Champalimaud (POR) new leader of Dragon Gold Cup

by Event media on 4 Sep 2008
Manuel Champalimaud is the new leader of the Cascais Dragon Gold Cup. The Portuguese sailor was eighth in the championship’s fourth race and has a three point advantage from Poul Richard Hoj Jensen, Theis Palm and Andrew Mordem and 8,7 from Robert Campbell, Matt Walker and Jonathan Hill, both from Great Britain.

Champalimaud with Mark Hart and Ed Streeter are showing an impressive regularity and reached the first place. An unexpected result as Champalimaud says:

'I didn’t expect to be the leader. Here, there are 74 crews that can win. My crew is doing a fantastic job. We’re a real team and all the decisions are made as a team. I think that’s the main reason why we’re so regular and sailing so well.'

Champalimaud doesn’t feel any extra pressure to win the Cascais Dragon Gold Cup: 'I just want keep sailing calmly, as I’ve been doing these days', says the helm of 'Mar'.

Lars Hendriksen, George Leonchuk and Martin Leifelt, from Ukraine scored a 1st place in Race 4, on a 12 mile course, with the south wind blowing 6 to 8 knots. Russia’s Maxim Semerkhanov, Dmitri Tereshkin and Russian Formichev were second and Ireland’s Don O’Donoghue, Brian Mathews and Mark Pettitt, ended third.

Thursday the fleet will have one race, starting at 14:00h.

Dragon Gold Cup - Positions after 4 races

Place	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Points	1	2	3	4
1	POR-42	Manuel Champalimaud	Mark Hart / Ed Streeter	63	16	19	14	14
2	GBR-735	Poul Richard Hoj Jensen	Theis Palm / Andrew Mordem	66	10	26	22	8
3	GBR-688	Robert Campbell	Matt Walker / Jonathan Hill	71,7	27	15	5,7	24
4	DEN-166	Tom Carlsen	Mark Flint / Philipp Skafte-Holm	78,4	11,7	34	11,7	21
5	GBR-716	Gavia Wilkinson-Cox	Jon Mortimer / Ron Rosenberg	79	45	3	16	15
6	UKR-8	Eugeniy Braslavets	Sergey Timokhov / Claus Olesen	81	26	0	29	26
7	UKR-9	Lars Hendriksen	George Leonchuk / Martin Leifelt	82	17	30	35	0
8	SUI-288	Robert Stanjek	Markus Koy / Friedemann Nisch	82	22	10	37	13
9	RUS-77	Inna Shternberg	Yury Bozhedomov / Petr Zakharov	90	36	29	15	10
10	UKR-7	Markus Wieser	Thomas Auracher / Sergei Pugatchev	91	8	21	32	30
11	GER-976	Dirk David	Stefan Abel / Mark Bayer	98	34	14	30	20
12	RUS-31	Emelianov Konstantin	Mikhail Senatorov / Alexandz Prokorov	105	18	22	28	37
13	RUS-44	Artiom Kuznetsov	Vladimir Silkin / Georgy Shayduko	113	0	32	26	55
14	GER-1036	Max Glas	Wolfi Steuer / Simon Ramstetter	116	29	25	27	35
15	POR-47	Henrique Anjos	Vasco Serpa / Pedro Costa Alemão	119	38	33	17	31
16	RUS-71	Maxim Semerkhanov	Dmitri Tereshkin / Ruslan Formichev	123	42	37	41	3
17	GER-996	Thomas Muller	Vincent Hoesch / Maximillian Scheibmair	124,4	81	11,7	20	11,7
18	RUS-25	Alexey Krylov	Vlad Kapitonov / Alexey Bushuev	128	19	20	8	81
19	USA-310	Edward Sawyer	Martin Payne / William Willet	130,7	5,7	23	43	59
20	GBR-723	Quentin Strauss	Nigel Young/Lars Wegener	133	50	43	13	27
21	GBR-708	Len Jones	Claus Hoj Jensen / Jaime Lee	133	48	48	18	19
22	RUS-81	Mikhail Apukhtin	Leonid Klepikov / Alexander Mironov	133	30	18	24	61
23	GER-1042	Philip Dohse	Oliver Mose / Jan Scharfetter	136	37	38	3	58
24	RUS-27	Anatoly Loginov	Alexander Shalagin / Andrei Kirilyuk	136	49	31	40	16
25	RUS-47	Igor Skalin	Valery Zatsarinskiy / Oleg Edokimenko	137	31	44	34	28
26	POR-51	Filipe Silva	Joaquim Moreira / Miguel Pinto	139	47	60	0	32
27	DEN-391	Jorgen Schonherr	Jan Eli Gravad / Christian Videbaek	141	3	59	57	22
28	RUS-35	Oleg Khopersky	Victor Fogelson / Eugeny Ivanov	141	57	17	50	17
29	SUI-296	Harro Kniffka	Michael Lipp / Michael Koch	142	32	8	61	41
30	GER-1056	Burkhard Keese	Phil Blin / Jorg Moesnang	142	35	40	44	23
31	DEN-266	Frank Berg	Soren Nielsen/ Soren Kaestel	145,7	60	5,7	10	70
32	SUI-297	Ulli Libor	Frank Butzmann / Stefan Hellriegel	156	43	13	56	44
33	IRL-204	Don O`Donoghue	Brian Mathews / Mark Pettitt	157,7	13	58	81	5,7
34	POR-55	Jose Matoso	Charles Nankin / Afonso Marques	160	14	52	45	49
35	RUS-1	Arnold Shternberg	Artem Smirnov / Alexander Andrianov	165	44	50	33	38
36	POR-146	Jorge Pinheiro	Frederico Pinheiro de Melo / Francisco Mourão	166	41	47	31	47
37	RUS-96	Mikhail Muratov	Valentin Uvarkin / Viacheslav Varnachkin	169	56	49	39	25
38	NED-305	Bram de Wilde	Henri Boere / Gijs Evers	171	39	61	53	18
39	FRA-365	Louis Urvois	Gwen Chapalian / Jimmy Pahun	171	51	53	21	46
40	POR-56	Miguel Magalhães	Jorge P. Melo / José Magalhães	171	46	67	25	33
41	GER-1009	Ulrich Matthiesen	Michael Nesselhauf / Jorg Fischer	172	33	24	52	63
42	MON-11	Christian Boillot	Lionel Pean / Gerad Le Goff	173	52	41	38	42
43	RUS-2	Sergey Maslov	Vladimir Krutskikh / Aleksandr Ezhkov	174	40	16	54	64
44	POR-49	Francisco Lacerda	Diogo Lacerda / Diogo Pereira	175	62	46	19	48
45	RUS-45	Sergey Yazikov	Igor Frolov / Vladimir Liubomirov	178	23	63	42	50
46	DEN-380	Peter Warrer	Eric Orsted / Thomas Sorensen	187	21	42	81	43
47	SWE-338	Stefan Winberg	Bosse Ahlstrom / Peter Casso	187	25	36	81	45
48	GER-972	Christian Krausenecker	Karl Ibscher / Lasr Walter	193	20	75	59	39
49	POR-34	Fernando Bello	Jorge Moya / Tiago Geraldes	196	24	55	49	68
50	POR-57	Mario Quina	Fernando Passeiro / Eric Vandame	199	15	69	48	67
51	RUS-69	Olga White	Igor Ivaskintsov / Alexey Murashkin	199	53	70	47	29
52	SWE-342	Bjorn Osterblom	Peje Emilsson / Bo Kaijser	202	28	35	64	75
53	POR-58	José Duarte Bello	Henrique Costa e Silva / Miguel Cardoso	205	58	39	55	53
54	NED-309	Guus de Groot	Richard van Rij / Hay Winters	209	64	27	66	52
55	GER-1043	Cian O`Carroll	Thomas Hill/Kane Williamson	215	71	65	23	56
56	RUS-32	Andrey Samoylov	Leonid Altukhov / Manat Nevlyutov	225	54	74	63	34
57	POR-54	António Mardel Correia	Pedro Rebelo de Andrade / Bernardo Santos	226	63	66	46	51
58	GER-1044	Horst-Wilhelm Stroh	Rudiger Karsten / Katharina Stroh	228	55	68	36	69
59	HKG-50	Phyllis Chang	Lowell Chang / Lars Gelbjerg-Hansen	228	74	56	58	40
60	POR-36	Patrick Monteiro de Barros	Pedro Beckert / Paulo Bastos	240	59	72	73	36
61	POR-50	Pedro Mendes Leal	Pedro Pinheiro de Melo / Jorge Ferlov	253	65	71	60	57
62	GBR-575	Richard Davies	Titch Blachford / Patrick Welton	256	61	54	70	71
63	RUS-6	Alexander Shmid	Alexander Yanin / Mikhail Markin	258	67	45	67	79
64	GBR-730	Thomas Olrog	Claire Sowry / Philip Catmur	259	69	28	88	74
65	AUS-206	Gordon Ingate	Christine Ingate / Robert Alp	259	81	62	62	54
66	POR-46	Francisco Pinheiro de Melo	Vicente Pinheiro de Melo / Francisco Ramada	261	68	80	51	62
67	MON-2	Jens Rathsack	Bjorn Oestreich / Nina Rathsack	273	81	51	65	76
68	GBR-690	Stephane Baseden	Pascal Buli-Debat / Franck Corbiere	273	72	57	71	73
69	POR-53	Fernando Nogueira	Fernando Gamboa / Morgan Nogueira	279	70	77	72	60
70	BEL-69	Michael Van Callwelaert	Jan de Bie/Lien de Bien	281	75	64	76	66
71	RUS-80	Andriy Litsynskyy	Vladimir Makaron / Andriy Golvoko	283	66	78	74	65
72	POR-23	Filipe Loureiro	Miguel Tavares / Luis Vasconcelos Dias	295	76	73	69	77
73	POR-27	Antonio Vianez	Andre Bravo/Henrique Lopes Cardoso/Filipe Talone	300	81	79	68	72
74	POR-40	Pedro Almeida Lopes	João Almeida Lopes / António Santos Matos	302	73	76	75	78

 

The Cascais Dragon Gold Cup is part of Cascais Vela 2008 project and counts with the participation of 74 boats, representing 16 countries and is considered as the most important and prestigious regatta of the International Dragon Class, which returns to Cascais 10 years after it was held here in 1998.