International Canoe Europa Cup at Karlstad, Sweden
by Mark Goodchild 13 Aug 2009 18:41 BST
7-9 August 2009
Mark Goodchild during the International Canoe Europa Cup at Karlstad, Sweden © International Canoe Class
Fifteen International Canoes from Britain, Germany and Sweden were greeted by warm sunny weather for the Europa Cup at Karlstad on Lake Vänern Sweden from 7th to 9th August.
The event was hosted by the Karlstad Canoe Federation, and was shared with championships for other traditional classes of sailing canoe from Sweden and Germany.
All Nine scheduled races were sailed with excellent triangular courses and first class race management. The wind stayed light to moderate but was helped by ‘sea breezes’ at times during the days enabling sailors to make full use of sliding seats upwind.
Mark Goodchild found the conditions to his liking and dominated the event from start to finish with a fine tally of eight first places; Simon Allen showed good downwind speed and had close racing with top Swedish sailor Ola Barthelson.
Lake Vänern is a fantastic venue for any sailing championship, the local people made all visitors very welcome and the International Canoe fleet hope to return there soon.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Nat | Helm | Pts |
|---|
| 1st | 265 | GBR | Mark Goodchild | 7 |
| 2nd | 278 | GBR | Simon Allen | 13 |
| 3rd | 106 | SWE | Ola Barthelson | 18 |
| 4th | 77 | GER | Axel Bierwagen | 32 |
| 5th | 67 | GER | Manuel Radek | 38 |
| 6th | 52 | GER | Anette Steimann | 43 |
| 7th | 101 | SWE | Johan Elfström | 44 |
| 8th | 111 | SWE | Kalle Jonasson | 54 |
| 9th | 58 | GER | Fredrik Steimann | 60 |
| 10th | 74 | GER | Eckhardt Pagel | 62 |
| 11th | 81 | SWE | Fabian Erlandsson | 71 |
| 12th | 76 | GER | Arne Stahl | 76 |
| 13th | 44 | GER | Ulrike Praetz | 84 |
| 14th | 78 | SWE | Mats Nystam | 90 |
| 15th | 74 | SWE | Peter Seybolt | 95 |