2013 Tornado World Championships – Day Three

On Wednesday evening a number of competitors travelled across the island of Ibiza to the Blue Marlin Beach Club, a main sponsor of the World Championships. A lovely exclusive beach club in a beautiful location with fantastic food and atmosphere – highly recommended to anyone who visits Ibiza.

2013 Tornado World ChampionshipsWith Wednesday as a lay day the sailors were raring to go on Thursday morning. The weather had changed overnight with the sun hiding behind the clouds and the wind blowing a steady force 3-4 from the East. The change in wind direction bought large rolling waves into the bay and the race course, with the wave height around a maximum of 2.5m.

The brisk easterly and lumpy sea was challenging for most, but the front runners including the Greek team of Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis followed by Italian and German teams had pulled away from the main fleet by the end of the first downwind leg.  By the end of the race the fleet was spread across the course with several crews retiring from the race. Iordanis and Konstantinos held onto the top spot for race 5 putting them out in front in the championships by 10 points.

At the end of the first race, the race committee took the decision to abandon the second race due to poor conditions and the number of boats returned to shore with damage.

With 5 races completed there’s still plenty to play for going into Friday with only 1 discard counting so far.

2013 Tornado World ChampionshipsTonight the sailors will enjoy a BBQ night hosted by the club. Tomorrow there are another two races scheduled and the club may decide to bring the race missed today back into Friday’s agenda.

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Results

Pos Nº.Vela Patrón Tripulación Federación Categoría 1 2 3 4 5 Puntos
1 GRE-7 IORDANIS PASCHALIDIS KONSTANTINOS TRIGONIS GREECE OPEN 1 2 1 1 1 4
2 GER-1 ROLAND GAEBLER NAHID GAEBLER GERMANY MIXED 5 3 3 4 4 14
3 AUS-328 BRETT BURVILL FARIS AZNAN AUSTRALIA OPEN 4 6 2 3 7 15
4 CZE-686 DAVID KRIZEK ZDENEK ADAM CZECH REPUBLIC OPEN 3 8 4 5 6 18
5 GER-2 MAKUS BETZ NIKOLAS BETZ GERMANY OPEN 6 4 6 6 5 21
6 SUI-232 JEAN-MARC CUANILLON GUDRUN KOLB SWITZERLAND MIXED 11 5 8 10 8 31
7 GER-100 JOSEF GUNKEL DAVID GUNKEL GERMANY OPEN 7 7 5 17 13 32
8 AUS-325 ALLAN GAMBLE KIM NICHOLAS AUSTRALIA OPEN 8 9 7 14 10 34
9 GRE-11 NIKOLAOS MAUROS ALEXANDROS TAGAROPOULOS GREECE OPEN 2 1 31
DNC
31
DNC
2 36
10 FRA-294 JEAN CARON THOMAS JULES FRANCE OPEN 31
DNC
11 13 9 15 48
11 GER-69 DIETER MAURER KATRIN OLDENBURG GERMANY MIXED 10 13 9 20 18 50
12 AUT-372 MICHAEL SCHÖNLEITNER PHILIPP RAKUSCHAN AUSTRIA OPEN 31
DNC
16 14 11 9 50
13 GRE-77 MARIA TSAOUSIDOU MICHAEL PAPADOPOULOS GREECE MIXED 12 31
DNC
10 12 16 50
14 AUS-326 PAUL RAYMOND STEPHEN HERMANSON AUSTRALIA OPEN 9 17 31
DNF
15 11 52
15 AUS-8 PAUL PETERSON PHIL PETERSON AUSTRALIA OPEN 19 31
DNC
15 7 12 53
16 ESP-211 JÜRGEN JENTSCH SARAH STEIMER KLEES SPAIN MIXED 17 20 12 16 14 59
17 AUT-377 MANFRED SCHÖNLEITNER GEORG HIRSCH-STRONSTORFF AUSTRIA OPEN 31
DNC
15 11 8 31
DNC
65
18 ITA-8 MATTEO FERRAGLIA LORENZO BIANCHINI ITALY OPEN 31
DNC
31
DNC
31
OCS
2 3 67
19 GBR-415 MICHAELA DOWLEY ANDREW DOWLEY GREAT BRITAIN MIXED 14 18 31
DNF
13 31
DNF
76
20 GBR-424 LEE HARRISON PAUL HARRISON GREAT BRITAIN OPEN 18 21 18 21 19 76
21 AUS-226 STEFAN BERNSDORF CHRISTINE MYERS AUSTRALIA MIXED 15 22 21 23 31
DNC
81
22 GER-4 WILFRIED JODORF STEFAN LIPPERT GERMANY OPEN 31
DNC
14 19 22 31
DNC
86
23 CZE-62 ZDENEK PAVLIS MICHAELA PAVLISOVA CZECH REPUBLIC MIXED 31
DNC
12 22 24 31
DNF
89
24 GER-947 WILHELM GUGGENMOS ALEXANDER MAIER GERMANY OPEN 16 23 20 31
DNC
31
DNF
90
25 ESP-11 VICENTE AMENGUAL RIBAS NEUS TORRES RAMIS SPAIN MIXED 20 19 31
DNC
31
DNC
20 90
26 AUT-379 DOMINIK KOPP FLORIAN KOPP AUSTRIA OPEN 31
DNC
10 31
DNF
19 31
DNC
91
27 GER-44 INGO GEBHARDT CLAUS LUGER GERMANY OPEN 13 31
DNC
16 31
DNC
31
DNC
91
28 GBR-431 STEVE CLYNN TOM DUCKMANTON GREAT BRITAIN OPEN 31
DNC
31
DNC
17 18 31
DNC
97
29 GER-99 KLAUS ROCHOLL SVEN RAUSCH GERMANY OPEN 31
DNC
31
DNC
31
DNF
31
DNC
17 110
30 ESP-19 PHILIPPE DUPIEREUX MANUEL SCIARRA SPAIN OPEN 31
DNC
31
DNC
31
OCS
31
DNC
31
DNC
124

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