Ukraine takes the lead

Light winds dogged the first day of racing at the Soling European Championship

With predominantly light wind conditions the two first races got underway on the first day, Monday, of the 2006 Soling European Championship in Lake Balaton, Hungary.

The first race was a double triangle with a windward/leeward sausage, it started with a nine knot wind coming from the north. However, this reasonably stable wind began to swing west and decreased in strength. After two course changes the Slovenian boat sailed by Antoncic, Strakh and Perovic took the bullet home followed by the Ukranian team of Pichuguin, Timokhov and Chehalty, who return to Soling sailing after a long time away from the class. The German Marinepool team and 2005 European Champions, Koch, Koch and Bornemann, could not hold on to third place and finished fourth behind the Dutch team of Offermans, Dusee and Mosch.

The Second race started in lighter conditions from the West and. Pichuguin, Timokhov and Chehlatiy took victory in the race, closely followed by Koch, Koch and Bomemann and then the T-Mobile team, Wossala, Vezer and Nemeth. The Austrians Auteried, Kendler and Moser finished fourth.

Results:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Crew	Sail Number	R1	R2	Points
1	Sergey Pichuguin	Sergey Timokhov	Ivan Chehlatiy	UKR 1	2	1	3
2	Roman Koch	Maxl Koch	Gregor Bornemann	GER 300	4	2	6
3	Carl Auteried	Martin Kendler	Udo Moser	AUT 117	7	4	11
4	Holger Weichert	Laurent Scheel	Ingo Herrmann	GER 49	6	6	12
5	Mandaraz Tamas	Kovasci Lazslo	Kelecsenyi Peter	HUN 17	5	7	12
6	Bostjan Antoncic	Gennadi Strakh	a not decided	SLO 1	1	12	13
7	Frank Lavrsen	Claus Lauritsen	Carsten Moesgaard	DEN 126	9	5	14
8	George Wossala	Nemeth Peter	Karoly Vezer	HUN 77	11	3	14
9	Johan Offermans	Bas Dusee	Jasper Bik	NED 25	3	13	16
10	Bram Soethoudt	Gilbert Figaroa	Geert Verheij	NED 38	8	11	19
11	Preben Asbjørnrød	Richard Fikse	Bernt Ole Christensen	NOR 128	10	9	19
12	Jan Carl Kochen	Deertz Bernd	Alexander Holl	GER 267	14	8	22
13	Markus Marquardt	Heino Schuckmann	Tobias Hanke	GER 318	12	10	22
14	Derek Priestley	Shaun Priestley	Gary Adams	GBR 169	13	15	28
15	Tom Mitchell	Robin Earle	Dave Richards	CAN 227	17	14	31
16	Finn Thorkildsen	Rolf Carstensen	Jan Kirkedam	NOR 135	15	18	33
17	Peter Szucs	Istvan Szucs	Gabor Gyulai	HUN 53	19	16	35
18	Matias Collins	Johann Kalhs	Dominik Meissner	USA 807	16	19	35
19	Christian Nothhaft	Martin Zeileis	Patrick Wichmann	AUT 121	21	17	38
20	Paal Laszlo	Zoltan Sabjan	Zoltán Nyiri	HUN 290	18	21	39
21	Emil Kuchta	Jörg Schmidt	Susanne Kuchta	GER 243	22	20	42
22	Jan Krøger	Kenneth Norby	Petter Hammarstrøm	NOR 148	20	23	43
23	Harald Voit	Heinz Herzer	Stefan Lutzenberger	GER 228	23	22	45
24	Luca Montanarella	Gergely Toth	Francesco Attardo	ITA 241	24	24	48
25	Imre Vrabély	László Schmutz	Ádám Vrabély	HUN 777	25	25	50
26	Paal Laszlo	Zoltan Sabjan	Zoltán Nyiri	HUN 111	DNS	DNS	56
27	Csaba Pintér dr	Gábor Galambos	Ferenc Horvath	HUN 154	DNS	DNS	56