Portugual takes Day 1 of Mens RS-X Europeans

by RS:X Event media on 5 May 2008
Joao Rodrigues (POR 75) was nothing if not consistent to day putting in a second and a win to lead the Men’s European RS:X Championship being sailed in Brest, France.

In the Womens Open, Kate Ellingham is the top placed New Zealander, lying 13th overall after two races having scored an eighth and 21st placing. Barbara Kendall was scored OCS in the first race of the Womens Open and finished ninth in the second race to lie in 31st overall. The third NZ competitor, Steffanie Williams is 41st overall having scored 3th and 42nd today.

Second overall in the Mens Open is Julien Bontemps (FRA 6) just one point behind with Nikos Kaklamanakis (GRE 9) two points further adrift. Nick Dempsey (GBR 1) makes up the top 4 with 9 points.

In the continuing story of the Dutch qualification struggle, it appears right now to be a one horse race. Remember that to qualify for the Games in China, either Dorian Van Rijsselberge (NED 8) or Casper Bouman (NED 52) have to finish in the top 6 at one of 4 regattas during this European season. They both managed that in Hyeres.

Now at the Europeans. Casper seems to have already blown his chances to make the standard . Standing 32nd overall, having scored an 18th and a 14th today only a miracle will get him back into contention. Dorian on the other hand, is very much in line to do the business. 7th in the overall standing with a 5th and a 7th he must be pretty satisfied with his first day and looking forward to a late start tomorrow (1300hrs).

Overall a good first day’s racing, if not a little on the long side for everyone!

Pauline Perrin (FRA) takes the second race European Championship

Pauline Perrin (FRA 81) took the gun for the second women’s race of the European championship which must be a big boost after a poor first race.

The big winner of the day however must be Faustine Merret (FRA 9) who is racing on her home race track and finished 3rd in this race to giver herself the overall lead after day one. Equal second, one point behind, Charline Picon (FRA 4) and Marina Alabau (ESP 5) are clearly going to do all they can to stop Faustine from winning ‘at home’. Something she would dearly love to do.

Eight points back Alessandra Sensine (ITA 25) lies in 4th overall. Her damage limitation strategy has clearly been a success after sarting the day feeling less than ‘on top form’.

It is likely that the women will be first onto the water tomorrow. I’ll get back to you with the details as soon as the race comittee have made their decision.

Womens Race 1 - European Championships

Marina Alabau (ESP 5) took the first race of the Women’s European Championship with an incredible jibe at the last mark in the slalom end to beat Charline Picon (FRA 4) and Faustine merret (FRA 9)

Just off the back of the leading group who all finished within 21 seconds was Bryony Shaw (GBR 94) who was always threatening but not quite able to get in amongst the top three.

There is a long way for this regatta to go and already we are seeing the expected front runners laying down their markers at the front of the fleet. Alessandra Sensini (ITA 25) despite my earlier report did take part in the race to finish a creditable 5th. And the reason for her change of mind?

The wind has filled in to such an extent that we almost have planing conditions up wind now. Meaning Alessandra would not have had to try and expend a serious amount of energy and delay her complete recovery.

The women have been held on the water and will start their second race as soon as possible (Probably around 1830 hrs). After their start the two groups of men will be called out for their second race. The last possible time for a race start is 1930hrs.

Men Race 1 - European Championships

Samuel Launay and Julien Bontemps win the first pair of races on the first day of the European Championship

Meanwhile the women wait ashore not really relishing the prospect of racing in the light stuff. Alessandra Sensini (ITA 25) has already decided not to go out for the first women’s race as she is ‘not feeling brilliant’ to put it mildy. Anyway, she will re-consider if there is a second women’s race run today.

Just a little note on some serious background stress this morning… I got into the office at 0830hrs to find Pascal our resident on line scoring guru spinning out because none of his mobile phones would connect to the internet! Effectively this would have meant that the online scoring system was unusable.

Pretty disasterous, you will agree I’m sure… well luckily for us racing was postponed and by the time the men were called on to the water, the trouble had been tracked out to the network provider. Les Crocodiles de L’Elorn was in a tiny area where the network was down.

They worked perfectly yesterday during the practice race. They worked 100 metres either side of the club. They even work on the water (except at mark 3) but they don’t work in the office! To come to these conclusions involved some desperate hours of testing, phone calls and deduction but anyway all’s well that ends well.

Phew! Disaster management has now been stood down and normal service has been restored…

For all the latest from the 2008 European Championships visit the official website: www.rsxclass.com/europeans08.html!2008_RSX_Europeans,_Brest_France

 

Womens RS:X Brest Open 2008 Provisional Standings Overall
After Race 2

Pos	Country	Sailnumber	Helmsman | (Crew)	Race 1	Race 2										Total
1		FRA9	Faustine Merret	3.0	3.0										6.0
2		FRA4	Charline Picon	2.0	5.0										7.0
3		ESP5	Marina Alabau	1.0	6.0										7.0
4		ITA25	Alessandra Sensini	5.0	11.0										16.0
5		POL8	Zofia Klepacka	14.0	2.0										16.0
6		POL21	Malgorzata Bialecka	10.0	7.0										17.0
7		FIN109	Tuuli Petaja	11.0	8.0										19.0
8		GBR94	Bryony Shaw	4.0	17.0										21.0
9		GRE4	Athina-Antonia Frey	7.0	15.0										22.0
10		FRA81	Pauline Perrin	23.0	1.0										24.0
11		UKR9	Olga Maslivets	12.0	14.0										26.0
12		ITA46	Flavia Tartaglini	15.0	13.0										28.0
13		NZL48	Kate Ellingham	8.0	21.0										29.0
14		POL6	Anna Galecka	18.0	12.0										30.0
15		AUS15	Jessica Crisp	27.0	4.0										31.0
16		ITA11	Laura Linares	17.0	19.0										36.0
17		POL20	Agata Brygola	28.0	10.0										38.0
18		GER61	Romy Kinzl	16.0	24.0										40.0
19		JPN9	Yasuko Kosuge	19.0	23.0										42.0
20		NOR3	Jannicke Stalstrom	9.0	35.0										44.0
21		BEL90	Sigrid Rondelez	20.0	25.0										45.0
22		CAN5	Dominique Vallee	30.0	16.0										46.0
23		BUL14	Irina Konstantinova-Bontemps	21.0	30.0										51.0
24		POL4	Marta Hlavaty	25.0	27.0										52.0
25		CAN19	Nikola Girke	24.0	28.0										52.0
26		BRA818	Patricia Freitas	22.0	34.0										56.0
27		FRA12	Solenn Gourand	36.0	22.0										58.0
28		ESP1	Blanca Manchon	6.0	52.0 DNF										58.0
29		GER77	Wiebke Sradnick	41.0	18.0										59.0
30		FRA118	Anne de Buyer	29.0	31.0										60.0
31		NZL15	Barbara Kendall	52.0 OCS	9.0										61.0
32		GRE3	Angeliki Skarlatou	33.0	29.0										62.0
33		DEN379	Bettina Honore	26.0	37.0										63.0
34		ISR10	Maayan Davidovich	13.0	52.0 OCS										65.0
35		HUN7	Diana Detre	43.0	26.0										69.0
36		ISR17	Nitzan Maayan	37.0	33.0										70.0
37		UKR27	Olga Gorbatykh	31.0	39.0										70.0
38		GRE13	Anastasia Davrou	40.0	32.0										72.0
39		FRA22	Eugenie Ricard	52.0 DNF	20.0										72.0
40		USA8	Nancy Rios	38.0	36.0										74.0
41		NZL3	Steffanie Williams	35.0	42.0										77.0
42		RUS9	Tatiana Bazyuk	34.0	44.0										78.0
43		UKR10	Anna Sagulenko	42.0	38.0										80.0
44		FRA50	Marine Rambaud	32.0	52.0 OCS										84.0
45		DEN258	Katrine Jensen	44.0	41.0										85.0
46		DEN95	Sine Lysdahl	39.0	47.0										86.0
47		TUR90	Koktenkurk Sedef	46.0	45.0										91.0
48		CRO8	Dominique Djakulovic	48.0	43.0										91.0
49		MEX5	Demita Vega de Lille	52.0 OCS	40.0										92.0
50		HUN23	Szilvia Csanak	47.0	46.0										93.0
51		UKR0	Lyudmyla Drozd	45.0	52.0 DNF										97.0

Mens RS:X Brest Open 2008 Provisional Standings Overall
After Race 2

Pos	Country	Sailnumber	Helmsman | (Crew)	Race 1	Race 2										Total
1		POR75	Joao Rodrigues	2.0	1.0										3.0
2		FRA6	Julien Bontemps	1.0	3.0										4.0
3		GRE9	Nikolas Kaklamanakis	4.0	2.0										6.0
4		BRA1	Ricardo Santos	2.0	5.0										7.0
5		POL126	Przemyslaw Miarczynski	4.0	4.0										8.0
6		GBR1	Nick Dempsey	3.0	7.0										10.0
7		JPN10	Makoto Tomizawa	7.0	6.0										13.0
8		ISR11	Shahar Zubari	6.0	7.0										13.0
9		NED8	Dorian Van Rijsselberge	5.0	8.0										13.0
10		POL729	Maksymilian Wojcik	11.0	3.0										14.0
11		POL738	Lukasz Grodzicki	7.0	8.0										15.0
12		ESP7	Ivan Pastor Lafuente	10.0	5.0										15.0
13		FRA115	Nicholas Le Gal	11.0	4.0										15.0
14		POL82	Pior Myszka	14.0	1.0										15.0
15		FRA17	Henry Quentin	3.0	14.0										17.0
16		FRA8	Nicholas Huguet	13.0	6.0										19.0
17		ITA110	Fabian Heidegger	17.0	2.0										19.0
18		HUN12	Aron Gadorfalvi	8.0	12.0										20.0
19		FRA170	Antoine Cordonnier	9.0	12.0										21.0
20		MEX0	David Mier y Teran	9.0	13.0										22.0
21		USA111	Ben Barger	12.0	11.0										23.0
22		FRA99	Etienne Saiz	6.0	18.0										24.0
23		ISR21	Nimrod Mashiah	15.0	10.0										25.0
24		UKR19	Maksim Oberemko	15.0	10.0										25.0
25		GRE8	Byron Kokalanis	8.0	17.0										25.0
26		TUR7	Ertugrul Icinger	18.0	9.0										27.0
27		CYP13	Andreas Cariolou	12.0	16.0										28.0
28		FRA5	Martin Gaveriaux	14.0	15.0										29.0
29		KOR37	Kim Hyungkwon	10.0	21.0										31.0
30		FRA1	Fabrice Hassen	13.0	20.0										33.0
31		KOR71	Taehoon Lee	24.0	9.0										33.0
32		GER550	Christian Freimueller	18.0	16.0										34.0
33		GBR75	Richard Hamilton	23.0	11.0										34.0
34		FRA39	Benjamin Tiller	5.0	30.0										35.0
35		GER319	Toni Whilhelm	17.0	19.0										36.0
36		JPN11	Kazuya Ueno	22.0	14.0										36.0
37		NED52	Casper Bouman	20.0	17.0										37.0
38		GBR20	Leo McCallin	16.0	22.0										38.0
39		FRA13	Nicholas Guyader	20.0	19.0										39.0
40		DEN72	Jonas Kaeldso	19.0	20.0										39.0
41		GBR7	Elliot Carney	19.0	21.0										40.0
42		FRA112	Samuel Launay	1.0	39.0 DNF										40.0
43		BLR11	Mikalay Zhukavets	27.0	15.0										42.0
44		RUS11	Konstantin Peredkov	21.0	22.0										43.0
45		GRE53	Thiseas Kampas	21.0	23.0										44.0
46		GER510	Florian Freimueller	34.0	13.0										47.0
47		ESP117	Alejandro Rivera	23.0	26.0										49.0
48		SVK01	Patrik Pollak	22.0	27.0										49.0
49		POL101	Michal Majewski	16.0	34.0										50.0
50		GRE7	Dimitris Vlahakis	28.0	23.0										51.0
51		POL29	Michal Przybytek	26.0	26.0										52.0
52		COL75	Santiago Grillo	30.0	24.0										54.0
53		CAN33	Zac Plavsicz	36.0	18.0										54.0
54		UKR2	Dimytro Davidenko	26.0	29.0										55.0
55		CAN11	David Hayes	25.0	30.0										55.0
56		RUS17	Anton Shelikhov	32.0	24.0										56.0
57		ISR26	Shlomi Ayoubi	24.0	32.0										56.0
58		FRA19	Louis-Benoit Hug	25.0	32.0										57.0
59		CRO751	Luka Mratovic	27.0	31.0										58.0
60		BEL80	Arne Herpoele	33.0	25.0										58.0
61		ISR7	Omri Hazor	31.0	28.0										59.0
62		ITA101	Alessandro Giannini	30.0	31.0										61.0
63		RUS91	Alexey Tokarev	32.0	29.0										61.0
64		ITA0	Manfredi Misaraca	33.0	28.0										61.0
65		UKR71	Oleksandr Zabiyakin	29.0	33.0										62.0
66		EST99	Johannes Ahun	31.0	33.0										64.0
67		POL83	Cezary Roslen	39.0 OCS	25.0										64.0
68		RUS27	Denis Zakriev	29.0	36.0										65.0
69		CRO15	Aron Lolic	28.0	37.0										65.0
70		POL184	Kamil Lewandowski	39.0 OCS	27.0										66.0
71		RUS4	Dmitry Polishchuk	35.0	35.0										70.0
72		SWE64	Johan Ekstedt	35.0	35.0										70.0
73		RUS3	Victor Ayvazyan	39.0 OCS	34.0										73.0
74		POL108	Jan Maszkiewiz	34.0	39.0 DNF										73.0
75		GER122	Vincent Langer	37.0	39.0 DNF										76.0
76		ITA9	Federico Esposito	39.0 DNF	39.0 DNF										78.0