Star European Championship day 2 - Italians lead

8:20 PM Mon 5 Sep 2011 GMT

'Star European Championships 2011 day 1' David Branigan/Oceansport

After gales delayed the start of the Star European Championship (2nd-10th September) at Dun Laoghaire (Co. Dublin, Ireland) on Sunday, a lull allowed two races to be sailed today (Monday 5th September) that saw Italians Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini deliver two consistent results of a race win and a second place in the 27-boat fleet from 17 nations.

The Italians leaders were the 2006 European champions and overcame challenging post-frontal weather conditions that delivered 20-degree wind-shifts at times on an otherwise smooth race course off Seapoint on the south shore of Dublin Bay.

France's Guillaume Florent and Pascal Rambeau also had a consistent day with a second and third while the home fleet delivered a strong showing as Olympic veterans and contenders for London 2012 Peter O'Leary and David Burrows placed third and sixth to lie third overall on countback, ahead of France's Xavier Rohart Pierre and Alexis Ponsot at this early stage in the regatta.

A return to stormy conditions is expected for Tuesday with 40 knots forecast for the morning.

International Star Class European Championship 2011

Overall

Sailed: 2, Discards: 0, To count: 2, Entries: 27, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Nat	Sail No	Bow Number	Skipper	Crew	R1	R2	Total	Nett	Honour Award
1st	ITA	8266	12	Diego Negri	Enrico Voltolini	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3 gold chevons
2nd	FRA	8270	5	Guillaume Florent	Pascal Rambeau	2.0	3.0	5.0	5.0
3rd	IRL	8418	10	Peter O'Leary	David Burrows	3.0	6.0	9.0	9.0	Silver Star
4th	FRA	8237	6	Xavier Rohart	Pierre Alexis Ponsot	4.0	5.0	9.0	9.0	Gold Star
5th	CAN	8361	1	Richard Clarke	Tyler Bjorn	9.0	1.0	10.0	10.0	Silver Star
6th	POR	8309	15	Afonso Domingos	Frederico Melo	6.0	4.0	10.0	10.0
7th	POL	8417	14	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	Dominik Zycki	5.0	8.0	13.0	13.0	Gold Star
8th	GBR	8371	27	Iain Percy	Andrew Simpson	8.0	7.0	15.0	15.0	Gold Medal
9th	ESP	8209	19	Fernando Echavarri	Fernando Rodriguez Rivero	7.0	14.0	21.0	21.0	Silver Star
10th	POR	8276	16	Gustavo Roxo Lima	Rubrio Basilio	16.0	9.0	25.0	25.0
11th	USA	8434	30	George Szabo	Mark Strube	10.0	15.0	25.0	25.0	Gold Star
12th	IRL	8385	11	Maxwell Treacy	Anthony Shanks	15.0	11.0	26.0	26.0
13th	UKR	8240	23	Arthur Anosov	Vitalii Kushnir	18.0	10.0	28.0	28.0
14th	NOR	8317	13	Eivind Melleby	Petter Morland Pedersen	13.0	17.0	30.0	30.0
15th	USA	8423	31	Andrew Campbell	Ian Coleman	14.0	16.0	30.0	30.0
16th	GBR	8333	29	John Gimson	Stephen Milne	11.0	20.0	31.0	31.0
17th	GER	8414	8	Johannes Polgar	Markus Koy	19.0	12.0	31.0	31.0	Silver Star
18th	CRO	7287	2	Mate Arapov	Ante Sitic	20.0	13.0	33.0	33.0
19th	GER	8426	7	Alexander Schlonski	Matthias Bohn	17.0	19.0	36.0	36.0
20th	UKR	8247	26	Vasyl Gureyev	Volodymyr Korotkov	12.0	28.0 DNC	40.0	40.0	2 Silver Chevrons
21st	UKR	8205	24	Denis Khashina	Dmitriy Mechetin	24.0	18.0	42.0	42.0
22nd	GBR	8396	28	Ante Razmilovic	Brian Hammersley	22.0	21.0	43.0	43.0
23rd	SUI	7829	22	Michel Niklaus	Vincent Hagin	21.0	22.0	43.0	43.0
24th	RUS	8359	17	Andrey Berezhnoy	Sergey Masalov	23.0	23.0	46.0	46.0
25th	SUI	7252	21	Jean-Pascal Chatagny	Patrick Ducommun	25.0	24.0	49.0	49.0
26th	HUN	8386	9	Tibor Tenke	Miklos Bezereti	26.0	28.0 DNF	54.0	54.0	2 Silver Chevrons
27th	SWE	8351	20	Tom Loefstedt	Hakan Lundgren	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	56.0	56.0