Optimist European Teams Racing Championship - League C complete
by IODA on 28 Aug 2010
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Optimist European Teams Racing Championship
August 27th - League C completed.
Each team had just two more races to sail to complete Stage 1 and the pressure was on with many teams having crucial races to decide whether they advanced to the final eight (League C) or to League D. Italy, Spain and Germany all sailed well enough to join Turkey, France, Croatia, Poland and Ireland in League C. There was great disappointment for Norway and Great Britain who tied with Germany on 7 wins each but to whom they both lost in Stage 1 so they both moved into League D.
League C was a simple round robin which would decide the semi finalists. Crucially, the points from Stage 1 are carried forward and the scoring in Stage 2 is 1.3 points for a race win. Here again Turkey dominated the round robin but had their first loss of the Championship, to Italy. The Italian team have perhaps shown the greatest improvement of any team here in both team racing tactics and results during the last three days and their semi final races against France should be both close and exciting.
The other semi final features Croatia and Turkey who had an action packed race during League C and tomorrow is likely to be just as fierce.
Tomorrow will be the semi finals and finals with League D also to be completed.
Event website click here
Results http://www.optiworld.org/10euroTRres.pdf
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