Dernière régate de l’année 2009 à Lanzarote (Canary Island).
Nous avions vraiment à cœur de finir la saison de match racing en beauté. Nous n’avons concédé que 2 défaites sur ce round robin, battant notamment Paolo Cian sur le dernier match. Malheureusement la compétition fût marquée par le manque de vent des premiers jours amputant le classement final des finales.
Nous sommes resté au résultat du Round Robin avec une égalité à 3 entre Cian (Ita), Neugo (Rus) et notre Team. Au petit jeu des égalités nous nous retrouvons 2nd.
Bravo à toute l’équipe Christian Ponthieu à la tactique Julien Falxa aux réglages et Olivier Cardin à l’avant.
Fini 2009 vive 2010 !
Puerto Calero (Lanzarote).- Today the V Trofeo Puerto Calero Match Race came to a close in Lanzarote with a nail-biting final that didn’t produce a winner until the very last match of the Round Robin. The Russian Eugeny Nevgodnikov was announced winner despite his two other competitors having also won 9 matches. His victory was decided based on having beaten both the French and Italian sailors in their respective matches.
The last day of the V Trofeo Puerto Calero Match Race proved to be marathon due to having lost two days due to no wind and with nine flights still to complete.
Spaniard Manu Weiller and Italian Paolo Cian sailed out with an unblemished record but both suffered during the day with Weiller losing against Paolo Cian and Rayco Tabares, which almost threw him out of a chance at a podium finish: whilst Cian lost to Nevgodnikov and Presti, with this key match against the Frenchman making all the difference to his final positioning.
Finally Manu Weiller was left to watch the three winners take their trophies. After having achieved such good results over the first three days, he lost his hold during this last day and with 8 wins, took fourth place. In the meantime, last year’s winner, the Frenchman Pierre Antoine Morvan placed fifth with 7 wins to his name. Alvaro Marinho from Portugal took sixth place with an irregular performance throughout.
Further on found a group tying with 4 wins, with the Slovenian Jude Orel, Spaniard José María Ponce and Michelle Perris from Monaco; but the Slovenian claimed seventh place having beaten the others, with Ponce and Perris slotting in respectively underneath.
At the lower end of the table, the Italian Simone Ferrarese came in tenth place, the Spaniard Rayco Tabares, for whom this was the first foray into top level match-racing came away having won two of his races and claimed eleventh place with Axel Rodger from Argentina closing with one win.
The wind finally returned to end the V Trofeo Puerto Calero Match Race in style, blowing between 15 & 20 knots.
FINAL RESULTS
1 Eugeny Nevgodnikov, 9 wins
2 Philippe Presti (FRA), 9 wins
3 Paolo Cian (ITA), 9 wins
4 Manu Weiller (ESP), 8 wins
5 Pierre Antoine Morvan (FRA), 7 wins
6 Alvaro Marinho (POR), 6 wins
7 Jude Orel (SLO), 4 wins
8 José María Ponce (ESP), 4 wins
9 Michelle Perris (MON), 4 wins
10 Simone Ferrarese (ITA), 3 wins
11 Rayco Tabares (ESP), 2 wins
12 Axel Rodger (ESP), 1 win
