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Delta Lloyd Regatta Finns - Down to three but who will win?

by Robert Deaves on 29 May 2011
Ed Wright - Delta Lloyd Regatta 2011 Finn Class Delta Lloyd Regatta - Sander van der Borch http://www.sandervanderborch.com
The Delta Lloyd Regatta Finn competitors had a no-race day for the second time this week.

Standings from day four will now determine who goes into the medal race. European Champion Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) will take a three point lead over World Champion Ed Wright (GBR) and a nine point lead over Brendan Casey (AUS) into the medal race.


Only these three can win the regatta, but positions down to sixth could steal a podium place.

The weather didn't improve much for day five with stiff 17 to 20 knots winds early in the day, before rising to more than 30 leading to a postponement and eventual abandonment for the day.

So far this week it has largely been a battle between Ed Wright and Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic. Brendan Casey could easily spoil their day though, just nine points back. He has a 16 points lead over fourth placed Gasper Vincec (SLO), so it would need a major upset to change the medal winners, though the colour each will get is the biggest question
Some new names also appear in medal race with Greg Douglas (CAN) sailing his first Finn medal race in ninth, while Piotr Kula (POL) has had an excellent week so far to start the final day in sixth place overall.


One sailor who perhaps, could have, should have been in the medal race but for two black flags was Dan Slater (NZL), who has had four top 10 placings including one race win in his new boat. He described the key to his results, 'If you are able to have options up the first beat then you can sail the shifts, but so often it's easy to get blocked by other boats and have no options.' How important was it for him to do well here? 'It's really just peace of mind as with two black flags I knew making the top 10 wouldn't be easy.'

The Finn medal race is scheduled to be second in the running order for Sunday, with a start at 9.40. Follow it live online at the Delta Lloyd Regatta TV website

Results after six races:

Results - FINN

Rank Country Sail Nr Start Nr Helmsman R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Points
1 CRO 524 1 Ivan Kljakovic Ga 1 2 2 9 1 3 9
2 GBR 11 5 Edward Wright 2 1 4 1 4 4 12
3 AUS 1 20 Brendan Casey 6 4 34 3 3 2 18
4 SLO 5 16 Gasper Vincec 3 13 6 4 14 8 34
5 SLO 573 15 Vasilij Zbogar 5 12 1 6 BFD 12 36
6 POL 17 19 Piotr Kula 7 14 35 2 7 6 36
7 NED 842 14 Pieter-Jan Postma 10 5 17 11 2 13 41
8 CRO 25 6 Marin Misura 8 10 18 5 8 15 46
9 CAN 5 64 Greg Douglas 4 6 12 8 40 18 48
10 POL 7 75 Rafal Szukiel 12 19 7 7 18 11 55
11 USA 619 68 Caleb Paine 42 11 5 13 5 35 69
12 CZE 1 41 Michael Maier 14 7 26 18 16 21 76
13 AUS 2 32 Rob McMilllan 21 18 22 33 10 7 78
14 BRA 109 39 Jorge Zarif 15 27 11 14 25 17 82
15 NZL 1 10 Dan Slater BFD 3 3 BFD 9 1 83
16 CHN 8 36 Cheng Cheng Kong 25 20 33 24 6 10 85
17 UKR 1 51 Oleksiy Borysov 32 8 28 21 11 22 90
18 UKR 5 33 Gusenko Andrrii 9 30 36 17 15 19 90
19 NED 83 35 Timo Hagoort 17 23 24 BFD 22 5 91
20 AUS 235 26 Timothy Castles 16 24 15 16 20 29 91
21 CHN 1 25 Zhang Peng 13 22 55 10 17 30 92
22 CZE 52 34 Tomas Vika 11 17 21 22 24 25 95
23 TUR 211 42 Ali Kemal Tufekci 26 21 14 BFD 28 9 98
24 POL 1 71 Jakub Dumara DNF 37 10 27 12 14 100
25 NED 841 55 Hein van Egmond 20 16 40 28 13 33 110
26 CHN 42 38 Ai Ming Cheng 18 34 13 32 31 24 118
27 CHN 6 24 Gong Lei 19 31 53 34 19 16 119
28 EST 11 47 Lauri Vainsalu 29 38 30 15 29 20 123
29 AUS 261 29 Oliver Tweddell 54 9 8 BFD 27 26 124
30 TUR 21 43 Alican Kaynar 24 15 25 39 26 34 124
31 CAN 110 63 Martin Robitaille 46 25 32 25 23 23 128
32 TUR 7 46 Akif Muslubas 31 42 9 29 33 36 138
33 CHN 43 37 Li Zhen 40 39 16 12 45 32 139
34 HUN 6 28 Gaszton Pal 27 32 59 26 21 37 143
35 GER 64 44 Lennart Luttkus 23 28 27 30 38 40 146
36 DEN 46 50 Kaspar Andresen 22 33 42 31 30 31 147
37 NED 787 76 Nanno Schuttrups 45 48 23 19 35 38 160
38 USA 21 48 Gordon Lamphere 30 41 19 35 41 46 166
39 HUN 8 22 Marton Beliczay 38 36 44 23 44 27 168
40 AUS 11 30 Shaun Wells 28 44 20 36 46 47 174
41 IRL 4 31 Ross Hamilton 34 26 45 42 34 39 175
42 CAN 26 65 Paul Brikis 35 29 54 DNF 39 28 185
43 NED 29 72 Bas De Waal 33 35 29 40 DNF 48 185
44 NED 909 59 Simeon Tienpont 39 40 37 45 32 DNF 193
45 NED 7 73 Cees Scheurwater 51 51 48 20 43 45 207
46 GBR 18 23 James Hadden 47 47 41 49 37 42 214
47 HUN 10 61 Richard Hirschler 37 50 49 44 49 41 220
48 GRE 41 54 Panagiotis Kotsovos 43 43 56 37 DNF 43 222
49 NED 54 69 Joos Bos 50 46 38 47 42 DNF 223
50 DEN 262 49 Bo Teglers 36 45 61 48 53 44 226
51 BUL 855 74 Dimitar Vangelov 41 53 64 38 50 50 232
52 GER 501 45 Fabian Lemmel 48 49 43 41 54 53 234
53 GRE 71 53 Panagiotis Davourlis 52 54 31 BFD 51 49 237
54 GER 129 70 Walter Siemers 55 57 39 43 52 52 241
55 NED 724 58 Stefan Marechal 49 52 52 BFD 48 51 252
56 NED 50 67 Jan Zetzema 53 56 50 52 DNF DNF 278
57 NED 835 27 Jaap Goede DNF DNF 51 55 55 54 282
58 NED 22 21 Peter Hubregtsen DNF DNF 57 51 47 DNF 289
59 NED 8 60 Rodrick Casander DNF DNF 46 46 DNF DNF 293
60 USA 81 40 Joshua Revkin 44 55 DNF DNF DNF DNF 300
61 NED 100 77 Arend van der Sluis DNF DNF 47 53 DNC DNF 301
62 SVK 15 52 Slavomir Sopuch DPI DNF 63 50 DNF DNF 314
63 NED 110 56 Diederik Sarels van Rijn DNF DNF 58 57 DNC DNF 316
64 NED 941 57 Pim Mommersteeg DNF DNF 62 54 DNC DNF 317
65 USA 56 62 Charles Heimler DNF DNF 65 56 DNF DNF 322
66 USA 74 66 Henry Sprague DNF DNF 60 DNF DNF DNF 328



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