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21 Jun 2011

Wind Blows out 470 Men - USA Leads 470 Women in Kiel

With strong winds and rain battering the races courses at 2011 Kieler Woche, it was a disappointment that no racing could be held for the 470 Men, particularly as there was still plenty of room to maenouver into the top 10 boats which will be tomorrow's final medal race. Whilst the men stayed ashore the 470 women had an exciting race 9 which was won by Germany’s Kathrin Kadelbach and Friederike Belcher.

470 Men
Going into tomorrow's medal race the overall series leaders, Mat Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) are assured of either Gold or Silver, but this will be a battle with the second placed Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic (CRO). Technically Fantela and Marenic would have to win with Belcher and Page finishing in tenth.

So predicting Gold to the Australians, the battle for silver and bronze will be between Fantela and Marenic and the Greek team of Panagiotis Kampouridis and Efstathios Papadopoulos who are 7 points in deficit to the Croatians.

The other teams from fourth to tenth have too much of a points deficit over the top three to have any chance of podium places.

470 Men - Medal Race Top 10

Pos SailNo Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Pts
1 AUS 11 Mat Belcher/Malcolm Page 5 1 1 1 1 1 (6) 1 11
2 CRO 83 Sime Fantela/Igor Marenic 1 5 (14) 2 5 2 2 10 27
3 GRE 165 Panagiotis Kampouridis/Efstathios Papadopoulos 8 (12) 9 4 2 3 3 5 34
4 GRE 1 Panagiotis Mantis/Pavlos Kagialis 16 2 13 (16) 3 4 5 3 46
5 GER 10 Ferdinand Gerz/Patrick Follmann 10 (25) 12 5 13 6 4 7 57
6 GER 49 Lucas Zellmer/Heiko Seelig 4 (31) 2 12 17 5 14 4 58
7 AUT 3 Matthias Schmid/Florian Reichstädter 14 (22) 7 3 8 8 11 8 59
8 AUS 13 Sam Kivell/Will Ryan 15 (21) 5 14 7 12 7 6 66
9 ARG 7 Lucas Calabrese/Juan de la Fuente (20) 17 15 7 4 7 17 2 69
10 GER 74 Daniel Zepuntke/Dustin Baldewein 7 9 17 (52) 9 11 9 9 71

470 Women
Kathrin Kadelbach and Friederike Belcher won the only Women’s 470 race on the fourth day to close the gap on Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving (USA) to just two points. The Americans came seventh in Race 9 whilst Tina Lutz and Susann Beucke (GER), who are third overall, finished one place ahead in sixth. Just four points separate first and third in the Women’s 470, so all to play for in Wednesday's medal race.

The women's battle for gold is easily achieveable for Maxwell/Kinsolving who just need to be one boat ahead of Kadelbach/Belcher and two boats ahead of Lutz/Beucke. However, anything can still happen amongst these leading three boats and even the fourth placed Annina Wagner and Marlene Steinherr (GER) have a chance of a podium place.

470 Women - Medal Race Top 10

Pos SailNo Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 Pts
1 USA 1757 Erin Maxwell/Isabelle Kinsolving 2 (8) 1 4 1 1 1 3 7 20
2 GER 21 Kathrin Kadelbach/Friederike Belcher 4 (9) 2 3 4 2 4 2 1 22
3 GER 61 Tina Lutz/Susann Beucke 1 (10) 7 1 2 3 3 1 6 24
4 GER 66 Annina Wagner/Marlene Steinherr 8 1 4 2 5 4 8 (9) 4 36
5 GRE 224 Virginia Kravarioti/Olga Tsigaridi 10 5 9 6 6 5 2 4 (11) 47
6 GER 72 Annika Bochmann/Anika Lorenz 5 2 3 8 11 7 6 6 (13) 48
7 EST 20 Marjaliisa Umb/Elise Umb 3 4 8 5 7 8 7 7 (9) 49
8 POL 11 Agnieszka Skrsypulec/Jolanta Ogar 7 11 6 9 3 9 5 (20) 5 55
9 GER 12 Victoria Jurczok/Josephine Bach 11 3 5 10 8 (12) 9 5 8 59
10 UKR 7 Anastasiia Kolomiets/Kateryna Dmytrenko 6 7 10 11 10 6 10 8 (14) 68

More Information:
Event Website
Overall Results
Report from Day 2
Report from Day 3

Image: Sime Fantela and Igor Marenic (CRO) © Victor Kovalenko