Into the final stages

Princess Sofia regatta moves into the final day

Spanish sailors Natalia Via Dufresne and Sandra Azon have taken the lead in the overall standings of the 35th HRH Princess Sofia Trophy-Madrid 2012. The Spanish sailors, in third place of the ISAF World Sailing Ranking lists, finished second and are first with only 1 point difference from Greek crew Sofia Bekatorou/Emilia Tsoulfa.

Two other Spanish sailors still hold on to their chances of winning in their classes after this fourth day of lack of wind and constant wind shifts. The Europe men has been the only class that has not sailed today. Therefore, the standings remain the same.

Tornado crew Echavarri /Paz climb up one place to second overall after finishing in 5th place in today's race. Leaders are still US team Lowell/Ogletree.

In the Finn Class, Ben Ainslie has finished third in today's race but still holds on to the top position in the overall standings and also his options to be the Absolute Winner of this year's edition.

The 470 men and Europe women have sailed their first race of the Final series in groups Gold and Silver. Argentinian crew Conte/De la Fuente lead the 470 men standings and US Europe sailor Meg Gaillard has won today's race holding on to the top place of the standings and gaining distance with respect to the leader of the World ranking lists, Norwegian sailor Siren Sundby.

Change in the overall standings of the Yngling class with new leaders Thies/Bes/De Jong from the Netherlands. German crew Müller/Hoesch/Gunnar maintain their top place in the overall standings.

The most active class of the day has been the Laser with four races. Swedish competitor Karl Suneson in still in the lead in close fight with Daniel Birgmark also from Sweden.

Results (Top 10):

		470 Men	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
1	ARG 70	Javier Conte/Juan de la Fuente	39	1	1	6	4	1	12	14	13	1
2	FRA 2623	Benjamin Bonnaud/Romain Bonnaud	52	8	4	4	1	14	9	BFD	7	5
3	USA 1722	Paul Foerster/Kevin Burnham	55	2	16	3	7	4	1	BFD	9	13
4	GBR 816	Nick Asher/Elliot Willis	57	11	2	5	3	10	12	9	5	29
5	POR 22	Alvaro Marinho/Miguel Nunes	58	13	26	2	2	7	4	2	16	12
6	UKR 7	Yevgen Braslavets/Igor Matviyenko	61	18	9	9	1	8	8	16	3	7
7	JPN 4150	Kimitoshi Nakamura/Kan Yamada	63	7	2	16	2	23	2	3	8	26
8	GBR 818	Graham Vials/Bevis Field	64	9	23	6	3	2	6	13	2	31
9	ITA 2	Gabrio Zandona/Andrea Trani	65	16	5	1	13	15	1	10	16	4
10	GBR 811	Nick Rogers/Joe Glanfield	70	15	22	10	6	13	3	15	5	3
		470 Women	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
1	ESP 1788	Natalia Via-Dufresne/Sandra Azon	50	15	OCS	7	1	1	9	15	2
2	GRE 64	Sofia Bekatorou/Emilia Tsoulfa	51	5	4	12	4	5	BFD	17	4
3	FRA 2594	Ingrid Petitjean/Nadège Douroux	56	1	5	21	19	6	BFD	3	1
4	RUS 700	Vladlena Ilienko/ Natalia Gaponovich	58	3	18	15	2	10	3	8	17
5	DEN 127	Susanne Ward/Michaela Ward	61	6	3	2	14	14	8	30	14
6	SLO 142	Vesna Dekleva/Klara Maucec	63	4	8	3	24	19	16	6	7
7	GBR 813	Christina Bassadone/Katherine Hopson	72	7	7	16	15	3	10	14	16
8	AUS 341	Jenny Armstrong/Belinda Stowell	81	16	1	25	17	15	5	2	DSQ
9	GER 4918	Stefanie Rothweiler/Monika Leu	84	22	16	4	3	12	2	25	32
10	JPN 4088	Chizuko Ijima/Makiko Ikuta	84	24	12	18	6	11	15	12	10
		Europe	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
	USA 112	Meg Gaillard	28	7	13	5	1	1	6	3	4	1
2	NOR 6	Siren Sundby	33	1	20	1	2	1	1	20	3	4
3	AUS 57	Sarah Blanck	41	20	7	1	5	5	10	1	10	2
4	CZE 5	Lenka Smidova	49	3	3	9	3	29	2	11	8	10
5	NZL 115	Sarah Macky	57	4	18	8	6	9	15	7	1	7
6	GER 14	Christiane de Nijs	57	10	15	12	8	2	5	6	3	11
7	BEL 1	Min Dezillie	58	35	4	4	3	2	2	3	15	25
8	FRA 8	Blandine Rouille	62	8	2	11	1	10	9	19	5	16
9	ESP 3	Marina Gallego	67	1	5	7	7	3	22	20	7	17
10	GBR 383	Laura Baldwin	68	11	12	2	5	11	10	16	1	33
		Finn	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
1	GBR 3	Ben Ainslie	6	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
2	CRO 25	Marin Misura	23	3	18	2	2	10	5	1
3	DEN 200	Jonas Hoegh-Christensen	32	7	5	5	6	2	16	7
4	POL 17	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	45	5	27	4	4	8	4	20
5	DEN 7	Soren Holm	68	9	15	6	5	7	26	27
6	BEL 7	Sebastien Godefroid	69	15	16	14	3	16	6	15
7	POL 1	Waclaw Szukiel	69	8	10	16	23	3	23	9
8	USA 12	Kevin Hall	74	18	3	13	13	38	8	19
9	ESP 100	Rafael Trujillo	76	6	12	17	10	24	21	10
10	IRL 8	David Burrows	82	12	2	22	22	18	11	17
		Laser	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11
1	SWE 176901	Karl Suneson	23	2	11	2	2	3	2	1	1	5	5	5
2	SWE 168674	Daniel Birgmark	28	1	3	1	4	4	1	7	6	13	1	14
3	GER 176551	Mathias Rieck	60	14	10	9	13	6	3	2	22	7	6	4
4	ARG 168669	Diego Romero	64	18	21	13	3	14	5	9	3	12	4	1
5	USA 151827	Mark Mendelblatt	69	6	1	5	23	11	13	5	2	22	9	12
6	NZL 178795	Hamish Pepper	71	10	14	6	5	8	8	11	5	16	2	13
7	GRE 179075	Aristeidis Michail	74	OCS	16	4	1	5	15	10	51	1	11	11
8	BEL 178418	Philippe Bergmans	77	9	18	28	19	1	4	15	10	10	3	7
9	FRA 179615	Mathieu Murati	109	8	5	12	26	39	17	4	17	6	14	26
10	FRA 174561	Felix Pruvot	110	22	2	16	8	26	14	34	14	9	15	10
		Tornado	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8
1	USA 808	John Lovell/Charlie Ogletree	33	7	1	1	9	6	11	3	6
2	ESP 1	Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz	43	5	8	9	18	4	2	10	5
3	GBR 420	Leigh McMillan/Mark Bulkeley	64	4	12	21	15	2	6	18	7
4	FRA 28	Yann Guichard/Christophe Espagnon	74	14	18	DNC	4	1	18	7	12
5	POR 2	Hugo Rocha/Luis Beito	76	21	13	10	1	BFD	9	8	14
6	ARG 1	Santiago Lange/Carlos Espinola	88	2	2	3	13	BFD	12	1	OCS
7	AUS 967	Darren Bundock/John Forbes	95	9	3	4	21	BFD	1	OCS	2
8	POR 1	Diego Cayolla/Nuno Barretto	103	10	6	33	25	9	39	5	15
9	FRA 279	Xavier Revil/Laurent Guillemette	109	26	7	12	14	3	31	31	16
10	SWE 199	Martin Strandberg/Kristian Mattsson	112	27	27	36	10	BFD	7	4	1

		Yngling	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10
1	NED 311	Annelies Thies/Annemieke Bes/Petronella de Jong	44	1	4	12	2	15	13	5	3	3	1
2	GER 268	Kristin Wagner/Anna Hoell/Veronika Lochbrunner	53	14	3	3	5	3	2	15	5	25	3
3	NZL 1	Alesha Thorpe/Karen Lambert/Michelle Vinsen	65	3	23	6	9	9	8	2	4	16	8
4	NZL 4	Sharon Ferris/Joanna White/Kylie Jameson	75	5	10	13	17	5	21	7	7	6	5
5	RUS 7	Ekaterina Skoudina/Diana Krutskikh/Tatiana Lartseva	78	17	2	10	10	4	12	11	24	8	4
6	GBR 9	Shirley Robertson/Sarah Webb/Sarah Ayton	80	12	8	17	26	1	1	8	14	10	9
7	ITA 1	Giulia Conti/Alessandra Marenzi/Angela Baroni	84	6	19	22	3	8	15	28	1	4	6
8	GER 251	Ulrike Schuemann/Wiebke Buelle/Winnie Lippert	87	2	1	2	20	12	10	21	18	11	11
9	USA 341	Carol Cronin/Elizabeth Filter/Nancy Haberland	94	DNS	22	1	6	11	14	1	6	OCS	2
10	GER 252	Nadine Stegenwalner/Anne Koschinsky/Nina Grunow	100	8	16	9	4	7	23	4	15	18	19