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Sailing - 09. September 2010.

The French Girls win 2010 European 470 Championship title.

The women’s leaderboard may not have been as tight as the men’s, although there was still plenty of drama and uncertainty on the race course, with capsizes and boats hitting marks keeping the finishing order uncertain until the last. While the Danes had fallen out of medal contention after an unsteady outing the previous day, Henriette Koch and Lene Sommer gave themselves the consolation of winning the Medal Race. They nearly threw it away on an unforced error, hitting the final windward mark, but managed to take their 360 penalty turn in a strong gust and still stay ahead of the British boat sailed by Sophie Weguelin and Sophie Ainsworth.

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Series leaders Emmanuelle Rol and Helene Defrance also struck a windward mark and took a penalty, but apart from that sailed a controlled race ahead of their chief medal rivals. In the end the French won gold by 18 points, a dominant performance for such a tricky week’s sailing. “The conditions were a little bit tough,” said Rol, “but we enjoy racing in these conditions. I don’t know if we understood the wind but we enjoyed it. Istanbul has been great. After Holland and Great Britain it’s nice to sail in a sunny place!”

Camille Lecointre and Mathilde Geron had been lying in silver medal position at the beginning of the day, but a poor first beat left them way back in last, and they only managed to overtake the Israeli team who retired after a prolonged capsize. This relegated the French team to 4th overall, with last year’s European Champions Giulia Conti and Giovanna Micol taking silver and another French duo, Ingrid Petitjean and Nadege Douroux taking bronze.

Conti, who had looked so furious the previous day after letting any serious prospect of gold slip away, was all smiles again today having at least salvaged a silver from Istanbul. “Finally some success again, after a couple of days of blackout,” she said. “It has been a really tough race course, very tricky, but the French seemed to sail perfectly. They deserved this win, they made fewer mistakes than the others, and they have won this event by far. For us the silver medal is a very good result after a very good season. We have finished in the top three in almost every event, and now we go home for the winter to work out what we need to improve on for next year.”

The 2010 Open 470 European Championships were organised by The Istanbul Sailing Club in co-operation with the International 470 Class Association and the Turkish Sailing Federation.



470 Women - Final Top 10 (after 13 races)
Pos - SailNo - Crew

1. FRA 12 - Emmanuelle ROL, Hélène DEFRANCE
2. ITA 23 - Giulia CONTI, Giovanna MICOL
3. FRA 4 - Ingrid PETITJEAN, Nadege DOUROUX
4. FRA 9 - Camille LECOINTRE, Mathilde GERON
5. DEN 143 - Henriette KOCH, Lene SOMMER
6. AUT 431 - Sylvia VOGL, Carolina FLATSCHER
7. EST 20 - Marjaliisa UMB, Elise UMB
8. GBR 840 - Sophie WEGUELIN, Sophie AINSWORTH
9. GBR 847 - Hannah MILLS, Claire CUMMING
10. ISR 311 - Gil COHEN, Dana MAMRIEV
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