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Two races sailed in light conditions, Danish Ward sisters lead Womens and Dutch Coster brothers lead Mens

Brothers and Sisters teams lead the 2004 European Championships with 3 days to go here in Warnemunde Germany. Sven & Kalle Coster of the Nederlands lead the Men’s gold fleet and Susanne and Michaela Ward of Denmark lead the Women’s.

It was a day when consistency was difficult and only the brave could keep a lead in the shifty 5-7 knots. The Men’s gold fleet got away cleanly at 11.30 Hrs with Moland/Andersson (SWE) and Foerster/Burnham (USA) getting the best of the start and working left to what seemed to be less breeze. The Dutch Coster brothers coming out of the Right with good height consolidated up the middle of the leg protecting a slender early lead but at the top mark it was the little known Korean pair of Dae Young Kim & Sung Ahn Jung that lead the fleet. Moland/Andersson followed the Koreans and then the Costers followed by a bunch of 15-20 boats arriving at the mark within 15 seconds. On the first run the Costers showed great down wind tactics gibing early to the Left-Middle and overtook the unlucky Swedes and Korean’s in second and third . Sven & Kalle then covered the fleet up the next building on a 20 second lead with POR 22 Alvaro Marinho & Miguel Nunes of Portugal slipping into second with previous regatta leader ARG 70 Javier Conte & Juan de la Fuente working hard to get back into forth place. Places stayed the same down the reach to the finish.

The second race of the day for the Women got underway after a Gernal Recall and under the Black Flag with USA 1732 McDowell/Kinsolving the only boat to the BFDed out of the race.

Russian Champions Vladelina Ilienko & Natalia Gaponovich went to an early lead in what has been an inconsistent regatta for them. Local favorites Stefanie Rothweiler & Monika Leu held onto second place and Germany’s Alina Grobe & Vivien Kussatz took third. Spain’s Silver Medallist Natalia Via Dufresne & Sandra Azon suffered their drop race registering a 26th in very difficult conditions.

Late in the day the Race Officer sent the Women off on their third race of the day only to see the breeze veer and die before they could reach the top mark. Further races for the day were abandoned at 16.10 local. Finishing what was a long day on the water in light conditions.

The leaders in the Women, the Ward Sisters now enjoy a 9 point lead after a day of 2 and 9 (drop) to Spain’s Natalia Via Dufresne & Sandra Azon on 23 points and Russia’s Vladelina Ilienko & Natalia Gaponovich on 24 points.

Much tighter in the Men’s with just 4 points separating the top three boats with the Costers Sven & Kalle on 25 points after 7 Races followed by the Argentinians Javier Conte & Juan de la Fuente dropping back a place to be second overall followed by 2003 World Champions Gabrio Zandona & Andrea Trani in third on 29 points.

Racing is expected to continue Tuesday in light conditions.

Men, Gold Fleet:

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	NED 1	Sven Coster, Kalle Coster	25,0	9	7	1	6	1	1	-16
2	ARG 70	Javier Conte, Juan de la fuente	26,0	3	-14	4	1	4	4	10
3	ITA 2	Zandona Gabrio, Andrea Trani	29,0	11	4	7	1	5	-17	1
4	POR 22	Alvaro Marinho, Miguel Nunes	39,0	2	11	8	13	3	2	-23
5	RUS 8	Dmitri Berezkin, Mikhail Krutikov	41,0	8	2	8	7	-9	7	9
6	SWE 317	Johan Molund, Martin Anderson	42,0	4	-13	1	13	10	3	11
7	USA 1722	Paul Foerster, Kevin Burnham	42,0	9	2	4	(bfd)	8	6	13
8	ESP 1769	Martinez Dorest Gustavo, Wood Dimas	46,0	3	4	-19	10	5	18	6
9	DEN 141	Kristian Kjaergaard, Mads Moeller	49,0	1	-27	13	5	12	13	5
10	GRE 131	Andreas Kosmatopoulos, Kostas Trigonis	50,0	15	3	2	8	13	9	-22
11	CRO 111	Tomislav Basic, Petar Cupac	50,0	6	12	-13	4	13	11	4
12	FRA 2619	Pierre Leboucher, Vinzent Garos	57,0	17	8	6	2	8	16	(ocs)
13	AUS 347	Nathan Outteridge, Ayden Menzies	60,0	23	10	12	(dsq)	2	5	8
14	GBR 811	Nick Rogers, Joe Glanfield	60,0	7	3	3	7	9	-33	31
15	GBR 818	Graham Vials, Bevis Field	61,0	-19	14	14	2	6	10	15
16	AUS 351	Mathew Belcher, Nick Behrens	63,0	10	-24	5	6	11	24	7
17	GBR 816	Nic Asher, Elliot Willis	67,0	5	8	10	22	3	-26	19
18	TUR 2	Selim Kakis, Kaan Ozgonenc	71,0	11	-26	22	3	11	22	2
19	SLO 149	Tomaz Copi, Davor Glavina	73,0	22	5	-27	16	7	20	3
20	ISR 7	Gidon Kliger, Ehud Gal	73,0	12	13	11	18	7	12	-21
21	IRL 66	Gerald Owens, Ross Killian	74,0	20	1	6	22	4	21	-26
22	BRA 17	Alexandre Paradeda, Bernardo Arndt	75,0	6	1	10	24	20	-32	14
23	UKR 7	Yevgen Braslavets, Igor Matvienko	80,0	12	21	16	11	1	19	-33
24	KOR 77	Kyu- Tae Park, Chang-Il Sung	80,0	10	6	17	17	2	28	-32
25	FRA 2574	Ronan Dreano, Ronan Floch	85,0	13	-18	9	17	14	14	18
26	GRE 165	Panagiotis Kambouridis, Aggelos Lemanis	86,0	15	9	2	5	(bfd)	31	24
27	CRO 7	Ante Cesic, Ante Kujundzic	86,0	27	5	12	20	14	8	-28
28	KOR 81	Dae Young Kim, KOR, Sung Ahn Jung	89,0	4	26	24	3	17	15	-27
29	ITA 4332	Enrico Fonda, Pietro Zucchetti	92,0	28	7	3	25	12	-30	17
30	RUS 11	Pavel Kalinchev, Alexander Zybin	93,0	-26	20	11	15	10	25	12
31	KOR 88	Cheul Yoon, KOR, Hyeong Tae Kim	95,0	14	9	24	9	16	23	-30
32	SUI 3	Lukas Erni, Simon Brügger	101,0	16	15	5	11	(bfd)	29	25
33	CAN 555	John Russell, Brent MacDonald	106,0	24	10	15	14	16	27	-29
34	GBR 814	Neil Marsden, Graham Nelsen	107,0	18	18	7	10	(bfd)	34	20

Women, Gold Fleet:

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5
1	DEN 127	Susanne Ward, Michaela Ward	14,0	7	2	3	2	-9
2	ESP 1788	Natalia Viadufresne, Sandra Azon	23,0	3	6	13	1	-26
3	RUS 700	Vladelina Ilienko, Natalia Gaponovich	24,0	4	1	-23	18	1
4	GER 4911	Alina Grobe, Vivien Kussatz	24,0	-18	13	1	7	3
5	NED 10	Marjon Kooistra, Petra de Goederen	29,0	5	-27	7	3	14
6	FRA 2594	Ingrid Petitjean, Nadege Douroux	32,0	13	7	4	-23	8
7	SWE 323	Therese Torgersson, Vendela Zachrisson	35,0	-32	10	2	12	11
8	ISR 10	Nike Kornecki, Vered Bouskila	35,0	9	-16	6	4	16
9	USA 1732	Katherine McDowell, Isabelle Kinsolving	36,0	1	12	18	5	(bfd)
10	NED 6	Lisa Westerhof, NED, Margriet Matthijsse	36,0	10	9	-16	13	4
11	ARG 104	Fernanda Sesto, Paula Reinoso	42,0	6	-15	10	11	15
12	AUT 431	Sylvia Vogl, Carolina Flatscher	50,0	15	4	14	17	-28
13	ITA 4334	Elisabetta Saccheggiani, Myriam Cutolo	51,0	17	21	8	-24	5
14	POL 55	Katarzyna Tylinska, Zuzanna Gladysz	55,0	8	5	-30	21	21
15	SIN 11	Toh Liying, Tok Leeching	57,0	-33	26	15	9	7
16	GBR 813	Christina Bassadone, Katherine Hopson	58,0	-29	19	5	28	6
17	SLO 142	Vesna Dekleva, Klara Maucec	58,0	19	8	12	-25	19
18	CAN 520	Jennifer Provan, Nikola Girke	59,0	16	22	11	10	-29
19	EST 9	Maria Veessaar, Maiki Saarimg	61,0	-27	3	17	14	27
20	AUS 341	Jenny Armstrong, Jenny Stowell	63,0	21	11	-24	8	23
21	GER 4918	Stefanie Rothweiler, Monika Leu	65,0	20	24	-26	19	2
22	SWE 314	Karin Almquist, Teresa Enander	66,0	2	25	21	-33	18
23	GER 4863	Sabine Walter, Antje Struckat	66,0	11	14	19	22	-25
24	GER 4921	Kathrin Kadelbach, Saskia Schroeder	70,0	14	23	9	-26	24
25	FRA 2613	Manuelle Adam, Virginie Adam	70,0	12	18	20	20	-31
26	HUN 49	Marta Weores, Anna Payr	77,0	25	17	29	6	-30
27	GER 4939	Eva Viktoria Kirchner, Bianca Niemann	80,0	26	-29	22	15	17
28	AUS 346	Elise Rechichi, Rike Ziegelmayer	85,0	22	28	25	-32	10
29	FRA 2611	Marie Amelie Hamart, Ophelie Theron	93,0	24	-30	27	30	12
30	NED 11	Marcelien de Koning, Lobke Berkhout	95,0	-28	20	28	27	20
31	GER 4924	Daria Blaschkiewitz, Geeske Genrich	108,0	30	31	31	16	-33
32	TUR 10	Yonca Yildiral, Yasem Akyil	114,0	-34	34	33	34	13
33	NED 1085	Mandy Mulder, Toos Zandstra	115,0	31	33	-35	29	22
34	GER 4900	Annina Wagner, Anneli Hartmann	123,0	23	32	32	(dnc)	dnc
35	CAN 331	Isabelle Garand, Megan Armitage	132,0	-35	35	34	31	32