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Tutima J80 Worlds at Kiel, Germany - Overall

by Hermann Hell 12 Jul 2008 19:29 BST

Rodriguez is the new J80 World Champion

The winner of the Tutima J80 Worlds comes from Spain. Ignacio Camino Rodriguez and his "Nextel engineering" crew took the title despite the fact that the Spanish crew was black flagged in the last race. Only two points ahead Ignacio Camino Rodriguez saved his lead and was happy that race officer Mandus Freese did not start the twelth race because of strong winds. All three days before of Tutima J80 Worlds the Spanish team was on first place in the daily rankings. First time skippering a J80 in a Worlds the president of the J80- Class, Jeff Johnstone, USA sailed into the second place, just two points behind the winner. With the boat chartered from a German trader and equipped with sails of the Kiel sail makers Faber and Münker the 48-year-old sailor needed a couple of races to get used to the conditions in Kiel, but showed then with three day wins and further rankings in front.

The fleet of 63 Boats and crews from 12 nations was dominated by, besides the Spanish crews, especially teams of France, Great Britain and Sweden under the top ten of the fleet. After all, French sailor Patrick Bot could achieve four wins in the daily valuations. But after some worse places unfortunately rank 4 was left for the French team. Although rarely worse than 15th, Kevin Sproul (GBR), sailed himself into the total rank 5.

The hosts and initiators of the Tutima J80 Worlds Uli Münker and Peter Hecht finished as best German team. Temporarily being on rank three finally the Kiel ones have to be satisfied with place nine.

“We always had nice conditions here in Kiel, winds between 10 and 20 knots all the time and very seldom a strong rain shower. With a total of eleven races we could deliver a perfect performance", head of organisation, Thore Hansen, summed up.

Overall Results:

1. Ignacio Camino Rodriguez/Alberdo Padron Gomez Jose Luis/Armando Gutierrez (ESP) 52pts
2. Jeff Johnstone/Bo Teichmann/Stella Mau/Florian Föh/Henning Mittelmann (USA) 54pts
3. Carlos Martinez/Chencho Ortega/Eugenio Pedreno/Juanma Barrionuevo (ESP) 63pts
4. Patrick Bot/Frederic Denis/Matthieu Durand/Frederic Hauville/Agathe Brucelle (FRA) 71pts
5. Kevin Sproul/Yoann Richomme/Robert Gullan/Aarian Gray (GBR) 75pts
6. Javier Padron/Juan Gonzalez/Abelardo Queuedo/Cesar Obregon (ESP) 79pts
7. Ingemar Sundstedt/Jörgen Strömquist/Olof Detlefsen/Anne Tempelmann/Mikael Linquist (SWE) 79pts
8. Jonathan Lobert/Félix Pruvor/Thomas Le Breton/Benjamin Diouris (FRA) 81pts
9. Ulrich Münker/Philipp Schön/Willem Geertz/Erik Hecht/Peter Hecht (Kiel) 87pts
10. Luc Nadal/Francois Meesmaecker/Pierre Mousselon/Gilles Curcaud (FRA) 106pts

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