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Negri and Voltolini extend

Italian duo continue to dominate the Star Europeans in Dun Laoghaire

Friday September 9th 2011, Author: James Boyd, Location: Ireland

Another first place in the penultimate race for Italians Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini sealed their series-long domination and overall victory at the Star European Championship at Dun Laoghaire on Friday. Light and shifty conditions followed by a sea breeze completed the regatta that delivered a full range of conditions for the 27-boat fleet from 18 nations.

Negri and Voltolini kept their form for a fourth race win and typically enjoyed a comfortable lead at the finish of race seven. For the crews chasing the runner-up podium positions, the breeze proved as challenging as it has been all week, this time dying to a near calm on the final run before filling gently on the left hand-side side of the course catching the unwary, notably Guillaume Florent and Pascal Rambeau who had been vying with the Italian leaders for first place.

A wait followed for the eighth and final race of the week but only after a long wait for the sea breeze to build and settle. This took the fleet away from the now familiar area off Dun Laoghaire’s West Pier and southwards towards this historic Dalkey Island side of Dublin Bay. After starting in ideal conditions of 18 knots, halfway through the race the breeze died completely to be followed by a 90-degree wind-shift that saw 2008 World Champion Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki emerge with a substantial lead on the water and, having led from the outset were confirmed as second overall runners-up. Negri and Voltolini had already retired as their position was no better than their already discarded eighth in race six and were busy packing their boat as the final ended.

Irish hopes of a podium result on home waters were denied to London 2012 Olympic contenders Peter O’Leary and David Burrows who placed fourth in the last race but a ninth earlier in the day left them fourth overall as Canada’s Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn took third place.

Star European Championship 2011 - final overall results after eight races

 

Pos Skipper Crew Nat R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Tot Net
1 Diego Negri Enrico Voltolini ITA 1 2 1 1 3 8 1 (28.0 DNF) 45 17
2 Mateusz Kusznierewicz Dominik Zycki POL 5 8 2 5 1 -9 3 1 34 25
3 Richard Clarke Tyler Bjorn CAN 9 1 5 2 13 7 2 -14 53 39
4 Peter O'Leary David Burrows IRL 3 6 3 6 12 -13 9 4 56 43
5 Eivind Melleby Petter Morland Pedersen NOR 13 -17 7 10 6 3 7 2 65 48
6 Afonso Domingos Frederico Melo POR 6 4 10 8 14 5 4 (28.0 DNF) 79 51
7 Johannes Polgar Markus Koy GER -19 12 4 12 9 1 8 6 71 52
8 Guillaume Florent Pascal Rambeau FRA 2 3 6 4 11 -19 17 13 75 56
9 Andrew Campbell Ian Coleman USA 14 16 13 13 4 -17 5 5 87 70
10 George Szabo Mark Strube USA 10 15 (28.0 DNF) 7 18 2 11 10 101 73
11 Fernando Echavarri Fernando Rodriguez Rivero ESP 7 14 9 3 -21 20 16 8 98 77
12 Xavier Rohart Pierre Alexis Ponsot FRA 4 5 (28.0 DNF) 14 8 23 14 9 105 77
13 Gustavo Roxo Lima Rubrio Basilio POR 16 9 12 16 7 12 -21 7 100 79
14 Mate Arapov Ante Sitic CRO -20 13 8 18 16 4 6 16 101 81
15 Arthur Anosov Vitalii Kushnir UKR 18 10 11 11 -19 6 10 17 102 83
16 John Gimson Stephen Milne GBR 11 20 14 17 2 (28.0 RAF) 18 12 122 94
17 Alexander Schlonski Matthias Bohn GER 17 19 (28.0 DNF) 9 5 11 15 19 123 95
18 Maxwell Treacy Anthony Shanks IRL 15 11 (28.0 DNF) 15 10 22 13 11 125 97
19 Denis Khashina Dmitriy Mechetin UKR -24 18 17 22 20 21 23 3 148 124
20 Vasyl Gureyev Volodymyr Korotkov UKR 12 (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 19 15 10 22 20 154 126
21 Tom Loefstedt Hakan Lundgren SWE (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 16 21 17 15 12 21 158 130
22 Ante Razmilovic Brian Hammersley GBR 22 21 15 20 23 14 -24 15 154 130
23 Michel Niklaus Vincent Hagin SUI 21 22 (28.0 DNF) 24 24 16 19 22 176 148
24 Jean-Pascal Chatagny Patrick Ducommun SUI 25 24 (28.0 OCS) 23 22 18 20 18 178 150
25 Iain Percy Andrew Simpson GBR 8 7 (28.0 DNC) 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 183 155
26 Andrey Berezhnoy Sergey Masalov RUS 23 23 (28.0 DNF) 25 28.0 DNE 24 25 28.0 DNF 204 176
27 Tibor Tenke Miklos Bezereti HUN 26 (28.0 DNF) 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 28.0 DNC 222 194

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