Three bullets for France

After day one of the 49er European Championship in Zadar

France's Manu Dyen and Stephane Christidis have taken an early lead after four races at the 2009 49er European Championship in Zadar, Croatia.

Christidis commented that they had “beautiful conditions for sailing. We had a wonderful day - only in the first race we failed the start and after that pushed hard to finish 7th. The other three races we had a great start, great speed and three wins so it was a great day for us.”

64 teams representing 19 countries are competing at the championship hosted by Sailing Club Uskok. After a spectacular opening ceremony in the town square last night, the sailors hit the water today with winds from the northwest slowly building from 10 to 14 knots during the afternoon. With such excellent conditions, the Race Committee opted to run 4 races for each fleet.

Austrians Nico Delle Karth and Nikolaus Resch are in second with French sailors Morgan Lagravviere and Yann Rocherieux in third. Current ISAF Ranking leaders Pietro and Gianfranco Sibello of Italy are fourth.

Racing continues tomorrow for the qualifying series.

Results:

Pos	Name	Sailno	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot
1	Manu DYEN, Stephane Christidis, 25	FRA 8	7	1	1	1	10
2	Delle Karth Nico Luca Marc, Nikolaus Leopold Resch, 60	AUT 5	5	3	6	1	15
3	Morgan Lagravviere, Yann Rocherieux, 21	FRA 1071	7	5	1	3	16
4	Pietro Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello, 46	ITA 3	2	8	6	2	18
5	Fernadno Alonso, Arturo Alonso, 39	ESP 1006	5	2	10	4	21
6	Paul Brotherton, Mark Asquith, 58	GBR 9	4	7	7	3	21
7	Axel Silvy, Ulysse Hoffmann, 27	FRA 992	9	3	3	8	23
8	Erik Storck, Trevor Moore, 15	USA 1046	10	10	2	2	24
9	Julien d'Ortoli, Noe Delpech, 23	FRA 1070	11	4	4	5	24
10	Rodion Luka, Sergiy Patkovski, 8	UKR 1081	1	8	8	8	25
11	Lauri Lehtinen, Kalle Bask, 35	FIN 1060	3	1	11	11	26
12	Allan Norregaard, Peter Long, 6	DEN 1017	11	6	4	6	27
13	Jorge Lima, Jose Costa, 9	POR 989	6	7	3	13	29
14	Peter Kruger Andersen, Nicolai Thorsell, 2	DEN 1039	6	14	2	10	32
15	Simon Karstoft, Jonathan Bay, 3	DEN 1019	1	13	11	11	36
16	Pavle Kostov, Petar Cupac, 7	CRO 1052	14	2	12	10	38
17	John Pink, Rick Peacock, 63	GBR 2	12	6	12	9	39
18	Erik Heil, Thomas Pioessel, 22	GER 804	2	9	15	14	40
19	Bernardo Freitas, Francisco Andrade, 13	POR 1072	12	15	9	5	41
20	Richard Mason, Tom Peel, 54	GBR 1042	3	12	5	22	42
21	Emil Toft Nielsen, Simon Toft Nielsen, 4	DEN 981	4	ocs	5	4	46
22	Tobias Schadewaldt, Hannes Baumann, 28	GER 971	16	5	18	7	46
23	Chris Rashley, Matt Gotrel, 52	GBR 124	13	12	13	9	47
24	David Evans, Simon Hiscocks, 55	GBR 1096	8	4	7	bfd	52
25	Leopold Fricke, Lorenz Huber, 32	GER 915	10	11	19	17	57
26	Lennart Briesenick-Pudenz, Morten Massmann, 12	GER 964	8	10	8	dsq	59
27	Niels Joachim Gormsen, Anders Thomsen, 1	DEN 980	17	16	9	18	60
28	Dionisis Dimou, Michail Pateniotis, 10	GRE 1016	20	23	13	6	62
29	Giuseppe Angilella, Pietro Zucchetti, 41	ITA 1021	25	11	16	12	64
30	Manuel Jimenez, Fago Lopez, 37	ESP 977	17	21	10	17	65
31	Daniel Loperfido, Mateo Gritti, 40	ITA 881	9	19	24	15	67
32	Dylan Fletcher, Alain Sign, 51	GBR 1098	13	20	15	20	68
33	Max Lutz, Harniet Lennard, 20	GER 970	22	9	24	16	71
34	Alexander Goltz, Mathias Gruening, 26	GER 1038	18	17	22	15	72
35	James` Peters, Dicken Maclean, 57	GBR 940	22	14	18	19	73
36	Mathieu Frei, Brice Baisez, 45	FRA 953	26	19	17	12	74
37	Max Rieger, Moritz Rieger, 30	GER 1040	19	26	16	13	74
38	Pavel Karachev, Dimitriy Kalyapin, 38	RUS 911	18	17	raf	7	75
39	Julian Ramm, Oliver Lewin, 18	GER 810	14	25	14	24	77
40	Gianmarco Togni, Filippo Togni, 44	ITA 849	19	16	14	28	77
41	Lukasz Przybytek, Krzysztof Kierkowski, 34	POL 1041	16	13	21	bfd	83
42	Tonis Haavel, Lenart Kivistik, 48	EST 1065	15	24	26	19	84
43	Alexey Chekrygin, Vitlay Russu, 36	RUS 1085	20	23	17	25	85
44	Pedro Rebelo de Andrade, Davio Aleixo, 11	POR 846	24	24	19	18	85
45	Cedric Fleury, Louis Claeyssens, 29	FRA 800	21	20	22	24	87
46	Ruggero Tita, Nicolo Fasoli, 42	ITA 867	15	28	25	20	88
47	Arne Seemann, Lars Haverland, 24	GER 629	27	18	20	23	88
48	Ilmari Kuusi, Heikki Soininen, 31	FIN 885	25	18	bfd	14	90
49	Vincent Berthez, Sebastien Durand, 43	FRA 993	27	15	25	23	90
50	Jan Hauke Erichsen, Hans Jakob Dethleffsen, 14	GER 914	21	27	23	21	92
51	Tom Lange, Tim Lange, 16	GER 1013	28	21	21	26	96
52	Max Richardson, Nick Redding, 56	GBR 644	23	25	28	21	97
53	Jonathan Ladha, Daniel Inkpen, 49	CAN 1074	26	30	26	16	98
54	Luca Maffessoli, Stefano Petissi, 59	ITA 866	23	22	28	25	98
55	Marcus Spillane, Amish Ved, 19	IRL 963	29	28	20	27	104
56	Phil Sharp, Nick Murray, 64	GBR 125	30	22	30	22	104
57	Stewart Robertson, Ben Robertson, 53	GBR 695	24	29	27	28	108
58	Michele Monzini, Giovanni Ciapessoni, 61	ITA 101	28	dnf	23	27	111
59	Joonas Lindahl, Benjamin Gronholm, 33	FIN 828	29	26	27	30	112
60	Jason Hogendoorn, Sam Frank, 17	NED 729	32	27	31	26	116
61	Ben Paton, Adam Hilton, 50	GBR 123	31	29	29	29	118
62	Marcello Mignone, Carlo Pedrali, 47	ITA 967	30	31	30	29	120
63	Kolja Dumanic, Josip Serdarevic, 5	CRO 129	32	30	29	31	122
64	Stanislav Pupyshev, Mikhail Chegurov, 62	RUS 951	31	32	31	30	124