Light start in Palma

Princess Sofia underway for Olympic classes

The schedule of races for the nine participating classes at the 35th HRH Princess Sofia Trophy- Madrid 2012 has been completed on this first day of competition. The races have started with some delay until the SW wind has increased to an average intensity of 6-9 knots during all races. All classes have sailed three races, except for the Dragon and Finn classes that have sailed two races.

The largest fleet with 126 entries, the Europe women, is led by Argentinian sailor Serena Amato, followed by Spanish sailor Marina Gallego from CMSAP.

In Europe men, the Spanish sailors take the leading positions in the overall standings and the leader is Manuel Jiménez.

The German crews lead the standings in the Yngling (Schuemann/Buelle/Lippert) and Dragon (Müller/Hoesch/Gunn)fleets.

Once again, British sailor Ben Ainslie has confirmed his leading position in the Finn class winning the 2 races sailed today. Danish crew Susanne and Michaela Ward lead the 470 women overall standings and the lead in the 470 men is for Argentinian sailors Conte/De la Fuente (silver medallists in the Sydney Olympics).

The Tornado results see also Argentinian crew Santiago Lange/Carlos Espinola on the top of today's standings and first place in the Laser class, with 2 wins and a third position is for Swedish competitor Daniel Birgmark.

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Results (Top 20, awaiting 470 Men):

		470 WOMEN	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	DEN 127	Susanne Ward/Michaela Ward	6	3	2	11
2	SLO 142	Vesna Dekleva/Klara Maucec	4	8	3	15
3	GRE 64	Sofia Bekatorov/Emilia Tsovlea	5	4	12	21
4	ARG 104	Fernanda Sesto/Paula Reinoso	9	2	13	24
5	FRA 2594	Ingrid Petitjean/Nadège Douroux	1	5	21	27
6	GBR 813	Christina Bassadone/Katherine Hopson	7	7	16	30
7	GER 4911	Alina Grobe/Vivien Kussatz	13	14	6	33
8	NED 11	Marcelien de Koning/Lobke Berkhout	10	25	1	36
9	RUS 700	Vladlena Ilienko/ Natalia Gaponovich	3	18	15	36
10	AUT 431	Sylvia Vogl/Carolina Flatscher	18	9	9	36
11	AUS 341	Jenny Armstrong/Belinda Stowell	16	1	25	42
12	GER 4918	Stefanie Rothweiler/Monika Leu	22	16	4	42
13	BRA 177	Fernanda Oliveira/Adriana Kostiw	2	24	17	43
14	NED 6	Lisa Westerhof/Margriet Matthijsse	12	21	10	43
15	NZL 195	Shelley Hesson/Linda Dickson	14	29	5	48
16	SWE 314	Karin Almquist/Teresa Enander	30	11	8	49
17	FRA 2613	Manuelle Adam/Virginie Adam	11	10	29	50
18	JPN 4088	Chizuko Ijima/Makiko Ikuta	24	12	18	54
19	ESP 1788	Natalia Via-Dufresne/Sandra Azon	15	OCS	7	59
20	AUS 338	Elise Rechichi/Rike Ziegelmayer	19	13	27	59
		EUROPE WOMEN
1	ARG 123	Serena Amato	6	1	2	9
2	ESP 3	Marina Gallego	1	5	7	13
3	CZE 5	Lenka Smidova	3	3	9	15
4	FRA 6	Brain Solenne	11	5	3	19
5	DEN 11	Trine Abrahamsen	2	14	4	20
6	FRA 8	Blandine Rouille	8	2	11	21
7	NOR 6	Siren Sundby	1	20	1	22
8	GBR 383	Laura Baldwin	11	12	2	25
9	USA 112	Meg Gaillard	7	13	5	25
10	DEN 3	Signe Livbjerg	10	8	8	26
11	AUS 57	Sarah Blanck	20	7	1	28
12	RUS 1	Ludmila Sorokina	13	2	14	29
13	NZL 115	Sarah Macky	4	18	8	30
14	GRE 808	Virginia Kravarioti	18	6	7	31
15	AUT 106	Verena Wagner	14	6	11	31
16	BEL 4	Evi Van Acker	17	1	16	34
17	SWE 22	Karin Söderström	5	17	14	36
18	NED 4	Merel Witteveen	6	11	20	37
19	GER 14	Christiane de Nijs	10	15	12	37
20	POR 192	Joana Pratas	9	23	6	38
		FINN
1	GBR 3	Ben Ainslie	1	1	n/a	2
2	DEN 200	Jonas Hoegh-Christensen	7	5		12
3	IRL 8	David Burrows	12	2		14
4	SLO 5	Vincec Gasper	4	11		15
5	ESP 100	Rafael Trujillo	6	12		18
6	NED 6	Stefan de Vries	10	8		18
7	POL 1	Waclaw Szukiel	8	10		18
8	NZL 19	Peter Fox	2	19		21
9	USA 12	Kevin Hall	18	3		21
10	CRO 25	Marin Misura	3	18		21
11	GER 151	Miller Matthias	17	4		21
12	DEN 7	Soren Holm	9	15		24
13	NZL 27	Clifton Webb	11	14		25
14	NZL 14	Dean Barker	21	9		30
15	BEL 7	Sebastien Godefroid	15	16		31
16	POL 17	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	5	27		32
17	GRE 7	Emilios Papathanasios	25	7		32
18	CAN 41	Christopher Cook	16	20		36
19	GBR 550	Matt Howard	14	26		40
20	FRA 73	Guillaume Florent	19	23		42
		LASER
1	SWE 168674	Daniel Birgmark	1	3	1	5
2	USA 151827	Mark Mendelblatt	6	1	5	12
3	SWE 176901	Karl Suneson	2	11	2	15
4	ESP 178010	Luis Martinez Doreste	4	7	11	22
5	FRA 179615	Mathieu Murati	8	5	12	25
6	GER 176551	Mathias Rieck	14	10	9	33
7	FRA 179014	Thomas Le Breton	3	20	15	38
8	FRA 174561	Felix Pruvot	22	2	16	40
9	FIN 176593	Fredrik Westman	11	4	26	41
10	UKR 179296	Yury Orlov	16	19	10	45
11	MAS 179416	Kevin Lim	5	43	3	51
12	FRA 177529	Henry Fabien	19	12	20	51
13	ARG 168669	Diego Romero	18	21	13	52
14	RUS 172853	Maxim Semekhanov	7	29	17	53
15	ESP 172709	Alejandro Muscat	29	6	19	54
16	BLR 161649	Sergey Desukevich	12	34	8	54
17	BEL 178418	Philippe Bergmans	9	18	28	55
18	SWE 173811	Peter Santén	24	13	21	58
19	NZL 178795	Hamish Pepper	42	14	6	62
20	DEN 177506	Anders Nyholm	25	25	14	64
		TORNADO
1	ARG 1	Santiago Lange/Carlos Espinola	2	2	3	7
2	USA 808	John Lovell/Charlie Ogletree	7	1	1	9
3	AUS 967	Darren Bundock/John Forbes	9	3	4	16
4	DEN 1	Peder Ronholt/Soren Schmidt Jorgensen	3	16	2	21
5	ESP 1	Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz	5	8	9	22
6	NED 1	Mitch Booth/Herbert Dercksen	12	4	5	31
7	GBR 420	Leigh McMillan/Mark Bulkeley	4	12	22	38
8	GER 1090	Roland Gaebler/Gunnar Struckmann	20	14	8	42
9	POR 2	Hugo Rocha/Luis Beito	21	13	10	44
10	FRA 279	Xavier Revil/Laurent Guillemette	26	7	12	45
11	GER 1087	Johannes Polgar/Carsten Happel	13	19	13	45
12	FRA 28	Yann Guichard/Christophe Espagnon	14	18	16	48
13	PUR 1	Enrique Figueroa/Jorge Hernandez	1	35	14	50
14	POR 1	Diego Cayolla/Nuno Barretto	10	6	34	50
15	NZL 87	Aaron McIntosh/Mark/Kennedy	29	5	18	52
16	ITA 5	Vincenzo Sorrentino/Giorgio Colombo	16	17	19	52
17	ESP 11	Manuel Calavia/Carlos Varea	18	9	27	54
18	FRA 282	Matthieu Souben/Gurvan Bontemps	8	24	26	58
19	NED 162	Sven Karsenbarg/Mischa Heemskerk	17	37	6	60
20	SWE 201	Hans Wallen/Christoffer Rappe	6	42	25	73
		YNGLING
1	GER 251	Ulrike Schuemann/Wiebke Buelle/Winnie Lippert	2	1	2	5
2	NED 311	Annelies Thies/Annemieke Bes/Petronella de Jong	1	4	12	17
3	GER 268	Kristin Wagner/Anna Hoell/Veronika Lochbrunner	14	3	3	20
4	NZL 4	Sharon Ferris/Joanna White/Kylie Jameson	5	10	13	28
5	RUS 7	Ekaterina Skoudina/Diana Krutskikh/Tatiana Lartseva	17	2	10	29
6	CAN 41	Felicity Clarke/Martha Henderson /Kari MacKay	11	6	14	31
7	NZL 1	Alesha Thorpe/Karen Lambert/Michelle Vinsen	3	23	6	32
8	ESP 3	Monica Azon/Graciela Pisonero/Marina SanchezMarina Sanchez	19	9	4	32
9	GER 252	Nadine Stegenwalner/Anne Koschinsky/Nina Grunow	8	16	9	33
10	GRE 1	Ekaterini GiakoumIdon/Helena Dimitrakopoulos/Efi Manttzaraki	20	5	11	36
11	SWE 51	Lena Carlsson/Sofia Svensson/Ingrid Söderström	15	17	5	37
12	GBR 9	Shirley Robertson/Sarah Webb/Sarah Ayton	12	8	17	37
13	NED 310	Janneke Hin/Klaartje Zuiderbaan/Hanne Buis	10	13	16	39
14	ITA 15	Cristiana Monina/Francesca Ruggiero/Francesca Scognamillo	18	11	15	44
15	ITA 1	Giulia Conti/Alessandra Marenzi/Angela Baroni	6	19	22	47
16	BER 8	Paula Lewin/Peta Lewin/Christine Patton	4	24	20	48
17	AUS 51	Nicola Bethwaite/Karyn Gojnich/Kristen Kosmala	7	18	28	53
18	RUS 2	Anna Basalkina/Galina Loukachova/Vladislava Ukraintseva	DNS	14	8	53
19	USA 341	Carol Cronin/Elizabeth Filter/Nancy Haberland	DNS	22	1	54
20	CAN 24	Lisa Ross/Deirdre Crampton/Chantal Leger	DNS	20	7	58