RS:X Women
1. Jian Yin (China)
2. Alessandra Sensini (Italy)
3. Bryony Shaw (Great Britain)
4. Marina Alabau (Spain)
5. Jessica Crisp (Australia)
6. Barbara Kendall (New Zealand)
Article: http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24795.php
RS:X Men
1. Tom Ashley (New Zealand)
2. Julien Bontemps (France)
3. Sharar Zubari (Israel)
4. Nick Dempsey (Great Britain)
No Australian entrant
Article: http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24796.php
After 9 races, Jessica Crisp now lies in 5th place behind Italy, China, Spain & Great Britain. Just race 10 (possibly on Tues) and the Medal Race (Wed) to go. The points are close with only 11 separating 1st & 5th – anything could happen in the next couple of days.
The mark roundings are posted LIVE to the website.
http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=42
Jessica Crisp dropped to third place today in the windier conditions on the olympic course. China still holds onto 1st with Italy 2nd. It’s still up in the air as to who will be the final medalists with Spain, New Zealand and Great Britain not far behind.
http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=38
New International rules for windsurfing racing classes come into effect on 1/1/2009. In particular, the sailnumber placement rules have been changed – numbers will be placed back to back on an opaque white background. Click for full details (270kb PDF).
See also 2005-2008 Windsurfing Racing Rules (424kb PDF)
It is early days yet, but after winning race 5 in the Womens RS:X class, Jessica Crisp is placed 2nd overall. Keep up with her results at http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=38
Here’s the main olympic sailing site and other links that may be of interest.
http://www.sailing.org/olympics
http://sailjuice.com (blog)
Results Alert (rss feed)
Antoine Albeau (FRA, Starboard) and Karin Jaggi (SUI, F2, North) are the speed windsurfing world champions 2008, after 7 rounds of speedsailing in challenging conditions.
The event started with challenging conditions as the wind was pretty light in correlation to the deep angle of the course. The top speeds came close to 40 knots, with a close battle between Albeau and Diethelm. With improving wind speeds Dunkerbeck came closer, but was never able to really challenge the top duo. The places behind were hardly fought for between Maynard and the Moussilmani brothers, Slalom specialists Dan Ellis (GBR, Fanatic) and Peter Volwater (F2, North) as well as living legend Anders Bringdal (SWE) completing the top 10.
With higher wind speeds and the high tide in the afternoon the top speeds improved over the curse of the week, with Antoine Albeau again setting the top speed of the event with 40.54 knots average over the 500m speedcourse.
The womens competition was ever more thrilling, with a tie in points after 4 races between Karin Jaggi and Valerie Ghibaudo. Karin was then able to take advantage of the harder conditions towards the end of the competition, and closely snatched the victory. The final place on the podium was open for a long time, with Zara Davis (GBR) retiring after round 6 it became close between Marion Raisi and Emanuelle Duby (FRA), with the better end for Marion.
Australia’s Chris Lockwood (Carbon Art, KA Sails) came in at 12th,
and recorded a speed of 38.35knots
Daily reports and pictures free of charge are available
at www.speedworldcup.com. Also see Results PDF
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