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129. Kieler Woche 2011 - 18.-26.Juni 2011
www.kieler-woche.de - Übersicht
23.06.2011
Finn Ass.:
Kiel Week day five - Wright clinches gold in medal race
After trailing the front runners all week, world champion Ed Wright (GBR) turned it around with a third place in the medal race to win the Finn class
in Kiel Week. The top three were only split on count back with each tied on 30 points. Jonathan Lobert (FRA) ended up second while the leader this
morning, Zach Railey (USA) had to settle for third. The race win went to Deniss Karpak (EST), who placed fourth overall.
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Wright im Finn am 23.06.
Fotos: © okpress/Kieler Woche
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After opening with strong, damp conditions, and then losing the fourth day because of not enough wind, the week drew to a close in a very blustery but bright finish on Wednesday with the medal race for the top ten. It was a shifty affair with big place changes throughout though the job was done for Ed Wright on the second upwind. Deniss Karpak went on to win the race from Thomas Le Breton (FRA) with Wright in third. Wright was just one place
ahead of early regatta leader Jonathan Lobert, and that was enough to equal his score, while Zach Railey lost crucial distance on the second upwind to finish in sixth and lose the overall lead.
Railey said, “My plan was to just race my race as points were so close. But it was a race with lots of changes and there were some very big shifts.
I was on the wrong side of a big one on the second upwind and that pretty much put me in third overall. ”
“It was a huge fight all week so for all of us, so to end on the same points shows how close the racing really was all week. I am happy to have a
podium finish and we feel like we are making improvements which is the most important for the future. Getting on the podium was the goal this week but
it still hurts to not win.”
The lack of top sailors here is testament to the tough season that is behind them, with three major regattas in the past four weeks. Many are
concentrating on next month’s Open Europeans in Helsinki, while some are just focussing on the London 2012 test event in Weymouth in August.
In the ISAF Sailing World Cup standings, Great Britain fills the top three places with Ben Ainslie (GBR) taking gold and Wright beating Giles Scott
(GBR) to the silver medal on the tie break, with both on 90 points. Wright's win in Kiel also means that all the ISAF Sailing World Cup events this
year have been won by GBR sailors. Wright, of course, has also won the ISAF Sailing World Cup for the past two years. Elsewhere, Railey finished
fourth while a second in Kiel for Jonathan Lobert moves him up to 10th overall. Only seven out of the top 20 sailors were actually in Kiel.
Results after medal race (medal race in brackets)
1GBR 11Edward Wright30 (3)
2FRA 112Jonathan Lobert30 (5)
3USA 4Zach Railey30 (6)
4EST 2Deniss Karpak32 (1)
5FRA 29Thomas Le Breton40 (2)
6GER 151Matthias Miller64 (9)
7SWE 6Björn Allansson65 (7)
8GER 771Jan Kurfeld71 (4)
9USA 1140Caleb Paine,78 (8)
10AUT 3Florian Raudaschl81 (10)
Photos: OKpress / Kieler Woche
Event website: http://www.kieler-woche.de ( http://www.kieler-woche.de )
This press release was sent to you by the International Finn Association ( http://www.finnclass.org/ ).
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