US win shifty regatta

As Brits plummet on final day of the Yngling Worlds on Lake Mondsee, Austria

Today was the final day of racing at the ISAF Yngling World Championship on Lake Mondsee, Austria. It has been an eventful regatta for the 35 competitors in the women’s fleet with shifty conditions pushing the teams to the limit.

Athens Olympic gold medallist, Sarah Ayton and her new team, Annie Lush and Lisa MacDonald found the shifty conditions hard to deal throughout the week, although they took a bullet in the last race yesterday. With 280 degree wind shifts today, the team finished in 18th place for the last race which dropped the team down to seventh place overall.

Sally Barkow/Carrie Howe/Debbie Capozzi of America are the newly crowned Yngling World Champions finishing nine points in front of the New Zealanders Sharon Ferris/Raynor Smeal/Ashley Holtum. Defending Champion Trine Palludan, and crew, from Denmark finished fifteenth.

Ayton stated that the Championship has been a success: “After five months of training together, the Championship is our first major event. We sailed well but were up against several well established teams here. With time and more training I believe that we will continue to grow and can only get stronger.”

Other Team GBR representatives Dominica Lindsey, Diana Shanks and Fleur Oswald secured a first earlier in the week and finished in 23rd place overall, with Gemma Farrel, Rachel Howe and Caroline Bowen finishing one place behind in twenty fourth.

Final Results

1 Sally Barkow/Carrie Howe/Debbie Capozzi
(3,8,1,(18),1,11/RDG,4,3,11,11) USA 48.7 pts
2, Sharon Ferris/Raynor Smeal/Ashley Holtum NZL
(11,6,(16),1,4,1,5,11,7,12) 58 pts
3, Vlada Ferries/Ekaterina Kovalenko/Natalia Gaponovich RUS (14,(DNF),3,5,2,22,12,8,13) 61pts

Team GBR
7 Sarah Ayton/Anne Lush/Liza MacDonald
((23), 3,15,9,6,10,10,13,1,18) 85pts
23 Dominica Lindsey/Diana Shanks/Fleur Oswald
(22,1,20,30,(32),3,25,29,25,19) 174pts
24 NeiGemma Farrel/Rachel Howe/Caroline Bowen
(10,18,5,17,23,25,(OCS),28,26,31) 183pts

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