Blackburn wins Radial Worlds

With Krystal Wier taking the womens title

In a big final day, four races were completed in the Laser Radial Open Championship at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. The two fleets were joined together into a Gold and Silver fleet and Blackburn and Slingsby, who had both dominated their respective fleets, finally met.

Slingsby crashed out of the running in the first race of the day with an OCS, Blackburn (the nominated Australian Laser Olympic representitive), took sixth and then went on to score all first places. Slingsby failed to recover from the first race, with results that took him down to third overall, leaving second place for Croatian sailor Aron Lolic.

In the Womens Championship, three further races were completed on the final day, with Australian Krystal Weir running out with three wins to seal overall victory by a 20 point margin over fellow Australian Christine Bridge.

Best Brit was Jon Emmett, who finished in seventh spot overall.

Open Championship (Top 20):

			R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	Scores
1	AUS 178640	BLACKBURN Michael	1	-2	1	1	1	1	1	-6	1	1	1	9
2	CRO 167831	LOLIC Aron	3	3	-4	2	3	3	2	2	-8	3	2	23
3	AUS 178785	SLINGSBY Tom	-2	1	1	1	1	1	1	(ocs)	19	6	3	34
4	NZL 178663	MCLAY Blair	5	-7	5	2	7	4	3	-12	4	2	5	37
5	NZL 136721	ORAMS Mark	7	3	4	-8	5	3	2	7	-13	8	10	49
6	NZL 161262	GEALE Jason	6	4	9	-21	2	7	3	13	5	-14	4	53
7	GBR 174628	EMMETT Jon	5	(ocs)	8	3	6	8	9	4	-22	7	11	61
8	AUS 177793	IRONMONGER Ricky	(ocs)	1	2	3	4	4	15	-52	21	4	7	61
9	AUS 177729	SKULANDER Nick	4	8	3	-10	2	2	4	8	-34	17	19	65
10	NZL 175277	BLAKEY Matthew	1	2	2	6	(dnf)	2	5	-40	31	10	8	67
11	NZL 177074	BARTROM Jake	3	5	9	-15	4	9	4	(ocs)	9	11	24	78.5
12	AUS 178788	CHEW Matthew	8	5	5	5	6	5	-45	15	17	-20	14	80
13	AUS 165827	AUSTIN Ben	10	6	6	7	-11	7	11	-29	24	5	6	82
14	AUS 178646	SCHMIDT Andrew	9	4	3	9	-22	6	7	17	-29	9	23	87
15	NZL 167137	PRENTICE Craig	10	10	7	4	9	-11	6	-38	16	24	9	95
16	CRO 177575	MIHELIC Daniel	8	7	-10	5	9	5	5	18	18	22	-28	97
17	NZL 175279	WINTER Martin	2	6	-13	6	7	10	10	31	-57	15	12	99
18	AUS 177111	HOWARD Richard	7	9	8	11	-17	11	8	-39	11	28	15	108
19	BRA 174393	PINHO Daniel	-18	11	12	13	10	18	-19	1	15	12	17	109
20	BRA 157790	JAKOBSSON Daniel	9	13	14	4	11	8	-24	(dnf)	6	16	39	120

Womens Championship (Top 20):

			R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total
1	AUS 180195	WEIR Krystal	1	1	1	-3	1	3	-8	1	1	1	10
2	AUS 153136	BRIDGE Christine	8	4	2	1	5	4	-10	-10	3	3	30
3	ARG 179356	CARRANZA SAROLI Cecilia	2	5	4	6	7	-10	1	6	(dnf)	9	40.5
4	ISR 168365	EDELMAN Nufar	3	8	9	-13	4	5	-18	4	5	5	43
5	NED 166368	JUTJENS Gea	5	14	(dsq)	5	10	1	-17	7	2	2	46
6	NZL 178665	MACKY Jane	(ocs)	13	6	2	2	2	12	3	-15	8	48
7	NZL 159153	POWRIE Miranda	6	2	3	4	(dsq)	12	13	(dnf)	4	4	48
8	SUI 179395	MEYER Corinne	4	3	7	8	3	13	-20	-15	7	10	55
9	NZL 177775	ALEH Jo	-11	9	5	9	9	11	4	5	6	-13	58
10	AUS 178789	SLINGSBY Alana	9	-10	10	10	7	6	7	2	8	-14	59.5
11	IRL 173815	HANNA Debbie	7	6	11	7	-13	-15	5	12	12	7	67
12	BRA 163161	BÉJAR Caroline	10	12	-16	12	6	7	-16	9	11	6	73
13	NZL 150092	BASSETT Michelle	12	11	12	11	12	9	6	-21	10	-16	83
14	AUS 178787	PATTERSON Lyndall	13	7	8	14	15	14	-26	-25	13	11	95
15	NZL 158892	PRENTICE Robyn	15	18	15	(ocs)	11	8	-25	18	9	12	106
16	AUS 173455	BOYD Samantha	-20	16	-18	16	14	15	11	11	16	15	114.5
17	AUS 174355	BUCKLEY Cassie	18	15	14	-20	16	19	2	17	14	-20	115
18	AUS 180194	ENGLAND Samantha	17	19	13	15	18	17	-28	-23	17	17	133
19	MON 174067	PALMER Alexia	14	17	19	17	21	22	3	22	-24	-24	135
20	AUS 178826	KEMP Jan	19	-20	20	18	19	18	-21	14	18	18	144