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Rolex Miami OCR
Miami, Florida, USA: It was "one race, one chance" today at US SAILING's 2010 Rolex Miami OCR, the second of seven stops of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Sailing World Cup 2009-2010. After gold, silver and bronze medalists were determined yesterday in three Paralympic classes, it was now the turn for sailors in ten Olympic classes to claim podium positions, but the plot came with a twist. Just as will happen at the Olympics in 2012, only the top-ten finishers--determined after five days of fleet racing--earned the right to sail in today's single medal race for each class, except for in Women's Match Racing. In that event, which makes its Olympic debut in 2012, sailors competed in finals and petit-finals to determine medalists.
The Rolex Miami OCR, which this year hosted 448 teams (633 athletes) from 45 nations, is one of the world's most competitive regattas for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls. As such, each nation's medal tally is closely watched; USA had the most medals with 10, followed by Great Britain with six, France with five and Spain with four.
In the Women's Match Racing finals, Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.), Molly Vandemoer (Redwood City, Calif.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) defeated Lucy MacGregor's GBR team in a highly charged, best-of-five series. Team MacGregor hadn't lost a race since the first round until today's race three against Tunnicliffe. Tunnicliffe went on to win the fourth race s well, tying up the score 2-2, so the tie-breaker became a do-or-die match for the gold. After a tough start, Tunnicliffe trailed MacGregor on the first beat, but MacGregor hit some waves and slowed down and Tunnicliffe caught up by the bottom mark. On the downwind leg, MacGregor jibed early, and Tunnicliffe extended on port and jibed, catching the waves. From that point on, Tunnicliffe defended the starboard layline and narrowly edged out MacGregor by half a boat length.
Thanks to a substantial 35-point lead in the Laser Radial, Paige Railey (Clearwater, Fla.) wrapped up the gold medal a day early in the 57-boat fleet, but today she added another bullet to her collection. Following in second was Spain's Alicia Cebrian who sailed a consistently strong event, and the bronze medal went to GBR's Alison Young. Railey's strengths this week were her boat speed and being able to see the pressures and realizing the phase of the shift a few seconds ahead of her competition. By the end of the regatta, she had found her groove and won several races comfortably.
Norway's Eivind Meklleby and Petter Morland won a gold medal in the Star class in a come-from-behind victory over USA's Andy Horton (S. Burlington, Vermont) and James Lyne (Granville, Vt.), who led the 24-boat fleet throughout the regatta.
In RS:X Men's (windsurfing), The Netherlands' defending champion Dorian Rijsselberghe watched Spain's Ivan Pastor most closely in his play to win the gold. The light 7-9 knot breezes were typical of "pumping conditions" that have prevailed here for the windsurfers and continually tested their physical strength. "In these conditions you have a maximum heart rate of 4-5 times normal, and you have to get 'over the hump,' as we say and get up on a plane. Today there was not a lot of wind, but just enough to have a nice race." Pastor took the silver, while France's Julien Bontemps won the bronze.
In RS:X Women's , the battle between Spanish teammates Marina Alabau, the defending champion, and Blanca Manchon, yesterday's leader, wound up with Alabau snatching gold and Manchon settling for silver.
Star (26 boats) - 11 races
1. Eivind Melleby/Petter Morland Pederson, NOR, 36
2. Andy Horton/James Lyne, USA, 37
3. Mark Mendelblatt/John Von Schwarz, USA, 55
49er (36 boats) - 16 races
1. Manu Dyen/Stephane Christidis, FRA, 93
2. Nico LM Delle Karth/Nikolaus Leopold Resch, AUT, 110
3. Simon Karstoft/Jonathon Bay, DEN, 118
Laser Radial (57 boats) - 11 races
1. Paige Railey, USA, 35
2. Alicia Cebrian, ESP, 74
3. Alison Young, GBR, 112
Laser (104 boats)-11 races
1. Nick Thompson, GBR, 34
2. Jean-Baptiste Bernaz, FRA, 84
3. Kyle Rogachenko, GBR, 86
470 Men (34 boats) - 11 races
1. Anton Dahlberg/Sebastian A-stling, SWE, 63
2. Mathew Belcher/Malcolm Page, AUS, 67
3. Gideon Kliger/Eran Sela, ISR, 70
470 Women (26 boats) - 11 races
1. Amanda Clark/Sarah Chin, USA, 44
2. Ingrid Petitjean/Nadege Douroux, FRA, 47
3. Henriette Koch/Lene Sommer, DEN, 50
Finn (37 boats) - 11 races
1. Edward Wright, GBR, 28
2. Giles Scott, GBR, 48
3. Gasper Vincec, SLO, 52
Elliott 6m (24 boats)
1. Anna Tunnicliffe/Molly Vandemoer/Debbie Capozzi, USA
2. Lucy Macgregor/Annie Lush/Ally Martin, GBR
3. Claire Leroy/Marie Riou/Elodie Bertrand, FRA
RS:X Women (25 boats) - 9 races
1. Marina Alabau, ESP, 20
2. Blanca Manchon, ESP, 21
3. Laura Linares, ITA, 26
RS:X Men (37 boats) - 9 races
1. Dorian Rijsselberghe, NED, 29
2. Ivan Pastor, ESP, 33
3. Julien Bontemps, FRA, 45
2.4mR (28 boats) - 10 races
Paul Tingley, CAN, 29
Thierry Schmitter, NED, 32
John Ruf, USA, 34
Sonar (9 boats) - 10 races
1. Aleksander Wang-Hansen/Per Eugen Kristiansen/Marie Solberg, NOR, 16
2. John Robertson/Hannah Stodel/Steve Thomas, GBR, 24
3. Rick Doerr/Brad Kendall/Hugh Freund, USA, 28
SKUD-18 (7 boats)-10 races
1. Scott Whitman/Julia Dorsett, USA, 14
2. Jennifer French/Jean-Paul Creignou, USA, 21
3. John McRoberts/Brenda Hopkin, CAN, 26
Complete results on http://rmocr.ussailing.org
