Winning in style

Australians take the Tornado Worlds with a race to spare

Monday December 11th 2006, Author: Event press/dailysail, Location: United Kingdom
The Australian team of Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby claimed the Tornado World Championship with one race to spare on Sunday. Local heroes Argentineans Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola had a brilliant race and finish second overall and Austrians Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher complete the podium.

The breeze under six knots kept the competitors waiting on the water to start Race 9. When the breeze finally picked up the Race Committee had to move the course due to the shallow conditions. This left time short and only one race could be sailed - with the Australians won the title with one race to spare.

The battle was between local heroes Lange and Espinola and the pairing of Hagara and Steinacher. Both teams started together in the middle of the starting line but the Argentineans went all the way to the right side of the course while the Austrians decided for the middle. Lange and Espinola rounded in first, followed by the Dutch team of Booth and Nieuwenhis in second and Spaniards Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz in third. The Austrians rounded seventh.

By then the Argentineans were leading by a long way and nobody was able to threaten their lead. The Spanish took over the second position on the third and last weather mark rounding followed by the French sailors Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader in third. The Austrians didn't manage to improve their position and finished 11th.

Santiago Lange and Carlos Espinola crossed the finishing line in great style flying a hull to the hundreds of spectators watching the final race of the 2006 Worlds.

The French had a good campaign placing 6 teams in the top 15 with Guichard and Guyader finishing 5th overall. The Greek team of Iordanis Paschalidis and Constantinos Trigonis were the 4th overall.

Says Darren Bundock about his result: "The focus the whole year has been on this World Championship. This is the one we wanted and means a lot after the effort and preparation for this event. A lot has got to be said for our coach Mike Fletcher he has coached me to five world championships now in the Olympic Class and coached Mitch Booth and John Forbes to one before I came along. His persistence before this regatta with getting our trimming techniques and speed right has probably won the regatta for us".
 
Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Tot
1 AUS8 Darren Bundock & Glenn Ashby 6 2 4 2 1 5 1 2 (48\DNS) 23
2 ARG1 Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola 7 -23 8 4 12 2 2 1 1 37
3 AUT3 Roman Hagara & Hans Peter Steinacher 1 8 1 3 2 -33 11 4 11 41
4 GRE7 Iordanis Paschalidis & Constantinos Trigonis -31 3 13 7 9 11 5 11 8 67
5 FRA7 Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader 9 -31 14 18\RDG 6 16 6 5 3 77
6 GER7 Johannes Polgar & Florian Spalteholz 15 1 -28 10 4 4 4 15 27 80
7 ESP1 Fernando Echavarri & Anton Paz 11 13 12 22 7 19 -26 3 2 89
8 FRA5 Billy Besson & Arnaud Jarlegan 10 21 15 1 18 3 21 9 -24 98
9 PUR1 Enrique Figueroa & Jorge Hernandez 3 18 25 17 5 18 -31 12 7 105
10 FRA1 Xavier Revil & Christophe Espagnon 2 5 22 24 11 7 12 -26 25 108
11 GER1104 Roland Gaebler & Gunnar Struckmann 12 10 19 19 14 22 7 8 -36 111
12 FRA298 Matthieu Souben & Gurvan Bontemps 5 28 11 9 20 12 9 21 -33 115
13 FRA11 François Morvan & Matthieu Vandame 8 29 9 15 10 6 8 (48\DSQ) 30 115
14 NED8 Mitch Booth & Pim Nieuwenhis 4 12 7 27 22 27 -34 16 5 120
15 FRA302 Oliver Backes & Paul - Ambroise Sevestre 26 17 -32 5 8 29 13 25 6 129
16 CAN7 Oskar Johansson & Kevin Stittle 29 19 24 8 3 25 19 -30 4 131
17 ESP104 Javier Padron & Antonio Cuevas Mons 23 4 26 13 17 9 -33 18 21 131
18 ITA257 Francesco Marcolini & Edoardo Bianchi 20 6 18 6 24 -30 14 24 19 131
19 GBR436 Leigh Mc Millan & William Howden 19 11 16 28 15 17 (48\OCS) 19 9 134
20 GBR7 Rob Wilson & Mark Bulkeley 18 9 29 26 -36 14 22 6 12 136
21 BEL7 Carolijn Brouwer & Sebbe Godefroid 28 14 30 11 -34 32 3 14 14 146
22 RUS97 Andrey Kirilyuk & Valery Ushkov 30 -33 2 31 25 8 15 20 18 149
23 GBR430 Andrew Walsh & Edward Barney 24 20 5 33 19 15 -37 22 17 155
24 GER1096 Tino Mittelmeier & Niko Mittelmeier 14 25 6 20 23 23 -39 23 28 162
25 USA804 Daniel Robbie & Gary Chu 13 (48\DNF) 17 12 29 10 10 35 37 163
26 NED1 Misch Heemskerk & Herbert Dercksen (48\OCS) 7 20 21 41 1 27 28 23 168
27 USA808 John Lovell & Charlie Ogletree (48\OCS) 15 10 25 16 31 17 29 26 169
28 ITA5 Vincenzo Sorrentino & Giorgio Colombo 21 22 (48\OCS) 18 27 26 35 7 15 171
29 AUT381 Thomas Zajac & Thomas Czajka 16 27 23 (48\OCS) 30 21 29 27 10 183
30 NZL87 Aaron Mcintosh & Bruce Kendall (48\OCS) 34 27 29 13 20 24 17 22 186
31 ESP23 Toni Rivas & Fabian Escude (48\OCS) 26 3 14 21 34 28 48\DNS 13 187
32 GBR434 Hugh Styles & Tom Peel 32 (48\DNF) 21 23 40 35 18 10 20 199
33 GBR438 Christopher Rashley & Marcus Lynch 22 24 31 34 26 36 30 13 -38 216
34 POR1 Diogo Cayolla & Frederico Cerveira 25 30 -34 30 33 24 25 33 16 216
35 RUS7 Sergey Dzhienbaev & Maxim Semenov (48\OCS) 36 33 48\OCS 28 13 23 32 34 247
36 BRA1 Andre Mirsky & Naldi Gual 34 37 -39 16 32 28 36 34 32 249
37 NED100 Wouter Samana & Jeroen Van Leeuwen 35 16 36 32 38 37 32 -39 29 255
38 BRA37 Bruno Di Bernardi & Andre Chang 27 35 38 37 35 39 16 31 (48\OCS) 258
39 USA840 Donald Thinschmidt & Andrew Wierda (48\DSQ) 32 41 36 31 38 20 37 39 274
40 ARG29 Fernando Garcia Guevara & Gustavo Mariani 17 40 -42 41 37 41 40 41 31 288
41 AUT360 Thomas Jessenig & Stefan Jessenig 33 39 35 38 39 -43 38 40 35 297
42 USA813 Mike Grandfield & Brock Callen 36 38 37 35 44 40 (48\DNF) 48\DNS 42 320
43 ARG360 Esteban Blando & Alejandro Noe 37 41 40 40 42 42 42 38 (48\OCS) 322
44 UKR21 Stanislav Golembievskyy & Olexiy Voloshenyuk 39 42 43 42 43 -44 41 36 41 327
45 CAN2 Alan Dubuc & Mark Herendeen 40 43 44 43 -45 45 43 42 40 340
46 CHN112 Luo Youjia & Xiuke Chen 38 (48\DNF) 48\OCS 39 46 46 48\DNS 48\DNS 48\DNS 361
47 GER1103 Jochen Seifert & Jurgen Tiemann 41 44 45 44 (48\DNS) 48\DNS 48\DNS 48\DNS 48\DNS 366

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