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21st WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH
Mondello – 15th –21st MAY 2006
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Windsurf: Mistral Class - RS:X
ITALY TAKES OVER ISRAEL AND CLOSES THE NATION CUP IN SECOND PLACE.
VICTORIES FOR CASAGRANDE WITH A MISTRAL AND HEIDEGGER ON THE RS:X IN THE
SICILY GRAND PRIX. KWOK FAI CHENG OVERALL WINNER OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL
ON THE BEACH.
The Sicily Grand Prix closed today after two races for the Mistral
boards and three for the RS:X boards, the Sicily Grand Prix is the race
that closes the World Festival on the Beach program. The athletes who
took place in this race were divided in two and raced with a wind of
around 5 metres coming from a eastern direction.
In the One Design race Marco Casagrande and Alessandro Alberti had good
races who were racing behind the Hong Kong team, the boys came in sixth
and eighth in the final results making them the first two Italians and
Europeans. Thanks to these results and that of Valentina Failla, who was
the third woman in the Sicily Grand Prix and in the overall results,
Italy came in second place taking over Israel and coming in behind Hong
Kong in the Nation Cup.
Italy came in second place also last year with Belli dell’Isca –
Baffetti who came in behind France with its world champion Huguet.
Korea came in third place knocking Israel down to fourth place.
The winner of the Sicily Grand Prix on the Mistral board was Kwok Fai
Cheng winning all three races held. After taking first place in the
European Championships, he took the best overall athlete in the Sicily
Grand Prix beating his team mate King Yan Chan, and following him was
still the Hong Kong team,with Kwok Po Ma.
The last race in the program was won by the Chinese girl Wai Kei Chan,
the queen of the overall results, followed by the Korean girl Ji Jung
Hwa and the Italian Valentina Failla.
In the RS:X race held today the victory went to Fabian Heidegger from
Caldaro, he won three out of four races. In second place was Dario
Baffetti who came in before Andrea Beverino. In the women’s category on
the new Olympic table the young athlete from Marsala Laura Linares was
first followed by Martina Fisco.
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