118th Travemuende Woche - Day 5
by Andreas Kling 25 Jul 2007 21:44 BST
Sachs and Tania Tammling win
18-year-old Tania Tammling from Heist, Germany is the new international German Junior Champion of the Europe class. She won her competition on Monday (25 July) at the 118th Travemuende Week but it was pretty tight. The brothers Helge and Christian Sach from Zarnekau, Germany
marked their twelfth Travemuende Week victory, this time in the Olympic
Tornado class. In fresh to strong winds the RS skiffs showed spectacular
Eurocup races.
"I actually prefer light winds. But anyway, also in strong gusts when it was
really exhausting, I had fun”, said Tammling after the eighth race finishing
seventh. And that was necessary, because her tough chaser, Fabian Kirchhoff
from Herford (Germany) placed third and was tied all over sudden. Finally
the girl won due to her two bullets the days before.
Two well-known fellows have been greeted during the prize giving of the
Tornado class by race officer Peter Ramcke. The local heroes Helge and
Christian Sach from Zarnekau, Germany were on the top of the podium twelve
times now. “It seems to be taken for granted but it was again a tough
fight,” said the brothers after their triumph. In the end, they were four
points ahead of the Russians Alexey Chekrygin and Valeriy Seleznev but didn’t score another bullet in three strong wind races.
Breathtaking manoeuvres and capsizing could be seen on the course area
Foxtrott. The fast RS skiffs fought with the choppy waves off the coast off
Brodten. For some crews the force five to six was already too much and they
stayed ashore. Others complained about broken rudders and problems with the
material. But the top sailors of the class were pretty happy with the strong
wind after two difficult days at the beginning of the sailing week with just
one race in light conditions. “That’s what we were dreaming of,” said
Christian Brandt from Hamburg, Germany, who is one of those getting the
fleet to sail in Travemuende.
Brandt, who sails one of the ambitious RS 700 boats capsized once, managed
all three races and placed overall sixth (16 points). The English fellows
Rob Chaplin and Nigel Walbank are tied on the first place both having four
points. “They are simply the best in the fleet,” said Brandt. Also in the
classes RS 200, 400, 600 and 800 the British sailors demonstrated their
pre-eminence.
Day six on Thursday (26 July) marks a change of classes on the water. Eleven
new classes including the Formula 18 catamarans with the title holders Helge
und Christian Sach and several more skiffs start their Travemuende Week. The
RS sailors are going finish the Eurocup.
Results after Day 5:
Championships
International German Junior Championship Europe
Final result after eight races: 1st Tania Tammling (Heist, Germany) 19
points; 2nd Fabian Kirchhoff (Herford, Germany) 19; 3rd Julian Carlsdotter
(Heikendorf, Germany) 23; 4th Philipp Rosenberg (Hamburg, Germany) 33; 5th
Jasper Fischer (Holzwickede, Germany) 35; 6th Stefanie Holste (Ritterhude,
Germany) 39.
RS 800 Eurocup
Overall ranking after four races: 1st Peter Barton/Bonnie Moody (UK) 4
points; 2. Andy Cornah/Orwin Murray (UK) 6; 3rd Graham Simmonds/Chris Doe
(UK) 8; 4th Andrew Gould/Vicky Gould (UK) 13; 5th Alastair Shires/Penny
Shires (UK) 14; 6th Daniel Hare/Jamie Hare (UK) 15.
RS 700 Eurocup
Overall ranking after four races: 1st Rob Chaplin (UK) 4 points; 2nd Nigel
Walbank (UK) 4; 3rd Jon Heissig (UK) 15; 4th Ian Nolan (UK) 15; 5th Mark
Pollington (UK) 15; 6th Christian Brandt (Hamburg, Germany) 16.
RS 600 Eurocup
Overall ranking after four races: 1st David Annan (UK) 4 points; 2nd Andy
Heissig (UK) 5; 3rd Martin Fear (UK) 9; 4th Tony Mitchell (UK) 9; 5th John
Archer (UK) 17; 6th Richard Mayo (UK) 19.
RS 400 Eurocup
Overall ranking after four races: 1st Ian Robson/Sandy Johnson (UK) 3
points; 2nd Howard Farbrother/Louise Hosken (UK) 8; 3rd Giles
Chipperfield/Heather Chipperfield (UK) 9; 4th John Cooper/Becci Wigley (UK)
13; 5th Bill Handley/Lynda Handley (UK) 14; 6th Simon Horsefield/Lea Herod
(Korbeke, Germany) 18.
RS 200 Eurocup
Overall ranking after four races: 1st Ian Pickard/Lucy Matthews (UK) 4
points; 2nd Nicholas Charles/Juliet Kingsnorth (UK) 5; 3rd Trudie Fell/Peter
Cruikshank (UK) 8; 4th Paul Dorer/Ian Robertson (UK) 12; 5th Andy
Robertson/Chris Witty (UK) 12; 6th Roy McCubbin/Kirsty McSeveney (UK) 15.
Olympic classes
Tornado
Final result after eight races: 1st Helge Sach/Christian Sach (Zarnekau,
Germany) 8 points; 2nd Alexey Chekrygin/ Valeriy Seleznev (Russian
Federation) 12; 3rd Nils Bunkenberg/Susanne Hahn (Surendorf, Germany) 13;
4th Pavel Sozykin/ Vitaly Russu (Russian Federation) 23; 5th Christina
Loweg/Florian Loweg (Stuttgart, Germany) 29; 6. Eckart Kaphengst/Jens Piepke
(Soeren, Germany) 34.
International classes
Dyas
Final result after eight races: 1st Holger Sueße/Frank Bender (Cologne,
Germany) 9 points; 2. Lothar Schmidt/Ingo Schleicher (Munich, Germany) 15;
3. Carlo Seyfarth/Norbert Schmidt (Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany) 21; 4. Jens
Leicher/Andreas Happich (Koblenz, Germany) 30; 5. Dirk Grotebrune/Hannes
Stricker (Hamburg, Germany) 38; 6. Eckhard Meyer/Joerg Muerau (Ochsenfurt,
Germany) 42.
Trias
Final result after eight races: 1st Roderich/Buenten/Stoffels (Simmrath,
Germany) 8 points; 2nd Stamm/Reeh/Glaeser (Berlin, Germany) 9; 3rd
Hanisch/Hallensleben/Broy (Berlin, Germany) 23; 4th Assheuer/Zeller/Gaede
(Cologne, Germany) 24; 5. Bergner/Billig/Jumpertz (Schwabach, Germany) 31;
6th Stansch/Detlefs/Ullrich (Berlin, Germany) 33.