Thursday 9 de September de 2010 - 11:06h
21/03/2010
Javier Hernandez, Laser Sailor, absolute winner of 2010 edition of Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week, Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona.
Onan Barreiros/Aaron Sarmiento, and Alexa Bezel/Anne Sophie Thilo achieved the final victory on 470 class.
Barcelona.- Today we’ve seen the last day of racing in Barcelona waters. A strange local phenomena brought thick mist that accompanied sailors on their last two races. No visibility forced the competitors to sharpen their feelings.
The event started on Tuesday and a total of twelve races were completed in perfect wind conditions of sea breeze and good temperatures. Laser class sailor, Javier Hernandez from RCN Tenerife (Caja Canarias-UPS La Colina-Plátano de Canarias) has been elected as the final absolute winner of the race, winning 11 of the 12 scheduled races and being rewarded with a money prize. Onan Barreiros/Aaron Sarmiento from RCN Gran Canaria (Toyota Canarias) and Alexa Bezel and Anne-Sophie Thilo from (SVT YCH/CNPulli) were the respective winners on the 470 class .
This Laser Class sailor ,Javier Hernandez, has showed the sailing world that he is completely recovered from an illness that prevented him to compete on Miami OCR. He started a good preparation in February, under the direction of his coach Airam Rodríguez, and nowadays he is showing his potential to fight for every race on this 2010 season. Second position went to Pablo Guitian from CN El Cano, and third to Joaquin Blanco from RCN Gran Canaria. Both of them are Spanish young sailors with a encouraging career on their front, that withstand successfully the attacks of more experienced sailors like the recent Spanish title champion, Angelo Tabernero representing CN L’Hospitalet de Vandellós – Chocolat Factory.
An interesting battle has been seen on the 470 fleet. The Olympic diploma sailors, Onan Barreiros/Aaron Sarmiento obtained their recompense after 12 races. The canary pair were winners of the 470 M World Cup and are currently on 4th position in the ISAF World Rankings. Their season started with some delay due to a severe injury on Aaron’s neck but now short future looks again brilliant for them. Last day of racing the podium was completed in favor of an experienced Austrian crew, Matthias Schmid/Florian Reichstaedter currently on 5th position on the ISAF ranking and the new Argentinean project of Lucas Calabrase/Juan de la Fuente. The Austrian team, that ended the event in 3rd position, had a perfect last day of racing taking high risks on their tactics with an unstable breeze and scored a 2nd and a bullet. The success of one alpine team took out from the medal positions their Swiss neighbors Matias Buhler/Felix Steiger . The Swiss pair has set their training base in Barcelona from autumn 2009. The overall 2nd position was for Lucas Calabrese/Juan de la Fuente. Young talent, in that case in hands of the skipper, is combined with the vast knowledge of the 470 class of the Olympic medalist crew Juan de la Fuente.
No chance since the beginning for the other crews in the 470 Women class. The Swiss young team of Alexa Bezel/Anne Sophie Thilo won all the races with authority. Tara Pacheco/Berta Betanzos crew, current world junior 470 champions, announced on the last minute that they were not participating due to an injury on Berta’s knee. We wish them all the best on a quick recovery.
Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week has been rescued after two years of no racing by a new and young organizing team, that joined the effort of two nautical clubs: Real Club Nautico de Barcelona and Reial Club Marítim de Barcelona and two federations: Federació Catalana de Vela and Real Federación Española de Vela. With the horizon of 2012 470 World Championships in the future, the organizers are working hard to design and built a new race focused on innovating. Barcelona International Sailing Center will probably be the future base of this event. For more information, please visit www.bosw.org
OVERALL FINAL RESULTS
Laser Standard
1 Javier Hernández (ESP), 1-1-1-1-1-1-(2)-1-1-1-1(1), 10 p
2 Pablo Guitian (ESP), 2-2-3-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-3-(4)-2-(5), 24 p
3 Joaquín Blanco (ESP), (4)-(5)-4-4-3-3-1-2-2-3-3-2, 27 p
4 Angelo Tabernero (ESP), 3-4-2-3-4-5-(OCS)-(OCS)-6-5-6-6, 44 p
5 Jorge Jover (ESP), 5-6-5-6-6-4-4-6-(7)-2-(8)-4, 48 p
470 Men
1 Onán Barreiros/Aaron Sarmiento (ESP), 5-6-1-1-1-4-3-2-5-1-(10)-(7), 29 p
2 Matthias Schmid/Florian Reichstaedter (AUT), 9-1-6-5-(9)-(OCS)-8-3-2-3-2-1, 40 p
3 Lucas Calabrese/Juan de la Fuente (ARG), 8-7-7-4-2-3-5-(10)-3-2-3-(10), 44 p
4 Matías Bühler/Felix Steiger (SUI), (11)-3-3-2-3-1-2-9-(OCS)-10-8-5, 46 p
5 Pablo Santurde/Alejandro Ramos (ESP), 1-(9)-9-3-8-5-7-8-1-4, 46 p
470 Women
1 Alexa Bezel/Anne-Sohie Thilo (SUI), 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-(BDF)-1-1-1-(1), 10 p
2 Águeda Suria/Sofía Basterra (ESP), 2-2-(DNC)-2-2-(DNC)-2-1-2-2-DNC-DNC, 23 p
3 Carlota Massana/Ana Lobo (ESP), 3-(DNF)-DNC-3-DNC-DNC-3-(DNC)-3-(DNF)-DNC-DNC, 32 p
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Teresa Lara (ISAF), Javier Hernández, absolute winner, Gerard Esteva, president of the FCV
Javier Hernandez Bull, absolute winner of Barcelona Olympic Sailing Week 20101 to 5 about 14
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