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Berlin day 1

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Berlin day 1
Photo (c) Stephan ZimmermannThe drawings for the two round robin groups on Thursday, which resulted in both German helmsmen not competing until the afternoon of the first match day, the starting shot was fired punctually at 11.00 o’clock. Accordingly, Staffan Lindberg (Finland), Torvar Mirsky (Australia), Ian Ainslie (South Africa), Jesper Radich (Denmark), Rasmus Viltoft (Denmark) and Sebatien Destremeau (France) matched one another, competing for places one, two and three. A ranking to determine who will move into round robin 3. Weather conditions were as followed: the typical cold, grey November day with a continuous drizzle at wind strength 2Bft. Both America’s Cup participants, Ainslie of Team Shosholoza (south Africa) and Radich, sailing for Desafio (Spain), satisfied their role of favourites from the start. After four Flights and four wins, both are tied for first place. Thus the winner of this group will be determined following their encounter on match day two, tomorrow. Round robin two commenced, after a short delay, with the two German helmsmen Markus Wieser and Andreas Willim, as well as the Swede Björn Hansen, the Dane Michael Haestbaek, the Swiss Eric Monnin and the Frenchman Damien Iehl ready to compete. Unfortunately the wind and weather were not consistent enough to complete the essential four matches, and thus have been postponed to tomorrow. Whilst Markus Wieser, the German favourite, commenced this first match day with a range of results, an initial victory against Andreas Willim, his fellow countryman, followed by a lost match against the Swiss Eric Monnin, his fellow competitor Iehl finished the day with a double victory.Consequently as Rasmus lacked compassion for today’s competitors, the race committee was forced to postpone the missing two races to tomorrow morning. Full Story »

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