Aussies doing well Day 2 Kiel Week (Kieler Woche)

by Hermann Hell on 18 Jun 2007 ISAF President Petersson and the Kieler Woche race committee were pleased with today’s action on the water; after a rather slow start Saturday on all Olympic Classes’ courses, on Sunday most competitors sailed 3 races, the boardsailors on course Golf even 4 races.

Austria, New Zealand and Australia are represented with strong teams and leading competitors: The Laser Radial W lead after 4 races share the 'ladies from down under', 1st Jo Aleh, NZL, 2nd S. Blanck, AUS and 3rd W. Krystal, AUS.
Again in the 470 W class following nations/teams cover top positions: 1st S.Vogl/C. Flatscher, AUT, 2nd E. Rechichi/T. Parkinson, AUS, 3rd S. Hesson/B. Barbarich-Bacher, NZL.

The RS-X Board W teams sailed 4 races with A. Brygota, POL in superb lead, followed by the 2 Germans M. Delle and R. Stadler.

The Polish M. Wojcik leads the RS-X Board M fleet, 2nd and 3rd after 4 races are the USA teams W. Robert and B. Barger.

M. Blackburn, AUS scored top points in the Laser, followed by K. Porozynski, POL as 2nd and A. Schlonski, GER as 3rd.

A. Nossiter, AUS leads the Finn fleet, followed by D. Slater, NZL as 2nd and I. Kljakovic, CRO as 3rd.

The German Star team M. Pickel/I. Borkowski won all 3 races superbly with their newly developed and built Star boat, followed by H. Spitzauer/C. Nehammer, AUT as 2nd and P. Bromby/B. McNivel, BER as 3rd, the later of whom sail a sparring boat from M. Pickel.

The Tornados sailed 3 races with Roland Gäbler/G. Struckmann, GER in the lead, followed by their countrymen Helge and Christian Sach as 2nd and H. Söhle/T. Noll as 3rd.

M. Belcher/N. Behrens, AUS lead the fleet of the 470 M, followed by S. Fantela/I. Marenic, CRO as 2nd and L.Zellmer/H. Seelig, GER as 3rd.

The 49er fleet is dominated by M. Baur/H. Baumann, GER followed by C. Sieber/C. Kruse, AUT as 2nd and G. Wicke/W.Jeschonnek, GER as 3rd.

In the 2.4mR class Heiko Kröger, GER, defends successfully his home advantage, - 2nd after 4 races is T. Schmitter, NED, and 3rd P. Tingley, CAN. (-/hmb)

Australian Results to date after 3 race days:

Laser Radial - Sarah Blanck 2nd, Krystal Weir 3rd
Finn - Anthony Nossiter 1st, Brendan Casey 7th, Nathan Quirk 33rd
Star - Andrew Landenberger and Simon Reffold 16th
470W - Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson 2nd, Stacey Omay and Chelsea Hall 22nd
Laser - Michael Blackburn 1st, Tim Castles 34th, James Burman 66th, Joshua Chant 68th
470M - Matthew Belcher and Nick Behrens 1st, Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page 4th, Mathieu Higgins and Tim Lynch 18th
RS:X Men - Michael Lancey 8th, Sean O'Brien 18th

Full results at www.kieler-woche.de