Cadet World Championships at Kuhlungsborn, Germany - Overall
by David Elliott 6 Aug 2011 17:50 BST
30 July - 5 August 2011
In the closest of finishes, countbacks decided the outcome of both the Rugen Fisch World Championships and the Hanse Youngster Promotional Regatta. Light, shifty winds on the final day saw only one race sailed in the Worlds and an abandoned race in the Promotional event.
Maciej Kaminski & Szymon Ostrowski sailing POL 9755 are the 2011 Rugen Fisch World Champions. Tying on 47 points with Ilya Polyschuk & Ilya Gaydaenko in RUS 9811, the Polish team’s five race victories versus the Russian pair’s single first place earned them the Yachting World trophy. Third were Anton & Julian Sasson in AUS 5509, followed by Oleksandr Isarov & Andriy Kalinchuk sailing UKR 9251, Dawid Kania & Kacper Madon in POL 9512 and Santiago Ureta & Tomas Peluso in ARG 9479.
Victory in the day’s only race for Natalia Wierzbicki & Zuzanna Skibicka in POL 9489 lifted them from fourteenth to seventh place and take the Ladies Trophy for the top female helm. Matthew Currell & Theo Smith in GBR 8997 Executrix and Abigail Croft & William Palierakis in GBR 7274 Wave Rider were the best placed British teams in fourteenth and fifteenth places respectively.
Overall, four GBR teams finished in the top twenty. Andrew Smith & Rory Burdock were placed ninth with 128 points, including one second and four other top ten finishes. One point behind were Alex & Lucy Corby with a third place and three other top ten results. In 12th place were Matthew Currell & Theo Smith , which included two fourth place finishes and in 16th place were Ben Hazeldine & George Bridge with two podium places and an eighth to their credit. Matthew & Ben Shorrock finished 23rd, with four results in the low-teens, Ben Binmore & Sophia Cockell 28th, whose best result was a ninth place and Abigail Croft & William Palierakis 39th, out of a World Championship entry of 75 teams.
Jack Wilson & Ryan Wilkinson from Frensham Pond sailing GBR 735 Pintail are the 2011 Hanse Youngster Promotional Regatta champions. With equal numbers of firsts, seconds, and thirds, it was their fourth place in Race 3 which gave them victory over fellow GBR team Oliver Palierakis & Robert Keen in 7495 Salt Air. Third place went to Amir & Aliya Jannaty in GBR 9319 whose results included a first and four other podium places.
Eight GBR teams finished in the top ten; Mary Henderson & Lulu Knott were fifth in 8561, including two victories and three other podium places, Annie Knott & Eve Botallico in 8432 were seventh, with two fourth places to their credit, Martha Haslam & Jack Collings in 8291 eighth, including a second in Race 8, Michael Horne & Oliver King in 9013 ninth, including two victories and Jamie Proffitt & Tom Collyer in 8846 tenth, with their best result a second place in Race 6. Alice Rumbelow & Jemima Crossland in 7632 finished 13th, including a fourth in Race 9, Nicholas Sutton & Aqil Jannaty in 8844, 15th, counting two podium places, Matt Griffiths & Tom Bridge in 8529, 21st, with a fifth place in Race 4, Jacquetta Bridge & Lucy Rumbelow in 9454, 29th, including a ninth in Race 3 and Lydia Ream & Sam Cooper in 9401, 44th, out of a total entry of 60 teams.
The Rugen Fisch World Championship results can be accessed at www.cadet2011.org/_results/results-worlds.htm
The Hanse Youngster Promotional Regatta results can be accessed at www.cadet2011.org/_results/results-promotion.htm