LATEST - Five Gold Medals Confirmed

After a further two races across each fleet, three Gold Medals have today been confirmed in the penultimate day of racing. All three gold medal winning crews have proved themselves untouchable from the start.

Congratulations go to Zofia KLEPACKA (POL), Kamil LEWANDOWSKI (POL), Elise Rechichi/Tessa PARKINSON (AUS), Nathan OUTTERIDGE/Iain JESEN (AUS), and Sarah STEYAERT (FRA).

In the Mistral Girl’s fleet, Zofia has claimed gold with a remarkable scoreline of 10 bullets and 1 second place, for a total of 9 points. A fantastic platform on which to arrive in Athens next month, Zofia has now won the World Championship for four successive years – 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. This performance was emulated by Kamil LEWANDOWSKI (POL) return to form and doiminance to capture gold in the Mistral Boy’s fleet.

Equally successful defences from the Australian 420 crews, in what for all these gold medal sailors is their final appearance at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship. Whilst their scorelines have been impressive they have not quite matched Zofia’s breathtaking row of of number 1’s.

Sarah STAEYART (FRA) has also dominated from the start in the Single-handed dinghy girls event, to claim victory, and propel France to the top of the pile for the Nations’ Trophy.

With these three gold medals confirmed, points are now adding up for the Nations’ Trophy, which will be presented to the top performing nation.

Provisional Position Ranking after 11 Races

	420 Girls	420 Boys	Hobie 16	Laser Girls	Laser Boy	Mistral Girls	Mistral Boys
1	AUS	AUS	GBR	FRA	GBR	POL	POL
2	GER	GBR	FRA	GBR	GER	FRA	ITA
3	GBR	FRA	GUA	ARG	CRO	ITA	ISR

Nations’ Trophy Table

Rank	Country		Points
1	FRA	France	360
2	GBR	Great Britain	358
3	AUS	Australia	331
4	POL	Poland	261
5	GER	Germany	245
6	ITA	Italy	235
7	NZL	New Zealand	197
8	ISR	Israel	162
9	USA	United States of America	139
10	BRA	Brazil	127

420 Girls Top 10 – 11 Races, 1 Discard
Behind the Aussies, the downwards move for the Swiss has brought a smile to the faces of the British paring Pippa WILSON and Hariette TRUMBLE who are now within touching distance of a medal after a 1,2 today – keep that up and they will be manoeuvring up into the silver medal place, although the final medals could go to any of the second, third or fourth placed teams.

Pos	Nat	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	AUS	Rechichi Elise/Parkinson Tessa	1	1	2	1	11	1	8	1	2	2	1	12
2	GER	Koppin Lydia/Kummer Kristina	5	22	6	3	3	3	7	2	5	7	4	38
3	GBR	Wilson Pippa/Trumble Hariette	2	20	14	8	2	15	4	4	3	1	2	40
4	SUI	Rol Emmanuelle/Thilo Anne-Sophie	4	16	9	2	5	OCS	1	3	4	10	8	46
5	CZE	Koutna Martina/Preibischova Michaela	14	2	12	7	1	5	10	9	16	6	18	66
6	POR	Colaco Piedade/Neves Diana	12	8	18	19	10	13	5	8	8	4	3	71
7	SIN	Liu Dawn/Tam Siobhan	9	3	16	6	13	12	6	18	1	20	7	73
8	ISR	Gilboa Adi/Benzion Ruth	3	9	5	20	12	10	3	5	25	12	14	73
9	FRA	Lumeau Marie/Bossard Claire	8	10	10	12	16	4	11	12	19	3	6	76
10	USA	Kempton Elizabeth Leigh/Storck Kaitlin	DNF	18	1	5	4	2	21	15	10	5	17	77

420 Boys Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
Behind the Aussies, the British pairing of Jonathan MCGOVERN and Stuart BITHELL (GBR) have jumped up into silver medal position from the bronze, after a solid performance today. However, with the British crew on equal points with the bronze placed Thomas and Mathieu RAHIER (FRA), this jump is currently down to a points countback, and whilst a medal looks assured, they will need to place highly tomorrow to retain their silver medal position.

Pos	Nation	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	AUS	Outteridge Nathan/	1	2	1	4	1	2	1	5	15	3	1	16
2	GBR	Jensen Iain	9	5	8	5	13	15	4	4	1	6	2	44
3	FRA	Mcgovern JONATHAN/	3	3	2	8	7	5	19	6	2	8	14	44
4	GRE	BITHELL STUART	2	11	5	3	3	10	11	12	7	13	28	64
5	CRO	Rahier Thomas/	DNF	13	11	7	11	7	2	7	9	2	9	65
6	ISR	Rahier Mathieu	DNF	4	9	9	12	6	23	8	12	5	7	72
7	BRA	Vasilas George/	4	18	4	11	5	1	8	11	26	20	11	73
8	KOR	Mitakis Evaggelos	5	16	DSQ	2	4	DNF	26	2	5	10	4	74
9	SIN	Longin Matija/	17	8	10	1	8	3	24	3	4	DNC	21	75
10	ITA	Kostov Paule	13	DNC	18	6	9	8	10	14	8	7	3	78

Multihull Open Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
Whilst the British pairing of Tom PHILIPS and Jonathan COOK continue to post top 5 finishes and have extended their points lead, it has not been such a good day for the French or Guatemalans. Whilst it had seemed that all three crews were assured of a medal, the Guatemalan pairing of Juan MAEGLI and Jason HESS have given themselves a difficult task after today’s performance. Not managing to match the French crew of Julien VILLION and Marting BARTAILLE, Juan and Jason have now had their third successive result outside the top three, a distinct contrast to their position earlier in the week, and will need to put in that extra fight tomorrow to stay on the podium.

Pos	Nation	Crew	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	GBR	Philips Tom/Cook Jonathan	2	1	DSQ	1	2	1	3	1	1	2	7	14
2	FRA	Villion Julien/Bataille Martin	DNF	3	2	2	1	2	1	4	2	3	1	17
3	GUA	Maegli Juan I/Hess Jason	1	2	1	3	DSQ	3	2	2	5	6	9	25
4	GER	Bockelmann Hauke/Bockelmann Lauritz	3	4	4	11	6	6	4	5	7	7	5	44
5	BRA	Frey Felipe/Frey Bruno	4	5	6	5	4	8	6	10	10	4	6	48
6	ITA	Lepscky Giovanni/Pavanini Nina	DNF	8	8	7	5	5	8	8	6	1	2	50
7	NZL	Thorpe Michael/Sargisson Rosie	DNF	6	5	6	7	10	10	7	3	8	3	55
8	RSA	Hobson Oliver/Hobson Evan	5	9	3	4	9	4	11	9	4	9	8	55
9	AUS	Pfeffer Michael/Houlahan Kiralee	6	7	7	8	3	9	7	6	8	5	10	57
10	POL	Stefañczyk Maciej/Socharski Maciej	DNF	10	10	9	8	7	5	3	9	10	4	65

Single-Handed Dinghy Girls Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
All change at the top! Out goes the USA and in comes ISAF Athlete Participation Programme funded Cecilia ANZA SAROLI (ARG) into the bronze medal position. An OCS and a DNF have dashed all hope Paige RILEY (USA) had of being on the medal podium – but that’s sailing. Chasing hard behind the Argentinean for the bronze is Jo ALEH (NZL).

Returning to shore after her victory, Sarah STEYAERT (FRA) commented, “I feel great. I want to go to the Beijing Olympics in the Europe Class.”

However, it is now down to Great Britain’s Charlotte DOBSON to stay at the top and keep her hands on the silver, although Cecilia no doubt has other plans, “I knew that going into today’s racing I needed to have a very positive attitude. I did what I needed to but it was difficult as the winds were
very shifty.” commented Cecilia after today’s racing.

Pos	Nation	Helm	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	FRA	Steyaert Sarah	1	1	8	2	9	4	1	1	5	2	4	21
2	GBR	Dobson Charlotte	17	3	2	1	8	3	4	OCS	7	4	2	34
3	ARG	Anza Saroli Cecilia	18	4	3	3	1	5	16	OCS	2	1	1	36
4	NZL	Aleh Jo	2	5	1	8	10	9	13	2	6	7	3	43
5	DEN	Windberg Alberte	6	7	10	5	7	15	7	11	8	5	5	60
6	SUI	Rosse Stephanie	3	8	9	6	3	7	8	10	14	14	9	63
7	TUR	Unver Ayda	4	6	5	11	21	16	12	4	1	12	12	67
8	USA	Railey Paige	16	2	OCS	4	2	1	2	9	3	DNF	OCS	72
9	NED	Bouwmeester Marit	8	15	12	15	12	13	3	5	9	6	8	76
10	CAN	Bastet Nicole	5	9	11	16	5	10	21	3	13	8	23	80

Single-Handed Dinghy Boys Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
In at the top at the end – is where Croatia’s Towci STIPANOVIC has found himself after today’s double whammy – or two bullets. A slow build up, but he has certainly shown his worth towards the end of the Championship.

However, it looks as though it is too little too late for Towci to be in on the top medal places, and will need to be satisfied with the silver or bronze if he can keep his form.

Out at the front Nick THOMPSON (GBR) looks assured of the shiniest medal around his neck tomorrow night.

Pos	Nation	Helm	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	GBR	Thompson Nick	86	4	2	4	1	10	5	1	14	1	DNF	6
2	GER	Groteluschen Simon	86	2	9	3	6	15	4	4	20	4	2	7
3	CRO	Stipanovic Towci	86	3	BFD	5	4	11	1	DSQ	8	8	1	1
4	AUS	Morgan Simon	86	8	1	1	12	8	8	3	23	2	10	3
5	FRA	Pruvot Corentin	86	5	BFD	11	2	17	2	6	17	9	8	2
6	EST	Karpak Deniss	86	6	BFD	6	7	2	3	28	7	6	4	24
7	ESP	Padron Javier	84	11	5	7	11	12	18	9	12	3	3	18
8	POL	Wilandt Norbert		1	4	2	3	20	9	20	9	DNF	6	22
9	NZL	Mclay BLAIR	87	14	6	8	20	25	6	11	3	13	11	20
10	DEN	Bonde Mikkel	87	9	3	17	OCS	5	12	23	DNF	17	5	4

Windsurfer Girls Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
Behind Zofia’s stunning performance, going into tomorrow’s final race it is all open, although it has to be noted that France’s Sophie Anne LE PAGE, currently in silver is looking good, with the bronze realistically open to any of three sailors.

Pos	Nation	Helm	Birth	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	POL	Klepacka Zofia		1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	9
2	FRA	Le Page Anne Sophie	87	2	4	3	3	2	1	2	2	2	2	OCS	19
3	ITA	Linares Laura	90	3	2	5	4	5	3	3	7	5	3	2	30
4	GER	Sradnick Wiebke	88	DNF	3	6	5	3	4	6	3	3	4	4	35
5	NED	Van Riel Nikki	87	5	7	4	2	6	8	5	4	4	7	6	43
6	ISR	Davidovich Mayan	88	6	5	9	8	4	5	OCS	5	6	6	3	48
7	NZL	Thom Hayley	86	7	6	2	9	7	6	8	6	7	5	5	51
8	AUS	Kawalla Alisha	89	4	10	7	6	10	9	10	9	9	9	8	71
9	GBR	Bromley Jilly	88	DNF	9	10	DNF	8	7	4	8	8	11	7	72
10	ESP	Huertas Gabriela	88	DNF	8	8	7	9	10	7	10	11	8	9	76

Windsurfer Boys Top 10 – 11 Races, 2 Discards
Poland’s Kamil LEWANDOWSKI is certainly aimed to match Zofia’s performance, and with a 1, 3 today assured himself the gold with a race to spare. Lewandowski commented, “The top five in this fleet are really strong. It takes physical and mental strength. I only live 15km away but I have only raced here twice in the past. We came to this event well prepared as we had sailed in a couple of other competitions beforehand.”

Behind him, Italy retains the second place, with Israel upsetting Britain’s hopes – for the moment.

Pos	Nation	Helm	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts
1	POL	LEWANDOWSKI KAMIL	2	1	4	15	OCS	1	1	1	1	1	3	15
2	ITA	ESPOSITO FEDERICO	6	2	6	1	2	2	9	10	6	5	7	37
3	ISR	MASHIAH NIMROD	9	7	5	2	OCS	4	3	8	3	3	4	39
4	GBR	POTTER RICHARD	1	4	8	5	1	5	2	13	16	7	11	44
5	AUS	PLANT COREY	4	14	1	3	6	13	7	7	8	2	6	44
6	FRA	MOURIER ANTHONY	8	3	7	6	4	9	4	6	5	4	5	44
7	CYP	SOFRONOU ANDREAS	10	DNF	2	7	11	18	6	4	9	8	1	58
8	HKG	MA KWOK PO	12	16	10	4	8	6	12	15	2	6	2	62
9	BUL	NANEV VESSELIN	7	15	11	8	5	3	10	3	OCS	12	12	71
10	BLR	ZHUKAVETS MIKALAY	3	9	16	14	7	8	11	12	7	9	9	75

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