{"id":1172,"date":"2015-07-11T21:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2015-07-27T07:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T07:43:41","slug":"49er-world-champ-gold-to-conti-and-glapcich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"49er World Champ – Gold to Conti and Glapcich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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11\/07\/15 – Porto (POR) – 49er Europeans Porto 2015 – Day 6 – \u00a9 Neuza Pereira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"PPH_Campeonatos-Europeus-de-Vela-Classe-49er-V1-3-EN1-610x863\"<\/a>Giulia Conti and Francesca Clapcich high-fived and hugged as they crossed the finish line of a wild and whacky Medal Race to win the 49er FX European Championships in Porto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After three Gold Fleet races for the top 25 boats out on the open ocean, the top 10 qualified for the Medal Race a few hours later on the River Douro. It was a big contrast from the steady 10-knot breezes earlier in the day. Strong current flowing upwind, and massive gusts and wind holes combined with wildly shifting breeze made for thrilling spectating but heart-stopping competition for the sailors.<\/p>\n

The Italian team of Conti and Clapcich went into the final race in 4th overall, behind the Dutch in the lead and two Danish teams in 2nd and 3rd. Just behind the Italians were the reigning European Champions in 5th overall, another Danish team \u2013 Ida Nielsen and Marie Olsen \u2013 who still had an outside shot at securing their third European crown.<\/p>\n

Off the start line it immediately became apparent that luck was going to be as important as skill, and Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Duetz never found a lucky break. The Dutch were always playing catch-up and could do little as the hopes of a European title slipped away. While early regatta leaders Victoria Jurczok and Anika Lorenz took the lead at the front, the battle for the medals hung in the balance with a tense game of snakes and ladders with all the gusts and wind holes.<\/p>\n

Conti and Clapcich held on for 3rd place across the finish line, one place ahead of Jena Hansen and Katja Iversen. They were tied on 57 points, but the Italians\u2019 better finishing position gave them the title by a whisker. Hansen\/Iversen took silver with their Danish training partners, Maiken and Anne-Julie Sch\u00fctt in bronze. The Dutch missed out on a medal by just 2 points.<\/p>\n

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11\/07\/15 – Porto (POR) – 49er Europeans Porto 2015 – Day 6 – \u00a9 Ricardo Pinto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s one day to go in the men\u2019s 49er event, and Pete Burling and Blair Tuke have been knocked off the top of the leaderboard after a protest by their arch rivals Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen. The finishing order at the end of racing was Burling 1st, Outteridge 2nd and Pink\/Bithell in 3rd overall. After Outteridge\u2019s successful protest against the Kiwis and the Brits, the new top three is Outteridge 1st, with Poland\u2019s Tomasz Januszewski and Jacek Nowak in 2nd, and Burling relegated to 3rd overall. The Brits have been knocked down to 8th overall.<\/p>\n

The tide of this regatta seems to be turning against the Kiwis, who made hard work of the starts and scored 12,9,21 while the chasing Aussies banked a much more useful 4,4,9. Best performers of the day were Justus Schmidt and Max Boehme, with the young Germans improving throughout the three races with a 7,5,1 score. \u201cWe started on port tack underneath the starboard tackers so we could get out to the right early,\u201d said Schmidt, who had seen his team mates and rivals for Olympic selection, Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel, pull off a similar unconventional start to win the first race of the day.<\/p>\n

Schmidt\u2019s consistency elevates him to 6th overall and within striking distance of the podium. Behind the Kiwi leaders, Outteridge is 2nd overall on 70 points, and Great Britain\u2019s John Pink and Stu Bithell in 3rd overall on 72 points. All three top teams were in for a late evening with a flurry of protests against each other.<\/p>\n

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150706 – Porto (POR) – 49er Europeans Porto 2015 – Day 1 – \u00a9 Neuza Pereira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Flag_of_Sweden_svg\"<\/a>Lisa Ericsson och Hanna Klinga fick inte den avslutningen\u00a0som man \u00f6nskade. Med minsta m\u00f6jliga marginal, en po\u00e4ng, s\u00e5 missade man medaljracet och slutade elva i t\u00e4vlingen och blev nionde b\u00e5t i EM.<\/p>\n

Victor Bergstr\u00f6m och Victor V\u00e4stern\u00e4s\u00a0kl\u00e4ttrade fr\u00e5n 22:a till\u00a019:e plats. Man knaprade in 9 po\u00e4ng till\u00a0att n\u00e5 medaljracet men\u00a0\u00e4r fortsatt 29 po\u00e4ng fr\u00e5n tio i topp. Dagens seglingar gav 14, 10 och en 19:e plats. I morgon \u00e5terst\u00e5r tre race och s\u00e5 det avslutande medaljracet.
\nFritiof Hedstr\u00f6m och Niclas D\u00fcring \u00e4r nia silvergruppen och Gustav Pettersson och Marcus Anjemark\u00a0i topp i\u00a0bronsgruppen.<\/p>\n

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Giulia Conti and Francesca Clapcich high-fived and hugged as they crossed the finish line of a wild and whacky Medal Race to win the 49er FX European Championships in Porto. After three Gold Fleet races for the top 25 boats out on the open ocean, the top 10 qualified for the Medal Race a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,68,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}