2009 Soling European Championship to Germany

by Matias Collins/amended ISAF on 10 Aug 2009
The Marinepool team from Germany of Roman Koch, Maxl Koch and Gregor Bornemann are the 2009 Soling European Champions.

It was a difficult and closely fought event, at Lake Iseo, Italy, where the three top teams finished only six points apart.
Austrian Champions AUT 117 with Carl Auteried, Martin Kindler and Udo Moser were in the battle right to the end, winning the first race of the day and leaving everything to the last one, where they gained second overall, just three points over Team Marinepool-Ramadabalaton HUN 77 with George Wossala, Karoly Vezer, Peter Nemeth, who were defending their 2008 title.

ITA 189 of Giuseppe Rossi, Alessandro Sgorbati, Roberto Minola showed great local knowledge to win the last race, the first Italian team in many years to win a race in a major event in the Soling class.

Despite a great start with a second in the first race, SLO 1 with Bostjan Antonic, Gennadi Strakh and Mitja Nevecny, the current World Champions, could not fight in the last race where the wind dropped substantially at the start.

The Rien Segaar trophy was won once more from GER 311 with Bizzy Geisler, Bjorn Geisler and Sven Domges. The second best country was Austria followed by The Netherlands and Italy.

The best woman placed in the event, the Reloaded trophy donated by ASF Norway, was won this time by local sailor Francesca Sbardolini (ITA) sailing together with Diego Motta who also won the British Young Helm trophy at the event at age of 19 years old, they both sailed with Torben von Huth.

The Classic boat and best Italian the Vittorio Porta Trophy winner was ITA 189 with Giuseppe Rossi, Alessandro Sgorbati and Roberto Minola.

European Championship / AVAS, Lake Iseo 7/31/2009 To 8/8/2009. / Rk=1.5

Pos Sail Helmperson Midperson Bowperson   Points R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 D1 D2 1 GER 300 Roman Koch Maxl Koch Gregor Bornemann YCBG/SSS 27 2 1 2 2 5 9 2 11 4   11   2 AUT 117 Carl Auteried Martin Kendler Udo Moser SCK 29 7 3 3 3 6 1 5 1 8   8   3 HUN 77 George Wossala Karoly Vezer Peter Nemeth BYC 33 4 4 5 1 1 12 4 4 10   12   4 SLO 1 Bostjan Antoncic Gennadi Strakh Mitja Nevecny J.K. Jadro Koper 47 3 5 22 8 12 3 1 2 13   22   5 NED 25 Johan Offermans Bas Dusee Olivier Dusee YC Lago di Kago 57 1 6 7 10 10 20 3 9 11   20   6 USA 853 Matias Collins Tomas Peuvrel Emiliano Ingrassia CNSI 58 17 15 6 5 3 8 6 6 9   17   7 NOR128 Preben Asbjørnrød Richard Fikse Bernt Ole Christensen Arendal - Sandefjo 68 5 7 10 9 2 10 11 DNF 14   37   8 GER 292 Thomas Scherer Andreas Baumüller Jorg Goletz BYC, YCN 76 6 13 13 16 8 5 13 15 3       9 ITA 189 Giuseppe Rossi Alessandro Sgorbati Roberto Minola ANS 79 23 8 12 18 16 6 10 8 1   23   10 USA 832 Charles Q. Kamps Toby Kamps Hans Meyer Milwaukee Yacht 86 12 9 17 6 17 4 19 OCS 2   37   11 AUT 122 Peter Neumann Rudolf Hubauer Rudolf Rager SCK 89 8 11 20 24 4 11 21 7 7   24   12 GER 311 Winfried Geisler Bjorn Geisler Sven Domges ESV`86 90 11 10 11 11 21 13 7 OCS 6   37   13 NED 33 Rudy den Outer Gavin Lidlow Ronald den Arend K.Z.C. 94 10 DSQ 8 12 7 18 17 17 5   37   14 GER 318 Heino Schuckmann Dominik Meissner Tobias Hanke WSG, YCP 105 15 14 9 7 15 7 15 OCS 23   37   15 AUT 121 Christian Nothhaft Martin Zeileis Valentin Koch SC Kammersee 113 16 31 4 14 19 16 16 12 16   31   16 ITA 251 Michele Tognozzi Fabio Piccioni Giuliano Carotti CVCP 127 21 12 25 19 DNF 27 8 3 12   37   17 GER 304 Thomas Maschkiwitz Christian Oehler Christoph Wossala CYC/VSaW,BYC,BYC 133 13 2 1 4 OCS 2 DNF DNS DNS   37   18 DEN 126 Frank Lavrsen Jacob Andersen Mogens Jørgensen Randers 138 22 19 16 15 29 14 23 14 15   29   19 ITA 159 Michele Campagnoni Roberto Galloni Carlo Peloni AVAS 143 25 17 27 22 14 21 12 5 DSQ   37   20 ITA 213 Virgilio Cadei Mauro Bortolotti Emanuele Bufano AVAS 144 24 20 30 21 13 15 18 13 20   30   21 GER 312 Gernot Heller Gerhard Auerswald Karl Suck SCE /SCAS 149 26 16 24 20 9 26 29 10 18   29   22 NED 38 Bram Soethoudt Berend Vree Ramzi Souli W.v.Willemstad 158 9 24 19 17 18 28 27 19 25   28   23 ITA 24 Diego Motta Torben von Huth Francesca Sbardollini AVAS, ASF 172 OCS 21 18 30 26 25 9 26 17   37   24 ITA 289 Fabio Armellini Attilia Papini Nicola Armellini AVAS 174 14 23 21 28 23 31 20 21 24   31   25 ITA 215 Carlo Gallizioli Raul Domenighini Davide Arata AVAS - Lovere 182 19 30 32 25 11 23 25 23 26   32   26 ITA 13 Giancarlo Bay lucio cattaneo Liana Bettinelli CVS 182 DNF 18 23 23 24 OCS 14 22 21   37   27 ITA 231 Pgiorgio Magri Lino Locatelli Daniele Piccinelli AVAS 184 18 22 33 31 22 22 26 24 19   33   28 HUN 17 Istvan Szucs Gyulai Gabor Szucs Peter BYC 185 OCS 26 15 13 27 19 28 29 28   37   29 ITA 237 Claudio La Colombi Danilo Ragni Giusva Ragni AVAS 192 20 27 14 29 28 24 24 28 27   29   30 GER 243 Emil Kuchta Susanne Kuchta Andreas Hamacher YCNo 199 27 29 29 26 20 33 22 16 30   33   31 ITA 239 Enrico Galbiati Andrea Galbiati Roberto Walter AVAL CDV 202 29 33 26 32 25 17 31 20 22   33   32 FRA 137 Christian Jozan Pierre Coudron de Coquereaumont Thomas Jozan CVA angers 218 33 25 28 27 32 29 30 18 29   33   33 ITA 195 Agostino Pizzetti Santo Albieri MARCO BUSETTI C.V.S 247 30 34 34 33 30 30 32 25 33   34   34 ITA 209 Angelo Zaina Ubaldo Finzi Alberto Motta AVAS 255 32 32 35 34 33 32 33 27 32   35   35 DEN 104 Lars Ostergaard Bjarne Nielsen Martin Klein ?? 255 28 28 31 35 31 OCS 34 31 DNS   37   36 ITA 75 Juri Ferri Andrea De Gregorio Mattia Zubboli C.V. Sarnico 266 31 35 36 36 34 34 35 30 31   36

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