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Down to the Wire at OK Dinghy World Championships

by Mary Reddyhoff OKDIA on 31 Jul 2009
Hansson-Mild wins Mary Reddyhoff
The final day at the OK Dinghy World Championship in Kalmar, Sweden started with two sailors, current World Champion Karl Purdie (NZL) and Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE), on 13 points, each in a great position to win the World Championship. A tense final day produced some very close racing in testing conditions and the first Swedish OK Dinghy world champion for 12 years. Sweden has produced more OK Dinghy World Champions than any other nation.

With a fresh breeze forecast, there was much speculation on who would win today's races and with them the Championship. Hansson-Mild was looking the favourite, having won four races to Puride's three. With the wind holding steady at 8 m/s, with gusts of 10m/s, some sailors had decided to call it a day, choosing to pack up their boats instead.

With so much resting on these two races, the 59 competitors jumped the gun on the first start and a general recall was called.

The black flag immediately instilled discipline for the second start at which there were no premature starters. An 18 minute beat to the windward mark saw boats bang both corners but the majority sailed the middle course. One of the leading pack capsized on the first reach, costing him valuable points, but the rest were soon gibing at the leeward mark, to sail the port side of the course. In the lead was Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN), closely followed by Oliver Gronholz (GER) and Hannsson-Mild, with Purdie on his transom.

Lindhardtsen increased his lead up the next beat and held it on the run to the leeward gate. Hansson-Mild climbed to second place, with Purdie and Andre Blasse (AUS) a short distance behind. They all continued on starboard tack for much of the beat to the finish, short tacking as the line approached. Lindhardtsen was first to finish, closely followed by Hansson-Mild, but Blasse forced Purdie into fourth place.

1st Jorgen Lindhardtsen DEN
2nd Thomas Hansson-Mild SWE
3rd Andre Blasse AUS
4th Karl Purdie NZL
5th Oliver Gronholz GER
6th Greg Wilcox NZL
7th Martin Zimmermann GER
8th Terry Curtis GBR
9th Gunter Arndt GER
10th Tomasz Gaj POL


With Hansson-Mild on 15 points and Purdie on 17 points, the Championship was very much in the balance. Once again the first attempt to start race 10 resulted in a general recall, but the second start was quickly underway under the black flag, again with no premature starters.

With the wind still oscillating between 8 and 10 m/s and the waves becoming quite pronounced, the leaders chose the committee boat end to start. It is fair to say they were line-shy, but with so much counting on the last race for many of the top ten places, no-one was taking any chances. Blasse was first to the windward mark, holding his lead on the two reaches, with Martin Zimmermann
(GER), Pawel Pawlaczyk (POL) and Gunter Arndt (GER) close behind.

Again Purdie and Hansson-Mild were inseparable in fifth and sixth places. Again the port side of the course was favourite, with Blasse still leading the race. Blasse still led the fleet at the leeward mark, with Arndt second Purdie third and Hansson-Mild in fourth. A nail-biting final beat ensued with Blasse, the new President of the OK Dinghy International Association, taking his first gun of the series. Purdie was second and Hansson-Mild crossed third.
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1st Andre Blasse AUS
2nd Karl Purdie NZL
3rd Thomas Hansson-Mild SWE
4th Martin Zimmermann GER
5th Gunter Arndt GER
6th Pawel Pawlaczyk POL
7th Jorgen Lindhardtsen DEN
8th Terry Curtis GBR
9th Greg Wilcox NZL
10th Oliver Gronholz GER

With a full series of ten races completed, all that remained was the assembly of the overall results. A clearly delighted Thomas Hansson-Mild became World Champion for the first time, beating the current World Champion Karl Purdie by just 1 point. Hansson-Mild has competed in 14 World Championships and this is his seventh appearance in the top ten. His highest position before this year was third in 2001. Third place went to Jorgen Lindhardtsen, sailing his best regatta for several years. In fact the score line of any the top four boats would normally be sufficient to take the series, but this week the racing has been extremely close. It has been one of the tightest championships of recent years and has ended with a very popular winner.

In 2010 the class travels down under to New Zealand in February where the world championship will be sailed on Purdie's home patch in Wellington. Who would bet against him reclaiming the title there? Watch this space.


Overall positions

1st Thomas Hansson-Mild SWE
2nd Karl Purdie NZL
3rd Jorgen Lindhardtsen DEN
4th Andre Blasse AUS
5th Greg Wilcox NZL
6th Nick Craig GBR
7th Terry Curtis GBR
8th Pawel Pawlaczyk POL
9th Martin Zimmermann GER
10th Gunter Arndt GER

1st Veteran: Karl Purdie NZL
1st Junior: Bartosz Rakocy POL

1st in host country: Thomas Hansson-Mild SWE

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Results are final as of 16:39 on July 30, 2009

Overall

Sailed: 10, Discards: 1, To count: 9, Entries: 79, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank SailNo Club HelmName Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 Race 8 Race 9 Race 10 Total Nett
1st SWE 100 Umeå Segelsällskap Thomas Hansson-Mild 1.0 5.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 (80.0 BFD) 1.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 98.0 18.0
2nd NZL 531 Worser Bay Boating Club Karl Purdie 4.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 (80.0 OCS) 1.0 2.0 2.0 4.0 2.0 99.0 19.0
3rd DEN 1364 Hvidovre Sejlklub Jørgen Lindhardtsen 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 (30.0) 2.0 6.0 4.0 1.0 7.0 61.0 31.0
4th AUS 729 Black Rock Yacht Club Andre Blasse 7.0 2.0 4.0 5.0 (25.0) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 1.0 56.0 31.0
5th NZL 522 BSC Greg Wilcox 9.0 6.0 5.0 6.0 1.0 (80.0 BFD) 4.0 7.0 6.0 9.0 133.0 53.0
6th GBR 2134 Frensham Pond Nick Craig 6.0 4.0 12.0 4.0 4.0 6.0 9.0 6.0 11.0 (80.0 DNS) 142.0 62.0
7th GBR 2118 Upper Thames Terry Curtis 3.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 5.0 (22.0) 13.0 10.0 8.0 8.0 93.0 71.0
8th POL 14   Pawel Pawlaczyk 5.0 8.0 15.0 10.0 16.0 (18.0) 5.0 5.0 12.0 6.0 100.0 82.0
9th GER 693 SCOe Martin Zimmermann (17.0) 15.0 13.0 12.0 9.0 4.0 11.0 11.0 7.0 4.0 103.0 86.0
10th GER 672 FYC Gunter Arndt 13.0 17.0 6.0 8.0 (19.0) 19.0 15.0 8.0 9.0 5.0 119.0 100.0
11th SWE 2784 Karlshamns SS Bo-Staffan Andersson 14.0 10.0 17.0 14.0 10.0 5.0 8.0 16.0 (19.0) 11.0 124.0 105.0
12th POL 31   Antoni Pawlowski (26.0) 9.0 14.0 11.0 3.0 11.0 14.0 14.0 17.0 13.0 132.0 106.0
13th DEN 1340 Kalundborg sejlklub Christian Olesen 12.0 16.0 21.0 7.0 (27.0) 16.0 12.0 9.0 25.0 18.0 163.0 136.0
14th GER 690 SCOe Soenke Behrens 18.0 21.0 (33.0) 23.0 15.0 7.0 24.0 13.0 13.0 15.0 182.0 149.0
15th GER 750 Segler-Verein Grossenheidorn Ralf Tietje 10.0 26.0 20.0 21.0 (35.0) 9.0 18.0 19.0 15.0 12.0 185.0 150.0
16th DEN 1335 Solrød Strand Mogens Johansen 8.0 23.0 9.0 22.0 7.0 (28.0) 25.0 26.0 14.0 20.0 182.0 154.0
17th SWE 2786 SS Kaparen Håkan Törnqvist 20.0 18.0 16.0 (29.0) 12.0 12.0 20.0 23.0 18.0 16.0 184.0 155.0
18th POL 1   Tomasz Gaj 16.0 31.0 25.0 17.0 14.0 26.0 (80.0 DNS) 15.0 10.0 14.0 248.0 168.0
19th GER 717 SSC Oliver Gronholz 11.0 (80.0 BFD) 10.0 13.0 13.0 80.0 BFD 16.0 18.0 5.0 10.0 256.0 176.0
20th SWE 66 VSS Jan-Erik Nystedt 22.0 14.0 11.0 16.0 33.0 20.0 (80.0 DNF) 27.0 21.0 17.0 261.0 181.0
21st SWE 2782 Getskärs SS Jan-Erik Engholm (32.0) 29.0 23.0 26.0 6.0 8.0 26.0 32.0 16.0 30.0 228.0 196.0
22nd DEN 1375 Hellerup Sejlklub Christian Hedlund 15.0 22.0 24.0 25.0 26.0 13.0 17.0 (49.0) 30.0 27.0 248.0 199.0
23rd GER 755 BSV Ingo Stelzer 19.0 13.0 18.0 (35.0) 29.0 29.0 19.0 20.0 34.0 23.0 239.0 204.0
24th POL 19   Bartosz Rakocy 39.0 DPI 24.0 DPI 7.0 31.0 24.0 31.0 10.0 28.0 (80.0 DNS) 19.0 293.0 213.0
25th SWE 2741 Umeå Segelsällskap Ulf Dagerbrant (39.0) 32.0 22.0 32.0 37.0 10.0 22.0 17.0 26.0 22.0 259.0 220.0
26th SWE 99 Varbergs SS Hans Elkjaer 21.0 38.0 30.0 18.0 (41.0) 30.0 23.0 22.0 20.0 21.0 264.0 223.0
27th DEN 1377 Kaløvig Bådelaug Jørgen Holm Nielsen 25.0 35.0 28.0 28.0 11.0 14.0 30.0 29.0 27.0 (80.0 DNS) 307.0 227.0
28th GER 730 SCST Jörg Rademàcher 33.0 27.0 27.0 24.0 21.0 17.0 (42.0) 30.0 28.0 33.0 282.0 240.0
29th DEN 13 Vallensbæk Sejlklub Troels Lykke 31.0 30.0 26.0 19.0 36.0 32.0 21.0 24.0 24.0 (80.0 DNF) 323.0 243.0
30th SWE 2780 Getskärs SS Claes Ahlström 37.0 12.0 38.0 30.0 31.0 37.0 27.0 21.0 23.0 (80.0 DNS) 336.0 256.0
31st GER 740 PSCW Arne Lindermann 23.0 11.0 35.0 44.0 8.0 (80.0 BFD) 32.0 47.0 33.0 32.0 345.0 265.0
32nd POL 5   Darek Kras 35.0 20.0 42.0 40.0 22.0 (80.0 BFD) 41.0 37.0 32.0 26.0 375.0 295.0
33rd GBR 2085 South Staffs Gavin Waldron 38.0 46.0 31.0 36.0 (53.0) 27.0 37.0 33.0 22.0 25.0 348.0 295.0
34th SWE 2787 VASS Olle Albrektsson 29.0 39.0 32.0 27.0 (56.0) 34.0 36.0 39.0 31.0 29.0 352.0 296.0
35th GER 665 SCST Peter Stephan (47.0) 34.0 40.0 38.0 23.0 23.0 38.0 38.0 43.0 24.0 348.0 301.0
36th SWE 11 StSS Bengt Strömberg 40.0 37.0 29.0 20.0 52.0 (80.0 DSQ) 28.0 41.0 29.0 35.0 391.0 311.0
37th DEN 1369 Hellerup Sejlklub Bo Teglers 24.0 (80.0 BFD) 34.0 15.0 42.0 21.0 12.0 DPI 17.0 DPI 80.0 DNF 80.0 DNS 405.0 325.0
38th POL 44   Radoslaw Drozdzik 47.0 DPI 54.0 DPI (56.0) 42.0 20.0 25.0 33.0 31.0 42.0 34.0 384.0 328.0
39th SWE 2770 NYSS Jonas Andersson (45.0) 28.0 44.0 37.0 44.0 43.0 34.0 36.0 40.0 28.0 379.0 334.0
40th SWE 2772 SS Kaparen Ingemar Jansson 43.0 25.0 36.0 39.0 45.0 (80.0 BFD) 39.0 48.0 37.0 31.0 423.0 343.0
41st SWE 222 SKK Per Jaensson 41.0 24.0 19.0 41.0 18.0 (80.0 BFD) 29.0 25.0 80.0 DNF 80.0 DNS 437.0 357.0
42nd GER 711 SCH Ralf Mackmann 27.0 66.0 48.0 34.0 (80.0 OCS) 35.0 45.0 34.0 38.0 43.0 450.0 370.0
43rd GER 726 SSC Jörg Sylvester 44.0 42.0 45.0 (49.0) 28.0 41.0 43.0 46.0 45.0 40.0 423.0 374.0
44th SWE 511 SKK Mårten Bernesand 51.0 43.0 47.0 45.0 (62.0) 40.0 35.0 45.0 36.0 45.0 449.0 387.0
45th GER 745 YCBG Rainer Pospiech (57.0) 41.0 51.0 48.0 54.0 46.0 31.0 42.0 39.0 36.0 445.0 388.0
46th SWE 2740 Karlskrona SS Karl-Johan Östh (55.0) 45.0 50.0 46.0 48.0 45.0 46.0 40.0 44.0 39.0 458.0 403.0
47th GER 735   Dirk Gericke 48.0 51.0 46.0 47.0 (55.0) 51.0 50.0 43.0 35.0 38.0 464.0 409.0
48th GER 688 SVM Dirk Dame 52.0 40.0 49.0 43.0 59.0 (80.0 BFD) 47.0 51.0 52.0 37.0 510.0 430.0
49th AUS 685 Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club Jonathan O\'Donell 46.0 52.0 (80.0 DNC) 56.0 49.0 44.0 48.0 50.0 46.0 46.0 517.0 437.0
50th GBR 1774 West Oxford Richard Burton 56.0 (80.0 BFD) 39.0 60.0 40.0 38.0 44.0 35.0 48.0 80.0 DNS 520.0 440.0
51st SWE 64 Nättraby Båtklubb Jonas Lindahl 30.0 33.0 54.0 33.0 34.0 36.0 (80.0 DNF) 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 540.0 460.0
52nd GER 606 SCF Katharina Huß 59.0 (61.0) 57.0 53.0 46.0 49.0 52.0 56.0 47.0 42.0 522.0 461.0
53rd AUS 724 Wangi Sailing Club Glenn Yates 50.0 55.0 (80.0 DNC) 51.0 67.0 48.0 49.0 52.0 49.0 41.0 542.0 462.0
54th SWE 2739 Umeå Segelsällskap Anders Widding 58.0 58.0 52.0 (62.0) 38.0 42.0 60.0 58.0 56.0 47.0 531.0 469.0
55th NOR 467 Hellerup Sejlklub Jens Makholm 28.0 50.0 (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNF 39.0 33.0 40.0 44.0 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 554.0 474.0
56th DEN 1265 Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub Malte Pedersen 65.0 44.0 55.0 55.0 57.0 54.0 51.0 54.0 41.0 (80.0 DNF) 556.0 476.0
57th NZL 516 Worser Bay Boating Club Julian Bishop (60.0) 54.0 58.0 58.0 50.0 52.0 55.0 53.0 51.0 48.0 539.0 479.0
58th USA 607 SCV Christian Heinze 53.0 53.0 37.0 (80.0 DNF) 17.0 24.0 56.0 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 560.0 480.0
59th GER 651 SVP Heinz Ridder 63.0 57.0 62.0 57.0 (64.0) 39.0 53.0 57.0 53.0 49.0 554.0 490.0
60th GER 714 SCF Christian Huß 64.0 56.0 53.0 54.0 51.0 55.0 (80.0 DNF) 80.0 DNS 50.0 44.0 587.0 507.0
61st DEN 1370 Bramsnæs Sejlklub Jesper Strandberg 36.0 36.0 41.0 50.0 43.0 (80.0 BFD) 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 606.0 526.0
62nd SWE 2756 SKK Simon Polteg 66.0 DPI 67.0 DPI 60.0 67.0 (80.0 OCS) 56.0 54.0 55.0 55.0 50.0 610.0 530.0
63rd SWE 2672 SS Kaparen Bengt Larsson 71.0 47.0 59.0 63.0 (80.0 DSQ) 15.0 57.0 60.0 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 612.0 532.0
64th SWE 2591 TBS Arne Malm 62.0 63.0 63.0 (65.0) 60.0 58.0 62.0 61.0 54.0 51.0 599.0 534.0
65th DEN 1329 Bramsnæs Sejlklub Sam Jedig 49.0 59.0 64.0 61.0 32.0 57.0 59.0 (80.0 DNF) 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 621.0 541.0
66th DEN 1301 Sejlklubben Esrum Sø Rasmus Cavling Clausen 54.0 48.0 43.0 52.0 61.0 47.0 (80.0 DNS) 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 625.0 545.0
67th FRA 723 CYVIA CHENUIL Mathieu 66.0 68.0 61.0 59.0 58.0 53.0 61.0 59.0 (80.0 DNS) 80.0 DNS 645.0 565.0
68th SWE 2217 SS Svearna Magnus Bager 67.0 64.0 67.0 64.0 47.0 60.0 64.0 62.0 (80.0 DNS) 80.0 DNS 655.0 575.0
69th GER 487 SCST Gunnar Goronzi 68.0 65.0 66.0 (80.0 DNS) 63.0 50.0 65.0 63.0 57.0 80.0 DNF 657.0 577.0
70th FRA 2000 SNF Sports Nautiques de la Frette Gautier ARIBAUD 69.0 67.0 68.0 66.0 65.0 59.0 63.0 (80.0 DNF) 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 697.0 617.0
71st SWE 2738 SS Kaparen Peter Aebeloe 70.0 60.0 65.0 (80.0 DNS) 66.0 61.0 58.0 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 80.0 DNS 700.0 620.0
72nd SWE 111 SSKA Segelsällskapet Kaparen Bertil Eliasson (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd DEN 1324 Hvidovre Sejlklub Jan Larsen (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd DEN 1366 Skovshovede Sejlklub Svend Erik Molbech (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd DEN 1333 Hellerup Sejlklub Stefan Myrälf (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd AUS 726 Wangi RSL Sailing Club Peter Lynch (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd POL 16   Marek Jarocki (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd POL 424   Piotr Przewozny (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0
72nd GER 744 SSC Karsten Hitz (80.0 DNC) 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 80.0 DNC 800.0 720.0

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