2012 European Championship

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Polish Crew Leading After Race One:
Day One: Strong wind (20 knots) for the first race of the Star European Championship. Many retirements, due to the particular conditions of the sea. A strong East wind, around 20 knots, has characterized Race one of the Star European Championship / Casino Cup run today at Sanremo, Italy. After a particularly difficult race, with some retirements, the first place of the standings is occupied by Poland’s (Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki. Second place is the Germans, Johannes Polgar and Markus Koy and third place the Swedes Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen.

Among the many sailors that are taking part in the Star European Championship, Kusznierewicz / Zycki, and Loof / Salminen, have been already qualified for the next Olympic Games. Besides them, others qualified for London 2012 are the Germans Robert Stanjek and Frithjof Kleen (fourth place for them today), the Norwegians Sigurd Eivind Melleby and Petter Morland Pedersen (fifth place today) and the Portuguese Alfonso Domingos and Federico Melo (tenth). Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini, European Champions in 2011, are now in sixth place.

The opening ceremony of the Championship took place yesterday at Porto Vesco, with the young pupils of the Sanremo Sailing School in a primary role when raising the flags of the nineteen countries which are taking part in the Championship. The ceremony was particularly moving and involved the whole fleet that, despite the rain, attended the ceremony from the quay.

Tonight all competitors will be guests of the Sanremo Royal Hotel for the cocktail party.

Day Two, Races Two and Three:
Two races were run today for the Star European Championship / Casino Cup, with wind around eight knots. Poland’s Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki, Star World champions in 2008, kept the lead they have had the first race on Sunday.

In race two and three they finished third and second, now having a total of six points, exactly half of the points of the second place team, Swedes Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen. Third place, in the overall standings, are Norwegians Sigurd Melleby Eivind and Morland Pedersen Petter, improving their ranking from Sunday’s standings. In fourth place are the Portuguese Alfonso Domingos and Federico Melo, who won race three, while Italians Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini moved up and are now fifth.

Common opinion of almost all sailors taking part in the Star European Championship is that races are being run in extremely difficult and various conditions of sea and winds and that every minimal mistake can cause delays and gaps that are hard to overcome. Clear proof of the risk is what happened to Germans Robert Stanjek and Frithjof Kleen who, despite their victory in race two, moved down to seventh place, due to a poor placing in race three.

Day three was spent ashore, by the crews taking part in the Star European Championship

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ENTRY DEADLINE: 27 March 2012