Laser Radial Youth Worlds,  Fortaleza, Brazil

Laser Radial Youth Worlds 10 - 17 December 2005

Report:  Day 1

Power Sailing

In the opening races of the Laser Radial Youth World Championship in Fortaleza, Brasil the older sailors dominated the front of the fleets in 20 knot winds and big seas. With the benefit of a warm up in the previous weeks Men's Laser Radial Championship Blair McLay NZL and Federico Melo POR took line honours in both races in each of the two fleets. Sailing in the same fleet as Melo, Brasilian Daniel Jacobsson fought his way back into second place in both races with Anotnis Tzortis doing the same in third.

In McLay's fleet the results were a lot more mixed with the minor places filled with different names in each race which has given a 4 way tie for fifth place overall.

The 103 competitors from 27 countries will sail an eight race four day qualifier series before being split into gold and silver fleets for a further 4 races on the final two days.

Overall results after two races without discard:

1 Frederico Melo, POR, Male, 18Y, 2,0 pts
1 Blair McLay, NZL, Male, 18Y, 2,0 pts
3 Daniel Jakobsson, BRA, Male, 18Y, 4,0 pts
4 Antonios Tzortzis, GRE, Male, 18Y, 6,0 pts
5 Buiatti Fagalde Federico, ARG, Male, 18Y pts
6 Ivan Taritas, CRO, Male, 18Y, 9,0 pts
7 Pierre Angelo Collura, FIN, Male, 16Y, 9,0 pts
8 Fred Strammer, USA, Male, 17Y, 9,0 pts
9 Igor Lisovenko, RUS, Male, 17Y, 10,0 pts
10 Jorge Jover Garcia, ESP, Male, 18Y, 10,0 pts

Full results: www.laserinternational.org

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