Windsurf / Press Release n.30 18 May 2005

XX Edition World Festival On The Beach
Palermo Mondello 11-22 May 2005

ANOTHER STRONG DAY OF WIND IN MONDELLO, HUGUET AND MANCHON STILL IN THE LEAD
The best Italians of the day Baffetti and Tartaglini, with the yellow flame athlete still wearing the bronze medal around his neck

Another day of difficult wind to deal with in the water coming from a north – east direction, made difficulties for the athletes in the Mistral Class World Championships, making the competition even more interesting and spectacular.
The race was held east of the Punta Celesi’s pier, where men and women had to come to grip with the really strong wind that reached 30 knots, two races for each category were finished.
In the mens category Nicolas Huguet remains to be leader of the results that change daily. Ricardo Santos came in second place today leaving a gap of only 5 points between him and the French leader. Andrea Cariolou from Cyprus is climbing the classification constantly winning todays second race.
The best Italian of the day was Dario Baffetti from Lazio with his 21st place, followed by Alberti (26th) and
Belli dell’Isca (27th) who has come down from 1st to 3rd place on the podium in the European Youth title.
Infront of him there is Morena Vega, Spanish, and the Frenchman, Cordonnier.
Blanca Manchon leads the womans category, the Iberian blonde from Seville with first and second places has an advantage of an 18 point gap between the athletes who follow her, Amelie Lux, German, and the Italian Flavia Tartaglini. The Italian athlete from Ostia will need to watch her back if she wants to keep her place on the podium, the Isralian Lee Korzits is only 7 points away.
Manchon is still in lead for the under 20’s European Title, whilst Laura Linares even if she didn’t feel at ease with the strong winds still clutches onto her virtual silver medal. The French girl Eugenie Ricard came in third.