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21st WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH
Mondello – 15th –21st MAY 2006
www.wwfestival.com
Windsurf: Mistral class
CASAGRANDE ONE STEP AWAY FROM THE EUROPEANS
The battle gets tough in European Mistral Class Championships when there
is only one day left of windsurf races and the races held so far are 7.
The first five places are untouchable, taken in possession by Hong Kong
coached by the Olympic Champion Bruce Kendall, the results behind them
heats up with an Italian challenge between Marco Casagrande and
Alessandro Kendall in winning the European Championships. Today the wind
came from a north-east direction and was slightly stronger than other
days blowing at around 9 knots that got up to 10-11 knots at times, the
wind let the athletes in the water carry out two races dominated by
Cheng Kwok Fai. He practically couldn’t be caught, the Chinese boy from
Hong Kong came through the winning post with abyssal advantages on the
rest of the group where his team mates were and Marco Casagrande, who at
the moment stands the leader of the European athletes.
The Albaria’s athlete fought hard against two Israeli’s Omri Hazor and
Shlomi Ayubi, who both had a good quick start. Today’s sixth and eighth
place allow Casagrande to keep his first position, while behind him on
the virtual podium are the two Israeli’s.
Alessandro Alberti was unfortunate in the first race as he broke his
boom and therefore came in at 23rd place. In the second race his table
was slightly over the starting line making him out of the race for an
anticipated start. A joke for the Clubino del Mare’s athlete who at the
first buoy was second behind Cheng Kwok Fai, but then came in seventh.
The podium is now far away for the athlete from Palermo.
In the women’s category Chan Wai Kei continues to make an adventure for
herself, recording her best performance yet in the seventh race coming
in at sixth place. The European challenge is heating up with the young
Greek girl Anastasia Davrou who tries to keep the Israeli girl Sivan
Davidovich away by 5 points. The third European girl is still Maria
Papadaki who boasts a slight advantage on Valentina Failla.
The last day of this event could still hold some surprises. Paco Wirz
still his holds first place between the Master category even though he
was disqualified for an anticipated start.
In the Nation Cup Hong Kong is flying in first place with Israel in
second and an advantage of 20 points over Greece who are third. Ten
points separate Italy from the Greeks.
Results
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