2009 Snipe Jr. World Championship win for Brazilians

by Kimberly Kruger on 29 Aug 2009 The Snipe Jr. World Championship fifth and final day was a battle to the end with only one point separating the leading two boats at the start of the day, with two more races left to complete the regatta.

All 42 junior competitors from 11 countries started the day with a mini-air show by the US Navy, watching jets take off and land at Naval Air Station Coronado during the five mile tow from San Diego Yacht Club to the race course, about 3 miles off Zuniga Jetty.

Race 10 started in lighter breeze than the competitors have experienced all week, from a Westerly direction at about 10 knots. Seven boats were called over early, yet did not return to clear themselves, shortening the fleet for the duration of the race. USA’s Nicholas Voss and crew Nevin Snow took race 10 and lead competitors around the course in the top three at each mark rounding.

The breeze started to shut off, and the initial attempt at race 11 ended in abandonment when the first boat did not reach the first windward mark within 20 minutes, as stipulated in the class championship guidelines. Attempt number two began with a shorter course in about five knots of breeze and was a success. Tyler Sinks and crew Shone Bowman from USA won race 11, with Mario Tinoco and crew Mateus Gonçalves (BRA) finishing eighth. In order for Tinoco and Gonçalves to win the title, they had to stay within four places of Norihiko Kiyama and crew Kenichi Inada (JPN), and they did just that when Kiyama and Inada finished 7th.

The highlight of the day was when the Brazilian team of Tinoco and Gonçalves crossed the finish line, knowing they had won the regatta, and did a celebratory swim and tipped the boat over, standing on the bottom of the boat waving their country flag.

Their celebration is well deserved, as Mario Tinoco is the first sailor in history to win three biennial Snipe Jr. World Championships, his first four years ago as crew, then two years ago as skipper and again today.

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Overall Provisional results:

Place	#	Skipper	Crew	Country	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11
1	01	Mario Tinoco	Matheus Goncalves	BRA	1	- 8	5	1	- 16	3	1	3	5	3	8	30
2	11	Norihiko Kiyama	Kenichi Inada	JPN	- 7	2	- 7	2	3	1	2	7	3	7	7	34
3	16	Raul Rios	Antonio Sifre	PUR	- 14	4	- 9	5	1	9	3	4	2	6	4	38
4	20	Nicholas Voss	Nevin Snow	USA	- 9	1	4	6	7	7	5	- 14	4	1	5	40
5	21	Judge Ryan	Chris Segerblom	USA	2	7	3	7	- 15	5	- 12	5	1	5	6	41
6	19	Tyler Sinks	Shone Bowman	USA	4	11	1	- 15	4	4	9	1	7	- 22 ocs	1	42
7	15	Marco Teixidor	Ricardo Latimer	PUR	11	- 22 dnf	2	8	9	2	6	9	8	- 22 ocs	3	58
8	22	Federico Waksman	Paolo Sassi	URU	5	5	8	9	- 13	6	8	11	- 22 dnf	4	10	66
9	03	Nicolas Gieco	Javier Matheu	ARG	6	12	- 13	3	2	11	7	13	10	- 22 ocs	11	75
10	18	Bernardo Paz Docampo	Oscar Lages Crespo	ESP	10	9	14	12	6	- 16	10	6	6	2	- 20	75
11	23	Nicolas Zerbino	Alejo Moraes	URU	3	3	6	4	14	17	4	15	9	- 22 ocs	- 18	75
12	06	Nicholas Robertson Junemann	Antonio Felipe Gonzalez Irarrazabal	CHI	8	10	12	13	10	- 15	- 15	2	12	9	9	85
13	10	Miho Masukawa	Ryota Tsujikawa	JPN	- 17	13	10	11	5	12	14	10	13	- 22 ocs	2	90
14	17	Guillermo Altadill Fischer	Jorge Ochoa Torres	ESP	13	6	11	- 16	- 22 ocs	8	11	8	16	10	15	98
15	04	Gabriel Lorenzo	Raphael Ribeiro	BRA	12	14	15	14	12	10	16	- 20	15	8	- 19	116
16	02	Trixy Agusti	Yuyu Agusti	ARG	15	16	16	10	11	14	- 17	12	11	- 22 ocs	13	118
17	14	Erik Olav Mo Wroldsen	Birgitte Reiersen	NOR	18	17	19	17	8	- 20	20	- 22 dnf	14	11	12	136
18	08	Tomas Middleton Zanartu	Luciano Juarez Dover	CHI	16	15	- 18	- 19	17	13	13	17	17	12	16	136
19	05	Matheus Vieira Figueredo	Alain Violland	BRA	19	19	17	18	- 22 dnf	21	18	18	18	13	- 22 dnf	161
20	12	Arael Sanchez	Arturo Sanchez	MEX	- 21	20	20	- 21	18	18	21	19	20	14	14	164
21	09	Delio Delgado	Federico Concha	COL	20	18	- 22 dsq	20	19	19	19	16	19	- 22 ocs	17	167

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The 2009 Snipe Junior and Senior World Championships are hosted by the Unified Port of San Diego, Patagonia, Sunglass and Optical Warehouse, North Sails One Design, Sunsail Sailing Vacations, Sailing Supply, SCIRA, Quantum Sails, Lava Sport and Fitness, Sailgroove, CRAC Chiropractic Release and Acupuncture Center, Samson Rope, Point Loma Rotary Club, and Santa Cruz Sails.