Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic win the 2005 Junior Europeans

close racing in the men and womens classes makes for an exciting event

Under clear skies and with seven to ten knots the sailors from 19 nations headed out for the final two races to complete the 14 race series. Having built a 15 point lead the Croatian’s, that were Junior World Bronze medalists in 2004, just had to sail conservatively to ensure their title.

The Women’s results were much more in the balance with teams from four Nations still in touch for the Championship win. After leading for much of the week Daria Blaschkiewitz and Geeske Genrich (GER) found themselves on equal points with Switzerland’s Emmanuelle Rol and Anne Sophie Thilo going into the last days competition. Israel’s Noa Botzer and Laia Trajtenberg were just five points back in third place and Germany’s Juliane Wolf and Claudia Wolf a further two points behind them.
 
A fourth place in the first race of the day from Botzer and Trajtenberg (ISR) put them just two points from the title and the German’s were clearly nervous. But the Swiss failed to take the opportunity suffering their worst drop race at 28th.
 
In the final race a 12th overall from Daria Blaschkiewitz and Geeske Genrich (GER) was enough to take the Women’s Junior European title by four points. With Emmanuelle Rol and Anne Sophie Thilo (SUI) in Silver and Israel’s Noa Botzer and Laia Trajtenberg in Bronze.

Starting the day in fourth overall and outside the medals, Germany’s top Junior Men’s team of Christopher Lorenz and Friedrich Gebert took the first race of the day in convincing style and started to put real pressure on the Polish pair of Patryk Piasecki and Jacek Przybylak for second overall.  Israel’s Eyal Levine and Amir Yam managed only 19th in the 39 boat Gold Fleet and despite winning the last race of the series fell out of Medal placing.
 
The last race saw the Men’s medalists go across the line in sixth , seventh and eighth positions confirming the Croatian’s as 2005 Champions with Poland second and Germany third.
 
Daniil Odzintsou and Yuri Polzin from the small sailing nation of Belarus should be congratulated on their 12th overall.

The winners will be well set for great results at the 470’s Junior World Championships in St Petersburg (Russia) starting the 25th of July

Results:

Men

Pos	Sail Number	Helm/Crew	Tot	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14
1	CRO 83	Sime Fantela, Igor Marenic	47,0	3	1	-9	2	6	1	1	1	-15	3	3	6	9	6
2	POL 50	Patryk Piasecki, Jacek Przybylak	70,0	6	1	16	7	5	3	5	5	-22	12	2	1	-17	7
3	GER 4964	Christopher Lorenz, Friedrich Gebert	75,0	5	4	4	4	4	7	(bf)	7	14	4	13	-36	1	8
4	GER 4944	Patrick Follmann, Nico Lutz	78,0	4	-15	3	8	3	13	8	15	9	1	6	-37	5	3
5	ISR 9	Eyal Levine, Amir Yam	81,0	-19	3	1	2	15	4	10	3	3	7	(cs)	13	19	1
6	GRE 182	Vasilas Georgios, Evangelos Vasilos Mittakis	82,0	14	-24	2	23	1	2	(bf)	2	5	5	1	15	3	9
7	ISR 4	Gal Gerber, Yuval Botzer	100,0	10	12	7	1	2	2	3	16	7	14	(cs)	-18	15	11
8	POL 51	Emil Baldyga, Grezegorz Gontarz	115,0	24	10	8	12	3	8	2	6	-37	10	12	5	(bf)	15
9	RUS 11	Artem Basalkin, Maksim Sheremetjev	123,0	2	11	(dq)	1	2	18	14	11	1	ne	5	16	2	-29
10	GER 4924	Daria Blaschkiewitz, Geeske Genrich	128,0	12	4	10	9	4	6	(bf)	20	-27	15	8	20	8	12
11	SUI 1404	Emmanuelle Rol, Anne Sophie Thilo	132,0	15	13	5	6	17	20	15	8	17	8	-36	4	-28	4
12	BLR 11	Daniil Odzintsou, Yuri Polzin	139,0	11	9	19	16	1	8	11	13	20	19	-34	-24	10	2
13	ISR 6	Noa Botzer, Laia Trajtenberg	140,0	13	-28	11	4	7	25	19	-34	13	2	9	10	4	23
14	GER 4966	Max Dzembritzki, Stefan Schmoldt	140,0	16	7	13	13	16	3	9	14	-24	16	7	-31	16	10
15	POL 52	Tomasz Januszewski, Marcin Mickiewicz	145,0	22	2	15	5	-28	1	13	4	18	24	15	21	-29	5
16	GER 4942	Juliane Wolf, Claudia Wolf	146,0	1	22	1	18	15	-31	17	21	2	25	4	14	6	-31
17	GBR 823	Johny Mc Govern, Tom Mapplebeck	156,0	3	2	26	3	10	4	(bf)	(cs)	12	27	20	22	7	20
18	GER 4925	Timo Fischer, Gundram Leifert	159,0	27	(bf)	2	16	8	11	(bf)	18	4	6	10	19	14	24
19	EST 13	Merili Randmaa, Agnes Lill	165,0	25	9	7	6	11	7	23	17	6	18	19	-27	-27	17
20	RUS 2	Mihhail Sheremetyev, Egor Ignatenko	170,0	1	(dq)	21	9	14	5	6	10	(cs)	23	33	9	23	16

Women

Pos	Sailno	Helm/Crew	Tot	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	Fleet
1	GER 4924	Daria Blaschkiewitz, Geeske Genrich	128,0	12	4	10	9	4	6	(bfd)	20	-27	15	8	20	8	12	Gold
2	SUI 1404	Emmanuelle Rol, Anne Sophie Thilo	132,0	15	13	5	6	17	20	15	8	17	8	-36	4	-28	4	Gold
3	ISR 6	Noa Botzer, Laia Trajtenberg	140,0	13	-28	11	4	7	25	19	-34	13	2	9	10	4	23	Gold
4	GER 4942	Juliane Wolf, Claudia Wolf	146,0	1	22	1	18	15	-31	17	21	2	25	4	14	6	-31	Gold
5	EST 13	Merili Randmaa, Agnes Lill	165,0	25	9	7	6	11	7	23	17	6	18	19	-27	-27	17	Gold
6	ISR 8	Adi Gilboa, Ravid Kanonich	201,0	9	8	19	24	22	-29	12	19	11	11	18	28	20	-37	Gold
7	GER 4789	Caroline von Spee, Catrin Wegner	227,0	20	20	16	15	6	-30	24	26	28	-35	26	3	25	18	Gold
8	POL 15	Agnieszka Knorps, Daria Mazur	164,0	8	30	-34	(dsq)	9	20	7	17	7	7	18	24	4	13	Silver
9	GER 4950	Marit Jordan, Svenja Müller	169,0	-31	20	20	28	(bfd)	24	10	3	3	8	19	19	1	14	Silver
10	FIN 142	Hanna Saari, Mikaela Wulff	181,0	15	-29	-25	24	12	19	5	1	12	11	22	16	20	22	Silver
11	POL 56	Zuzanna Hanke, Alexandra Budrewicz	198,0	11	17	24	(ocs)	25	(raf)	bfd	15	9	24	6	8	3	17	Silver
12	BEL 1260	Anne Sophie Blij, Lien de Bie	228,0	21	-35	14	22	31	(ocs)	4	25	15	26	12	25	22	11	Silver
13	RUS 119	Anna Stepanova, Nina Shtromberger	256,0	12	27	10	26	23	-33	22	29	19	17	17	30	24	(ocs)	Silver
14	EST 15	Marjaliisa Umb, Elise Umb	272,0	29	13	23	10	26	16	2	11	25	(dnc)	(dnc)	dnc	dnc	dnc	Silver
15	POL 528	Ania Kula, Ewa Kula	273,0	-38	22	28	17	32	-34	13	27	14	29	23	29	19	20	Silver
16	SLO 17	Tina Sosic, Nastja Sosic	291,0	30	31	29	(ocs)	33	33	19	21	18	21	15	20	(bfd)	21	Silver
17	POL 22	Anna Cieminska, Martyna Dalecka	315,0	27	-35	-37	33	23	30	21	32	17	27	21	28	26	30	Silver