Rogers and Glanfield in the money

British 470 duo win 470 Sprint Cup as Europeans move into the final stages

It was Sprint Cup day for the International 470 in Warnemunde today.

Seven of the top 470 Teams in the World of double handed dinghy sailing took to the water in a 3 race, no drop format with 5000 euro prize money on the line. Ideal conditions met the 4 Men’s and 3 Women’s teams that had qualified and been invited based on their World Championship placing.

Reigning Sprint Cup Champions Johan Moland & Martin Anderson of Sweden made it look like it would be repeat win of last year by taking out the 1st heat in 12-15 knots. With the female Israeli team of Nike Kornecki & Vered Bouskila just edged out into third by Nick Roger & Joe Glanfield.

The second heat was tighter, with French World Champion Gildas Phillippe & Nic Le Berre and the Israeli Women duelling around the course until with 30 metres before the down wind finish, Gildas fouled the Starboard Israeli’s and the On-water Umpires awarded a penalty against the French that also let British Champions Rogers/Glanfield into 2nd and first heat winners Moland/Anderson into third.

That left 3 teams on 4 points each; Kornecki & Bouskila of Israel, Rogers & Glanfield of Great Britain and Moland & Anderson of Sweden. The start was very even with the British forced to tack off the windward quarter of the Swedish World Champion Women and look for more breeze on the righthand side of the course. They found it and rounded the windward mark in winning position leaving the Swedish Moland and Israeli Kornecki fignting it out for the minor places.

The British defended their lead well down the two reaches and covered the fleet up the last work before rounding the final windward for the down wind finish with a 15 second lead.

Moland covered the Isreali’s into 5th Place and secured a second place overall and ensuring the Israeli team’s Third overall.

Pro-Active TV covered the event that will be seen on Watersports World and Eurosport later in the year.

In the European Championship, the Final race for qualification took place earlier in the day. The blue Men’s group requiring just 1 race to complete the required 5 races.

Four major surprises in the make up of the Gold and Silver Fleets with reigning World Men’s Champion Nathan Wilmot not competing in the Qualification suffering from a strained back and therefore relegated to Silver Fleet and Local Champions Lucas Zellmer & Felix Krabbe failing to make Gold Fleet. Same was the fate for past World Champion Frenchman Gildas Phillippe & Nic Le Berre as well as NewZealand’s Olympic rep Andrew Brown.

Finals start Monday for Men’s gold and continue for the Women’s fleet.

Mens Gold Fleet:

Sailno	Helm
ARG 70	Javier Conte
AUS 347	Nathan Outteridge
AUS 351	Mathew Belcher
BRA 17	Alexandre Paradeda
CAN 555	John Russell
CRO 111	Tomislav Basic
CRO 7	Ante Cesic
DEN 141	Kristian Kjaergaard
ESP 1769	Martinez Dorest Gustavo
FRA 2574	Ronan Dreano
FRA 2619	Pierre Leboucher
GBR 811	Nick Rogers
GBR 814	Neil Marsden
GBR 816	Nic Asher
GBR 818	Graham Vials
GRE 131	Andreas Kosmatopoulos
GRE 165	Panagiotis Kambouridis
IRL 66	Gerald Owens
ISR 7	Gidon Kliger
ITA 2	Zandona Gabrio
ITA 4332	Enrico Fonda
KOR 77	Chang-Il Sung
KOR 81	Dae Young Kim
KOR 88	Cheul Yoon
NED 1	Sven Coster
POR 22	Alvaro Marinho
RUS 11	Pavel Kalinchev
RUS 8	Dmitri Berezkin
SLO 149	Tomaz Copi
SUI 3	Lukas Erni
SWE 317	Johan Molund
TUR 2	Selim Kakis
UKR 7	Yevgen Braslavets
USA 1722	Paul Foerster