Bundock and Ashby claim victory

The Tornado Asia Pacific Regatta has come to a close at Somers Yacht Club

Darren Bundock and Glenn Ashby (AUS) today won both races to take out the Tornado Asia Pacific Regatta at Somers Yacht Club on the Mornington Peninsula.

Multiple Tornado world champion Bundock, who won Silver at the Sydney 2000 Games, and Ashby, a Victorian who won the 2006 Tornado Worlds with Bundock and recently claimed the A-Cat World crown, beat their nearest rivals Andrey Kirilyuk and Valeriy Ushkov from Russia by five points.

While Bundock and Ashby have already been selected to the Beijing Olympic Games, the Russian are still battling it out with team mates who also contested the Sail Melbourne Regatta.

Kirilyuk has already represented at three Games and he and Ushkov are thrilled with their second place, scoring a pair of fourth places to overcome the world champions Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz from Spain who took the bronze medal on countback from Olympic medallist, Mitch Booth and his crew Pim Nieuwenhuis (NED), on the final day.

“We are trying very hard to go to Beijing and today this result helps us,” said Kirilyuk.

Leigh McMillan and Will Howden from Great Britain rounded out fifth place. The pair is selected for Beijing.

Altogether, and international fleet of 32 boats took part in the Regatta. All will have a few days off now before contesting Sail Melbourne’s International Regatta at Sandringham Yacht Club starting on January 14.

Somers Yacht Club hosted the Tornado Asia Pacific Regatta of which all sailors were complimentary of the sailing area and club officials and members, whom they say went out of their way to make the Regatta a friendly one.

Results:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Nationality	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Tot
1	Darren Bundock	Glenn Ashby	AUS	1	1	3	1	3	5	1	[8.00]	6	4	25
2	Andrey Kirilyuk	Valeriy Ushkov	RUS	4	4	5	[10.00]	4	1	5	3	3	1	30
3	Fernando Echavarri	Anton Paz	ESP	[11.00]	5	4	5	1	6	7	6	1	3	38
4	Mitch Booth	Pim Nieuwenhuis	NED	2	[10.00]	1	2	8	4	3	2	7	9	38
5	Leigh Mc Millan	Will Howden	GBR	10	7	2	3	[15.00]	3	2	4	4	5	40
6	Tino Mittelmeier	Niko Mittelmeier	GER	3	2	9	11	2	7	4	10	9	[33.00F]	57
7	Oskar Johansson	Kevin Stittle	CAN	7	[15.00]	12	4	11	2	10	15	10	2	73
8	Allan Norregaard	Michael Risoer	DEN	[18.00]	8	15	6	6	10	9	1	8	12	75
9	Andrew Walsh	Edward Barney	GBR	9	[12.00]	6	9	10	9	12	11	11	6	83
10	Iordanis Paschalidis	Konstantine Trigkoni	GRE	8	[33.00O]	8	8	12	13	13	13	2	11	88
11	Carolijn Brouwer	Sebbe Godefroid	BEL	12	3	[33.00F]	7	7	8	8	20	14	13	92
12	Roland Gaebler	Gunnar Struckmann	GER	6	6	7	13	14	14	14	[16.00]	5	14	93
13	Enrique Figueroa	Jorge Hernandez	PUR	[17.00]	13	10	12	5	11	15	7	13	7	93
14	John Gimson	Stuart Bithell	GBR	14	11	11	14	9	[16.00]	11	12	12	15	109
15	Sergey Dzhienbaev	Maxim Semenov	RUS	20	9	13	15	16	24	6	17	[33.00F]	8	128
16	Rohan Langworthy	Jack Punch	AUS	[22.00]	17	17	17	13	12	17	5	16	18	132
17	Tom Phipps	Marcus Lynch	GBR	5	[19.00]	14	16	17	18	19	14	15	16	134
18	Bruno Di Bernardi	Mario Tinoco	BRA	15	14	16	20	18	15	18	9	[33.00F]	10	135
19	Brett Burvill	Ryan Duffield	AUS	16	[21.00]	21	19	19	17	16	18	17	17	160
20	Michael Vandenberg	Ben Carroll	AUS	27	18	[33.00F]	21	21	20	22	19	19	21	188
21	Kevin Kay	David Hart	AUS	23	16	20	[33.00F]	20	22	33.00F	21	18	20	193
22	Damien Ford	Mark Edmonds	AUS	13	20	19	23	23	21	20	23	[33.00F]	33.00F	195
23	Paul Peterson	Matt Thackray	AUS	24	24	22	[33.00F]	25	19	21	22	22	22	201
24	Allan Gamble	Kim Nicholas	AUS	19	25	23	22	24	23	[33.00O]	25	20	23	204
25	Robbie Lovig	Stuart Offer	AUS	25	22	18	18	22	[33.00F]	33.00O	26	33.00F	33.00C	230
26	Andrew Griffin	Chris Wierzbowski	AUS	26	23	[33.00F]	33.00C	26	33.00F	23	24	25	19	232
27	Ron Stokes	Alexander Bertrand	AUS	21	27	[33.00F]	33.00C	30	25	24	28	21	24	233
28	Gwyn Cracknell	Peter Togno	AUS	29	28	[33.00C]	33.00C	29	33.00F	25	27	24	25	253
29	Ian Simpson	Gary Sawyer	AUS	30	29	[33.00C]	33.00C	28	26	26	30	26	26	254
30	Andrew Heaney	Lukas Muir	AUS	28	26	[33.00C]	33.00C	31	27	27	31	33.00F	33.00F	269
31	Paul Raymond	Nicholas Raymond	AUS	[33.00C]	33.00C	33.00F	33.00C	27	33.00S	33.00F	29	23	33.00F	277
32	Martin Dunlop	Carly Stone	AUS	[33.00C]	33.00C	33.00C	33.00C	33.00C	33.00C	33.00C	33.00C	33.00F	33.00C	297