Star European Championship - Italian victory

8:28 AM Sat 10 Sep 2011 GMT

Another first place in the penultimate race for Italians Diego Negri and Enrico Voltolini sealed their series-long domination and overall victory at the Star European Championship at Dun Laoghaire on Friday. Light and shifty conditions followed by a sea breeze completed the regatta that delivered a full range of conditions for the 27-boat fleet from 18 nations.

Negri and Voltolini kept their form for a fourth race win and typically enjoyed a comfortable lead at the finish of race seven. For the crews chasing the runner-up podium positions, the breeze proved as challenging as it has been all week, this time dying to a near calm on the final run before filling gently on the left hand-side side of the course catching the unwary, notably Guillaume Florent and Pascal Rambeau who had been vying with the Italian leaders for first place.

A wait followed for the eighth and final race of the week but only after a long wait for the sea breeze to build and settle. This took the fleet away from the now familiar area off Dun Laoghaire's West Pier and southwards towards this historic Dalkey Island side of Dublin Bay. After starting in ideal conditions of 18 knots, halfway through the race the breeze died completely to be followed by a 90-degree wind-shift that saw 2008 World Champion Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Dominik Zycki emerge with a substantial lead on the water and, having led from the outset were confirmed as second overall runners-up. Negri and Voltolini had already retired as their position was no better than their already discarded eighth in race six and were busy packing their boat as the final ended.

Irish hopes of a podium result on home waters were denied to London 2012 Olympic contenders Peter O'Leary and David Burrows who placed fourth in the last race but a ninth earlier in the day left them fourth overall as Canada's Richard Clarke and Tyler Bjorn took third place.

Star European Championship 2011 at Royal St. George YC, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

International Star Class European Championship 2011

Overall

Sailed: 8, Discards: 1, To count: 7, Entries: 27, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Nat	Sail No	Bow Number	Skipper	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	Total	Nett
1st	ITA	8266	12	Diego Negri	Enrico Voltolini	1.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	3.0	8.0	1.0	(28.0 DNF)	45.0	17.0
2nd	POL	8417	14	Mateusz Kusznierewicz	Dominik Zycki	5.0	8.0	2.0	5.0	1.0	(9.0)	3.0	1.0	34.0	25.0
3rd	CAN	8361	1	Richard Clarke	Tyler Bjorn	9.0	1.0	5.0	2.0	13.0	7.0	2.0	(14.0)	53.0	39.0
4th	IRL	8418	10	Peter O'Leary	David Burrows	3.0	6.0	3.0	6.0	12.0	(13.0)	9.0	4.0	56.0	43.0
5th	NOR	8317	13	Eivind Melleby	Petter Morland Pedersen	13.0	(17.0)	7.0	10.0	6.0	3.0	7.0	2.0	65.0	48.0
6th	POR	8309	15	Afonso Domingos	Frederico Melo	6.0	4.0	10.0	8.0	14.0	5.0	4.0	(28.0 DNF)	79.0	51.0
7th	GER	8414	8	Johannes Polgar	Markus Koy	(19.0)	12.0	4.0	12.0	9.0	1.0	8.0	6.0	71.0	52.0
8th	FRA	8270	5	Guillaume Florent	Pascal Rambeau	2.0	3.0	6.0	4.0	11.0	(19.0)	17.0	13.0	75.0	56.0
9th	USA	8423	31	Andrew Campbell	Ian Coleman	14.0	16.0	13.0	13.0	4.0	(17.0)	5.0	5.0	87.0	70.0
10th	USA	8434	30	George Szabo	Mark Strube	10.0	15.0	(28.0 DNF)	7.0	18.0	2.0	11.0	10.0	101.0	73.0
11th	ESP	8209	19	Fernando Echavarri	Fernando Rodriguez Rivero	7.0	14.0	9.0	3.0	(21.0)	20.0	16.0	8.0	98.0	77.0
12th	FRA	8237	6	Xavier Rohart	Pierre Alexis Ponsot	4.0	5.0	(28.0 DNF)	14.0	8.0	23.0	14.0	9.0	105.0	77.0
13th	POR	8276	16	Gustavo Roxo Lima	Rubrio Basilio	16.0	9.0	12.0	16.0	7.0	12.0	(21.0)	7.0	100.0	79.0
14th	CRO	7287	2	Mate Arapov	Ante Sitic	(20.0)	13.0	8.0	18.0	16.0	4.0	6.0	16.0	101.0	81.0
15th	UKR	8240	23	Arthur Anosov	Vitalii Kushnir	18.0	10.0	11.0	11.0	(19.0)	6.0	10.0	17.0	102.0	83.0
16th	GBR	8333	29	John Gimson	Stephen Milne	11.0	20.0	14.0	17.0	2.0	(28.0 RAF)	18.0	12.0	122.0	94.0
17th	GER	8426	7	Alexander Schlonski	Matthias Bohn	17.0	19.0	(28.0 DNF)	9.0	5.0	11.0	15.0	19.0	123.0	95.0
18th	IRL	8385	11	Maxwell Treacy	Anthony Shanks	15.0	11.0	(28.0 DNF)	15.0	10.0	22.0	13.0	11.0	125.0	97.0
19th	UKR	8205	24	Denis Khashina	Dmitriy Mechetin	(24.0)	18.0	17.0	22.0	20.0	21.0	23.0	3.0	148.0	124.0
20th	UKR	8247	26	Vasyl Gureyev	Volodymyr Korotkov	12.0	(28.0 DNC)	28.0 DNC	19.0	15.0	10.0	22.0	20.0	154.0	126.0
21st	SWE	8351	20	Tom Loefstedt	Hakan Lundgren	(28.0 DNC)	28.0 DNC	16.0	21.0	17.0	15.0	12.0	21.0	158.0	130.0
22nd	GBR	8396	28	Ante Razmilovic	Brian Hammersley	22.0	21.0	15.0	20.0	23.0	14.0	(24.0)	15.0	154.0	130.0
23rd	SUI	7829	22	Michel Niklaus	Vincent Hagin	21.0	22.0	(28.0 DNF)	24.0	24.0	16.0	19.0	22.0	176.0	148.0
24th	SUI	8075	21	Jean-Pascal Chatagny	Patrick Ducommun	25.0	24.0	(28.0 OCS)	23.0	22.0	18.0	20.0	18.0	178.0	150.0
25th	GBR	8371	27	Iain Percy	Andrew Simpson	8.0	7.0	(28.0 DNC)	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	183.0	155.0
26th	RUS	8359	17	Andrey Berezhnoy	Sergey Masalov	23.0	23.0	(28.0 DNF)	25.0	28.0 DNE	24.0	25.0	28.0 DNF	204.0	176.0
27th	HUN	8386	9	Tibor Tenke	Miklos Bezereti	26.0	(28.0 DNF)	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	28.0 DNC	222.0	194.0

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