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Olympic Regatta 2004 – Athens, Greece Ben Ainslie has carved himself a reputation in recent years of being able to make dramatic comebacks in races. However in Athens he was set the task of making his most awesome comeback yet. A 9th and a DSQ on day one left him in a lowly 19th overall, and the chances of a third Olympic medal were a dim prospect. But the comeback kid focussed and refocussed and went on to win three of the next four races to drag himself back into contention. The rest, as they say is history. Reports by ISAF and Gus Miller Day One Race one – Emilios leads all the way Following a general recall in the first start that saw a bunch of around five or six boats over the line at the starboard end, the second start was all clear and Emilios Papathanasiou came off the port end with Ali Enver Adakan ahead of the bunch. Playing the shifts well the two rounded clear ahead of the chasing pack, and were never challenged. Mateusz Kusznierewicz started his 2004 quest well, finishing third after rounding third at the first mark. Ben Ainslie suffered from his known first race nervousness and after a bad start, rounded the first top mark in 14 place, eventually picking up to finish ninth. Race two – 1996 gold medalist leads The light, six knot southerly gradually crept left as the sea breeze established and by the time the second race started, it was blowing from the south-east at about 11 knots. Ben and Mateusz took a risk and set off on an epic and close battle for first and second. The Pole got to the first mark a matter of seconds ahead of Ben, who got through on the downwind leg to round ahead at mark two. Of the chasing pack it was Karlo Kuret who came through to finish behind Ben. Jonas Hoegh-Christensen had an amazing comeback. Rounding the first mark in 12th place he climbed boat by boat to eventually finish fifth. It proved not to be a great day for Ben however. After a port starboard incident with the French sailor, who subsequently lodged a protest, Ben was disqualified from race two, leaving him in 19th place overall. Day two Race three – Ben bites back The wind was 10 knots from the north-west at the start. Dean Barker started at the pin, tacked onto port and took the lead from Kevin Hall. Ben pulled back from 20th at the first mark to fifth on the run, and the race was abandoned after the fleet compacts at the leeward mark. The restart was in 13 knots from NNE, but this race was also abandoned at the first weather mark. The fleet was not happy! On the third restart, the wind was 13 knots from north-east. David Burrows, Dean, Michael Fellmann and Sebastien Godefroid start well and led at the weather mark. Ben was 16th but soon passed three boats. On the run he passed 11 more boats to round second behind David. On the next beat the wind built to 20 knots and Sebastien passed Ben. On the run both pass David and then fought it out for the rest of the race to finish with a big margin over the next boats. David faded to 9th after capsizing on the run when the wind gusted to 29 knots. Race four - double win for Ben With the wind now at 25 knots from NNE, and at five o’clock, everyone was tired. David started well and lead at the first mark with 6
FINAL RESULTS – SINGLE-HANDED DINGHY MEN Place NOC Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total Net 1 GBR Ben Ainslie 9 DSQ 1 1 4 1 2 3 2 1 14 64 38 2 ESP Rafael Trujillo 8 3 3 6 2 3 OCS 4 5 4 13 77 51 3 POL Mateusz Kusznierewicz 3 1 6 4 11 OCS 17 1 7 2 1 79 53 4 CRO Karlo Kuret 6 2 10 8 12 (18) 7 5 3 3 5 79 61 5 GRE Emilios Papathanasiou 1 5 17 13 15 6 8.4(RDG) 2 1 (22) 4 94.4 72.4 6 AUS Anthony Nossiter 18 8 4 7 8 13 1 8 20 6 (25) 118 93 7 BEL Sebastien Godefroid 19 12 2 5 6 5 3 11 (24) 18 15 120 96 8 FRA Guillaume Florent 7 7 5 16 3 9 9 15 13 12 (19) 115 96 9 DEN Jonas Hoegh-Christensen 16 4 23 DNF 1 8 11 13 10 8 11 131 105 10 BRA Joao Signorini 15 9 (21) 15 21 4 5 6 12 9 17 134 113 11 USA Kevin Hall 11 6 13 (17) 16 14 13 9 9 17 7 132 115 12 IRL David Burrows 17 14 9 3 18 2 OCS 10 11 10 22 142 116 13 NZL Dean Barker 5 10 7 11 7 16 OCS 12 19 20 10 143 117 14 SWE Daniel Birgmark 12 13 11 14 14 10 4 7 17 16 (21) 139 118 15 CZE Michael Maier 13 17 19 9 (20) 12 15 18 4 7 6 140 120 16 TUR Ali Enver Adakan 2 15 8 10 22 11 10 21 16 (24) 9 148 124 17 GER Michael Fellman 14 11 12 2 9 17 19 19 (25) 21 3 152 127 18 CAN Richard Clarke 10 18 15 22 19 15 OCS 14 8 11 2 160 134 19 NED Jaap Zielhuis (22) 19 18 12 13 7 12 16 14 13 12 158 136 20 SLO Gasper Vincec 4 24 14 19 DNF 19 8 17 18 5 23 177 151 21 RUS Vladimir Krutskikh (23) 22 22 21 10 23 16 22 6 23 8 196 173 22 ARG Alejandro Colla 20 21 (25) 18 5 20 14 20 21 19 16 199 174 23 HUN Balazs Hajdu (24) 16 16 20 17 22 20 23 15 14 20 207 183 24 ITA Michele Marchesini 21 20 20 24 24 24 6 (25) 23 15 24 226 201 25 EST Imre Taveter (25) 23 24 23 23 21 18 24 22 25 18 246 221 © 2004 IOC • Official Results powered by Atos Origin • Timing and results management by SWATCH • www.olympic.org • www.athens2004.com Ben, Sebastien and Karlo right behind. On the run David swamped his boat and dropped to 6th. Ben took the lead with Sebastien and Mateusz right behind. Ben went on to win the race with Sebastien sometimes taking the lead. Mateusz and David battled it out behind them. On the second run Sebastien threw away a 150 meter lead after rolling it in, recovered to 3rd, passed Ben to regain the lead and going into the finish he rolled it in again. He wasn’t the only one capsizing. Mateusz capsized and lost eight boats. Jonas got a control line in the mainsheet block and dumped as well. After racing Ben commented, “Today was a better day for me. Yesterday was merely a disaster. What happened yesterday, made me angry and more determined. I now have my back to the wall, I have to make no mistakes and it will be a great challenge for me to overcome myself and claim a medal.” Karlo said, “It was a very hard day today. I am very tired, but very satisfied. The wind shifts were very unpredictable. One minute I thought I was in control of things and the next I thought I had lost it. Today I did well, but I still made many mistakes.” Mateusz said, “I am very, very tired. These are definitely not my favoured weather conditions. I wish they change very soon. But I am very happy. I managed to do well and stay at the top of the fleet. This gives me great hope and expectations for the future.” Day three Race five – Jonas runs away with it On the third day the Finn class was one of only two fleets to be sent out onto the Saronic Gulf in the blustery Meltemi conditions. Conditions for the start of race five, were a moderate to fresh 22 knot northerly with the prospect of some big swell. The breeze was enough for the race committee to raise flag O before the start, altering RRS to the class rules and allowing body kinetics and pumping. Jonas came off the port end well and continued towards the left hand side of the course whilst Ben, having to luff to avoid the pin end boat, tacked early onto port into clear air. Halfway up the first beat it was looking good for Ben as he led the fleet by some 10 PHOTOS: All the wonderful photos in the Olympic reports in this issue of FINNFARE were taken by François Richard. If anyone wants copies or prints please contact François direct on francois.richard.photo@wanadoo.fr FINNFARE OCTOBER 2004 FINNFARE OCTOBER 2004
Page 1 and 2: OCTOBER 2004 Athens Olympic Regatta
Page 3 and 4: Opening shot: last race of the 2004
Page 5: FINN NEWS - FINN NEWS - FINN NEWS I
Page 9: The breeze had been building all da
Page 12 and 13: David Burrows (IRL) sailing his Fin
Page 14 and 15: weather mark. USA is again doing we
Page 16 and 17: Finn Gold Cup - Rio de Janeiro Febr
Page 18 and 19: American, it was never an issue. Bu
Page 20 and 21: Runners and riders Before the first
Page 22 and 23: The winds were such that many other
Page 24 and 25: SWITZERLAND Swiss Championship 2004
Page 26 and 27: Australian Finn sailors enjoying th
Page 28 and 29: INTERNATIONAL RACING CALENDAR 2004
Page 30: Photos: Getty Images, ISAF Official

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