German 470 World Champion Tanja Jacobsohn takes top of the leaderboard after the opening day of the Dragon Grand Prix de Cannes on the Cote d’Azure, France.
Tanja Jacobsohn sailing with Bernard Jacobsohn and Jan Schareffesser showed the 50 strong fleet how it’s done with some wonderfully consistent sailing.
Jacobsohn (3,2) has a three point lead ahead of Britain’s Grant Gordan, with Thomas Muller of Germany in third, tied on points with Marcus Bennecke of Germany.
Germany’s Marcus Brennecke is in fourth place counting ten points with Heerema slotting into fifth on eleven points.
Gordan sailing with Scott Ruairdidh, James Williamson and Alex Warren took the first race with Holland’s Pieter Heerema with Lars Hendriksen and George Leonchuk, taking race two.
This first event of the Dragon European Cup 2019 has attracted an extremely strong field from 16 nations across Europe and as far afield as Japan.
Racing continues until Friday 5 April with a total of 8 races scheduled.
Dragon Grand Prix de Cannes – After 2 races (51 entries)
1st GER 1186 JACOBSOHN Tanja 3 2 – – 5 pts
2nd GBR 820 GRANT Gordon 1 7 – – 8 pts
3rd GER 33 MULLER Thomas 4 4 – – 8 pts
4th GER 1170 BRENNECKE Marcus 7 3 – – 10 pts
5th NED 412 HEEREMA Pieter 10 1 – – 11 pts
6th RUS 76 SAMOKHIN Dmitry 9 5 – – 14 pts
7th RUS 27 LOGINOV Anatoly 14 6 – – 20 pts
8th POR 84 REBELO DE ANDRADE Pedro 6 14 – – 20 pts
9th RUS 34 SENATOROV Vasily 8 13 – – 21 pts
10th FRA 391 BREGER Jean 11 10 – – 21 pts