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Aussie onslaught

Inevitably Outteridge and Jensen come to the fore at the Seiko 49er Worlds

Wednesday May 9th 2012, Author: James Boyd, Location: Croatia

Surprise, surprise... Australian sailors Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen have taken the lead on day three of the Seiko 49er World Championship in Zadar, Croatia.

Outteridge and Jensen went into the final three qualifying races today third overall, just three points off the lead, with the pair having their best day of the regatta so far. The defending World Champions won the opening two races of the day before finishing second in race three to jump into the lead and open up a four point gap on German sailors Tobias Schardewaldt and Hannes Baumann.

“Today was great for us,” said Outteridge. “We were able to execute our plan in every race and had good speed in the light air. The results today clearly show we had the speed when we needed it.

Outteridge said that part of the reason for their improved results on Wednesday was due to getting off the line better in all three races. “We just had better starts today,” he said. “We were able to get out of the middle of the line in good shape and go on from there. I think the racing will step up a gear tomorrow. The wind is forecast to be light again so it's going to be very close racing.”

Second placed Hannes Baumann commented that they had had “light conditions, not that breezy with around 5-9 knots. We scored an 8th in first race and managed to win the next race; had a short lunch and went back out. We went out to Course B and we thought we’d have much more wind and would pick up like yesterday, but it didn’t. But we had lovely sailing, just beautiful."

When asked about the competition on the race course, he continued saying, “The nations that are qualified (for the Olympics) I think they are racing quite similar to normal racing. Those countries that are aiming for one of the open spots are pretty tense and fighting pretty hard.” 

The final five teams have now qualified their countries for London 2012 in the 49er. At the end of the qualifying series the following countries have punched their ticket to Weymouth; Bermuda with Jesse and Zander Kirkland in 8th; Japan’s Yuko Makino and Kenji Takahasi
in 22nd; Canada’s Gordon Cook and Hunter Lowden in 23rd; Dionisis Dimou and Mihalis Pateniotis of Greece in 24th and rounding out the Gold fleet, Pietro and Gianfranco Sibello of Italy in 25th.

The forecast for tomorrow is for 8-12 knots and once again, clear skies.

Top 50 results:

Pos Helm Crew Nat R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Tot Net
                             
1 Nathan Outteridge Iain Jensen AUS 3 -11 4 3 5 2 1 1 2 32 21
2 Tobias Schadewaldt Hannes Baumann GER 2 3 5 1 3 -8 7 1 3 33 25
3 Federico Alonso Tellechea Arturo Alonso ESP 6 -8 1 4 6 4 1 4 2 36 28
4 Lukasz Przybytek Pawel Kolodzinski POL 1 4 5 4 -12 3 1 11 2 43 31
5 Peter Burling Blair Tuke NZL 2 7 2 -8 7 6 3 3 4 42 34
6 Peter Kruger-Andersen Nicolai Thorsell DEN 2 4 12 4 8 1 7 2 -18 58 40
7 Manu DYEN Stephane CHRISTIDIS FRA -12 6 3 2 1 10 6 3 10 53 41
8 Jesse Kirkland Alexander Kirkland BER 6 1 4 (BFD) 5 16 2 3 7 70 44
9 Jorge Lima Josa Luis Costa POR 1 6 6 -14 8 1 14 1 8 59 45
10 Julien d'Ortoli Noe Delpech FRA -15 1 7 8 3 3 9 13 1 60 45
11 Lauri Lehtinen Kalle Bask FIN 4 2 17 5 2 5 5 -18 9 67 49
12 Marcin Czajkowski Jacek Piasecki POL 9 2 1 5 7 7 -20 19 1 71 51
13 Ribeaud Thomas Scotto di Fasano Sabastien FRA 8 15 1 1 2 -19 10 9 6 71 52
14 Allan Norregaard Peter Lang DEN 5 7 -11 7 9 8 2 10 4 63 52
15 Nico Delle - Karth Nikolaus Leopold Resch AUT 12 13 -15 2 1 13 5 6 1 68 53
16 Erik Heil Thomas Ploessel GER -18 5 17 3 4 2 10 2 11 72 54
17 Justus Schmidt Max Boehme GER 7 2 2 3 9 -17 11 15 5 71 54
18 Marcus Hansen Josh Porebski NZL 5 5 8 8 10 6 2 -19 10 73 54
19 Pavle Kostov Petar Cupac CRO 1 14 -23 6 5 13 7 6 3 78 55
20 Axel Silvy Ulysse Hoffmann FRA -17 10 8 2 1 11 14 5 6 74 57
21 Tomasz Januszewski Jacek Nowak POL 3 3 -20 11 2 2 9 12 18 80 60
22 Yukio Makino Kenji Takahashi JPN 11 1 6 1 (OCS) 14 16 9 8 92 66
23 Dionisis Dimou Mihalis Pateniotis GRE 4 9 11 -15 10 10 10 2 12 83 68
24 Gordon Cook Hunter Lowden CAN 9 10 3 7 13 10 4 12 -19 87 68
25 Pietro Sibello Ganfranco Sibello ITA 7 -14 4 9 10 6 12 7 14 83 69
26 Ryan Seaton Matt McGovern IRL 15 12 -18 14 18 1 5 4 3 90 72
27 Mathieu Frei Yann Rocherieux FRA 16 11 2 13 11 -17 3 11 5 89 72
28 Jonas von Geijer Niclas Dalring SWE 12 6 3 13 -20 15 4 10 9 92 72
29 Jon Ladha Daniel Inkpen CAN 7 13 13 -18 11 9 3 6 12 92 74
30 Jacopo Plazzi Umberto molineris ITA 18 4 18 (RAF) 4 3 18 5 9 105 79
31 Bernardo Freitas Francisco Andrade POR 9 11 -22 16 6 7 8 18 4 101 79
32 Philipp Müller Moritz Janich GER 4 13 10 17 16 -20 8 5 7 100 80
33 Stylianos Soliriou Alfonso Panagiotidis GRE 14 14 (BFD) 6 12 7 4 12 16 111 85
34 benji borg Sebastian ripard MLT 3 -17 10 17 6 11 15 14 13 106 89
35 Luke Parkinson Jasper Warren AUS -23 19 6 13 7 4 13 17 11 113 90
36 Charlie Ekberg Kalle Torlan SWE 6 12 (BFD) 12 13 14 11 16 10 120 94
37 Carl P Sylvan Otto Hamel SWE 10 -22 12 7 14 16 13 4 19 117 95
38 Jorge Murrieta Alejandro Murrieta MEX 16 16 9 15 12 9 6 -17 13 113 96
39 Thomas Zajac Thomas Czajka AUT 23 8 (BFD) 10 9 12 11 16 8 123 97
40 Pavel Kalynchev Pavel Karachov RUS 13 5 -20 9 3 18 20 19 11 118 98
41 Tonis Haavel Lenart Kivistik EST 14 18 11 11 13 14 -19 11 6 117 98
42 Pablo Herman Luis Felip Herman CHI 10 20 16 (BFD) 4 5 17 14 13 125 99
43 Carlos Paz Anton Paz ESP 20 3 16 6 (OCS) 18 13 8 16 126 100
44 Yannick Lefbvre Matthieu Janssens BEL 11 9 14 12 14 -21 6 20 14 121 100
45 Niels Joachim Gormsen Anders Thomsen DEN 11 15 9 9 -19 18 18 7 17 123 104
46 Luca Dubini Stefano Petissi ITA 19 8 13 20 21 -22 9 9 7 128 106
47 Jonathan Bay Christopher Thorsell DEN 8 9 -21 11 8 11 21 20 18 127 106
48 Artem Basalkin Alexander Gaydaenko RUS 15 (OCS) 10 5 16 8 DSQ 7 21 134 108
49 Santiago Silveira Philipp Umpierre URU 13 16 24 10 14 5 (DNF) 15 14 137 111
50 Frederick Strammer Zachary Brown USA -20 16 8 10 17 19 16 13 12 131 111

 

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