{"id":1032,"date":"2015-07-07T23:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2015-07-09T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:26:22","slug":"1032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Euro Champ 49er: Portuguese in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JpFzPZiqTno\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PPH_Campeonatos-Europeus-de-Vela-Classe-49er-V1-3-EN1-610x863.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-1002 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/PPH_Campeonatos-Europeus-de-Vela-Classe-49er-V1-3-EN1-610x863.jpg\" alt=\"PPH_Campeonatos-Europeus-de-Vela-Classe-49er-V1-3-EN1-610x863\" width=\"70\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-992 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_svg.png\" alt=\"Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_svg\" width=\"26\" height=\"13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_svg.png 125w, https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom_svg-120x63.png 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 26px) 100vw, 26px\" \/><\/a><strong>Jorge Lima and Jos\u00e9 Costa have claimed an early lead in the 49er European Championships on home waters in Porto, Portugal. With the 79-boat fleet split into three qualifying divisions for the first three days of competition, the inshore course favoured the right-hand side strongly throughout the day, especially so in light airs that never exceeded 8 knots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While most of their competitors were battling for a start line advantage at the right-hand end near the committee boat, Lima and Costa decided to take their chances with a port-end start. It paid off handsomely, with the Cascais team taking an early lead in both of the last two races of the day, and leading both heats from start to finish. Banking scores of 2, 6, 1, 1, the Portuguese hold a 1-point advantage over Poland\u2019s Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski, who also sailed a brilliant day in their qualifying fleet with scores of 1, 2, 4, 2.<\/p>\n<p>Lima \u201cIt\u2019s a good position to be in, but we have to perform every day if we have a chance of winning these Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Poles, lying in 2nd overall is particularly important as this regatta is one of the trials for Olympic selection for Rio 2016. The same is true for the Germans, and it\u2019s been a disappointing start for the defending European Champions, Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel who lie in 35th overall. Worryingly for them is that recent winners of Kiel Week, young guns Justus Schmidt and Max Boehme, are sitting in 4th place overall with scores of 6, 1, 1, 7.<\/p>\n<p>Other good performers on day one were British team, John Pink and Stu Bithell, in 3rd overall, and the 2012 Olympic Champions from Australia in 5th, Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen. Not such a good day for the 2012 silver medallists from New Zealand however, with Pete Burling and Blair Tuke sitting in 8th overall. A 4,6,2 wasn\u2019t too bad, but a UFD disqualification in heat three was the Kiwis\u2019 undoing. \u201cThe start hooter came up a bit later than we expected,\u201d shrugged Burling. \u201cWe knew it was close. Speed was OK though, just a couple of decisions we made that could have been better.\u201d Even after an average first day, the Kiwis remain the hot favourites for overall victory, now on an unbroken winning streak of 16 major regattas since London 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It was day 2 of qualifying for the 39 girls\u2019 teams in the 49er FX, and the Netherlands\u2019 Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Duetz sit at the top of the leaderboard on equal points with Germany\u2019s Victoria Jurczok and Anika Lorenz. For the lightweight German team, today\u2019s light winds gave them an important jump on their fellow Germans at the start of their Olympic trials. For the Dutch, however, they are sailing for the sake of being the best they can be, knowing that their chances of qualification for Rio 2016 are all but gone having underperformed at the Dutch trials earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if we win this championships or the Worlds, the other Dutch crew have already won the selection, so it\u2019s out of our control,\u201d says Bekkering. \u201cWe have to watch the other crew and see how they do.\u201d That other team is Nina Keijzer and Claire Blom, who sit in 26th overall at the moment. They need to secure one of the remaining Olympic berths for their country at the 49er Worlds in Argentina this November.<\/p>\n<p>The Danes, as ever, are right up at the front of the pack with three teams in the top seven. What\u2019s slightly surprising is that the winners of the past two European Championships, Ida-Marie Nielsen and Marie Olsen, are the lowest placed of the three. Best of the Danes in 3rd overall are the Sch\u00fctt sisters, Maiken and Anne-Julie, one point ahead of Sweden\u2019s Lisa Ericson and Hanna Klinga.<\/p>\n<p>The big Atlantic swell is making for some exceptionally challenging sailing conditions, and many of the FX crews were complaining of achy knees and burning thighs with all the in-and-out of keeping the boats upright and moving through the ever-changing seascape. Even though Italy\u2019s Giulia Conti had a successful outing, sitting in 6th overall with crew Francesca Clapcich, she is praying for more breeze tomorrow. \u201cCome on! I am 30 years old, too old for these boats,\u201d she laughed. \u201cMy knees need a rest so more wind for stretching the legs would be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday sees the FX fleet complete qualifying to determine who goes into Gold and Silver fleet finals. For the 49ers, it\u2019s day two of qualifying. With a forecast of slightly more breeze, perhaps Conti and the other skiff athletes will be able to stretch their legs after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_Sweden_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-991 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Flag_of_Sweden_svg.png\" alt=\"Flag_of_Sweden_svg\" width=\"26\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Ericson och Hanna Klinga forts\u00e4tter att segla bra. Efter dagens\u00a0tre seglingar och g\u00e5rdagens fyra s\u00e5 \u00e4r man kvar p\u00e5 fj\u00e4rde platsen bara en po\u00e4ng efter pallplatsen. Dagens tre seglingar inleddes med seger och f\u00f6ljdes upp med en femte och elfte plats.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Bergstr\u00f6m och Victor Vestern\u00e4s \u00f6ppnade m\u00e4sterskapen med serien 5-6-5-10 och ligger p\u00e5 fjortonde plats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49erFX-resultat1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49erFX-resultat1.jpg\" alt=\"49erFX resultat\" width=\"845\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49erFX-resultat1.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49erFX-resultat1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49er-resultat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49er-resultat.jpg\" alt=\"49er resultat\" width=\"672\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49er-resultat.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/49er-resultat-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=Every_sailrace\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Lima and Jos\u00e9 Costa have claimed an early lead in the 49er European Championships on home waters in Porto, Portugal. With the 79-boat fleet split into three qualifying divisions for the first three days of competition, the inshore course favoured the right-hand side strongly throughout the day, especially so in light airs that never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,68,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everysailrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}