Final Day - Tornado European Championship

by Darren Bundock on 5 Apr 2007 Tornado European Championship
1 - 6 April 2007

Location: Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
Entries: 58

Final Day - 5 April 2007
In Brief:

Bundock/Ashby win Medal race
Bundock/Ashby Win series overall.
Pashalidis/Trigonis Win European Championship
Breeze 12 knots
In Detail:

The top ten boats met in the final medal race for the top 10 shoot out on a short course off the El Arenal Harbour in Palma Mallorca. The Tornado class was the luckiest of all 10 Olympic classes as the seabreeze kicked in ten minutes before the scheduled start time and faded out once again as the leaders crossed the finish line.

The majority of the fleet elected to work the left hand side of the course and it was Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann that had the best start at the bottom end of the starting line and went the furtherest left. Roland and Gunnar lead bundock/Ashby into the first mark with the Greek team of Pashalidis/Trigonis in a close third.

Gaebler went a little far to the lay line to the bottom mark allowing Bundock/Ashby to gybe inside and get a inside lane around the mark to take first position. The next upwind the right hand side was favoured and it was the Russians that took full advantage of the situation gaining valuable positions to round the top mark for the second time in second position behind Bundock/Ashby.

Bundock/Ashby was able to hold off the Russians on the final downwind to the finish. The Greeks finished third and then the breeze started to fade out and mixed up the results on the finish line.

Bundock/Ashby were awarded the Mats Nyberg Trophy as the overall leaders but it was the Greek team of Iordanis Pashalidis and Kostas Trigonis that are the European Champions.

Bundock said" It was fantastic result for us and our training partners. Greeks European Champions, Gaebler(GER) 9th and the Mc Millan (GBR)7th, it just shows we have working in the right direction and a fantastic start to the European season."

Glenn Ashby commented " It was a great way to finish the series to win the medal race and keep or Medal race winning standard going, we are extremely pleased to start off with a winning form as we finished the season last year"

Updated 06/04/2007 17:05:52
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Tornado Overall Results

Overall Sail Number Crew Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 AUS 8 Darren Bundock/Glenn Ashby 51 11 2 1 1 7 12 15 14 1 1
2 GRE 7 Pashalidis Iordanis/Trigonis Konstantinos 70 7 13 6 14 6 3 20 2 13 3
3 RUS 97 Kirilyuk Andrey/Ushkov Valery 79 3 1 17 7 12 17 14 12 9 2
4 FRA 1 Revil Xavier/Espagnon Christophe 85 12 12 20 8 10 10 4 3 16 5
5 GER 5 Tino Mittelmeier/Niko Mittelmeier 93 8 16 8 18 DNC 20 5 1 5 6
6 FRA 5 Billy Besson/Arnaud Jarlegan 94 29 14 9 5 13 1 1 10 23 9
7 GBR 436 Leigh Mc Millan/Will Howden 99 2 8 14 15 16 RDG 13 4 26 8
8 CAN 7 Oskar Johansson/Kevin Stittle 100 26 3 5 2 21 13 2 8 30 10
9 GER 1104 Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann 104 5 9 10 11 4 5 37 32 20 4
10 GER 7 Johannes Polgar/Florian Spalteholz 111 14 5 15 13 8 8 19 15 40 7



Tornado European Championships

Overall Sail Number Crew Points 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 GRE 7 Pashalidis Iordanis/Trigonis Konstantinos 60 7 11 4 12 6 3 16 2 11 2
2 RUS 97 Kirilyuk Andrey/Ushkov Valery 65 3 1 14 5 10 15 11 11 8 1
3 FRA 1 Revil Xavier/Espagnon Christophe 74 11 10 17 6 9 10 3 3 14 4
4 GER 5 Tino Mittelmeier/Niko Mittelmeier 80 8 14 5 16 DNC 18 4 1 4 5
5 FRA 5 Billy Besson/Arnaud Jarlegan 80 25 12 6 3 11 1 1 9 21 8
6 GBR 436 Leigh Mc Millan/Will Howden 83,4 2 6 11 13 14 RDG 10 4 24 7
7 GER 1104 Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann 87 5 7 7 9 4 5 30 26 18 3
8 GER 7 Johannes Polgar/Florian Spalteholz 93 12 3 12 11 7 8 15 13 35 6
9 NED 1 Mitch Booth/Pim Nieuwenhuis 179 33 2 15 1 2 17 20 19 7 DNC
10 ESP 1 Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz 185 9 5 26 2 1 DSQ 29 12 5 DNC


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