RS-X Youth Worlds Day 4

by RS:X Class on 28 Oct 2011 The RS:X Youth World Windsurfing Championships are in full swing and Cagliari is turning out to be a fantastic venue for windsurfing as the fourth day of competition was filled with strong winds, big waves, and abundant sunshine which made for picture perfect sailing conditions.

With the certainty of three races on the cards for both fleets, today presented an opportunity for those to either consolidate their positions at the top of for others to wriggle their way into tomorrow’s medal races.

In the end it was just another day at the office for the leader of the RS:X Youth Boys – Pawel Tarnowski, who put in another good shift of 2,1,1 with his second place in the first race today the only blemish on his otherwise perfect looking scorecard. This second place was lost to Sam Sills, who with both sailors negotiating the slalom on the way to the finish were starting to have to overtake the tail end of the women’s fleet in front. Tarnowski had to gybe wide leaving an open slot for Sills to sneak around the inside and take first place which he would hold for the final gybe to the finish.

Tarnowski did not let anyone get into the same position again for the remaining two races, opening up a commanding lead in the second race to take the win again in the third.

Behind him, the jostling of the Frenchmen Giard and Pic continued with Pic taking the day with a 5,2,2 to Giards 6,3,3 – still not good enough to take the second spot of the podium going into tomorrow medal race but enough to close the gap to only one point between the two of them. This means that the first to finish tomorrow will beat the other.

Whether or not this pair will be trying to make up the deficit on Tarnowski, fighting themselves, or looking over their shoulders for the sail of Sills will remain to be seen - Sills being the only other real contender to the podium, eight points behind Pic on 32 points overall. Sebastian Fleischer has an outside chance on claiming a stake on bronze but given that he has not beaten all of the four men in front of him at the same time in a race, the odds are stacked against him.

Looking at the remaining competitors in the medal race, the fact that the French have come in force is plainly evident with four sailors in the medal race. Tom Squires keeps Sills company for the GBR boys with remaining places going to Denmark, Spain and Israel.

Over in the girls fleet, the podium is a more simple affair with Poles dominating the fleet. Agnieszka Bilska - like Tarnowski in the boys fleet, went to the office, put in the work and left with a very satisfactory 1,1,2 to take home. This gives Bilska nine points overall and a 12 point lead over Kamila Smektala going into tomorrow’s medal race, who had a consistent 2,3,1 and claim her first race win of these championships.

Barbara Dmuchowska has taken the consistency issue to heart and has put in a string of single figure results in this high calibre fleet to muscle onto the podium with special thanks to her 5,5,3 of today. The muscling in was one factor for Dmuchowska’s presence on the podium, the OCS of Jeanne Dantes (FRA 4) the other factor. These small mistakes will get you a medal or lose you a medal and with a 10 point gap between herself and the top three, Dantes could well end up regretting that mis-judgement.

In the U17 girls, it has been Noelle Finch who has had a meteoric rise through the rankings to overhaul Israeli Shani Rottenberg and take the lead for the younger age group. Finch’s 6,2,5 scoreline putting some of the seniors to shame and both her and Rottengerg were showing the true potential of the U17’s in this fleet. Whilst there is a smaller fleet of girls here than the boys, it is telling that two U17 girls made the medal race with none in the boys.

Nationality wise the girls medal race is definitely, a podium full of Poles aside, a more international affair. With France, Great Britain, Israel, Belarus and Italy all having a ticket to the party – Veronica Fanciulli being the only home favourite taking part in either medal race.

Weather wise, the forecast is for breeze and a lot of it. According to some local forecasts this could be into the 20 knot range and will certainly suit the heavy weights who have had it all their own way so far this week. For those looking to become World Champion, a simple 30 minute jaunt around the course is all it will take and by this time tomorrow we will all know how simple or not this task will turn out to be!

RS:X Youth Worlds - boys, gold fleet: Provisional results after 10 races - updated

ps.	sail n.	name	pts	r1	r2	r3	r4	r5	r6	r7	r8	r9	r10
1	POL 182	Pawel TARNOWSKI	10,0	1	1	1	1	1	1	(9)	2	1	1
2	FRA 155	Louis GIARD	23,0	2	1	2	1	2	3	(13)	6	3	3
3	FRA 7	Fabian PIC	24,0	3	6	1	3	1	1	(21)	5	2	2
4	GBR 60	Sam SILLS	32,0	1	2	4	2	2	6	(23)	1	10	4
5	DEN 158	Sebastian FLEISCHER	48,0	4	3	3	4	9	3	6	8	(14)	8
6	ESP 36	Mateo SANZ LANZ	51,0	3	8	2	6	4	9	3	7	9	(12)
7	ISR 10	Dan DAVIDOVICH	54,0	10	(18)	5	2	3	5	15	3	4	7
8	FRA 34	Paul ROZIER	67,0	14	5	6	5	5	2	(39)	11	13	6
9	GBR 931	Tom SQUIRES	74,0	2	2	(35)	3	3	7	32	4	5	16
10	FRA 21	Benjamin LONGY	80,0	11	10	12	9	8	4	(40)	10	6	10

For full Boy's Gold Fleet Results, click here

RS:X Youth Worlds - boys, silver fleet: Provisional results after 10 races - updated pos. sail n. name points r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 r8 r9 r10 1 FRA 218 Romain LHUILLIER, U17 124,0 15 20 23 (25) 24 22 8 1 7 4 2 FRA 683 Victor RIGOLOT, U17 135,0 30 25 (32) 20 20 23 2 6 4 5 3 ITA 5 Silvio CATALANO 142,0 (26) 24 20 24 22 20 3 5 13 11 4 SWE 305 Adam HOLM 146,0 28 22 28 (ocs) 18 9 15 13 10 3 5 POL 26 Dawid FURMANSKI 149,0 17 25 25 (31) 28 26 7 2 9 10 6 NED 216 Matthijs VAN'T HOFF, U17 154,0 (32) 29 13 26 25 27 21 8 3 2 7 NED 465 Tak HUIG-JAN 167,0 (35) 26 34 22 26 23 11 11 2 12 8 NOR 72 Sigurd KALVIK 171,0 22 21 15 23 27 28 9 20 6 (ocs) 9 POL 114 Maksymilian SIEWIERSKI 176,0 19 20 22 (34) 27 26 13 7 16 26 10 FRA 381 Alexandre NAVARRO 183,0 (34) 22 24 30 31 34 10 9 15 8

For full Boy's Silver Fleet Results, click here

RS:X Youth Worlds - girls: Provisional results after 9 races pos. sail number name points r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7 r8 r9 1 POL 9 Agnieszka BILSKA 9,0 1 1 1 (3) 1 1 1 1 2 2 POL 104 Kamila SMEKTALA 21,0 4 3 2 (8) 3 3 2 3 1 3 POL 118 Barbara DMUCHOWSKA 33,0 3 2 (13) 2 8 5 5 5 3 4 FRA 4 Jeanne DANTES 43,0 2 5 7 5 7 9 4 4 (ocs) 5 GBR 703 Noelle FINCH, U17 52,0 5 7 3 (21) 12 12 6 2 5 6 ISR 100 Shani ROTTENBERG, U17 58,0 16 (20) 6 1 2 2 13 8 10 7 ISR 34 Laura KISHON 58,0 9 (11) 5 7 9 7 9 6 6 8 BLR 737 Anastasya VALKEVICH 65,0 (18) 8 9 15 5 4 10 7 7 9 ITA 82 Veronica FANCIULLI 74,0 7 4 4 11 11 14 12 (15) 11 10 FRA 161 Léa MATTEI 74,0 12 12 10 4 4 8 (14) 10 14

For full Girl's fleet results, click Event website