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Perth International Regatta – Day one challenging conditions

by Richard Palfreyman on 17 Nov 2010
The Perth International Regatta 16th-21st November 2010. Perth 2011 http://www.perth2011.com
Perth International Regatta's first day of racing – the test event for next year’s Perth 2011 Sailing World Championships - provided the Men’s Full Rig Laser sailors with challenging conditions until the sea breeze filled in for the second race.

At the end of the morning’s two races, the joint leaders were ISAF seventh ranked sailor Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia and Maxim Semerkhanov of Russia, who is outside the top ten ISAF rankings. They were followed by Nick Thompson of Great Britain who is ranked world number three.

Paul Goodison, a favourite from Great Britain, was in fifth place and recently crowned ISAF Sailor of the Year Tom Slingsby from Australia was 13th.

The morning Laser fleet also included some of the participants in the Perth 2011 Emerging Nations programme which is designed to assist developing sailing nations to participate in the Olympic sailing competition.

Peter Cook from the Cook Islands said his aim was to qualify for the Perth 2011 World Championships. 'Australia is a great place to sail,' Cook said. 'With the ENP program just finished two weeks ago, this regatta is a build up to Perth 2011 – it’s great'.


In the afternoon, the Laser Radial competition started with Fremantle’s famed sea breeze fully in for the two races. Two young local sailors from Australia, Matthew Wearn and Tristan Brown, are in the overall lead.

The final results of the two races for the Ladies provided success for Alison Young of Great Britain taking the lead on day one, followed by world number seven, Natalie Brugger of Switzerland. Tuula Tenkanen of Finland is lying third.

The highlight of the afternoon was the clash of the titans in the Finn class, with interest centred on the return of Ben Ainslie of Great Britain to full time Olympic Class competition.

ISAF World number three, Johnathan Lobert of France, took the first day’s lead, followed by Daniel Birgmark of Sweden in second place and Rafael Tujillo Villar of Spain in third.

British sailors put in a solid performance with Andrew Mills fourth, Giles Scott fifth and Ben Ainslie in sixth place.

Tomorrow is set to be a thrilling day with all four race courses operating.

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