Four of Bermuda‘s sailors currently occupy a top 10 place in the 2009 Renaissance Re Junior Gold Cup.
After Day 2, Ignacio Rogala from Argentina continues to lead the fleet with 18 points after finishing first in race four, tenth in race five, first in race six, 14th in race seven and second in race eight. Owen Seise fell from second place to 4th with 47 points, with finishes of 8th, 15th,3rd, 18th & 3rd, Kalin Hillier is in fifth place with 48 points, the pair were overtaken by a pair of sailors from Germany, Maximilian Hibler and Severin Rothlauf.
2009 Renaissance Re Junior Gold Cup Standings after 8 Races
1st Ignacio Rogala ARG 3118 2nd Maximilian Hibler GER 12575 3rd Severin Rothlauf GER 12373 4th Owen Siese BER 1016 5th Kalin Hillier BER 1017 6th Axel Munkby SWE 4256 7th Dimitri Stevens BER 1035 8th MacKenzie Cooper BER 1021 9th Annabel Vose GBR 5740 10th Paloma Esteban DOM 22 11th Sam Stan BER 1060 12th Mathias Robertson CHI 206 13th Taylor Burn NZL 4376 14th Federik Rask DEN 8250 15th Raheim Steede BER 1019 16th Bradley Adam USA 15318 17th Risto Pesola FIN 818 18th Frederik Nygaard DEN 8222 19th Douglas Campbell AUS 543 20th Meredith Megarry CAN 1266 21st Hector Guzman MEX 645 22nd Odile van Aanholt AHO 5 23rd Antonio Bailey BER 1007 - 24th Ellie Wollman BER 1034 25th Makai Joell BER 1097 26th Cecilia Wollmann BER 1029 27th James Lorimer-Turner BER 1026 28th Curtis Patterson BER 1012 29th Chase Cooper BER 1037 30th Mike Wollmann BER 1101 31st Ferdinand Arnold BER 56 32nd Jacob Greene BER 1020 33rd Rory Caslin BER 1024 34th Hannah Horsfield BER 1600 35th Christian Chin BER 1998
Argo Gold Cup
Ben Ainslie (GBR) is still undefeated as Argo Group Gold Cup quarterfinal racing got underway Friday afternoon with just two flights being completed. Current World Match Race Tour leader Torvar Mirsky (AUS) must win three matches in a row tomorrow to keep his team on the top of the Tour leader board.
Ainslie was behind Mirsky once today in their first race, but put a penalty on him at the second windward mark and went on to win that flight. "The conditions were tough," Ainslie said. "In the light shifty winds we just had to keep the boat moving."
Ian Williams was behind Johnie Berntsson in both races, but managed to come back and win both. "We were on the wrong side of the course several times," Williams said, "but managed to minimize the losses. When we got the correct side we had stayed close enough to pass."
After two flights in the quarters today, Eric Monnin leads Blythe Walker in Match 1 by 2-0, Ben Ainslie leads Torvar Mirsky 2-0, Ian Williams leads Johnie Berntsson by 2-0 and Adam Minoprio leads Mathieu Richard 2-0 as well. It is do or die for all the trailing skippers who face a 'knockout' when their opponent scores three wins.
