Three more medals

Finn and 470s decided at Travemuende Week

All lateest winners of the 120th Travemuende Week are either from Germany or Russia. On the last day of racing for three Olympic classes, the locals won two of them with one victory went to Russians.

German Finn sailor Jan Kurfeld and Frithjof Schwert on his Laser were defending the first place as well as the Russian brothers Mikhail and Maxim Sheremetiev in the 470 class. Jens Findel and Johannes Tellen (GER/Kiel) became the new International German Champion of the 505 class.

“We will come back for sure,” said Finn sailor Jan Kurfeld after experiencing four days of finest racing on the Baltic Sea off Travemuende. He was happy about his excellent result of six from eight possible bullets. His brother Ulli Kurfeld fought for third place just behind Karel von Hellermond (NED).

Frithjof Schwerdt was enjoying the final racing day as well. Although his starts didn't go well, he managed to win both races. “First I passed everyone on the left side of the course, in the second race I was a little lucky," reported the 21 year old German. Because of a BFD in the last race, the Russian Sergey Komissarov ended up taking third place, tied on points with his compatriot Maxim Semerkanov, who took the silver medal.

In the mixed 470 class Danes Henriette Koch and Lene Sommer were taking too much risk and were disqualified under the black flag in the deciding race. They came second overall behind the 'gold brothers' Mikhail and Maxim Sheremetiev (RUS).

Jens Findel and Johannes Tellen were celebrating their first German Championship title in a borrowed 505. Their own boat is currently on its way to San Francisco, USA where the World Championships will take place later this summer. “We are so excited about this title," said Findel. "We first thought we might miss again to making good for the Europeans in Kiel, where we struggled a bit. But finally we are very happy about two first places on the last day.”

The Pre-Worlds of the Contender class will be decided on Wednesday, 22 July with two more races scheduled. Italian Andrea Bonezzi climbed to top of the list when Australian Champion Jono Neate had a DNF and local hero Jan von der Bank scored a BFD.

The multiple World and European Champion Roland Gaebler celebrated an impressive result in the Tornado class. With his wife and crew Nahid, he scored nine bullets and one second place by two DNC discarded.

The female skipper of the German yacht DHH Cross Match, Sabine Juettner-Storp, who was lost at sea on Monday, was commemorated with a minute’s silence before the start of the prize-giving. She fell overboard during the offshore regatta Baltic Sprint Cup. Two Scandinavian rescue helicopters and two rescue boats, 15 other yachts from the regatta fleet took part in the search, which was officially stopped without success at 10am on Tuesday morning.

Results after the fourth race day of the 120th Travemuende Week (Tuesday, 21st July)

Olympic classes

470 (final results after nine races): 1. Mikhail and Maxim Sheremetiev (Russia) 8 points; 2. Henriette Koch/Lene Sommer (Danmark) 21; 3. Stefan Schneider/Frank Thieme (Germany) 26; 4. Vitaliy Moshkovsyy/Sergii Polishchuk (Ukraine) 28; 5. Wibke Wriggers/Geeske Genrich (Germany) 30; 6. Ekaterina Bessonova/Elena Khryukina (Russia) 47.

Laser (final results after eleven races): 1. Frithjof Schwerdt (Germany) 12 points; 2. Maxim Semerkhanov (Russia) 25; 3. Sergey Komissarov (Russia) 25; 4. Oltmann Thyen (Germany) 29; 5. Tobias Feuerherdt (Germany) 44; 6. Finn Hinzpeter (Germany) 53.

Finn Dinghy (final results after eight races): 1. Jan Kurfeld (Germany) 6 points; 2. Karel von Hellemond (The Netherlands) 10; 3. Ulli Kurfeld (Germany) 18; 4. Gert van der Heijden (The Netherlands) 19; 5. Dirk Meid (Germany) 26; 6. Ross Hamilton (Ireland) 40.


International classes

International German 505 Championship (final results after seven races): 1. Jens Findel/Johannes Tellen (Germany) 17 points; 2. Dietrich Scheder-Bieschin/Holger Jess (Germany) 24; 3. Lutz Stengel/Frank Feller (Germany) 24; 4. Christian Kellner/Hans-Heinrich Rix (Germany) 28; 5. Boris Herrmann/Julien Kleiner (Germany) 32; 6. Martin and Rainer Goerge (Germany) 35.

Contender Pre-Worlds (after seven races): 1. Jono Neate (Australia) 11 points; 2. Andrea Bonezzi (Italy) 16; 3. Jan von der Bank (Germany) 16; 4. Michele Benvenuti (Italy) 22; 5. Christoph Engel (Germany) 31; 6. Joerg Dannemann (Germany) 34.

Tornado (final results after twelve races): 1. Roland and Nahid Gaebler (Denmark) 11 points; 2. Sebastian Moser/Thomas Posch (Germany) 26; 3. Fridtjof Unger/Christian Busdiecker (Germany) 35; 4. Heiko Soehle/Thomas Noll (Germany) 41; 5. Zdenek und Jiri Pavlis (Czech Republic) 51; 6. Arndt Meyer/Manfred Syrowy (Germany) 68.

Dyas (after seven races): 1. Holger Sueße/Frank Bender (Germany) 13 points; 2. Detlef Schweitzer/Norbert Schmidt (Germany) 15; 3. Lothar Schmidt/Ingo Guenzel (Germany) 27; 4. Peter Brandt/Regula Baerlocher (Switzerland) 28; 5. Jens Leicher/Christian Laschewski (Germany) 31; 6. Günter Roland/Johannes Stricker (Germany) 32.