London 2012 day 3: Better day for the Brits

Percy extends as Ben pulls up as Ireland's Annalise Murphy gets four straight bullets

Tuesday July 31st 2012, Author: James Boyd, Location: none selected

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The Lasers were also racing on the Harbour course today racing a trapezoid course. The day belonged to Cyprus’ Pavlos Kontides.

In today’s first race, Kontides pulled ahead up the first beat and apart from a brief moment when yesterday’s race one winner Guatamala’s Juan Ignacio Maegli Aguero moved into the lead, the race was the Cypriot’s from start to finish. Overall leader Tom Slingsby was in the mix – up to fourth place at the first weather mark rounding and up to second at the end of the first run and this was the order at the finish line. The Cypriot took honours just five seconds ahead of Slingsby with Estonia’s Karl-Martin Rammo third.

In the second it was a similar story with Kontides taking the lead up the beat rounding on this occasion with Zsombor Berecz (HUN) and Andrey Quintero (COL) on his transom with a painkillered-up Paul Goodison in fifth and Tom Slingsby buried in 28th after he thought was OCS at the start.

Goodison was up to fourth by the reaching mark, and as the Cypriot once again extended away down the run the Brit moved up to second. And this is how it remained for the rest of the race with the two leaders extending away to finish ahead of German Simon Grotelueschen, Croat Tonci Stipanović and Sweden’s Rasmus Myrgren.

Despite his OCS scare Slingsby fought back to finish sixth, leaving him with a five point lead over Kontides, in turn 10 points clear overall of Myrgren.

The second race was obviously a big deal and Slingsby managed to pull of a Høgh-Christensen style move to end the race in sixth. “A lot of people will take a big risk to try and get back, but that is not really my style,” the Aussie explained. “I know I have good boat speed and I know I can sail well, I just have to get in clear air and get going. I know if I can do that I can pull back a few boats each leg. I didn’t want to take any big risks because that can go wrong and I could have gone from 26th to 40th. So I chipped away and got a good result.”

Of his success today Pavlos Kontides said: “The starts were crucial because we had four upwinds [on the trapezoid course], and the first upwind was really small compared to yesterday, so if you didn’t get the start good then it was very hard I guess. I had two great starts, good speed over the line. I rounded the mark one first in both races. In the first race I went into second but I caught up again first and I had a good battle with Slingsby until the end and I managed to win. In the second race it was a bit easier, I pulled away from the beginning and I just try to sail fast and enjoy my sailing and then the result came. I feel very happy.”

Slingsby paid tribute to him: “When he turns it on, he is really good, when he gets it right he really gets it right.”

Results:

Pos Nat Helm R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1 AUS Tom Slingsby 2 1 2 6 11
2 CYP Pavlos Kontides 9 4 1 1 15
3 SWE Rasmus Myrgren 11 5 4 5 25
4 GUA Juan Ignacio Maegli Aguero 1 10 7 13 31
5 CRO Tonci Stipanović 5 6 20 4 35
6 FRA Jean Baptiste Bernaz 3 21 6 9 39
7 ARG Julio Alsogaray 20 7 5 11 43
8 KOR Jeemin Ha 8 9 15 14 46
9 GER Simon Grotelueschen 14 12 19 3 48
10 EST Karl-Martin Rammo 7 18 3 21 49
11 BRA Bruno Fontes 17 2 12 19 50
12 GBR Paul Goodison 10 23 16 2 51
13 NZL Andrew Murdoch 12 8 17 18 55
14 AUT Andreas Geritzer 6 20 22 16 64
15 NED Rutger van Schaardenburg 33 11 14 7 65
16 POL Kacper Ziemiński 22 13 8 24 67
17 URU Alejandro Foglia 15 3 28 27 73
18 CAN David Wright 18 15 9 31 73
19 NOR Kristian Ruth 32 14 10 17 73
20 SIN Colin Cheng 4 25 26 20 75
21 ESP Javier Hernandez 34 17 13 15 79
22 DEN Thorbjoern Schierup 36 16 24 8 84
23 HUN Zsombor Berecz 30 34 11 12 87
24 GRE Evangelos Chimonas 13 19 21 41 94
25 BEL Wannes Van Laer 19 26 29 26 100
26 ISV Cy Thompson 24 22 32 23 101
27 SLO Karlo Hmeljak 23 30 18 33 104
28 FIN Mattias Lindfors 25 28 23 30 106
29 POR Gustavo Lima 21 24 27 35 107
30 CHI Matias Del Solar 16 32 25 43 116
31 CZE Viktor Teply 29 27 31 34 121
32 ITA Michele Regolo 31 35 46 10 122
33 RUS Igor Lisovenko 28 40 36 22 126
34 MNE Milivoj Dukic 26 33 35 32 126
35 COL Andrey Quintero 40 31 37 25 133
36 USA Rob Crane 35 42 30 28 135
37 LTU Rokas Milevicius 37 37 33 38 145
38 CHN jian shi 27 39 43 45 154
39 UKR Valeriy KUDRYASHOV 48 38 42 29 157
40 IRL James Espey 38 44 39 36 157
41 TUN Youssef Akrout 41 36 40 44 161
42 VEN Jose Miguel Ruiz 45 46 34 37 162
43 TUR Mustafa Cakir 43 29 41 50 163
44 TRI Andrew Lewis 46 43 38 40 167
45 MEX Ricardo Montemayor 39 41 44 46 170
46 MON Damien desprat 44 45 45 39 173
47 THA Keerati Bualong 47 48 47 42 184
48 MAS Khairulnizam Mohd Afendy 42 47 48 47 184
49 KGZ Ilia Ignatev 49 49 49 48 195

 

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