Closing stages

Rogers and Glanfield lead 470 Europeans going into the final day.

On a day when 40 knots were expected Warnemunde turned on a great day of sailing for the 2004 Int 470 European Championship. The day started in pouring rain, not uncommon for a northern Summer however the reports of trees being uprooted in Hamburg made for a nervous fleet. But the front brought only 18-23 knots and the 103 470’s representing 30 Nations made a great view moving out to the start under kites.

In the Men, Nick Rogers & Joe Glanfield were movers of the day with a first in the early race of the day. Nick and Joe employed a novel but extreamly successful starting technique by reaching along behind the Starboard starters until a gap appeared and grabbing the opportunity, from there sailing high out to the favoured righthand side of the course.

CRO 7 Ante Cesic & Ante Kujundzic lead the fleet halfway up the first beat but the American Silver Medallists Paul Foerster & Kevin Burnham defied odds coming in fast from the lefthand side of the course to round in second place to Rogers & Glandfield.

In the 20 knot conditions, Rogers and Glandfield went onto win convincingly followed by the Americans and the Brits Graham Vials & Bevis Field that moved well through the fleet.

In the Women, the Ward sisters still head the fleet with a reduced lead of 6 points after a day of 19 (Drop),7 & 7. The American Women Katie McDowell & Isabelle Kinsolving also had a good day with a 6,6 & 4 along with the Israeli’s that had a 2,10 & 5. The pair of McDowell & Kinsolving moving up 2 places to be second overall and ISR10 Kornecki & Bouskila moving up 3 places to be 4th overall just behind the Russian pair of Ilienko & Gaponovich in third.

The GBR’s Rogers and Glandfield recorded placings of 1, 13 & 6 that moves them from 5th overall to be first place overall going into the last race of the series. But they are just 4 points infront of the Coster Brothers Sven & Kalle of the Nederlands on 62 points after 12 races. The previous overnight leaders Javier Conte & Juan de la Fuente of Argentina slipped back to third overall but are also on 62 points with true Russian Veteran Dmitri Berezkin & Mikhail Krutikov in 4th place just 4 points back.

The Women’s fleet will probably have 2 races in the morning while the Men will complete their series with just 1 race. Rogers and Glandfield have drop races of 33 & 30 so their start will be crucial, while the Costers have drops of 16 and 26 . But even the 5th placed Spanish pair of Martinez & Wood are just 8 points back from the overall medals so the field is open for the championship in both Men’s and Women’s fleets. .

Racing continues 11.00hrs Thursday with no start permitted after 15.00 hrs.

Mens Gold Fleet:

	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	GBR 811	Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield	58,0	7	3	3	7	9	-33	-30	1	8	1	13	6
2	NED 1	Sven Coster, Kalle Coster	62,0	9	7	1	6	1	1	-16	11	15	8	3	-26
3	ARG 70	Javier Conte, Juan de la fuente	62,0	3	14	4	1	4	4	10	6	9	-16	7	-16
4	RUS 8	Dmitri Berezkin, Mikhail Krutikov	66,0	8	2	8	7	9	7	9	-31	-11	11	2	3
5	ESP 1769	Martinez Dorest Gustavo, Wood Dimas	70,0	3	4	-19	10	5	18	6	10	3	(bfd)	4	7
6	ITA 2	Zandona Gabrio, Andrea Trani	71,0	11	4	7	1	5	17	1	14	6	(bfd)	-31	5
7	USA 1722	Paul Foerster, Kevin Burnham	73,0	9	2	4	(bfd)	8	6	13	8	-16	2	8	13
8	SWE 317	Johan Molund, Martin Anderson	74,0	4	13	1	13	10	3	11	5	2	-14	-16	12
9	POR 22	Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes	84,0	2	11	8	13	3	2	-23	3	17	6	19	-21
10	GRE 131	Andreas Kosmatopoulos, Kostas Trigonis	95,0	15	3	2	8	13	9	-22	2	22	(bfd)	10	11
11	FRA 2619	Pierre Leboucher, Vincent Garos	98,0	17	8	6	2	8	16	(ocs)	-19	14	17	1	9
12	CRO 111	Tomislav Basic, Petar Cupac	98,5	6	12	13	4	13	11	4	-30	-27	9	22	4
13	GBR 818	Graham Vials, Bevis Field	99,0	19	14	14	2	6	10	15	4	12	3	-24	-23
14	UKR 7	Yevgen Braslavets, Igor Matvienko	104,0	12	21	16	11	1	19	-32	12	1	5	6	-22
15	DEN 141	Kristian Kjaergaard, Mads Moeller	112,0	1	-27	13	5	12	13	5	-27	10	27	25	1
16	AUS 351	Mathew Belcher, Nick Behrens	117,0	10	-24	5	6	11	24	7	24	5	(bfd)	17	8
17	ISR 7	Gidon Kliger, Ehud Gal	125,0	12	13	11	18	7	12	21	16	4	(bfd)	11	-29
18	KOR 81	Dae Young Kim, Sung Ahn Jung	129,0	4	-26	24	3	17	15	-26	26	13	4	5	18
19	GBR 816	Nic Asher, Elliot Willis	133,0	5	8	10	22	3	26	19	-29	-28	10	28	2
20	SLO 149	Tomaz Copi, Davor Glavina	135,0	22	5	-27	16	7	20	3	20	-25	13	15	14
21	AUS 347	Nathan Outteridge, Ayden Menzies	139,0	23	10	12	(dsq)	2	5	8	18	20	21	-29	20
22	IRL 66	Gerald Owens, Ross Killian	156,0	20	1	6	22	4	21	-25	21	21	-24	21	19
23	TUR 2	Selim Kakis, Kaan Ozgonenc	156,0	11	26	22	3	11	22	2	-32	23	18	18	-31
24	BRA 17	Alexandre Paradeda, Bernardo Arndt	158,0	6	1	10	24	20	-32	14	22	(bfd)	19	27	15
25	FRA 2574	Ronan Dreano, Ronan Floch	158,0	13	18	9	17	14	14	18	9	-24	23	23	-24
26	ITA 4332	Enrico Fonda, Pietro Zucchetti	159,0	28	7	3	25	12	-30	17	7	18	(bfd)	14	28
27	CRO 7	Ante Cesic, Ante Kujundzic	160,0	27	5	12	20	14	8	27	13	-33	7	-32	27
28	RUS 11	Pavel Kalinchev, Alexander Zybin	161,0	26	20	11	15	10	25	12	-28	-32	20	12	10
29	GRE 165	Panagiotis Kambouridis, Aggelos Lemanis	172,0	15	9	2	5	(bfd)	31	24	23	19	12	-34	32
30	SUI 3	Lukas Erni, Simon Brügger	175,0	16	15	5	11	(bfd)	29	(dsq)	17	7	15	30	30
31	KOR 77	Kyu- Tae Park, Chang-Il Sung	182,0	10	6	17	17	2	28	-31	-34	31	26	20	25
32	KOR 88	Cheul Yoon, Hyeong Tae Kim	184,0	14	9	24	9	16	23	29	-33	26	25	9	(ocs)
33	GBR 814	Neil Marsden, Graham Nelsen	193,0	18	18	7	10	(bfd)	-34	20	25	30	22	26	17
34	CAN 555	John Russell, Brent MacDonald	211,0	24	10	15	14	16	27	28	15	29	(bfd)	33	(dnc

Womens Fleet:

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	DEN 127	Susanne Ward, Michaela Ward	36,0	7	2	3	2	-9	4	4	-19	7	7
2	USA 1732	Katherine McDowell, Isabelle Kinsolving	42,0	1	12	-18	5	(bfd)	5	3	6	6	4
3	RUS 700	Vladelina Ilienko, Natalia Gaponovich	48,0	4	1	-23	-18	1	13	1	16	3	9
4	ISR 10	Nike Kornecki, Vered Bouskila	50,0	9	-16	6	4	-16	8	6	2	10	5
5	NED 6	Lisa Westerhof, Margriet Matthijsse	58,0	10	9	-16	13	4	11	7	3	1	-23
6	NED 10	Marjon Kooistra, Petra de Goederen	65,0	5	-27	7	3	14	7	11	9	9	-15
7	ESP 1788	Natalia Viadufresne, Sandra Azon	67,0	3	6	13	1	-26	15	5	(bfd)	11	13
8	SWE 323	Therese Torgersson, Vendela Zachrisson	68,0	-32	10	2	12	11	2	15	(bfd)	8	8
9	FRA 2594	Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux	72,0	13	7	4	-23	8	-21	12	8	4	16
10	AUS 341	Jenny Armstrong, Jenny Stowell	79,0	21	11	-24	8	-23	16	14	4	2	3
11	GER 4911	Alina Grobe, Vivien Kussatz	83,0	18	13	1	7	3	9	13	-22	-23	19
12	AUT 431	Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher	85,0	15	4	14	17	-28	14	2	-18	17	2
13	ARG 104	Fernanda Sesto, Paula Reinoso	92,0	6	-15	10	11	15	12	8	15	15	-17
14	SLO 142	Vesna Dekleva, Klara Maucec	101,0	19	8	12	-25	19	3	-29	13	5	22
15	POL 55	Katarzyna Tylinska, Zuzanna Gladysz	115,0	8	5	-30	21	21	27	10	7	16	-29
16	GBR 813	Christina Bassadone, Katherine Hopson	116,0	-29	19	5	28	6	1	20	(bfd)	12	25
17	HUN 49	Marta Weores, Anna Payr	128,0	25	17	29	6	-30	22	9	(bfd)	19	1
18	CAN 520	Jennifer Provan, Nikola Girke	128,0	16	22	11	10	-29	-25	21	12	25	11
19	FRA 2613	Manuelle Adam, Virginie Adam	129,0	12	18	20	20	-31	-31	19	20	14	6
20	EST 9	Maria Veessaar, Maiki Saarimg	131,0	-27	3	17	14	27	19	27	11	13	-28
21	GER 4918	Stefanie Rothweiler, Monika Leu	136,0	20	24	-26	19	2	-26	22	17	20	12
22	ITA 4334	Elisabetta Saccheggiani, Myriam Cutolo	137,0	17	21	8	24	5	17	24	21	-27	-26
23	NED 11	Marcelien de Koning, Lobke Berkhout	139,0	-28	20	-28	27	20	23	16	1	18	14
24	AUS 346	Elise Rechichi, Rike Ziegelmayer	140,0	22	-28	25	-32	10	10	28	5	22	18
25	GER 4921	Kathrin Kadelbach, Saskia Schroeder	148,0	14	23	9	-26	24	24	-32	10	24	20
26	GER 4863	Sabine Walter, Antje Struckat	148,0	11	14	19	22	25	-28	17	14	26	-34
27	SWE 314	Karin Almquist, Teresa Enander	152,0	2	25	21	-33	18	18	23	(bfd)	21	24
28	SIN 11	Toh Liying, Tok Leeching	163,0	-33	26	15	9	7	20	30	(bfd)	29	27
29	GER 4924	Daria Blaschkiewitz, Geeske Genrich	180,0	30	31	31	16	-33	6	25	(bfd)	31	10
30	GER 4939	Eva Viktoria Kirchner, Bianca Niemann	186,0	26	29	22	15	17	-30	26	23	28	-31
31	FRA 2611	Marie Amelie Hamart, Ophelie Theron	191,0	24	-30	27	30	12	29	18	(bfd)	30	21
32	NED 1085	Mandy Mulder, Toos Zandstra	234,0	31	-33	-35	29	22	33	33	24	32	30
33	TUR 10	Yonca Yildiral, Yasemin Akyil	235,0	-34	-34	33	34	13	34	31	25	33	32
34	CAN 331	Isabelle Garand, Megan Armitage	265,0	-35	35	34	31	32	32	34	(dnc)	34	33
35	GER 4900	Annina Wagner, Anneli Hartmann	267,0	23	32	32	(dnc)	(dnc)	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc	dnc