Back Racing at the 470 Europeans

by Gerald New on 8 Jun 2007
Finally some sailing at the 470 Europeans Championships in Greece. Alvaro Marinho and Miguel Nunes (POR) have opened a five point lead over Nicolas Charbonnier and Olivier Bausset (FRA), with Kan Yamada and Kenichi Nakamura (JPN) two points further back in third place.

In the Women's event Stefanie Rottweiler and Vivien Kussatz (GER) lead from Giulia Conti and Giovanna Micol (ITA) by three points in second place, with Wakako Tabata and Naomi Kurita (JPN) are in third place.

For Britain, Thomas Mallindine and James Clark are top placed at 31 and Jonny M'Govern and Thomas Mapplebeck are in 49th and Luke Patience and Chris Grube 59th.

470 Men Leading positions after 6 races:

1 POR 22 Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes 10,0pts 1 2 2 1 (4 ) 4
2 FRA 7 Nicolas Charbonnier, Olivier Bausset 15,0 2 8 (11 ) 3 1 1
3 JPN 4316 Kan Yamada, Kenichi Nakamura 17,0 11 1 1 3 1 (12)
4 ARG 61 Matias Buhler, Marcos Lamas 20,0 5 (10 ) 1 2 5 7
5 NZL 212 Carl Evans, Peter Burling 25,0 4 2 8 1 (11 ) 10
6 ITA 2 Gabrio Zandona, Andrea Trani 25,0 4 3 5 1 12 (ocs)
7 USA 1713 Stu McNay, Graham Biehl 26,0 1 11 (ocs ) 5 8 1
8 FRA 8 Fabien Delahaye, Etienne Bosse 26,0 10 3 2 (12 ) 4 7
9 GRE 136 Panagiotis Mantis, Theodoros Polychronidis 29,0 6 (9 ) 9 2 8 4
10 RUS 2 Mikhail Shremetyev, Maxim Sheremetyev 32,0 4 4 (dsq ) 3 19 2
11 SLO 16 Karlo Hmeljak, Mitja Nevecny 32,0 11 6 4 9 2 (14)
12 GRE 131 Andreas Kosmatopoulos, Andreas Papadopoulos 32,0 (21 ) 9 6 4 5 8
13 ISR 7 Gideon Kliger, Udi Gal 34,0 5 13 7 6 3 (19)
14 AUT 3 Matthias Schmid, Florian Reichstaedter 34,0 5 7 7 10 (14 ) 5
15 FRA 44 Pierre Leboucher, Vincent Garos 36,0 (15 ) 8 9 5 2 12
16 GRE 623 Mihalis Milaios, Pavlos Kagialis 37,0 13 4 (16 ) 7 7 6
17 AUS 311 Nathan Willmot, Malcolm Page 38,0 (20 ) 6 3 11 7 11
18 GRE 183 Charalampos Psomiadis, Andreas Paleras 40,0 2 20 10 7 1 (25)
19 CRO 83 Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic 40,0 3 15 (dsq ) 13 8 1
20 FRA 11 Benjamin Bonnaud, Romain Bonnaud 40,0 2 12 (14 ) 6 13 7
21 ISR 12 Aviv Ben Horin, Eran Sela 40,0 6 9 (13 ) 6 13 6
22 KOR 92 Kyutae Park, Sungmin Jo 41,0 3 16 4 12 6 (22)
23 POL 50 Patriyk Piasecki, Kacper Zieminski 41,0 12 14 5 7 3 (19)
24 USA 1734 Mikee Anderson, David Hughes 42,0 8 14 8 8 (18 ) 4
25 ESP 769 Gustavo Martinez, Dimas Wood 43,0 (ocs ) 7 6 13 9 8
26 ESP 9 Onan Bareiros, Aaron Sarmiento 46,0 7 (17 ) 12 8 6 13
27 GRE 165 Panagiotis Kabouridis, Gerasimos Orologas 50,0 11 2 (18 ) 17 15 5
28 ITA 5 Giulio Desiderato, Alessandro Saettone 50,0 10 14 3 18 5 (21)
29 SUI 51 Tobias Etter, Felix Steiger 50,0 14 6 10 15 (21 ) 5
30 ISR 9 Eyal Levin, Yam Amir 51,0 (27 ) 3 15 10 14 9
31 GBR 830 Thomas Mallindine, James Clark 52,0 17 7 6 (21 ) 10 12
32 ITA 10 Capodanno Alfredo, Giordano Guglielmo 53,0 7 1 19 (26 ) 23 3
33 POL 52 Tomasz Januszewski, Marcin Mickiewicz 54,0 (26 ) 17 11 2 9 15
34 GRE 7 George Vasilas, Evangelos Mittakis 54,0 (ocs ) 19 13 5 9 8
35 AUS 361 Matthew Belcher, Nick Behreins 56,0 17 13 10 4 12 (22)

470 Women Leading positions after 6 races:

1 GER 4978 Stefanie Rottweiler, Vivien Kussatz 12,0pts 1 1 2 7 (8 ) 1
2 ITA 23 Giulia Conti, Giovanna Micol 15,0 2 1 (7 ) 3 4 5
3 JPN 4177 Wakako Tabata, Naomi Kurita 20,0 9 4 3 (12 ) 1 3
4 ISR 10 Nike Kornecki, Vered Bouskila 24,0 5 (18 ) 6 1 7 5
5 FRA 9 Camille Lecointre, Gwendolyn Lemaitre 24,0 7 2 2 (14 ) 9 4
6 ITA 4343 Elisabetta Saccheggiani, Elisa Cecconi 25,0 6 (10 ) 1 9 8 1
7 SLO 142 Vesna Dekleva Paoli, Klara Maucec 27,0 12 7 1 3 (18 ) 4
8 AUS 357 Elise Rechichi, Tessa Parkinson 27,0 11 3 6 (13 ) 5 2
9 CZE 1 Lenka Smidova, Veronika Fenclova 27,0 3 9 5 (22 ) 3 7
10 GER 24 Daria Blachkiewitz, Geeske Genrich 30,0 2 3 7 9 (11 ) 9
11 JPN 4272 Yuka Yoshisako, Noriko Okuma 31,0 1 6 14 (18 ) 2 8
12 JPN 4151 Ai Kondo, Naoko Kamata 31,0 8 8 (13 ) 2 7 6
13 SUI 12 Emanuelle Rol, Anne-Sophie Thilo 31,0 4 9 4 4 10 (13)
14 AUT 431 Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher 32,0 (23 ) 10 3 2 6 11
15 USA 1736 Amanda Clark, Sarah Merghenthaler 35,0 (14 ) 4 4 8 9 10
16 RUS 119 Anna Stepanova, Elena Khryukina 36,0 6 8 15 (16 ) 5 2
17 GER 21 Kathrin Kadelbach, Rike Ziegelmayer 39,0 4 (21 ) 10 1 13 11
18 FRA 4 Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux 41,0 11 7 10 7 6 (17)
19 GRE 887 Anthi Economou, Olga Tsigaridi 46,0 3 11 (18 ) 8 14 10
20 ESP 1833 Marina Gallego Duran, Tamara Echegoyen 48,0 9 13 (20 ) 6 13 7