Holland Regatta begins

1000 entries get off to a good start

Today the Holland Regatta started with more than thousand entries coming from fifty-five different countries. The races were held on the IJsselmeer in front of the coast from Medemblik. The weather was outstanding; with wind varying from four to five it was beneficial to all the sailors in the eleven Olympic classes.

After one day of racing, the leaders in the 49er class are Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes (GBR). Pietro Sibello and Gianfranco Sibello (ITA) are in second place and Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks (GBR) are in third place.

After three races Mitch Booth and Herbert Dercksen (NED) took the lead in the Tornado class. With only one point behind they are followed by the Australian team, Darren Bundock and Edoardo Bianchi.

Number one on the ISAF world ranking list in the Star class, Frederik Loof and Anders Ekstrom (SWE) are also leaders after two races in the Holland Regatta classification. Second place is for Maurice O’Connell and Ed Peel from Ireland.

Ben Ainslie (GBR) is leading the Finn class after two races. In the second place is Emilios Papathanasiou (GRE) and Edward Wright (GBR) is in the third position of the overall classification.

In general there were no big surprises today. Nevertheless in four from the eleven Olympic classes, the Tornado, 470 men, Laser Radial and Mistral men, the first places are possessed by the Dutch.

Tomorrow the first races will start at 10.00 AM. For the Laser, Laser Radial, the 470 men and women, the 49er and the Tornado three races are planned. The Finn, Yngling, Star and Mistral men and women are all sailing two three races tomorrow.

Top ten results from the first day:

	YNGLING
		Helmsman		Crew	Crew 2	R1	R2
1	GER	Kristin	Wagner	Anna Holl	Anka Hoh	2	2	4
2	GBR	Sarah	Ayton	Annie Lush	Lisa Mcdonald	1	4	5
3	UKR	Ruslana	Taran	Svetlana Matevusheva	Ganna Kalinina	4	3	7
4	RUS	Ekatarina	Skudina	Krutskikh Diana	Lartseva Tatiana	3	5	8
5	NED	Janneke	Hin	Klaarje Zuiderbaan	Petronella de Jong	8	1	9
6	GER	Ulrike	Schuemann	Runa Kappel	Ute Hoepfner	7	6	13
7	USA	Hannah	Swett	Melissa Purdy	Laura Schmidt	6	12	18
8	NED	Marije	Faber	Brechtje vd Werf	Vera Krzeminski	9	9	18
9	RUS	Vlada	Ilienko	Gaponovich Natalia	Kovalenko Katerina	5	14	19
10	ESP	Monica	Azonca	Graciela Pisonero	Sandra Azon	12	8	20

	470 MEN
		Helmsman		Crew	R1	R2	R3
1	NED	Sven	Coster	Kalle Coster	1	2	2	5
2	ISR	Gidon	Kliger	Udi Gal	4	3	5	12
3	GRE	Andreas	Kosmatopoulos	Andreas Papadopoulos	2	4	8	14
4	AUS	Mathew	Belcher	Nick Behrens	7	1	7	15
5	ESP	Francisco	Sanchez Ferrer	Alejandro Ramos	3	11	3	17
6	POR	Alvaro	Marinho	Miguel Nunes	13	6	1	20
7	GBR	Luke	Patience	Twiggy	8	5	11	24
8	CRO	Fantela	Sime	Igor Marenic	9	8	9	26
9	GBR	Neil	Marsden	Graham Nelson	10	15	6	31
10	RUS	Berezkin	Dmitry	Zybin Alexander	15	7	12	34
	470 WOMEN
		Helmsman		Crew	R1	R2	R3
1	FRA	Ingrid	Petitjean	Douroux Nadège	2	1	2	5
2	NED	Marcelien	de Koning	Lobke Berkhout	1	2	3	6
3	SLO	Teja	Cerne	alja Cerne	3	6	1	10
4	NED	Lenka	Smidova	Kratzig Elizabeth	4	9	5	18
5	AUS	Elise	Rechichi	Tessa Parkinson	6	4	9	19
6	GBR	Pippa	Wilson	Sheena Craig	7	5	10	22
7	AUT	Sylvia	Vogl	Carolina Flatscher	10	3	11	24
8	SUI	Emmanuelle	Rol	Thilo Anne-sophie	8	10	6	24
9	FRA	Camille	Lecointre	Gwendolyn Lemaitre	13	8	4	25
10	AUS	Lauren	Jeffries	Rike Ziegelmayer	9	11	8	28
	49ER
		Helmsman		Crew	R1	R2	R3
1	GBR	Stevie	Morrison	Ben Rhodes	2	1	2	5
2	ITA	PIETRO	Sibello	Gianfranco Sibello	1	1	6	8
3	GBR	Chris	Draper	Simon Hiscocks	2	2	4	8
4	AUT	Nico	Delle karth	Nikolaus Resch	5	4	3	12
5	GER	Jan-peter	Peckolt	Peckolt Hannes	8	5	1	14
6	ESP	Albato	Padron	Javier de la Plaza	6	5	3	14
7	FRA	ALEXANDRE	MONTEAU	guillou damien	6	9	2	17
8	POL	Marcin	Czajkowski	Krzysztof Kierkowski	4	3	12	19
9	DEN	Allan	Norregaard	Jonatan Persson	3	11	6	20
10	POL	Tomasz	Stanczyk	Pawel Kuzmicki	9	4	7	20
	TORNADO
		Helmsman		Crew	R1	R2	R3
1	AUS	Darren	Bundock	EDOARDO BIANCHI	9	2	2	13
2	NED	Mitch	Booth	Herbert Dercksen	5	3	5	13
3	GER	Roland	Gaebler	Gunnar Struckmann	14	6	4	24
4	GBR	Leigh	Mcmillan	Will Howden	13	1	11	25
5	NED	Samama	Wouter	Jeroen van Leeuwen	7	12	7	26
6	FRA	Revil	Xavier	Espagnon Christophe	2	19	6	27
7	RUS	Kirilyuk	Andrey	Ushkov Valery	1	13	16	30
8	GBR	Andrew	Walsh	Edward Barney	11	8	12	31
9	ESP	Javier	Padron	Miguel Perez	19	11	9	39
10	ESP	Toni	Rivas Mas	Fabia Escudre	10	16	13	39

	FINN
		Helmsman		R1	R2
1	GBR	Ben	Ainslie	1	2	3
2	GRE	Emilios	Papathanasiou	5	1	6
3	GBR	Edward	Wright	7	4	11
4	DEN	Jonas	Hoegh-christensen	2	10	12
5	CRO	Ivan	Kljakovic gaspic	9	7	16
6	NZL	Dan	Slater	13	6	19
7	FIN	Tapio	Nirkko	6	13	19
8	SWE	Johan	Tillander	10	9	19
9	SLO	Gasper	Vincec	17	3	20
10	GBR	Matt	Howard	15	5	20

	LASER
		Helmsman		R1	R2	R3
1	AUS	Tom	Slingsby	2	1	1	4
2	BRA	Robert	Scheidt	3	1	2	6
3	SLO	Vasilij	Zbogar	1	2	3	6
4	CRO	Luka	Radeliæ	1	5	1	7
5	POL	Maciej	Grabowski	1	3	5	9
6	CAN	Bernard	Luttmer	3	4	2	9
7	CRO	Milan	Vujasinovic	5	2	4	11
8	CRO	Aron	Lolic	2	2	8	12
9	GBR	Paul	Goodison	2	7	3	12
10	CAN	Michael	Leigh	4	6	2	12
	RADIAL
		Helmsman		R1	R2	R3
1	GBR	Charlotte	Dobson	1	2	2	5
1	NED	Merel	Witteveen	2	1	2	5
3	FRA	Sophie	de Turckheim	1	2	3	6
4	GBR	Lizzie	Vickers	5	RDG	1	9
5	FIN	Sari	Multala	4	1	5	10
6	BLR	Tatiana	Drozdovskaya	2	4	4	10
7	GER	Petra	Niemann	10	4	1	15
8	RUS	Natalia	Ivanova	3	7	8	18
9	SUI	Corinne	Meyer	5	7	6	18
10	AUS	Krystal	Weir	10	6	3	19

	STAR
		Helmsman		Crew	R1	R2
1	SWE	Fredrik	Loof	Anders Ekstrom	2	1	3
2	IRL	Maurice	O'Connell	Ed Peel	4	2	6
3	IND	Mahesh	Ramchandran	Nitin Mongia	6	3	9
4	NED	Marc	Blees	Gert van der Heijden	13	4	17
5	NED	Hein	Dijksterhuis	Marc van Bemmel	14	5	19
6	NED	Chris	Frijdal	Edens Rob	12	7	19
7	NED	Albert s.	Ekels	Siebe C. Ekels	11	8	19
8	NED	Han	Bergsma	Remco Beernink	17	6	23
9	GBR	Andy	Beasdworth	David Carr	1	OCS	24
10	NED	Arie	van Harwegen den b	Brad Nichol	16	9	25