2022 iQFOiL World Championships at Brest, France - Day 4
by iQFOiL Class 20 Oct 2022 23:35 BST
14-22 October 2022
2022 iQFOiL World Championships at Brest, France - Day 4 © Eric Bellande
After 4 slalom races today, the predictions for the 10 riders who will race in the final on Saturday are profiling. Sebastian Koerdel (GER220) and Lilian De Geus (NED3) are on the podium's first step tonight.
The difference in points between each sailor remains small, everything can still change with tomorrow's marathon (if conditions permit) where the points count double.
Given the weather forecast for tomorrow (+40 knots), the race committee decided this morning to change the race programme. The marathon was not run today, and it got postponed until tomorrow if conditions allow it.
Some sailors are looking to fight in tomorrow's storm, "Tomorrow the forecast is really spicy "muy caliente", and I'm very very excited about that, you know I'm one of the biggest guys and I enjoy some survival conditions. I like to send it so hopefully I can go all in tomorrow", told us Rytis Jasiunas (LTU7), 11th of overall ranking.
Grand slam for Sebastian Koerdel (GER220) who won all the heats today! Koerdel is ruling the ranking with a 26 point lead and proves that he belongs on the top step of the podium of this iQFOiL World Championship in Brest.
Luuc Opzeeland (NED55), third at the last world championship, takes the next place in the ranking, he started the day in 7th position and managed to climb all his way up to second.
The young Frenchman Clément Bourgeois (FRA53), studying engineering in Brest, closes the podium at only 5 points from the Dutchman and climbing up 1 position in the ranking, after a serious injury last year that forced him to stop for several months, the young Frenchman is back. While Thomas Goyard (FRA3) dropped today from his 5th to 17th place because of an early start on the first race today, Amado Vrieswijk (NED2020) who had an accident with his foil a few days ago, doesn't seem to slow his pace today ranking 7th of the provisional general ranking.
He said: "It is good today, I must say it hurt a bit more so, when I was going on the water it was pounding I was like "ohh should I go, should not, should I risk it?". I told myself if today it would go bad I would give up, but actually it went very well today I managed to climb some spots, I managed to win a race, so yeah it was hard but it worked out".
In the U21's category, Gaspard Carfantan (FRA379), Youth World Champion last year, won the first slalom race of the day (heat number 2 of race 1), which allowed him to take the lead on Max Castelain (NED36) by only 1 point.
Women's ranking shaken up
Lilian De Geus (NED3) started the day as 3rd overal and climbed all the wat to the first step of the podium after having signed four slalom races in the top 3. She is closely followed by Shahar Tibi (ISR3) who remains in her second place in the ranking and Pilar Lamadrid (ESP12) wo went down from yesterday's leader of the day to being 6th as of this morning and managed to end the day up being third.
Daniela Peleg (ISR2), U21 European Champion, is leading the U21's category, ranked 6th overall women. The local Lucie Belbeoch (FRA18) lost one place in the overall ranking and is now 11th, only 4 points from the 10th place. She could be the only French woman running the finals on Saturday if she catches up during tomorrow's races.
The iQFOiL Brest 2022 World Championships, supported by the French Government DIGES, Région Bretagne, Département Finistère, Brest Métropole and the FFVoile French Sailing Federation, are the second World Championship for this new iQFOiL Olympic class. This World Championship takes place in the waters of Brest in France from the 16th to the 22th of October, in front of the marina of Brest Bretagne Nautisme, organiser of the event. This is one of the most dynamic Olympic modalities, with the greatest expansion and demand, with races in which you fly over the sea at high speed.
*All results are provisional.
Men's top 6 after day 4 (12SL)
1. Sebastian Koerdel (GER220) - 13p
2. Luuc Van Opzeeland (NED 55) - 39p
3. Clement Bourgeois (FRA 53) - 44p
4. Huig Jan Tak (NED 465) - 46p
5. Pawel Tarnowski (POL 182) - 52p
6. Tom Reuveny (ISR 60) - 55p
Women's top 6 after day 4 (13SL)
1. Lilian de Geus (NED 2) - 29p
2. Shahar Tibi (ISR 3) - 35p
3. Pilar Lamadrid (ESP 12) - 38p
4. Marta Maggetti (ITA 157) - 40p
5. Emma Wilson (GBR 7) - 40p
6. Daniela Peleg (ISR 2) - 65p
View full results here