Medal for Britain at the ISAF World Sailing Games
by Myrrh Walker, RYA 22 May 2006 16:34 BST
10-20 May 2006
The ISAF World Sailing Games drew to a close on Saturday (20 May), with Laser European Champion Paul Goodison the closest British fleet racer to the podium, with a fourth place in the men's single-handed class.
The 28-year-old from Rotherham finished the event on a high note, crossing the finish line first in the final day's double point-scoring medal race; however, after some double figures scores from earlier in the week it was not enough to boost him into the podium places. Goodison finished in fourth, just one point behind Argentinean bronze medallist Diego Romero.
There was British success, however, in the team racing event (contested in 420s) where GBR3 took silver to spoil the American dominance, with USA boats finished in first, third and fourth.
Although not a priority event for the Skandia Team GBR squad, with the Olympic classes hosting their own World Championships, the ISAF World Sailing Games (10-20 May at Lake Neusiedl, Austria) did see some big names from the world of Olympic classes sailing take to the water, including Spanish 49er World Champions Iker Martinez-Xabier Fernandez and Australian cat stars Darren Bundock-Glenn Ashley, racing in the Hobie Tiger for this Austrian event.
Paul Goodison, Laser Radial sailors Lizzie Vickers and Laura Baldwin, and Tornado campaigners Andy Walsh and Ed Barney were amongst the British fleet racing contingent in Austria. The Radial girls and 470 development squad sailors Luke Patience and Chris Grube took the opportunity to fine-tune their skills before their respective European Championships in Riccione, Italy (Radial) and Balaton in Hungary (470s) in early June.
American World Champion Paige Railey took the crown in the Laser Radial class, with Vickers finishing in 11th and Baldwin in 14th. Teammates Penny Clark and Andrea Brewster were 20th and 26th, while in the 470 class, two bullets for the Scots-Welsh combination of Patience-Grube was not enough to see them into the medal race positions. They finished the week in 11th.
Tornado Olympic campaigners Andy Walsh and Ed Barney finished in ninth place overall, after a promising early start in the Hobie Tiger men's multihull class, with young transitional squad sailors Chris Rashley and Marcus Lynch in 12th.
In the women's Hobie 16 multihull class, youth sailors Hannah Rowles and Stephanie Wall from Weymouth, finished the week in 11th place overall.
ISAF World Sailing Games Results:
Laser (men's one person dinghy)
1 - Tom Slingsby (AUS) 33pts
2 - Thomas Le Breton (FRA) 47pts
3 - Diego Romero (ARG) 65pts
GBR
4 - Paul Goodison 66pts
18 - James Gray 149pts
24 - Mark Powell 173pts
Laser Radial (women's one person dinghy)
1 - Paige Railey (USA) 48pts
2 - Sophie de Turckheim (FRA) 55pts
3 - Sarah Blanck (AUS) 62pts
GBR
11 - Lizzie Vickers 111pts
14 - Laura Baldwin 120pts
20 - Penny Clark 150pts
26 - Andrea Brewster 173pts
470 Men (men's two person dinghy)
1 - Nathan Wilmot-Malcolm Page (AUS) 56.6pts
2 - Benjamin Bonnaud-Romain Bonnaud (FRA) 69pts
3 - Francisco Sanchez-Alejandro Ramos (ESP) 75pts
GBR
11 - Luke Patience-Chris Grube 106 pts
470 Women (women's two person dinghy)
1 - Ingrid Petitjean-Nadege Doroux (FRA) 26pts
2 - Elise Rechichi-Tessa Parkinson (AUS) 40pts
3 - Ruslana Taran-Olena Pakholchyk (UKR) 53pts
RS:X Men (men's windsurfer)
1 - Maksym Oberemko (UKR) 29pts
2 - Tom Ashley (NZL) 35pts
3 - Julien Bontemps (FRA) 35pts
RS:X Women (women's windsurfer)
1 - Qiu Bin Chen (CHN) 32pts
2 - Olga Maslivets (UKR) 33pts
3 - Blanca Manchon (ESP) 54pts
Hobie Tiger (men's multihull)
1 - Darren Bundock-Glenn Ashley (AUS) 26pts
2 - Mitch Booth-Herbert Dercksen (NED) 38pts
3 - Coen de Koning-Mischa Heemskerk (NED) 47pts
GBR
9 - Andy Walsh-Ed Barney 70pts
12 - Chris Rashley-Marcus Lynch 92pts
17 - Matthew Pullen-Donal O'Halloran 123pts
Hobie 16 (women's multihull)
1 - Kerstin Wichardt-Anja Hafke (GER) 48pts
2 - Marie Duvignac-Pauline Thevenot (FRA) 56pts
3 - Annie Nelson-Susan Korzenuewski (USA) 60pts
GBR
11 - Hannah Rowles-Stephanie Wall 129pts
Further event information and complete results can be found on the event website www.worldsailinggames2006.at