Despite not winning a race, Brazilian Torben Grael
and crewman Marcello Ferreira put together a very consistent
high scoring regatta to take the Star Spring European
Championship. Discarding a fifth place they scored 3,
2, 2, 3, 3 for 13 points to win from Michael Koh and Carsten
Witt of Germany and Xavier Rohart and Yannie Adde of France,
both with 18 points. Rohart and Adde won the fifth race
to come back into contention, with Koh and Witt second
and Greal third. In the final race Koh and Witt won but
Greal and Ferreiria finished in a safe third place while
Rohart and Adde fell away to sixth. .
Final Ranking (Top 10 after 6 race) :
1 Torben Grael/ Marcello
Ferreira (3-2-2-5-3-3)
2 Michael Koh / Carsten Witt (4-9-11-2-2-1)
3 Xavier Rohart / Yanic Adde (DNF-4-4-3-1-6)
4 Vincent Hoesch / Florian Feudt (2-5-9-4-7-4)
5 Pietro d'Ali / Paolo Busolo
(5-8-8-1-4-ocs)
6 Hans Spitzhauer / Wolfgang Brenner (1-22-5-17-9-2)
7 Roberto Bermudez de Castro / Gabriel de Llano (9-11-3-18-11-5)
8 Hubert Merkelbach / Dirk Meissner (6-3-10-13-23-7)
9 Philippe Presti / Jean
Philippe Saliou (8-7-13-7-6-11)
10 Leonidas Pelekanakis / Dimitris Boukis (1-22-5-17-14-3)
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