Poul Jensen wins Dragon Gold Cup

by Event media on 6 Sep 2008
Great Britain’s Poul Richard Hoj Jensen is the Cascais Dragon Gold Cup winner. Poul Jensen with Theis Palm and Andrew Mortem were ninth in the final race and won the championship, with a four point advantage over Gavia Wilkinson-Cox, Jon Mortimer and Ron Rosenberg (GBR).

Britain’s day was completely successfully, with Robert Campbell’s third overall, and Nations Cup title, that Gavia Wilkinson-Cox will take home.

No one was able to stop Britain’s supremacy. Portugal’s Manuel Champalimaud started the final race second overall, but the 24th today dropped him to sixth place.

Russia’s Maxim Semerkhanov, Dmitri Tereshkin and Ruslan Formichev won race 6. Ukraine’s Eugeniy Braslavets, Sergey Timokhov and Claus Olesen and Portugal’s António Mardel Correia, Pedro Rebelo de Andrade and Bernardo Santos, were second and third.

Consistancy was Poul Richard Hoj Jensen’s secret to win Cascais Dragon Gold Cup. Jensen ended the championship with a total of 95 points. Gavia Wilkinson-Cox scored 4 points more but gets the Nations Cup, because she was the best placed boat of the top winning nation (Great Britain) on the last race.

Quote by Poul Jensen:

'Last race wind conditions were very shifty. The competition was very tough. The Dragon class is stabilized and is still growing in number of boats. There are a lot of very good sailors arriving. The no discard rule makes competition harder. A bad result can compromise your possibilities'

The next Dragon Gold Cup 2009 will be held in Denmark.

Dragon Gold Cup - Final overall positions

1	GBR-735	Poul Richard Hoj Jensen	Theis Palm / Andrew Mordem	95	10	26	22	8	14	15
2	GBR-716	Gavia Wilkinson-Cox	Jon Mortimer / Ron Rosenberg	99	45	3	16	15	10	10
3	GBR-688	Robert Campbell	Matt Walker / Jonathan Hill	104,7	27	15	5,7	24	15	18
4	UKR-7	Markus Wieser	Thomas Auracher / Sergei Pugatchev	107	8	21	32	30	3	13
5	UKR-8	Eugeniy Braslavets	Sergey Timokhov / Claus Olesen	110	26	0	29	26	26	3
6	POR-42	Manuel Champalimaud	Mark Hart / Ed Streeter	112	16	19	14	14	19	30
7	RUS-77	Inna Shternberg	Yury Bozhedomov / Petr Zakharov	122	36	29	15	10	16	16
8	UKR-9	Lars Hendriksen	George Leonchuk / Martin Leifelt	133,7	17	30	35	0	40	11,7
9	SUI-288	Robert Stanjek	Markus Koy / Friedemann Nisch	137	22	10	37	13	18	37
10	POR-47	Henrique Anjos	Vasco Serpa / Pedro Costa Alemão	140	38	33	17	31	0	21
11	RUS-71	Maxim Semerkhanov	Dmitri Tereshkin / Ruslan Formichev	157	42	37	41	3	34	0
12	GER-996	Thomas Muller	Vincent Hoesch / Maximillian Scheibmair	164,1	89	11,7	20	11,7	11,7	20
13	GER-976	Dirk David	Stefan Abel / Mark Bayer	168	34	14	30	20	31	39
14	DEN-166	Tom Carlsen	Mark Flint / Philipp Skafte-Holm	168,4	11,7	34	11,7	21	48	42
15	DEN-391	Jorgen Schonherr	Jan Eli Gravad / Christian Videbaek	168,7	3	59	57	22	5,7	22
16	RUS-25	Alexey Krylov	Vlad Kapitonov / Alexey Bushuev	170	19	20	8	81	8	34
17	RUS-47	Igor Skalin	Valery Zatsarinskiy / Oleg Edokimenko	179	31	44	34	28	13	29
18	RUS-27	Anatoly Loginov	Alexander Shalagin / Andrei Kirilyuk	188	49	31	40	16	33	19
19	RUS-81	Mikhail Apukhtin	Leonid Klepikov / Alexander Mironov	190	30	18	24	61	22	35
20	DEN-266	Frank Berg	Soren Nielsen/ Soren Kaestel	195,7	60	5,7	10	70	25	25
21	GER-1036	Max Glas	Wolfi Steuer / Simon Ramstetter	196	29	25	27	35	47	33
22	NED-305	Bram de Wilde	Henri Boere / Gijs Evers	202	39	61	53	18	23	8
23	USA-310	Edward Sawyer	Martin Payne / William Willet	203,7	5,7	23	43	59	27	46
24	RUS-44	Artiom Kuznetsov	Vladimir Silkin / Georgy Shayduko	209	0	32	26	55	52	44
25	GER-1056	Burkhard Keese	Phil Blin / Jorg Moesnang	212	35	40	44	23	30	40
26	RUS-31	Emelianov Konstantin	Mikhail Senatorov / Alexandz Prokorov	213	18	22	28	37	58	50
27	POR-51	Filipe Silva	Joaquim Moreira / Miguel Pinto	214	47	60	0	32	24	51
28	SUI-296	Harro Kniffka	Michael Lipp / Michael Koch	226	32	8	61	41	20	64
29	RUS-96	Mikhail Muratov	Valentin Uvarkin / Viacheslav Varnachkin	229	56	49	39	25	28	32
30	POR-49	Francisco Lacerda	Diogo Lacerda / Diogo Pereira	233	62	46	19	48	35	23
31	SUI-297	Ulli Libor	Frank Butzmann / Stefan Hellriegel	236	43	13	56	44	44	36
32	POR-55	Jose Matoso	Charles Nankin / Afonso Marques	238	14	52	45	49	29	49
33	GER-1042	Philip Dohse	Oliver Mose / Jan Scharfetter	239	37	38	3	58	51	52
34	RUS-69	Olga White	Igor Ivaskintsov / Alexey Murashkin	252	53	70	47	29	36	17
35	POR-54	António Mardel Correia	Pedro Rebelo Andrade / Bernardo Santos	252,7	63	66	46	51	21	5,7
36	IRL-204	Don O`Donoghue	Brian Mathews / Mark Pettitt	255,7	13	58	81	5,7	17	81
37	RUS-35	Oleg Khopersky	Victor Fogelson / Eugeny Ivanov	256	57	17	50	17	89	26
38	GBR-723	Quentin Strauss	Nigel Young/Lars Wegener	260	50	43	13	27	89	38
39	RUS-1	Arnold Shternberg	Artem Smirnov / Alexander Andrianov	262	44	50	33	38	54	43
40	RUS-45	Sergey Yazikov	Igor Frolov / Vladimir Liubomirov	264	23	63	42	50	38	48
41	GBR-708	Len Jones	Claus Hoj Jensen / Jaime Lee	267	48	48	18	19	53	81
42	FRA-365	Louis Urvois	Gwen Chapalian / Jimmy Pahun	268	51	53	21	46	56	41
43	POR-56	Miguel Magalhães	Jorge P. Melo / José Magalhães	273	46	67	25	33	49	53
44	RUS-2	Sergey Maslov	Vladimir Krutskikh / Aleksandr Ezhkov	280	40	16	54	64	43	63
45	POR-58	José Duarte Bello	Henrique Costa e Silva / Miguel Cardoso	290	58	39	55	53	61	24
46	SWE-338	Stefan Winberg	Bosse Ahlstrom / Peter Casso	290	25	36	89	45	50	45
47	GER-1009	Ulrich Matthiesen	Michael Nesselhauf / Jorg Fischer	291	33	24	52	63	59	60
48	POR-57	Mario Quina	Fernando Passeiro / Eric Vandame	293	15	69	48	67	37	57
49	POR-146	Jorge Pinheiro	Frederico P. Melo / Francisco Mourão	296	41	47	31	47	69	61
50	GER-1044	Horst-Wilhelm Stroh	Rudiger Karsten / Katharina Stroh	298	55	68	36	69	42	28
51	POR-34	Fernando Bello	Jorge Moya / Tiago Geraldes	299	24	55	49	68	89	14
52	GER-972	Christian Krausenecker	Karl Ibscher / Lasr Walter	301	20	75	59	39	39	69
53	DEN-380	Peter Warrer	Eric Orsted / Thomas Sorensen	303	21	42	81	43	57	59
54	RUS-32	Andrey Samoylov	Leonid Altukhov / Manat Nevlyutov	304	54	74	63	34	32	47
55	GER-1043	Cian O`Carroll	Thomas Hill/Kane Williamson	316	71	65	23	56	70	31
56	MON-11	Christian Boillot	Lionel Pean / Gerad Le Goff	317	52	41	38	42	89	55
57	HKG-50	Phyllis Chang	Lowell Chang / Lars Gelbjerg-Hansen	319	74	56	58	40	64	27
58	NED-309	Guus de Groot	Richard van Rij / Hay Winters	331	64	27	66	52	41	81
59	SWE-342	Bjorn Osterblom	Peje Emilsson / Bo Kaijser	361	28	35	64	75	89	70
60	POR-46	Francisco Pinheiro de Melo	Vicente P. de Melo / Francisco Ramada	372	68	80	51	62	45	66
61	RUS-6	Alexander Shmid	Alexander Yanin / Mikhail Markin	376	67	45	67	79	62	56
62	GBR-730	Thomas Olrog	Claire Sowry / Philip Catmur	383	69	28	89	74	65	58
63	GBR-575	Richard Davies	Titch Blachford / Patrick Welton	384	61	54	70	71	66	62
64	POR-50	Pedro Mendes Leal	Pedro Pinheiro de Melo / Jorge Ferlov	388	65	71	60	57	81	54
65	POR-36	Patrick Monteiro de Barros	Pedro Beckert / Paulo Bastos	394	59	72	73	36	89	65
66	AUS-206	Gordon Ingate	Christine Ingate / Robert Alp	394	89	62	62	54	60	67
67	GBR-690	Stephane Baseden	Pascal Buli-Debat / Franck Corbiere	409	72	57	71	73	68	68
68	RUS-80	Andriy Litsynskyy	Vladimir Makaron / Andriy Golvoko	410	66	78	74	65	46	81
69	BEL-69	Michael Van Callwelaert	Jan de Bie/Lien de Bien	417	75	64	76	66	55	81
70	POR-53	Fernando Nogueira	Fernando Gamboa / Morgan Nogueira	427	70	77	72	60	67	81
71	MON-2	Jens Rathsack	Bjorn Oestreich / Nina Rathsack	451	89	51	65	76	89	81
72	POR-27	Antonio Vianez	Andre Bravo/Henrique Cardoso/Filipe Talone	452	89	79	68	72	63	81
73	POR-40	Pedro Almeida Lopes	João Almeida Lopes / António S. Matos	454	73	76	75	78	71	81
74	POR-23	Filipe Loureiro	Miguel Tavares / Luis Vasconcelos Dias	457	76	73	69	77	81	81