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Bressani Tightens His Grip
Tallinn, Estonia: There was relief all round on the third day of the 2010 Marinepool Melges 24 World Championship when the Baltic waters off Tallin, Estonia finally delivered wind conditions worthy of this World Championship. Breezes quickly built from eight knots this morning up to eighteen knots at times this afternoon, enabling the seventy-nine-boat fleet to complete three exciting races. Lorenzo Bressani on Uka Uka Racing continues to lead the Championship after another stellar day which saw him follow a sixth in the first race of the day with a first and a second in the next two races. Bressani now holds a fifteen-point lead over fellow Italian Alberto Bolzan on Hurricane Murphy & Nye, whose ten, three, three combination today moves him up into second place overall. Making the biggest leap up the leaderboard was Melges 24 veteran Kristian Nergaard, who won the first race of the day in some style before chalking up a seventh and a fifth in the subsequent races to rocket from eighth at the beginning of the day up to third overall tonight. - Fiona Brown
Provisional Overall Top Ten After Five Races
1. ITA787 - UKA UKA RAcing - Lorenzo Bressani - 12 pts
2. ITA727 - Hurricane - Murphy & Nye - Alberto Bolzan - 27 pts
3. NOR400 - Baghdad - Kristian Nergaard - 36 pts
4. NOR751 - Storm Capital Sail Racing Team - 42 pts
5. ITA807 - Gullisara - Carlo Fracassoli - 44 pts
6. SUI782 - Blu Moon - Flavio Favini - 49 pts
7. JPN797 - ThreeBond - Tetsuya Matsunaga - 67 pts
8. ITA783 - Audi - Riccardo Simoneschi - 73 pts
9. ITA766 - Arteria 24ever - Michael Hestebaek - 79 pts
10. FRA639 - Euro-Voiles - Christophe Barrue - 92 pts
Provisional Corinthian Top Five After Two Races
1. NOR751 - Storm Capital Sail Racing Team - 13 pts
2. EST790 - Lenny - Tonu Toniste - 33 pts
3. EST761 - Rock City - Tiit Vihul - 42 pts
4. AUT681 - Schoenherr - Franz Urlesberger - 43 pts
5. ITA780 - La Besa - Marco Schirato - 47 pts.
Full results: www.worlds2010.fi/results/
