Tornado Europeans at Lake Lipno, Czech Republic - Day 1
by Maria Tsaousidou 13 Jun 2015 19:51 BST
11-15 June 2015
Two races were completed on the first day of the 2015 Tornado European Championship.
The weather was sunny at Lake Lipno but the very shifty, gusty and light wind made the race demanding for the sailors.
The Greek Redbull team of Dany Paschalidis and Kostas Trigonis managed to stay in front in both races so they are leading with 2 points. Roland Gaebler and Nahid Gaebler (J.J. Darboven team) from Germany are in the second place having equal points with the Hellenic Police team of Nikolaos Mavros and Alexandros Tagaropoulos.
In the Mixed category Roland and Nahid Gaebler are in first place. The second place goes to Dietmar and Silvia Salzmann from Austria who are followed by Piekavski Zbigniew and Gorska Ewa from Poland.
Here is a statement from the leader, Dany Paschalidis: "Interesting wind conditions with a lot of shifts. We had to be alert not to lose any wind bends. From the results it seems that we did better than the others, but it is going to be a very difficult championship. Let's see who is going to win."