Results from Day One at Qingdao Test Event

by Lynn Fitzpatrick on 16 Aug 2007 The Stars and the RS:X fleets never left the dock as scheduled during the first day of racing at the 2007 Good Luck Beijing Sinopec International Regatta. The Lasers had a lay day. The Finns, the Ynglings, Tornadoes and the 470 Men were out on the water and readied themselves for racing, but ultimately received a tow back to the dock without racing. The 49ers and 470 Women stole the show.

The 49ers were on Area B and had to dance and move softly and slowly as they made their way upwind. The fleet was close together for the first two legs of the course, but once around the leeward mark they separated and when far out to the corners.

The leaders, with the exception of Athanasios Pachoumas and Athanasios Siouzios (GRE), played the top right with both the skipper and the crew crouched more often than standing. The leaders, Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez (ESP) and Pachoumas/Siouzios did a bear away set while Andre Fonseca and Rodrigo Duarte (BRA) did a jibe set and immediately passed the Greek team.

Many boats came together as some bore off to head downwind while others were still trying to round the mark. As the Norwegian, Croatian, Polish and American boats came together a silent ballet ensued while they tried to avoid collisions. Martinez/Fernandez rounded the second weather mark with a one-minute lead and ultimately finished ahead of the Brazilians by a 30-second margin.

A little further to the southeast, the 470 Women and 470 Men drifted in the light air and strong current for hours. A little more cloud cover cooled things down enough to create enough breeze to start the women. The 470 Men’s race, however was abandoned after the women rounded the top mark in their race and it was clear that the wind was dissipating.

Like the 49ers, the 470 Women also had a slow beat. Going downwind very slowly, the pack went left while a few boats looked for and found pressure on the middle right. Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson (AUS) led to the left gate at the bottom mark of the trapezoidal course. The Aussies and the Dutch sailed under the rest of the fleet that was still grinding away on the run.

Stefanie Rothweiler and Wivien Kussat (GER) led a group to the right gate where there was quite a pile up and at least one set of circles done.

Rechichi/Parkinson were delighted with their performance in the first race. Tessa beamed, 'winning our first race feels amazing and it was a great way to start off the week.' She commented, 'We had a relatively bad start. A lot of boats were over the line, leading to several black flags. For this race, we decided to head up the middle, and it ended out working in our favor.'

470 Women INDIVIDUAL RACE RESULTS BY EVENT (BEFORE HEARING)

Order of cast NOC Sail No Wheelman 缭手 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 TOTAL Score 1 AUS 470WAUS Elsie RECHICHI Tessa PARKINSON 1                     1 1 2 NED 470WNED Marcelien de KONING Lobke BERKHOUT 2                     2 2 3 GER 470WGER Stefanie ROTHWEILER Vivien KUSSATZ 3                     3 3 4 SWE 470WSWE Therese TORGERSSON Vendele ZACHRISSON 4                     4 4 5 USA 470WUSA Amanda CLARK Sara MERGENTHALER 5                     5 5 6 AUT 470WAUT Sylvia VOGL Carolina FLATSCHER 6                     6 6 7 FRA 470WFRA Ingrid PETITJEAN Nadege DOUROUX 7                     7 7 8 DEN 470WDEN Henrietta KOCH Lene SOMMER 8                     8 8 9 JPN 470WJPN Ai KONDO Naoko KAMATA 9                     9 9 10 UKR 470WUKR Ruslana TARAN Olena PAKHOLCHYK 10                     10 10 11 ESP 470WESP Marina GALLEGO Tamara ECHEGOYEN 11                     11 11 12 CZE 470WCZE Lenka SMIDOVA Lenka MRZILKOVA 12                     12 12 13 ITA 470WITA Giulian CONTI Giovanna MICOL 13                     13 13 14 SUI 470WSUI Emmanuel ROL Anne-Sophie THILO 14                     14 14 15 ISR 470WISR Nike KORNECKI Vered BOUSKILA 15                     15 15 16 GRE 470WGRE Anthi ECONOMOU Olga TSIGARIDI 16                     16 16 17 CHN 470WCHN Yinjuan SHEN Yineng HUANG 17                     17 17 18 SIN 470WSIN Liying TOH Dwborah ONG 18                     18 18 23 SLO 470WSLO Vesna DEKLEVA Klara MAUCEC 23                     23 23 23 KOR 470WKOR Hawen LIM Minjeong KIM 23                     23 23 23 BRA 470WBAR Fernanda OLIVEIRA Rsabel SWANN 23                     23 23 23 GBR 470WGBR Christina BASSADONE Saskia CLARK 23                     23 23

DNC: Not arrive at the beginning RAF: Arrive at the end and complete the game OCS: Not active      DNF: Not arrive at the end DNS: Not active (different from DNC and OCS) RDG: Compensate DSQ: Cancel credentials

49er INDIVIDUAL RACE RESULTS BY EVENT (BEFORE HEARING)

Order of cast NOC Sail No Wheelman 缭手 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 TOTAL Score 1 ESP 49ERESP Iker MARTINEZ Xabier FERNANDEZ 1                               1 1 2 BRA 49ERBRA Andre FONSECA Rodrigo DUARTE 2                               2 2 3 GRE 49ERGRE Athanasios PACHOUMASA Athanasios SIOUZIOS 3                               3 3 4 POR 49ER POR Jorge LIMA Francisco ANDRADE 4                               4 4 5 JPN 49ERJPN Akira ISHIBASHI Yukio MAKINO 5                               5 5 6 GBR 49ERGBR Stevie MORRISON Ben RHODES 6                               6 6 7 AUT 49ERAUT Nico DELLE KARTH Nikolaus RESCH 7                               7 7 8 FRA 49ERFRA Morgan LAGRACIBIE Stephane CHRISTIDRS 8                               8 8 9 ITA 49ERITA Piero SIBELLO Gianfranco SIBELLO 9                               9 9 10 DEN 49ERDEN Peter HANSEN Soren HANSEN 10                               10 10 11 POL 49ERPOL Tomasz STANCZYK Pawel KUZMICKI 11                               11 11 12 GER 49ERGER Marsus BAUR Hannes BAUMANN 12                               12 12 13 CAN 49ERCAN Gordon COOK Ben REMOCKER 13                               13 13 14 FIN 49ERFIN lauri LEHTJNEN Heikki SOININEN 14                               14 14 15 USA 49erusa Morgan LARSON Peter SPAULDING 15                               15 15 16 NOR 49ERNOR Christopher GUNDERSEN Frode BOVIM 16                               16 16 17 CRO 49ERCRO Paule KOSTOV Petar CUPAC 17                               17 17 18 AUS 49ERAUS Nathan OUTTERIDGE Ben AUSTIN 18                               18 18 19 UKR 49ERUKR Rodion LUKA George LEOHCHUK 19                               19 19 20 SWE 49ERSWE Jonas LINDBERG Crew TORLEN 20                               20 20 21 IRL 49ERIRL Russell McGOVERN Matt McGOVERN 21                               21 21 22 CHN 49ERCHN Xiangqiang HU Fei LI 22                               22 22 23 EST 49EREST Tonis HAVVEL Lenart KIVISTIK 23                               23 23