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Plenty of racing completed in a building breeze yesterday PLUS Top 20 results tables

On the second day of racing, 60 races have been sailed in the Bay of Palma. Wind conditions of 8-9 knots in the morning increased to 18 knots in the afternoon.

Portuguese crew Alvaro Marinho/Miguel Nunes lead the 470 M class followed by Marc Patiño Jordi/Omar Juan Moreno from Spain with equal points. Third position is for French team Benjamín Bonnaud/Romaní Bonnaud.

The Yngling results are led by Danish crew Dorte O. Jensen/Helle Jespersen/Rachel Kiel. Second and third posistion is for German crews Nadine Stegenwalner/Anne Koschinsky/Nina Grunow and Ulrike Schuemann/Wibke Buell /Winnie Lippert.

Australian sailor Michael Blackburn with 5 points leads the overall Laser standings followed by Swedish sailor Daniel Birgmark and Paul Goodison from Great Britain.

Swedish crew Fredrik Loof/Anders Ekstrom in Star class are in first position followed by British crew Ian Percy/Steve Mitchell and French team Xavier Rohart/Yannick in second and third place respectively.

Leader in the Finn class is the Class European and World Champion British sailor, Ben Ainslie. Second place is for Mateusz Kusznierewicz from Poland followed by Spanish sailor Rafael Trujillo in third place.

The lead in the Tornado overall standings is for crew Mitch Booth/ Herbert Dercksen from Holland followed by French crew Olivier Backes/ Laurent Voiron and Spanish crew Fernando Echávarri/Antón Paz Blanco,.

Following the 4 races sailed by the 470 Women fleet, first place is for French crew Petitjean Ingrid/ Doroux Nadège, followed by Therese Torgersson/Vendela Zachrisson from Sweden and Spanish sailors Natalia Via-Dufresne/Sandra Azón.

The leader of the Europe Women overall results is Danish sailor Signe Livbjerg followed by Lenka Smidova from the Czech Republic and Petra Niemann from Germany.

Spanish crews have taken the lead in the 49er class today. Spanish crew Santiago López-Vázquez/Javier de la Plaza, who finished second overall in 2003, are in the first place followed by Ukranian crew Rodion Luka/ George Leonchuck and Christoffer Sundby/Frode Bovim from Norway.

Lee Lai Shan from Hong Kong leads the Mistral Women overall results after four races. Second place is for Italian sailor Alessandra Sensini followed by Amelie Lux from Germany.

The lead in the Mistral Men fleet is for French crews Julian Bontemps in first position followed by Nicolas Beudou. Third position is for British sailor Nick Dempsey.

Dragon class results: British crew Poul Richard Hoj-Jensen/Jeremy Jordan/Claus Hoj-Jensen, who finished in second place in 2002, lead today’s overall standings. Second place is for Swiss crew Ulli Llibor/ Vincent Hoesch/Bernd Faber followed by Cees Nacer/Simon Keyne/ Maria Moi Jensen from Holland.

Spanish sailor Joan Salamé is the leader of the Europe Men fleet followed by Swedish sailor Fredrik Svensson and Alexander F. Huser from Norway.

	470 Men		Total	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	POR 22	Alvaro Marinho/Miguel Nunes	16	6	2	7	1
2	ESP 1733	Marc Patiño Jordi/Omar Juan Moreno	16	7	1	3	5
3	FRA 2623	Benjamin Bonnaud/Romain Bonnaud	20	10	2	7	1
4	GBR 807	Nick Rogers/Joe Glanfield	23	14	1	1	7
5	ESP 1769	Gustavo Martinez Doreste/Dimas Wood	23	2	15	2	4
6	GBR 802	Graham Vials/Bevis Field	26	6	9	9	2
7	AUS 35	Mathew Belcher/Dan Belcher	26	3	5	10	8
8	SWE 317	Johan Molund/Martin Andersson	28	14	11	1	2
9	USA 1697	Steve Hunt/Michael Miller	32	12	3	11	6
10	ITA 2	Gabrio Zandona/Andrea Trani	34	1	5	17	11
11	ARG 70	Javier Conte/Juan de la Fuente	34	1	13	13	7
12	JPN 3933	Katsuya Takagi/Ryosuke Tanigawa	35	8	4	6	17
13	SUI 3	Lukas Erni/Simon Bruegger	36	4	6	15	11
14	GRE 131	Andreas Kosmatopoulos/Costas Trigonis	38	8	13	13	4
15	GER 4896	Lucas Zellmer/Felix Krabbe	40	7	15	4	14
16	AUS 311	Nathan Wilmot/Malcolm Page	41	2	8	12	19
17	POL 5	Tomasz Stanczyk/Tomasz Jakubiak	43	12	10	18	3
18	ITA 4	Enrico Fonda/Pietro Zucchetti	43	5	8	12	18
19	GBR 804	Mark Plummer/Oliver Hawkley	45	20	17	3	5
20	UKR 7	Eugeny Braslavets/Igor Matvienko	45	15	7	15	8
	470 Women		Total	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	FRA 2594	Petitjean Ingrid/Douroux Nadège	16	6	6	1	3
2	SWE 3	Therese Torgersson/Vendela Zachrisson	20	2	4	4	10
3	ESP 1788	Natalia Via-Dufresne/Sandra Azón	24	1	16	5	2
4	AUS 341	Jenny Armstrong /Belinda Stowell	30	19	2	2	7
5	SLO 142	Vesna Dekleva/Klara Maucec	36	5	8	11	12
6	GBR 806	Christina Bassadone/Katherine Hopson	40	3	24	7	6
7	GBR 792	Helena Lucas/Jenny Heeley	42	12	3	18	9
8	GRE 64	Sofia Bekatorou/Sofia Bekatorou	47	RAF	5	3	1
9	GER 4918	Stefanie Rothweiler/Monika Leu	51	26	14	6	5
10	GER 4907	Stephanie Truebel/Vivien Kussatz	54	21	11	9	13
11	USA 1754	Erin Maxwell/Jen Morgan	57	24	9	16	8
12	ARG 104	Fernanda Sesto/Paula Reinoso	57	9	18	15	15
13	GBR 793	Josie Gibson/Saskia Clark	58	8	15	10	25
14	POL 55	Tylinska Katarzyna/Gabriela Brzoska	59	18	12	12	17
15	NZL 195	Shelley Hesson/Linda Dickson	61	11	19	17	14
16	AUS 338	Lisa Charlson/Friederike Ziegelmayer	63	14	13	20	16
17	DEN 127	Susanne Ward/Michaela Ward	65	25	23	13	4
18	ITA 4305	Federica Prunai/Emanuela Sossi	69	28	1	21	19
19	USA 1732	Katherine McDowell/Isabelle Kinsolving	69	17	7	19	26
20	GER 4911	Alina Grobe/Alexandra Goltz	76	22	20	23	11
	49er		Total	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	ESP 4	Santiago Lopez-Vazquez/Javier de la Plaza	10	1	3	1	5
2	UKR 5	Rodion Luka/George Leonchuk	12	2	5	2	3
3	NOR 11	Christoffer Sundby/Frode Bovim	14	7	2	1	4
4	GBR 2	Chris Draper/Simon Hiscocks	24	4	15	4	1
5	ESP 1	Iker Martinez de Lizarduy Lizarribar/Xabier Fernandez	25	16	1	2	6
6	GRE 785	Athanasios Pachoumas/Vasilis Portosalte	25	3	7	3	12
7	GBR 30	Stevie Morrison/Ben Rhodes	26	5	1	10	10
8	GBR 3	Paul Brotherton/Mark Asquith	28	11	4	10	3
9	DEN 8	Michael Hestbek/Dennis Dengsø Andersen	29	3	7	12	7
10	POL 743	Marcin Czajkonski/Krzysctof Kierkoswki	35	17	3	13	2
11	DEN 722	Jonas Warrer/Peter Krüger Andersen	38	9	15	12	2
12	POR 15	Pedro Rebelo de Andrade/Francisco Rebelo Andrade	41	18	2	14	7
13	DEN 27	Peter Hansen/Soren Hansen	41	7	8	17	9
14	ITA 6	Pietro Sibello/Gianfranco Sibello	44	11	11	21	1
15	USA 13	Tim Wadlow/Pete Spaulding	46	1	17	17	11
16	NED 9	Pieter Lantermans/Pim Nieuwenhuis	49	23	10	11	5
17	GRE 183	George Panagiotidis/Alfonso Panagiotidis	50	19	19	3	9
18	DEN 21	Jonathan Persson/Thomas Iversen	51	26	13	8	4
19	ITA 33	Luca Modena/Manuel Modena	51	10	17	4	20
20	IRL 20	Tom Fitzpatrick/Fraser Brown	54	4	22	5	23
	Europe - Women		Total	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	DEN 3	Signe Livbjerg	16	3	8	3	2
2	CZE 5	Lenka Smidova	19	4	9	1	5
3	GER 34	Petra Niemann	20	3	6	5	6
4	FIN 7	Sari Multala	22	17	1	3	1
5	NOR 846	Siren Sundby	24	12	1	5	6
6	NED 11	Carolijn Brouwer	27	10	15	1	1
7	NZL 115	Sarah Macky	28	1	2	4	21
8	AUS 57	Sarah Blanck	32	5	9	11	7
9	FRA 10	Sophie de Turckheim	39	23	12	2	2
10	MEX 200	Tania Elias Calles	39	8	12	10	9
11	GBR 381	Kirsty Bonar	40	4	6	16	14
12	FRA 8	Blandine Rouille	40	10	10	9	11
13	BEL 1	Min Dezillie	43	8	19	7	9
14	GER 18	Wiebke Schröder	44	21	5	10	8
15	DEN 4	Ditte Juul	46	19	4	13	10
16	DEN 11	Trine Julie Abrahamsen	47	38	2	2	5
17	GBR 383	Laura Baldwin	49	24	16	6	3
18	USA 112	Meg Gaillard	54	26	4	4	20
19	FRA 6	Solenne Brain	54	16	21	7	10
20	GER 4	Doris Wetzel	54	11	13	12	18
	Finn		Total	R1	R2	R3
1	GBR 3	Ben Ainslie	10	7	1	2
2	POL 17	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	13	6	2	5
3	ESP 100	Rafael Trujillo	24	10	8	6
4	ITA 1	Luca Devoti	25,5	2	RDG	15
5	GRE 6	Emilios Papathanasiou	28	15	9	4
6	FRA 73	Guillaume Florent	31	5	16	10
7	SUI 7	Christoph Burger	36	21	RDG	3
8	GER 79	Michael Fellmann	37	24	5	8
9	BEL 7	Sebastien Godefroid	39	25	RDG	1
10	GBR 15	Charlie Cumbley	39	28	4	7
11	BRA 10	João Signorini	39	8	RDG	18
12	TUR 6	Ali Enver Adakan	42	3	23	16
13	CZE 1	Michael Maier	44	14	19	11
14	POL 12	Waclaw Szukiel	46	22	3	21
15	IRL 8	David Burrows	46	27	6	13
16	NED 78	Jaap Zielhuis	50	4	34	12
17	DEN 7	Søren Holm	52	20	12	20
18	CRO 11	Karlo Kuret	53	16	18	19
19	SLO 5	Gasper Vincec	54	1	RDG	35
20	DEN 200	Jonas Hoegh-Christensen	54	23	7	24
	Laser		Total	R1	R2	R3
1	AUS 176910	Michael Blackburn	5	1	1	3
2	SWE 174361	Daniel Birgmark	11	3	2	6
3	GBR 175461	Paul Goodison	12	2	7	3
4	AUS 177082	Tom Slingsby	15	5	6	4
5	AUS 176932	Brendan Casey	16	12	3	1
6	SWE 175302	Karl Suneson	16	4	11	1
7	AUS 176901	Jon Holroyd	21	9	1	11
8	POL 174342	Maciej Grabowski	22	7	9	6
9	FRA 174561	Felix Pruvot	28	8	3	17
10	CRO 172583	Mate Arapov	28	3	11	14
11	NED 174667	Pieter Jan Postma	28	8	16	4
12	ARG 168669	Diego Romero	29	2	7	20
13	GER 174101	Daniel Hannemann	29	4	8	17
14	SWE 167621	Fredrik Lassenius	29	15	6	8
15	GER 174753	Alexander Schlonski	30	16	4	10
16	NZL 171101	Michael Bullot	30	13	8	9
17	NZL 150099	Matthew Blakey	31	1	10	20
18	GBR 175469	Mark Howard	33	17	5	11
19	SWE 173809	Gustav Carlsson	33	11	9	13
20	GER 174758	Robert Stanjek	34	6	19	9
	Star		Total	R1	R2	R3
1	SWE 8141	Fredrik Loof/Anders Ekstrom	8	1	6	1
2	GBR 8025	Iain Percy/Steve Mitchell	17	10	1	6
3	FRA 8107	Xavier Rohart/Yannick Adde	19	2	12	5
4	AUS 8140	Iain Murray/Andrew Palfrey	20	16	2	2
5	DEN 7994	Nicklas Holm/Martin Leifelt	22	12	3	7
6	DEN 7872	Stig Westergaard/Peter Oersted	22	5	5	12
7	FRA 7714	Paul Sevestre/Vincent Berenguier	25	8	7	10
8	FRA 7879	Philippe Presti/Saliou/Jean Philippe	27	3	8	16
9	ITA 8040	Francesco Bruni/Antar Vigna	30	18	9	3
10	GER 7971	Michael Kocy/Markus Koz	33	4	15	14
11	ESP 7547	Javier Aguado Blanco/Miguel Santaursula	33	11	14	8
12	IRL 7817	Maxwell Treacy/Anthony Shanks	34	19	11	4
13	RUS 7908	Georgy Shauduko/Yuri Firsov	34	17	4	13
14	POR 8053	Afonso Domingos/Bernardo Santos	35	7	10	18
15	ITA 8014	Riccardo Simoneschi/Ferdinando Colaninno	36	6	19	11
16	ESP 7581	Roberto Bermudez/Marcos Iglesias	40	13	18	9
17	ITA 8090	Poggi Giampiero/Stilo Giovanni	46	15	16	15
18	SUI 8085	Flavio Marazzi/Enrico de Maria	52	14	13	DNC
19	ESP 8094	Jose Ma Van der Ploeg/Pablo Arrarte	59	9	DNF	DNF
20	ARG 8070	Juan Kouyoumdjian/Gabriel Meyer	59	20	22	17
	Tornado		Total	R1	R2	R3	R4
1	NED 1	Mitch Booth/Herbert Dercksen	14	6	2	4	2
2	FRA 277	Olivier Backes/Laurent Voiron	25	3	14	3	5
3	ESP 1	Fernando Echavarri/Anton Paz Blanco	26	2	13	7	4
4	GBR 419	Leigh Mcmillan/Mark Bulkeley	27	13	3	8	3
5	GBR 412	Hugh Styles/Adam May	28	14	6	2	6
6	FRA 28	Yann Guichard/Cistophe Espagnon	34	7	11	9	7
7	DEN 1	Peder Ronholt/Soren Jorgensen	45	4	12	19	10
8	GER 1087	Andrew Landemberger/Johannes Polgar	51	15	7	11	18
9	AUS 000	Darren Bundock/Glen Ashby	65	BFD	1	6	1
10	GER 1091	Nils Bunkenburg/Gunnar Struckmann	70	12	21	21	16
11	RUS 97	Andrey Kirilyuk /Valery Ushkov	71	1	DNC	5	8
12	FRA 279	Xavier Revil/LaurentGuillemette	76	5	4	10	DNC
13	GER 1049	Lars Baehr/Dino Grobe	81	22	24	16	19
14	ITA 257	Francesco Marcolini/Edoardo Bianchi	83	19	37	14	13
15	NED 111	Sven Karsenbarg/Mischa Heemskerk	84	BFD	15	1	11
16	POR 2	Hugo Rocha/Luis Brito	84	20	19	25	20
17	SWE 201	Hans Wallén/Martin Westerdahl	85	27	30	13	15
18	FRA 278	Thomas Sellier/Romain Motteau	87	28	17	17	25
19	ITA 260	Sandro Montefusco/Stefano Rizzi	91	BFD	8	12	14
20	GER 1080	Helge Sach/Christian Sach	93	16	31	23	23
	Yngling		Total	R1	R2	R3
1	DEN 196	Dorte O. Jensen/Helle Jespersen/Rachel Kiel	6	2	1	3
2	GER 252	Nadine Stegenwalner /Anne Koschinsky/Nina Grunow	11	7	2	2
3	GER 251	Ulrike Schuemann /Wibke Buell/Winnie Lippert	16	1	8	7
4	GER 248	Kristin Wagner/Anna Hoell/Veronika Lochbrunner	17	4	5	8
5	USA 339	Betsy Alison/Lee Icyda/Suzy Leech	20	3	13	4
6	GBR 6	Shirley Robertson/Sarah Ayton/Inga Leask	23	11	11	1
7	RUS 2	Anna Basalkina/ Natalia Gaponovitch/Galina Loukachova	23	10	4	9
8	BER 8	Paula Lewin/Peta Lewin/Carola Cooper	32	12	14	6
9	GRE 1	Katerina Giakomidou/Elena Dimitrakopoulou/Efi Matzakaki	33	6	16	11
10	FRA 3	Anne Le Helley/Many Duby/Elodie Lesaffre	35	19	3	13
11	NED 311	Annelies Thies/Annemieke Bes/Petronella de Jong	36	17	9	10
12	DEN 195	Treine Palludan/Christina Otzen/Ida Hartvig	38	27	6	5
13	NZL 1	Alesha Thorpe/Michelle Vinsen/Karen Lambert	38	14	12	12
14	RUS 1	Veselova Tatiana/Kuzmina Elena/Ukraintseva Vlada	46	8	19	19
15	ITA 13	Chiara Calligaris/Carcasole Ylena/Sifanno Sabrina	47	9	20	18
16	NED 310	Janneke Hin/Margriet Samama/Hanne Buis	49	5	22	22
17	GBR 1	Cathy Foster/Annie Lush/Jane Norris	50	21	15	14
18	GBR 4	Dominica Lyndsey/Alison Sutherland/Vicky Symmers	51	24	10	17
19	AUS 50	Melanie Dennison/Fiona Herbert/Caroline Aders	53	16	21	16
20	ITA 14	Giulia Conti/Marenzi Alessandra/Baroni Angela	56	13	23	20