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Tornado World Championships at Yacht Club de Carnac - Day 2

by Maria Tsaousidou 9 Sep 2015 09:49 BST 5-12 September 2015

The races started early for the second racing day in Carnac. The weather was a bit colder today but the first warning signal was at 11.00 as scheduled with the wind's strength varying from 8 to 15 knots and its direction from 75 to 90 degrees.

Results after Day 2: (top three, 4 races)

Open
1st Dany Paschalidis and Kostas Trigonis, Greece
2nd Nikolaos Mavros and Alexandros Tagaropoulos, Greece
3rd Roland Gaebler and Nahid Gaebler, Germany

Mixed
1st Roland and Nahid Gaebler, Germany
2nd Jean Marc Cuanillon and Gudrun Kolb, Switzerland
3rd Zdenek Pavlis and Michaela Pavlisova, Czech Republic

Classic Tornado
1st Philippe and Pierrick Tollemer
2nd Zakarian Michel and Ialenti Jeremy
3rd Julien Laurent and Patrick Lambert

More information at www.tornadocarnac2015.com and www.tornado-class.org

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