Craig goes top

Nick Craig has retaken the top position in the OK World Ranking list

Following his third consective win at the OK Dinghy World Championship, Nick Craig (GBR) has retaken the top spot in the OK World Ranking List, after briefly losing it to Jorgen Lindhardtsen (DEN) earlier this year. However, Craig's lead is by the narrowest of margins with less than three points separating him from world championship runner-up Mark Perrow (NZL).

Perrow is top of a group of nine New Zealand OK Dinghy sailors in the top 20 of the ranking list, underlining the nation's strong showing at international events this year. Lindhardtsen drops to third, while third place from the worlds, Karl Purdie (NZL) climbs from eighth to fourth.

This list includes Warnemunde Week, the German Nationals, the Mayors Cup and the World Championships last month in Leba, Poland and with the world championship carrying a high weighting it is no surprise there have been a few changes at the top.

Matt Stechman (NZL), Terry Curtis (GBR) and Robert Deaves (GBR) all enter the top ten for the first time while Steve McDowell (NZL) and Greg Wilcox (NZL) both drop a few places but remain inside the top after lower than usual finishes at the world championship.

This list's big climbers include former double world champion Karsten Hitz (GER) who climbs from 159th to 11th and junior sailor Luke O'Connell (NZL) who climbs from 86th to 14th. The list also continues to grow with 374 sailors receiving world ranking points in the past two years.

The next list will be published in December after the first events in the New Zealand/Australian season.

Ranking:

Pos	Helm	Nationality	Points	Events sailed
1	Nick Craig	GBR	909.34	10
2	Mark Perrow	NZL	906.92	11
3	Jorgen Lindhartdsen	DEN	901.36	16
4	Karl Purdie	NZL	898.42	8
5	Steve McDowell	NZL	867.19	8
6	Greg Wilcox	NZL	855.66	12
7	Matt Stechmann	NZL	842.38	6
8	Terry Curtis	GBR	806.78	9
9	Robert Deaves	GBR	799.53	7
10	Andre Blasse	AUS	797.17	7
11	Karsten Hitz	GER	770.38	6
12	Joe Porebski	NZL	764.02	10
13	Jon Fish	GBR	752.32	10
14	Oliver Gronholz	GER	746.95	9
15	Luke O'Connell	NZL	732.98	6
16	Christian Olsen	DEN	729.08	6
17	Paul Rhodes	NZL	725.56	4
18	Martin von Zimmermann	GER	699.42	8
19	Trent Pryce	NZL	695.48	9
20	Gunter Arndt	GER	666.06	5
21	Sonke Behrens	GER	660.79	8
22	Bo Teglers	DEN	652.09	10
23	Thomas Glas	GER	649.7	11
24	Alex Scoles	GBR	634.91	10
25	Tomasz Gaj	POL	633.26	12
26	Thomas Hanson-Mild	SWE	633.13	9
27	Andreas Pich	GER	628.15	9
28	Marek Jarocki	POL	620.86	5
29	Hans Elkjaer	SWE	617.07	9
30	Pawel Pawlaczyk	POL	599.33	5
31	Darek Kras	POL	580.21	14
32	Mike Wilde	NZL	577.23	6
33	John Meadowcroft	GBR	546.97	4
34	Janusz Stobinski	POL	542.03	6
35	Peter Stephan	GER	541.06	9
36	Peter Lynch	AUS	520.32	5
37	Mogens Johansen	DEN	517.07	8
38	Ralf Tietje	GER	511.73	7
39	Jakub Kania	POL	509.08	8
40	Alistair Deaves	NZL	506.9	7