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21st WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH
Mondello – 15th –21st MAY 2006
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Windsurf: Mistral class
A BATTLE FOR THE EUROPEAN CUP TITLE BETWEEN CASAGRANDE AND ALBERTI
ISRAEL IN SECOND PLACE BEHIND HONG KONG IN THE NATION CUP
The European Championships seem to be undertaking the characteristics of
quite a muscular event, held in Mondello, for the 45 athletes taking
place in the third day of races with their mistral one design’s. The
light wind in these past days, has in fact given an advantage to those
athletes with better athletic conditions than others, especially at the
start of the race, the athletes from Hong Kong seem to be the best
prepared from this point of view.
Bruce Kendall from New Zealand is the Hong Kong team’s trainer, clearly
full of advice for his athletes, put them all in a row at the winning
post in the two races held today, with a wind blowing at 5-6 knots.
Behind them the battle begins for the European Title with Casagrande,
seventh place in the overall results, he’s still in the lead after the
third day of the races, taking a thirteenth place and a sixth place
today. Today the first retirements went into action, which was useful
for Alessandro Alberti, second place on the continental podium. After
the first unlucky race on Monday, the athlete from Palermo in the last
three races has came in sixth two times after the firing squad from Hong
Kong and eleventh in the last race, giving him second place amongst the
European group, he was closely watched by the Israeli Shlomi Ayubi, who
had a good day with two seventh places that make him the best among the
European Youth category. In the overall ranking there has been a change
between King Yin Chang and Kwok Fai Cheng, with Ho Chi Ho who goes down
to third place.
In the women’s category the positions have unchanged with the Chinese
girl Chan Wai Kei in front of the Greek Davrou and the Israeli
Davidovich. There is only point of difference between Maria Papadaki and
Valentina Failla from Palermo, both after the third position in the
Europeans. In the master’s category Paco Wirz leads and is in sixteenth
place in the overall results, he manages to keep his place and distance
from Giuseppe Castelli.
The third day of the Nation Cup is lead by Hong Kong, there is only a
change in the second position which is taken now by Israel after a
positive day by Ayubi overtake Greece.
In plotting the third place of the Greeks is Italy pushed by Casagrande
and Alberti, bringing it down to six points difference between the two.
Results
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