A great opening day for the 179 teams from 28 nations at the 420 World and Ladies World Championships with three races held for each fleet on Austria’s Lake Neusiedl. A hat trick day for Spain’s David Charles and Alex Charles and for Alex Kavvas and George Kavvas of Greece, in the 420 Open fleet with three race wins each in their respective fleets.
Best placed British women are Jessica Lavery and Georgina Mothersele in fifth with a scoreline of 8, 5, 4, after their first three heat races. In the Open event Harry Derbyshire and Tom Lovesey are 14th with a 5, 3, 18.
In the 420 Ladies division, Jennifer Poret and Louise Chevet (FRA) delivered a 2, 1, 2, to have the most consistent day and lead the series so far. The battle at the front of the fleet was between Chile’s Nadja Howitz and Sofia Middleton and Poret and Chevet of France, who were both seeded to the yellow fleet.
It started with advantage to Howitz and Middleton who wrapped up a win in race 1 Monday, followed up with a second place in race 2. It was close though, as battling throughout in the yellow fleet were Poret and Chevet who delivered the opposite scoreline in the first two races a 2, 1.
Race 3 broke the tie with Poret and Chevet finishing ahead of the Chileans to end the day in first overall. Poret and Chevet are the 2011 420 European Champions and 2011 420 European silver medallists.
The fleets have been reseeded (see online Noticeboard for details) based on Monday’s overall position on the leaderboard and racing will resume Tuesday with the first scheduled starts at 11:00 hours.
420 - Ladies World CHampionship, Leading scores after 3 races (71 entries)
1 . FRA 54609 Poret Jennifer / Chevet Louise 5 pts - 2 1 2
2 . CHI 54622 Horwitz Nadja / Middleton Sofia 6 pts - 1 2 3
3 . SIN 53659 Lee Rachel / Low Cecilia 12 spts 1 - 10 1
4 . FRA 53980 Geniteau Agathe / Geniteau Marine 15 pts - 3 6 6
5 . GBR 54194 Lavery Jessica / Mothersele Georgina 17 pts - 8 5 4
6 . ITA 54550 Peternoster Ilaria / Di Salle Bernedetta 18 pts - 4 2 12
Other Leading GBR
12 . GBR 54379 Fitzgerald Charlotte / Spruce Emma 28 pts - 7 8 13
18 . GBR 54057 Fitzgerald Isabel / Colvin Kat 36 pts - 13 9 14
28 . GBR 53958 Croft Caroline / Brand Henriette 45 pts - 17 23 5
41 GBR 54124 Alton Sarah / Frost Molly 58 pts - 10 11 37 /BFD
420 - Open World CHampionship, Leading scores after 3 races (108 entries)
1. GRE 51581 Kavvas Alexandros / Kavvas Georgios 3 pts - 1 1 1
1. ESP 54228 Charles David / Charles Alex 3 pts - 1 1 1
3. FRA 54608 Pirouelle Guillaume / Sipan Valentin 10 pts - 4 3 3
4. BRA 52848 Paranhos Ricardo / Essle Patrick 13 pts - 3 5 5
5. POR 53849 Pestana Joao / Marques Tomas 14 pts - 3 3 8
6. AUS 54203 Franklin Josh / Gough Alexander 14 pts - 4 5 5
Leading GBR
14. GBR 54082 Derbyshire Harry / Lovesey Tom 26 pts - 5 3 18
16. GBR 54415 Riley Tim / Riley Ed 29 pts - 23 4 2
18 GBR 54164 Morsley Toby / Wallis Matt 30 7 19 4
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31 July 2012 10:26