Martin Evans chases lead in Radial Youth Worlds

by Olivia Powrie on 27 Mar 2008
Conditions were again proving to be pretty spectacular with north-easterlies of 12-18 knot breezes giving the sailors a good workout in big waves. With the discard now in, results have seen a mix-up, but in all three fleets, the leaders continued to stay out in front of the opposition today.

Having not finished outside the top two in all of his races, Michael Leigh (CAN) is showing a dominant performance in the Men’s fleet, pulling away from Brad Funk (USA) in second place, who is four points off the lead. Having been able to discard a starting penalty, Simon Morgan (AUS) sits in third place. Britains' Ben Paton is in 13th place.

In the Men’s Youth fleet, Andy Maloney (NZL) started the day off well with a third but slipped up with a starting penalty in race six. With the discard now in the results he is still eight points clear of second placed Martin Evans (GBR). Evans was third in his first race then won the second to go one point ahead of Max Moerman Maarten (NED).

This is a very tight event with Tom Burton (AUS) in fourth another point back and then four competitors on 22 points, including Britain's James Spencer.

Cushla Hume-Merry (NZL) retains her lead in the Female Youth fleet with a four point margin over Gabrielle King (AUS) in second place. While Sarah Gunni (DEN) jumped up the score board into third place after discarding a starting penalty in race two.

Chloe Martin of Britain, is still the best placed, in eighth with Hannah Diamond up into tenth, then Melissa Addy in eleventh.

A fantastic effort has been done by the North Shore City Council who is providing pasta each afternoon once racing is completed. It has been very well received by sailors, coaches and volunteers alike.

Leading Results Radial Men - 6 races, 1 discard

1st L7 CAN 175948 Leigh Michael (2) 2 1 1 1 1 8 6pts
2nd N9 USA 184454 Funk Brad 1 3 2 2 (5) 2 15 10
3rd 99 AUS 169430 Morgan Simon 7 (72 BFD) 5 3 2 4 93 21
4th U21 C9 NZL 184685 Sandall James 6 1 (13) 7 9 5 41 28
5th U21 H1 AUS 188795 Burman James (18) 4 6 4 4 11 47 29
6th U21 H2 NED 181979 Pelt Gijs 3 10 (12) 8 6 6 45 33
7th U21 L9 NZL 181880 Andrews Max 8 (24) 9 5 3 9 58 34
8th 2 FRA 190888 Frei Mathieu 4 9 7 (22) 7 13 62 40
9th H5 NZL 187891 McLay Blair (22) 7 8 6 14 17 74 52
10th U21 K3 AUS 192291 Palk Ryan 15 5 (25) 11 21 3 80 55
11th U21 G3 FRA 186634 Leseigneur Malo 9 (20) 14 13 11 8 75 55
12th M8 NED 185392 Mackelenbergh Rodie (32) 16 3 20 10 12 93 61
13th M7 GBR 182523 Paton Ben 23 12 15 14 8 (33) 105 72
14th N0 NZL 181311 Orams Mark (25) 15 4 15 20 20 99 74
15th U21 B6 AUS 187925 Gunther Benjamin (27) 27 ARB 18 10 12 7 101 74
16th M2 NZL 161262 Geale Jason 26 (72 BFD) 10 12 16 10 146 74
17th M4 NZL 191211 Overington Mark 11 13 17 (31) 13 21 106 75
18th K4 NZL 162120 Cree Elliot 10 19 16 17 19 (38) 119 81
19th U21 9 AUS 192290 Hauschildt Klade (29) 14 19 16 17 18 113 84
20th H4 NED 192302 Koppelaar Ben 21 11 21 23 (31) 15 122 91

Leading Results Radial Youth Women - 6 races, 1 discard

1 NZL 192278 Hume-Merry Cushla 8.0pts 2 2 2 1 (6) 1
2 AUS 186668 King Gabrielle 12.0 4 1 1 (7) 4 2
3 DEN 184984 Gunni Sarah 15.0 1 (bfd) 3 2 5 4
4 USA 182841 Dennis Claire 25.0 3 7 (9) 6 2 7
5 IRL 190587 Murphy Annalise 26.0 (17) 4 6 4 3 9
6 FRA 191365 de Kerangat Mathilde 31.0 (11) 3 7 11 7 3
7 USA 183905 Billing Emily 43.0 5 (dsq) 11 8 8 11
8 GBR 190565 Martin Chloe 43.0 6 6 12 (15) 13 6
9 AUS 191626 Stoddart Ashley 44.0 (15) 5 5 10 11 13
10 GBR 192581 Diamond Hannah 51.0 8 11 (15) 12 15 5
11 GBR 189200 Addy Melissa 59.0 7 10 25 9 (ocs) 8
12 GRE 189252 Agrafioti Anna 64.0 (24) 13 13 16 12 10
13 ISV 193077 Roller Mayumi 66.0 10 9 19 (22) 9 19
14 DEN 192694 Hall Cathrine 68.0 19 (bfd) 4 5 1 ocs
15 NZL 181720 Tootill Sarah 75.0 16 12 16 (19) 14 17
16 AUS 188780 South Alexandra 77.0 9 18 8 3 (dnf) dne
17 CRO 182690 Dujmovic Marina 86.0 (29) 14 14 20 24 14
18 ITA 185388 Fabbri Matilde 87.0 (26) 21 10 23 10 23
19 GRE 165211 Psoma Antonia 87.0 20 15 17 (26) 17 18
20 NZL 191617 Barrell Jessica 91.0 22 25 (30) 14 18 12
21 NED 187600 Broekhuizen Michelle 94.0 18 16 (26) 21 19 20
22 GBR 184854 Platts Sophie 95.0 (23) 19 22 18 20 16
23 NZL 191620 Basevi Rachel 96.0 (25) 22 20 17 16 21
24 NZL 179386 England Paula 109.0 12 (bfd) 23 13 ocs 22
25 GBR 187904 Tweddell Grace 111.0 21 8 18 (dnf) ocs 25

Leading Results Radial Youth Men - 6 races, 1 discard

1 NZL 181961 Maloney Andrew 9.0pts 3 1 1 1 3 (ocs)
2 GBR 189362 Evans Martin 17.0 10 (12) 1 2 3 1
3 NED 178640 Moerman Maarten Max 18.0 (20) 9 2 4 1 2
4 AUS 191612 Burton Tom 19.0 10 (bfd) 3 3 2 1
5 NZL 185381 McKee Cameron 22.0 2 4 (18) 10 2 4
6 NZL 190332 Meech Sam 22.0 6 2 2 6 (11) 6
7 FRA 188506 Florent Blais 22.0 (8) 2 6 3 4 7
8 GBR 187491 Spencer James 22.0 5 5 3 (9) 4 5
9 BRA 189532 Pereira Guilherme 23.0 1 3 6 5 (9) 8
10 IRL 191247 Penney Chris 24.0 2 6 7 (8) 1 8
11 NZL 188807 Saunders Jason 24.0 5 10 4 2 (12) 3
12 NZL 181998 Deegan Luke 31.0 3 6 8 6 8 (24)
13 BRA 159694 Mazzaferro Stefano 31.0 4 9 7 4 (25) 7
14 NZL 185378 Vincent Matt 32.0 1 1 8 8 (17) 14
15 NED 184292 Ter Haar Sierk Jan 32.0 9 3 (11) 10 5 5
16 GRE 188230 Kiourtzis Alexandros 33.0 11 15 4 1 (19) 2
17 SLO 185409 Pletikos Nik 37.0 13 (bfd) 5 7 9 3
18 NZL 191623 Dow Travis 42.0 9 4 12 11 6 (18)
19 USA 190374 Wallace John 47.0 24 (bfd) 5 7 7 4
20 BRA 185098 Pinna Baepi 49.0 4 11 15 (30) 5 14
21 MAS 182997 Hairudin Harrithammry 57.0 6 16 10 19 (20) 6
22 AUS 185363 Searle Keiran 60.0 15 13 (17) 15 8 9
23 NZL 171924 Jacobson Kayne 64.0 7 (20) 19 12 15 11
24 USA 175086 Dugdale Nicholas 65.0 17 7 16 (26) 10 15
25 USA 189792 McClatchy Bo 66.0 8 (bfd) 20 14 6 18
26 AUS 163194 Noye Elliott 66.0 12 11 13 18 (24) 12
27 GBR 178751 Cornthwaite Jak 67.0 28 (bfd) 12 5 10 12
28 CRO 189016 Peresa Marko 68.0 7 7 19 21 14 (26)
29 NZL 192613 Cockburn Hayden 69.0 (36) 14 18 20 7 10
30 TUR 191728 Bastanoglu Bora 72.0 27 (bfd) 9 11 16 9

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