Trofeo Princesa Sofia MAPFRE 2013 - Wednesday

44th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mapfre - Day 3

Sailing the multihull after an Olympic match racing campaign is a new challenge for Rio and one she’s taking to with the help of the experienced multihull sailor Besson.

The 44th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mapfre, ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma regatta, saw the conclusion of the qualification series after three days of fantastic racing in varied conditions in the bay of Palma.

With many new faces on the scene, the class favourites have made sure they show their full potential in the first ISAF Sailing World Cup regatta on the European circuit in front of new rivals.

44th Trofeo Princess Sofia Mapfre - Day 2

Fonte: Trofeo Princess Sofia Mapfre

For one week, at least, Trofeo Princess Sofia Mapfre – ISAF Sailing World Cup Palma is the centre of the Olympic sailing world with the best sailors competing to reach the next level.









So far the Trofeo Princesa Sofía Mapfre is going according to plan for Asenathi and Roger who have for objective to finish in the top quarter of the fleet.

ISAF Sailing Cup - Miami

Nacra 17s and 49er FXes in Miami

Fonte: The Daily Sail


In less than one week the second of four 2012-2013 ISAF Sailing World Cup Regattas will get going in Miami, USA. Taking place over 28 January to 2 February on Biscayne the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami will feature the northern hemisphere debuts of the two new classes chosen for Rio 2016 - the Nacra 17 mixed catamaran and the women's 49er FX skiff.

The Nacra 17 entrants feature some exciting young talent coming through the ranks as well as experienced campaigners. Puerto Rican multihull legend Enrique Figueroa is the most experienced sailor in the fleet with an Olympic career that goes back to Seoul 1988 where he finished 13th. Further Olympic appearances came at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 and now, he’s back.

Hopping on board with Figueroa is his wife, Carla Malatrasi and the pair will be aiming for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. “Even though the sport of sailing is a lot of fun, an Olympic campaign is serious business,” said Figueroa. “Once you start racing the focus changes from easy going sailing to full regatta mode and that is when the tension begins.

“We have been sailing together since 1993; there is always tension when you race specially among couples. At high level regattas maybe a little more tension than usual but with so many years under our belts we have learned to separate the racing part from the couple’s part. At the moment we are taking it one day at a time and trying to enjoy ourselves as much as we can.”

The talented couple won Hobie 16 gold together at the 1994 IYRU World Sailing Championship in La Rochelle, France and have experience and know-how that cannot be matched in the fleet. With a new boat to play with Figueroa is enjoying the task at hand, “We have only sailed the boat for a few hours last weekend but had a great time. Learning the boat and developing team work on new equipment is always a challenge. Different controls on the boat, curved foils, weight distribution, etc are among the more challenging aspects of the new Olympic catamaran.”

Among the Puerto Ricans competitors will be Canada’s Luke Ramsey, who sailed in the Men’s 470 at London 2012, and Nikola Girke, who jumps from the Women’s RS:X into the multihull.

Young Americans Taylor Reiss and Matthew Whitehead sailed the SL16 together at the 2011 ISAF Youth Worlds in Zadar, Croatia finishing sixth and have made the jump up to the Nacra 17. Reiss will be sailing with Sarah Lihan, who represented USA in the Women’s 470 at London 2012 whilst Whitehead will sail with 17-year-old Sarah Streater.

Other teams include former Women’s Match Racer Elizabeth Kratzig who joins Jonathan Farrar (USA), Lindsay and Dalton Bergan (USA) and Sarah Newberry and John Casey (USA).

While the Nacra 17 makes its debut on the international stage, the 49erFX makes its second appearance in the ISAF Sailing World Cup. For all competitors in the eight boat fleet it will be their first competitive action in the women’s skiff.

America’s Anna Tunnicliffe has teamed up with her former match racing crew Molly Vandemoer. Tunnicliffe has sailed on her own and as part of a trio at the Olympic Games and now she’s in a duo, and aiming for Rio 2016.

Joining Tunnicliffe and Vandemoer in the fleet is Italian pair Giulia Conti and Francesca Clapcich. Both sailors competed at London 2012 with Conti stepping away from the 470 and Clapcich taking the leap from Laser Radial to the 49erFX. With hours of winter training behind them on Lake Garda their in-depth preparations could see them pick up a podium finish.

Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (BRA) recently won gold at the 49erFX North American Championship as they got acclimatised to the venue. Despite early success in the boat Grael knows where her rivalries lay, “I think Anna and Italy’s Giulia Conti will be our greatest enemy. With light wind it is hard to say who is the best, but with a little more wind it will be difficult for all.”

Three Canadian crews, Erin Berry and Danielle Boyd, Laura Borden and Marie-Pier Alary and Kristine Williams and Jennifer Braem will join the fleet as will Americans Allie Blecher and Helena Scutt and Kristen Lane and Molly Carapiet.

Elsewhere in the regatta, Portuguese 49er Olympian Francisco Andrade will be teaming up with Andre Fonseca to fly the Brazilian flag in Miami whilst Swedish 470 Olympian Sebastian Ostling makes a transition from 470 to 49er to sail with Kalle Torlen. Both crews should be leading the pack as some fresh new faces amongst the 14 entrants are set to sail.

Ireland’s Annalise Murphy will get her Rio 2016 ambitions underway in Miami after she came so close to glory at London 2012. The Irish Radial star had led the fleet early on at London 2012 but in a winner takes all Medal Race she was knocked out of the podium places and into fourth. After taking two months off from sailing Murphy is back and keen to get back into things, "I didn't really feel like I messed up in the races,” said the 22-year-old. “I did have a great experience and its definitely kind of driving me, it's the reason I'm training harder than I was before, for Rio."

Joining Murphy in the fleet will be World #8 Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR), who at 34 and with four Olympics behind her is starting the familiar road to an Olympic Games. “Not all heights are reached yet,” said the Belarusian. “I have a childhood dream and I very much want to reach it. I go to every regatta with the highest aims and for Miami I am aiming for the podium.”

Drozdovskaya’s participation at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012 has made a positive influence on sailing in Belarus and she wants that to continue, “People have learnt about sailing through my good results as all the previous thoughts were on rowing. I hope that children go sailing because I am often shown on TV.”

At just 24, Juan Ignacio Maegli (GUA) is one of the most seasoned sailors in the 71-boat Laser fleet having represented Guatemala at the last two Olympic Games. With a strong performance at London 2012 he will be one of the favourites in the young Miami fleet.

Among the Laser entrants are 2011 ISAF Youth Worlds podium finishers Zan Luka Zelko (SLO) and Giovanni Coccoluto (ITA). Both sailors have mixed it up in the senior ranks and will want to shine in the Miami sun.

A 30-boat Finn fleet will take to the water in Miami and will include three of the world’s top ten sailors in the ISAF Rankings. World #1 Brendan Casey (AUS) will come into the regatta as favourite having won gold at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne in December. Nonetheless with an experienced field that includes World #3 Zach Railey (USA), World #4 Caleb Paine (USA), Bruno Prada (BRA), Jorge Zarif (BRA) and Greg Douglas, the competition for podium places will be fierce.

London 2012 Olympic Games Men’s RS:X gold medallist Dorian van Rijsselberge (NED) will be the favourite to take gold in the fleet of 22 in Miami. Just six months ago the Dutchman blitzed the Men’s RS:X fleet on the Weymouth and Portland waters and looked unstoppable. After a short break van Rijsselberge is excited to get back into the swing of things, “Miami is a nice event to start the next four years. It has been in my calendar for years so it is good to come back and compete. My aim is to have a fun regatta with my friends after having not competed for half year.”

Olympic experience features heavily in the fleet with the likes of Ricardo Santos (BRA), Zac Plavsic (CAN), Ivan Pastor (ESP), David Mier y Teran (MEX) and Sebastian Wang-Hansen (NOR) all hopeful of closing the gap.

2012 Kona World Champion Adam Holm (SWE) and 2010 Youth Olympic Games silver medallist Michael Cheng (HKG), who both competed at the 2011 ISAF Youth Worlds, join the senior circuit and they will be aiming to impress.

Finland’s Tuuli Petaja recently won the Finnish athlete of the year award after her epic performance at London 2012 which saw her take a shock silver medal in the Women’s RS:X fleet. Petaja will swap the gown for the wet suit in Miami as the Olympic cycle gets going once again. Joining her in the fleet is Olympic gold medallist Marina Alabau (ESP), 2010 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Blanca Manchon (ESP) and Bryony Shaw (GBR). All will be capable of mixing it up at the top.

Fresh from their victories at the 470 North American Championships Austria’s Matthias Schmid and Florian Reichstaedter and Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar will compete in the Men’s and Women’s fleet at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami.

Both crews took a stranglehold of the competition over the weekend on the same waters so will be familiar with their surroundings.

Out to go for gold in the Men’s fleet are Canadian brothers Jacob and Graeme Chaplin-Saunders. The partnership got going in January 2011 with the ultimate goal of reaching Rio de Janeiro in 2016. London 2012 Olympian Stu McNay is set to team up with the experienced David Hughes which will make for a fantastic week of competition in the 11-boat fleet.

A strong Chinese contingent, including London 2012 Olympians Xiaoli Wang and Xufeng Huang, will test the Austrians in the Women’s 470. Brazil will also be well represented with Fernanda Olivera and Ana Luiz Barbachan continuing their partnership and Renata Decnop and Isabel Swan teaming up for the first time.

With strong entry lists in the Laser, Laser Radial, 49er, 49erFX and Finn, it will be an exciting week of competition that gets underway on Monday 28 January with the Medal Races bringing the regatta to a close on 2 February.

SOF 2012 - Actualizado

A comitiva portuguesa já está em Hyéres para mais uma semana olimpica francesa que começa já amanhã.
Já treinam há dois dias a dupla Álvaro Marinho e Miguel Nunes e na sua página já reportaram as duras condições que estão em Hyéres.

"Hoje foi mais um dia de vento aqui em Hyéres. Experimentámos uma vela nova que poderá funcionar bem com ventos médios / fortes mas temos dúvidas com pouco vento. Os treinos têm sido bastante produtivos e intensos. Está tudo a correr bem até agora excepto uma pequena lesão no meu ombro que me anda a chatear... Amanhã está previsto vento muito forte... antecipámos o treino para as 10 para ver se conseguimos navegar. Obrigado pelo vosso apoio. Continuem a acompanhar-nos!"  Fonte: Facebook

Podem acompanha-los aqui: http://www.facebook.com/AlvaroMarinhoMiguelNunesRumoALondres2012

E claro que também poderão acompanha-los pelo nosso blog :)

A esta equipa também já se juntou a outra dupla portuguesa de 470, António Matos Rosa e Ricardo Schedel, que chegaram anteontem para treinar antes do campeonato. A equipa esteve presente na I Douro Marina Match Series onde foi 2ª classificada.

"A equipa composta por António Matos Rosa, Filipa Barros, Bernardo Freitas, Fernando Kuo e Ricardo Schedel finalizou no 2º lugar depois de uma final muito disputada que finalizou com o resultado de 2-3, contra a equipa de Renato Conde. Ficámos contentes com o resultado tendo em conta que ainda estamos a dar os primeiros passos nesta modalidade. Estivemos a aprender do início ao fim do campeonato, tendo realizado ao todo 18 regatas. Parabéns e obrigado a organização pela iniciativa e pelo sucesso da mesma."  Fonte: Facebook

Gustavo Lima, velejador da classe laser chegou ontem e está motivado para subir de forma.

"Objectivo: Top 20 e melhorar resultado de Palma!! GL" Fonte: Facebook

Juntamente com o Gustavo, Rui Silveira também já está a treinar em Hyéres

Nos 49er, a equipa Jorge Lima e José Luis Costa vão estar presentes em Palma, enquanto Bernardo Freitas e Francisco Andrade vão directamente para o campeonato do mundo. (Obrigado Bernardo pela confirmação!)

100 Days To Go Until London 2012

Fonte: ISAF

London 2012 Olympic Games
Weymouth and Portland, Great Britain

Today marks just 100 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, and with entries into the Olympic Sailing Competition coming in thick and fast it is set to be a gripping fortnight of sailing at Weymouth and Portland.
To mark the 100 day countdown we have started our sailor profiling, whereby we will introduce you to some of the sailors competing at Weymouth.

Today, we catch up with Ben Ainslie (GBR) who is aiming to become the most successful Olympic sailor at London 2012 and every day in the build up to the Olympic Games we will upload videos of the sailors we've spoken to, so make sure you pay a visit to the ISAF Youtube Channel and the ISAF TV Player for the latest videos.

Our Twitter and Facebook countdown by sailing numbers is well underway after we started with 120, which happened to be the number of Danish sailors who have competed at Olympic Games.

We also continue to retrace our Olympic Sailing roots following sailing's first appearance at Paris 1900. We're currently at Rome 1960 and for all this and more head to the ISAF Olympic Sailing website here.

Evaluation @ Santander

Hoje foi o terceiro dia de testes, as tripulações ainda não rodaram todos os barcos mas já têm algo a dizer.
Fiquemos com a reportagem da ISAF hoje em Santander.

Fonte: ISAF

It was a good day of sailing on the third day of the 2016 Equipment Evaluations as the sailors had their first full day of sailing, allowing the panel to check out the equipment in various conditions.

Rainfall greeted the sailors during the morning session but with the wind blowing steady between 10-15 knots sailors got out onto the water to test the equipment.

The afternoon session saw a variable breeze from 5 up to 12 knots with some of the sailors racing each other.

And at the end of the day there were a lot of happy faces.

By the close of play tomorrow many of the sailors would have sailed every boat and have an understanding of how each boat works. As the week goes on there may be an opportunity to sail outside of the bay.

The Hobie team are currently facing the panel so we spoke to some of the sailors after sailing. Here’s what they had to say:

Evaluation sailor, Marcin Badzio said, “I think it [Santander] is a great spot for sailing, the bay is fantastic and the city is interesting and you can see some nice places. I’ve tested five boats so far and they are all very nice and interesting but we have to choose the best for mixed sailing so that’s the most important criteria.”

New Zealand crew Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech have travelled a long way to get to the evaluations but have looked comfortable on the skiffs sailed so far. Meech said, “So far it’s been good here but it’s been quite cold. It was good sailing today and great to get out on the water. Rio 2016 is a goal of ours and that is our aim. We definitely want to sail in the skiff.”

There will be a sailor briefing tomorrow at 09:30 with the panel still to decide what time sailing will commence.

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ISAF WC Day 9

Fonte: Perth 2011

Hoje foi o primeiro dia de regatas onde se destacou João Rodrigues pela sua excelente prestação em ambas as regatas, demonstrando a sua excelente qualidade e preparação.

NAME	POS	NOC	1	2	M	T	N
1	MASHICH Nimrod	Skipper	ISR	2	1		3	3
2	MYSZKA Piotr	Skipper	POL	1	2		3	3
3	RIJSSELBERGHE Dornian	Skipper	NED	1	3		4	4

7

RODRIGUES Joao

Skipper

POR

7

3

10

10

Em 49er, Bernardo Freitas e Francisco Andrade tiveram uma boa prestação mas na segunda regata tiveram um DNF que lhes custou o descarte no primeiro dia, estando neste momento na 37º posição, já Jorge Lima e José Luís Costa estão na 33ª posição também com uma boa prestação. Relembro que para estas classes ainda estamos em qualificação para as frotas de ouro e prata.

NAME	POS	NOC	1	2	3	M	T	N
1	WARRER Jonas HANSEN Soeren	Skipper Crew	DEN	1	4	5		10	10
2	BURLING Peter TUKE Blair	Skipper Crew	NZL	5	3	2		10	10
3	SCHADEWALDT Tobias BAUMANN Hannes	Skipper Crew	GER	4	7	1		12	12
4	KRUGER ANDERSEN Peter THORSELL Nicolai	Skipper Crew	DEN	2	6	4		12	12

33

LIMA Jorge COSTA Jose Luis

Skipper Crew

POR

25

17

14

56

56

37

FREITAS Bernardo ANDRADE Francisco

Skipper Crew

POR

17

35DNF

6

58

58

Nos Laser Standart contamos com a presença do jovem Rui Silveira que no primeiro dia consegui-o

Tom Slinsgby em entrevista aos media disse que está focado na vitória mas que isso não o irá desconcentrar durante o campeonato. Ele que hoje começou com um 1º e 6º segue o seu caminho para a vitória.

	NAME	POS	NOC	1	2	M	T	N
1	STALHEIM Jesper	Skipper	SWE	1	5		6	6
2	SLINSGBY Tom	Skipper	AUS	1	6		7	7
3	POROZYNSKI Karol	Skipper	POL	5	2		7	7

122

SILVEIRA Rui

Skipper

POR

40

37

77

77

No Star, Portugal conta com mais duas tripulações, Afonso Domingos e Frederico Pinheiro de Melo que obteve também excelentes resultados estando em 8º da geral com uma vitória e um 2º e Gustavo Lima e Rubrio Basilio que ocupam a 28º posição com um OCS.
A classe é muito competitiva e temos entre muitos Iain Percy e Andrew Simpson, Robert Sheidt e Bruno Prada, entre outras duplas com currículos invejáveis.

1	PERCY Iain SIMPSON Andrew	Skipper Crew	GBR	4	3	5	4		16	16
2	MENDELBLATT Mark FATIH Brian	Skipper Crew	USA	2	9	9	8		28	28
3	STANJEK Robert KLEEN Frithjof	Skipper Crew	GER	3	5	16	5		29	29

8

DOMINGOS Afonso MELO Frederico

Skipper Crew

POR

22

1

2

21

46

46

28

LIMA Gustavo BASILIO Rubrio

Skipper Crew

POR

23

23

42OCS

15

103

103

Nos 470 femininos Portugal não conta com a presença de nenhuma tripulação.
As holandesas são favoritas mas têm concorrência das japonesas entre outras fortes tripulações. Caso de Martine Grael e Isabel Swan.

1	KONDO Ai TABATA Wakako	Skipper Crew	JPN	3	1		4	4
2	WESTERHOF Lisa BERKHOUT Lobke	Skipper Crew	NED	4	2		6	6
3	CLARK Penny HUGHES Katrina	Skipper Crew	GBR	1	10		11	11

7

SOFFIATTI GRAEL Martine MARQUES SWAN Isabel

Skipper Crew

BRA

5

11

16

16