misso 267 OCS BFD 39 37 36 29 43 35
43 ITA 3 Matteo Nicolucci/Andrea Beverino 270 31 BFD 37 36 DNC DNC 36 34
44 POR 1 Nuno Rocha/João Rodrigues 290 40 33 41 DNC DNC DNC 42 38
45 CRO 1 Ravi Copic/Ivan Sola 296 43 34 42 41 DNC DNC DNC 40
46 GBR 419 Paul Mines/Stuart Smith 305 41 DNC DNC 40 39 DNC DNC 41
47 ITA 2 Cicerano Carlo/Cicerano Sandro 324 42 DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 42