Star World Championship Day One

by Lynn Fitzpatrick - www.worldregattas.com on 3 Aug 2009
Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki (POL) started off the 2009 Star World Championship the same way they began the 2008 Star World Championship. They finished with a bullet after getting off to a great pin end start, rounding the first weather mark in the lead, loosely covering the fleet and maintaining a lead of nearly a minute.

When Kusznierewicz was asked about the similarity between this year’s start to the World Championship and last year’s he said, 'We’ll see about tomorrow.' Kusznierewicz/Zycki stunned everyone in 2008 when they won the second race of the World Championship series also.

Recapping the race Kusznierewicz commented, 'It feels a bit surreal. We have taken such a long break that we’re sticking to the basics and we see things more clearly. The race was not that simple, but it seemed simple in retrospect.' The defending Star World Champions worked on their settings once they got out on the water and then focused on getting a good start. They were pretty confident with the current and the shore effect and didn’t see any odd clouds that would affect the fleet radically. After punching out to an awesome pin end start, they held their lane and kept the lead.

Giving them a run for their money were local favorites, Freddy Lööf and Johan Tillander (SWE). The Swedes came from double digits at the end of the first of three laps and rumbled around the right leeward gate with speed while many of the other teams fought the waves and the current. Said Lööf, 'We were fast downwind and we had pretty good upwind speed.' Lööf also was releived to have racing under way, stating that the team had 'a good buildup to racing with the family being here through Thursday and switching into racing mode on Friday.'

The fight for third as the breeze fell from 12- 14 knots at the start to about 7 knots at the finish, was fierce. Flavio Marazzi and Enrico De Maria (SUI) scooped the two young German teams of Johannes Bambandererde and Timo Jacobs and Matthias Miller and Benedict Wenk on the final beat.

The top North American team was Mark Mendelblatt and Mark Strube (USA). After squirting out in the lead with Kuznierewicz/Zycki around the first weather mark the Americans gradually slid to eighth place in the 85-boat fleet.

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Star Worlds 2009 

Results are final as of 18:14 on August 2, 2009

Overall

Rank	Nat	SailNo	HelmName	CrewName	Fleet	Division	R1	Total	Nett
1st	POL	8209	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	Dominik Zycki	ISOLATED	Vattenfall	1	1	1
2nd	SWE	8387	Fredrik Lööf	Johan Tillander	BIRKA	Sparbanken	2	2	2
3rd	SUI	8364	Flavio Marazzi	Enrico De Maria	THUNER BIELERSEE	Sparbanken	3	3	3
4th	GER	8378	Johannes Babandererde	Timo Jacobs	MOEHNSEE	Sparbanken	4	4	4
5th	GER	8299	Matthias Miller	Benedikt Wenk	UEBERLINGER SEE	Vattenfall	5	5	5
6th	ITA	8290	Silvio Santoni	Fabio Toccoli	NORTH GARDA	Crescent	6	6	6
7th	ITA	8384	Nicola Celon	Edoardo Natucci	SOUTH GARDA	Crescent	7	7	7
8th	USA	8267	Mark Mendelblatt	Mark Strube	TAMPA BAY	Vattenfall	8	8	8
9th	GER	8140	Alexander Schlonski	Frithjof Kleen	LUEBECK BAY	Skyltmakaren	9	9	9
10th	SWE	8338	Mats Johansson	Leif Möller	KATTEGATT	Sparbanken	10	10	10
11th	NZL	8187	Hamish Pepper	Craig Monk	ISOLATED	Varbergs kommun	11	11	11
12th	IRL	8385	Max Treacy	Anthony Shanks	ISOLATED	Varberg Energi	12	12	12
13th	SWE	8108	Erik Dahlén	Krister Carlsson	BIRKA	Effektiv Expo	13	13	13
14th	USA	8241	Andrew Campbell	Magnus Liljedahl	SAN DIEGO BAY	Sparbanken	14	14	14
15th	IRL	8261	Peter O'Leary	Tim Goodbody	ISOLATED	Sparbanken	15	15	15
16th	ARG	8211	Alejo Rigoni	Juan Pablo Percossi	BUENOS AIRES	Sparbanken	16	16	16
17th	USA	8250	Andrew Macdonald	Brian Fatih	NEWPORT HARBOR	Vattenfall	17	17	17
18th	CRO	8339	Marin Lovrovic Jr	Sinisa Mikulicic	KVARNER	Vattenfall	18	18	18
19th	GBR	8025	John Gimson	Ed Greig	SOLENT	Vattenfall	19	19	19
20th	BRA	8393	Horacio Carabelli	Ubiratan Matos	RIO DE JANEIRO	Sparbanken	20	20	20
21st	ITA	8390	Alberto Barovier	Nando Colaninno	SOUTH GARDA	Stefaco Grape	21	21	21
22nd	ITA	8266	Diego Negri	Valerio Chinca	VERBANO	Vattenfall	22	22	22
23rd	DEN	8225	Flemming Sorensen	Niels Trysoe-Hansen	DANISH	Vattenfall	23	23	23
24th	GER	7991	Manuel Voigt	Paul Sradnick	BERLINER	Sparbanken	24	24	24
25th	HUN	8386	Tibor Tenke	Miklos Berezeti	OREGHEGY	Terminal West	25	25	25
26th	BRA	8255	Robert Scheidt	Bruno Prada	GUARAPIRANGA	Vattenfall	26	26	26
27th	SWE	8207	Calle Schröder	Stefan Hemlin	KATTEGATT	Sparbanken	27	27	27
28th	GBR	8316	Ante Razmilovic	Brian Hammersley	NORFOLK BROADS	Stefaco Grape	28	28	28
29th	ARG	8381	Juan Kouyoumdjian	Steven Erickson	LAREDO	Stena	29	29	29
30th	BRA	8392	Lars Schmidt Grael	Ronald Seifert	PARANOA	Varbergs kommun	30	30	30
31st	GER	8109	Johannes Polgar	Tim Kroeger	ESSENER	Sparbanken	31	31	31
32nd	DEN	8380	Benny Andersen	Mogens Just	DANISH	First Cargo	32	32	32
33rd	AUS	8121	Andrew Landenberger	Beat Stegmeier	ISOLATED	Sparbanken	33	33	33
34th	SUI	8232	Henrik Dannesboe	Vincent Hagin	HALSE	Sparbanken	34	34	34
35th	GER	8340	Robert Stanjek	Markus Koy	BERLINER	Vattenfall	35	35	35
36th	UKR	8343	Konstantin Datsenko	Bazurin Ilya	UKR	Vattenfall	36	36	36
37th	CRO	8360	Mate Arapov	Ivan Misura	DALMATIAN	Sparbanken	37	37	37
38th	POR	8309	Afonso Domingos	Frederico Melo	CASCAIS	Terminal West	38	38	38
39th	DEN	7575	Herluf Joergensen	Lars Wegener	DANISH	Sparbanken	39	39	39
40th	SWE	7661	Fredrik Ljungkvist	Daniel Alm	BIRKA	Sparbanken	40	40	40
41st	JPN	8144	Kunio Suzuki	Daichi Wada	ISOLATED	Stena	41	41	41
42nd	GER	8160	Florian von Linde	Tobias Steffens	ZUGSPITZ OF WURMSEE	Varberg Energi	42	42	42
43rd	FRA	8237	Xavier Rohart	Pierre Alexis Ponsot	NICE	Vattenfall	43	43	43
44th	SWE	7647	Henrik Jörhov	Karl Kristensen	KATTEGATT	Vattenfall	44	44	44
45th	AUS	8107	Paul Mckenzie	Philip Toth	ISOLATED	Vattenfall	45	45	45
46th	SUI	7969	Kurt Scheidegger	Markus Scheidegger	TUNER-BIELERSEE	Varbergs kommun	46	46	46
47th	GER	8149	Alexander Hagen	Kai Falkentahl	KIELER	Crescent	47	47	47
48th	SWE	8352	Lars Edwall	Henrik Ljungdahl	KATTEGATT	Sparbanken	48	48	48
49th	GER	8016	Hubert Rauch	Chris Conrads	ANDECHSER	Sparbanken	49	49	49
50th	SWE	5300	Pelle Petterson	Anders Ekström	KATTEGATT	Pelle P	50	50	50
51st	CAN	8143	Brian Cramer	Matt Johnston	WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO	First Cargo	51	51	51
52nd	USA	8279	Claude Bonanni	Richard Burgess	TAMPA BAY STAR FLEET	First Cargo	52	52	52
53rd	UKR	8247	Vasyl Gureyev	Volodymyr Korotkov	DNIPRO	Sparbanken	53	53	53
54th	USA	8273	George Szabo	Rick Peters	SAN DIEGO BAY	Campus	54	54	54
55th	DEN	8066	Johnny Jensen	Claus Lauritsen	DANISH	Sparbanken	55	55	55
56th	NED	8263	Sander Jorissen	Erik Veldhuizen	MEDEMBLIK	Sparbanken	56	56	56
57th	NED	7541	Peter Van Veen	Paul Goeist	HOLLAND	Sparbanken	57	57	57
58th	FIN	8004	Joni Leeve	Asko Salminen	FINLAND	Vattenfall	58	58	58
59th	CRO	8280	Dan Lovrovic	Antonio Arapovic	KVARNER	Stena	59	59	59
60th	BRA	6475	Andre Mirsky	Marcelo Jordao	RIO DE JANEIRO	Stefaco Grape	60	60	60
61st	POL	7858	Arkadiusz Wierzbicki	Krzysztof Pawlowski	ISOLATED	Crescent	61	61	61
62nd	SWE	7978	Ingvar Krook	Henrik Hasselgren	AROS	Sparbanken	62	62	62
63rd	GER	8355	Christian Paucksch	Christian Knoll	STARNBERGERSEE	Sparbanken	63	63	63
64th	GER	8055	Jochen Diercks	Herbert Braasch	LUEBECK BAY	Vattenfall	64	64	64
65th	ITA	7556	Andrea Fornaro	Riccardo Capociuchi	LAGO DI BRACCIANO	Vattenfall	65	65	65
66th	GBR	8254	David Tabb	Tom Peyton	ISOLATED	Vattenfall	66	66	66
67th	RUS	8359	Andrey Berezhnoy	Sergey Masalov	VOLGA	Vattenfall	67	67	67
68th	SUI	8329	Daniel Wyss	Urs Joss	ZURICHSEE	Vattenfall	68	68	68
69th	SWE	7489	Hans Oskarsson	Håkan Lundgren	PATER NOSTER	Sparbanken	69	69	69
70th	SWE	7712	Philip Carlson	Benjamin Peterson	KATTEGATT	Effektiv Expo	70	70	70
71st	AUT	8368	Roberto Tomasini Grinover	Gunnar Bahr	CARINTHIAN FLEET	Sparbanken	71	71	71
72nd	SUI	8257	Juerg Wittich	Christian Trachsel	BODENSEE	Vattenfall	72	72	72
73rd	SWE	7019	Olle Johansson	Dag Hansson	KATTEGATT	Sparbanken	73	73	73
74th	SWE	8275	Sune Carlsson	Dan Anders Carlsson	RASTA	Pelle P	74	74	74
75th	SWE	8126	Jan Strömbeck	Stefan Jacobsson	KATTEGATT	Sparbanken	75	75	75
76th	FRA	8075	Regis Berenguier	Laurent Bernaz	MARSEILLES	Vattenfall	76	76	76
77th	SUI	7854	Roman Juchli	Philipp Juchli	BODENSEE	Stena	77	77	77
78th	SWE	7917	Tomas Franzen	Pontus Gabel	KATTEGATT	Stefaco Grape	78	78	78
79th	SWE	8331	Anders Hoagland	Gunnar Faernert	SWEDISH BALTIC	Vattenfall	79	79	79
80th	GER	7866	Dierk Thomsen	Philip Behn	KIELER	Varberg Energi	80	80	80
81st	SWE	7872	Fredrik Fransson	Tomas Åkerman	SWEDISH BALTIC	Terminal West	81	81	81
82nd	AUT	7846	Gerhard Weinreich	Alexander Kagl	HAYDN	First Cargo	82	82	82
83rd	SWE	7338	Benny Nilsson	Stefan Fagerlund Nilsson	RASTA	Vattenfall	83	83	83
84th	SWE	7513	Gösta Eriksson	Björn Beskow	KATTEGATT	Vattenfall	84	84	84
85th	SWE	8031	Börje Larsson	Carl-Fredrik Larsson	RASTA	Sparbanken	85	85	85
86th	POL	8170	Mariusz Modrzynski	Sebastian Moras	ISOLATED	Terminal West	87 DNF	87	87

 

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