Tornado Worlds at Club Nautico San Isidro, Argentina Overall

by Event Press 11 Dec 2006 07:16 GMT 5-10 December 2006

AUSTRALIANS DARREN BUNDOCK AND GLENN ASHBY 2006 TORNADO WORLD CHAMPIONS

The Ozzies claimed the title with one race to spare. Local heroes Argentineans Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola had a brilliant race and are second on the podium. Austrians Roman Hagara and Hans Peter Steinacher are third.

The breeze under 6 knots kept the competitors waiting on the water to start Race 9. When the breeze finally picked up the RC had to move the course due to the shallow conditions. By then only 1 race could be sailed and the Australians won the title with one race to spare.

The battle was between local heroes ARG Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola and AUT Roman Hagara & Hans Peter Steinacher. Both teams started together in the middle of the starting line but the Argentineans went all the way to the right side of the course while the Austrians decided for the middle. Santiago and Carlos rounded in first, followed by Dutch Mitch Booth & Pim Nieuwenhis in second and Spanish Fernando Echavarri & Anton Paz in third. The Austrians rounded seventh.

By then the Argentineans were leading by far and had nobody to threatened their lead. The Spanish took over the second position on the third and last weather mark rounding followed by the French Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader in third. The Austrians didn't manage to improve their position and finished 11th.

ARG Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola crossed the finishing line in great style flying a hull to the hundreds of spectators watching the final race of the 2006 Worlds.

The French had a good campaign placing 6 teams in the top 15 with Guichard & Guyader finishing 5th overall. The Greek team of Iordanis Paschalidis & Constantinos Trigonis were the 4th overall.

Says Darren Bundock about his result: "The focus the whole year has been on this World Championship. This is the one we wanted and means a lot after the effort and preparation for this event. A lot has got to be said for our coach Mike Fletcher he has coached me to five world championships now in the Olympic Class and coached Mitch Booth and John Forbes to one before I came along. His persistence before this regatta with getting our trimming techniques and speed right has probably won the regatta for us".

"The pairs decision making skills this week has won the regatta for them, yesterday they made some of the best decisions when under pressure. On the starting line they knew when to push and when it was getting crowded and the risk was high to back out and find another hole. Decisions like that win world championships. Yesterday they showed the world they wanted this World championship", commented Fletch.

More information and pictures at tornado2006.cnsi.org.ar

Overall Results: (9 races, 1 discard)

Pos	Sail No	Helm & Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Pts
1	AUS8	Darren Bundock & Glenn Ashby	6	2	4	2	1	5	1	2	(48\DNS)	23
2	ARG1	Santiago Lange & Carlos Espinola	7	-23	8	4	12	2	2	1	1	37
3	AUT3	Roman Hagara & Hans Peter Steinacher	1	8	1	3	2	-33	11	4	11	41
4	GRE7	Iordanis Paschalidis & Constantinos Trigonis	-31	3	13	7	9	11	5	11	8	67
5	FRA7	Yann Guichard & Alexandre Guyader	9	-31	14	18\RDG	6	16	6	5	3	77
6	GER7	Johannes Polgar & Florian Spalteholz	15	1	-28	10	4	4	4	15	27	80
7	ESP1	Fernando Echavarri & Anton Paz	11	13	12	22	7	19	-26	3	2	89
8	FRA5	Billy Besson & Arnaud Jarlegan	10	21	15	1	18	3	21	9	-24	98
9	PUR1	Enrique Figueroa & Jorge Hernandez	3	18	25	17	5	18	-31	12	7	105
10	FRA1	Xavier Revil & Christophe Espagnon	2	5	22	24	11	7	12	-26	25	108
11	GER1104	Roland Gaebler & Gunnar Struckmann	12	10	19	19	14	22	7	8	-36	111
12	FRA298	Matthieu Souben & Gurvan Bontemps	5	28	11	9	20	12	9	21	-33	115
13	FRA11	François Morvan & Matthieu Vandame	8	29	9	15	10	6	8	(48\DSQ)	30	115
14	NED8	Mitch Booth & Pim Nieuwenhis	4	12	7	27	22	27	-34	16	5	120
15	FRA302	Oliver Backes & Paul - Ambroise Sevestre	26	17	-32	5	8	29	13	25	6	129
16	CAN7	Oskar Johansson & Kevin Stittle	29	19	24	8	3	25	19	-30	4	131
17	ESP104	Javier Padron & Antonio Cuevas Mons	23	4	26	13	17	9	-33	18	21	131
18	ITA257	Francesco Marcolini & Edoardo Bianchi	20	6	18	6	24	-30	14	24	19	131
19	GBR436	Leigh Mc Millan & William Howden	19	11	16	28	15	17	(48\OCS)	19	9	134
20	GBR7	Rob Wilson & Mark Bulkeley	18	9	29	26	-36	14	22	6	12	136
21	BEL7	Carolijn Brouwer & Sebbe Godefroid	28	14	30	11	-34	32	3	14	14	146
22	RUS97	Andrey Kirilyuk & Valery Ushkov	30	-33	2	31	25	8	15	20	18	149
23	GBR430	Andrew Walsh & Edward Barney	24	20	5	33	19	15	-37	22	17	155
24	GER1096	Tino Mittelmeier & Niko Mittelmeier	14	25	6	20	23	23	-39	23	28	162
25	USA804	Daniel Robbie & Gary Chu	13	(48\DNF)	17	12	29	10	10	35	37	163
26	NED1	Misch Heemskerk & Herbert Dercksen	(48\OCS)	7	20	21	41	1	27	28	23	168
27	USA808	John Lovell & Charlie Ogletree	(48\OCS)	15	10	25	16	31	17	29	26	169
28	ITA5	Vincenzo Sorrentino & Giorgio Colombo	21	22	(48\OCS)	18	27	26	35	7	15	171
29	AUT381	Thomas Zajac & Thomas Czajka	16	27	23	(48\OCS)	30	21	29	27	10	183
30	NZL87	Aaron Mcintosh & Bruce Kendall	(48\OCS)	34	27	29	13	20	24	17	22	186
31	ESP23	Toni Rivas & Fabian Escude	(48\OCS)	26	3	14	21	34	28	48\DNS	13	187
32	GBR434	Hugh Styles & Tom Peel	32	(48\DNF)	21	23	40	35	18	10	20	199
33	GBR438	Christopher Rashley & Marcus Lynch	22	24	31	34	26	36	30	13	-38	216
34	POR1	Diogo Cayolla & Frederico Cerveira	25	30	-34	30	33	24	25	33	16	216
35	RUS7	Sergey Dzhienbaev & Maxim Semenov	(48\OCS)	36	33	48\OCS	28	13	23	32	34	247
36	BRA1	Andre Mirsky & Naldi Gual	34	37	-39	16	32	28	36	34	32	249
37	NED100	Wouter Samana & Jeroen Van Leeuwen	35	16	36	32	38	37	32	-39	29	255
38	BRA37	Bruno Di Bernardi & Andre Chang	27	35	38	37	35	39	16	31	(48\OCS)	258
39	USA840	Donald Thinschmidt & Andrew Wierda	(48\DSQ)	32	41	36	31	38	20	37	39	274
40	ARG29	Fernando Garcia Guevara & Gustavo Mariani	17	40	-42	41	37	41	40	41	31	288
41	AUT360	Thomas Jessenig & Stefan Jessenig	33	39	35	38	39	-43	38	40	35	297
42	USA813	Mike Grandfield & Brock Callen	36	38	37	35	44	40	(48\DNF)	48\DNS	42	320
43	ARG360	Esteban Blando & Alejandro Noe	37	41	40	40	42	42	42	38	(48\OCS)	322
44	UKR21	Stanislav Golembievskyy & Olexiy Voloshenyuk	39	42	43	42	43	-44	41	36	41	327
45	CAN2	Alan Dubuc & Mark Herendeen	40	43	44	43	-45	45	43	42	40	340
46	CHN112	Luo Youjia & Xiuke Chen	38	(48\DNF)	48\OCS	39	46	46	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS	361
47	GER1103	Jochen Seifert & Jurgen Tiemann	41	44	45	44	(48\DNS)	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS	48\DNS	366