Germany win Gold medal in Sonars at Paralympics
SONAR FLEET OVERALL As of 13 SEP 2008 AFTER 11 RACES
After leading the Sonar, three man keelboat, thoughout the Paralympic Regatta, France have missed taking the Gold Medal by 1pt from the German crew. Australia has taken the Bronze.
The Silver and Bronze medals were decided on a countback after France and Australia were tied on 36 points with three wins earlier in the series salvaging at least some Gallic pride.
None of the top three overall had an outstanding final day with placings of between fifth and seventh being recorded, with the French scoring DNF in the final race after gear failure.
The final two races in the 11 race series were won by Israel and Great Britain respectively who sailed well in the windiest day of the regatta in breezes from 11-13kts Place Name Pos NPC Code Points per Race Total Pts Net Pts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 KROKER Jens S GER 5 6 3 1 4 (11) 5 2 (9) 4 5 PREM Robert C1 MAINKA Siegmund C2 55 35 2 JOURDREN Bruno LARHANT Herve S C1 FRA 4 1 1 2 7 1 (10) 5 8 7 (15) DNF VIMONT-VICARY Nicolas C2 61 36 3 HARRISON Colin S AUS 8 4 2 3 3 3 1 (10) (15) 5 7 BOADEN Russell C1 OCS MARTIN Graeme C2 61 36 4 STORDAHL Jostein S NOR 6 2 5 8 1 (15) (9) 1 5 3 6 KRISTIANSEN Per Eugen C1 OCS WANG-HANSEN Aleksander C2 61 37 5 COHEN Dror S ISR 3 (15) 4 (15) 2 6 6 12 1 1 3 EFRATI Arnon C1 DSQ DSQ VEXLER Benny C2 68 38 6 ROBERTSON John THOMAS Stephen STODEL Hannah S C1 C2 GBR (9) 3 6 (9) 5 7 8 6 3 2 1 59 41 7 CHRISTOFOROU Vasileios S GRE 2 5 7 5 (8) 2 4 (9) 2 6 8 ALEXAS Theodoros C1 PATERAKIS Nikolaos C2 58 41 8 DOERR Rick S USA 1 9 10 6 (11) 10 2 3 4 (11) 2 ANGLE Tim C1 DONOHUE Bill C2 69 47 9 Mc CARTHY Paul S IRL 7 10 (12) (12) 10 5 3 4 10 12 11 RYAN Paul C1 WHEALEY Richard Martin C2 96 72 10 LI Ke S CHN 11 7 8 4 12 8 7 (13) (13) 9 9 WANG Tao C1 XU Jingkun C2 101 75 11 KELLY Ken TERLSON Don S C1 CAN 10 11 (14) 10 9 4 (14) 8 11 10 13 SHAW Marc C2 114 86 12 COLLINETTI Marco S ITA (14) 13 13 7 6 9 12 11 6 (14) 10 VENTURINI Massimo C1 SQUIZZATO Antonio C2 115 87
by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World 
swansea /newcastle, NSW
