The opening day of the 2022 Star Class World Championship was plagued by a light and shifty breeze.
At 15:30 hours, race 1 finally got underway with a 2.2 mile upwind leg, featuring breeze of around 4 knots and big shifts.
Tonci Stipanovic and Tudor Bilic (CRO) were the winners ahead of Diego Negri and Sergio Lambertenghi (ITA) with Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen (USA) in third place.
Stipanovic and Bilic are hugely experienced, the partnership convincingly won the 2022 Star European Championship in July, and three-time Olympian Stipanovic owns silver medals in the Laser Standard from Tokyo 2020 and Rio 2016.
2022 Star Class World Championship – Day 1 (84 entries)
1st CRO 1991 Tonci Stipanovic / Tudor Bilic – – 1 pt
2nd ITA 2021 Diego Negri / Sergio Lambertenghi – – 2 pts
3rd USA 1988 Paul Cayard / Frithjof Kleen – – 3 pts
4th CRO 1952 Marin Misura / Tonko Barac – – 4 pts
5th USA 1958 Jim Buckingham / Phil Toth – – 5 pts
6th USA 8509 Augie Diaz / Brad Nichol – – 6 pts
7th USA 1992 David Watt / William Siemers – – 7 pts
8th SWE 1928 Ingvar Krook / Christoffer Thunberg – – 8 pts
9th USA 8522 Joshua Powell / Mark Strube – – 9 pts
10th POL 2019 Mateusz Kusznierewicz / Bruno Prada – – 10 pts
11th USA 1999 Eric Doyle / Payson Infelise – – 11 pts
12th DEN 8532 Jørgen Schoenherr / Markus Koy – – 12 pts
13th USA 1987 Dwight Escalera / Elizabeth Escalera – – 13 pts
14th GER 1984 Daniel Fritz / Alberto Ambrosini – – 14 pts
15th USA 1922 Larry Whipple / Anders Ekstrom – – 15 pts
16th USA 1957 Jud Smith / Remi Hutchins – – 16 pts
17th CAN 1941 Rob Cullen / James Hynes – – 17 pts
18th GER 8361 Stefan Lehnert / Dietmar Hobbie – – 18 pts
19th ARG 8285 Erich Mones / Tomas Fioriti – – 19 pts
20th CAN 1980 Andrew Allan / James McDonald – – 20 pts
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