5.5 Metre Worlds: Flavio Marazzi, Andrew Palfrey and Christof Wilke take the Trophy to Switzerland

by SailRaceWin

The final day of the 5.5 Metre World Championships brought sunshine and sparkling waters off the Circolo Vela Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy, with more wind than earlier in the week.

Two races were able to be held, but it only took one of those to determine the 5.5 Metre World Champions for 2010. With a 5th place (their worst placing in the entire series), Flavio Marazzi (SUI), and his crew of Andrew Palfrey and Christof Wilke, took first place overall, and were able to sit out the final race, counting this DNC as their sole discard.

Kristian Nergaard (NOR) finished second, with a tie on points for third place split in favour of Kenneth Thelen (FIN) over Christoph Burger (NOR). Gavin McKinney (BAH) was first non-European boat in fifth place overall.

Final Overall Results (with 1 discard) 5.5 Metre Worlds 2010

1 SUI 224 Marazzi Flavio, Male, Palfrey Andrew/Wilke Christof, TYC & GYC Ali Baba 13,0 1 1 2 1 3 5 (dnc)
2 NOR 57 Nergaard Kristian, Male, Moberg Peer/Morland Pedersen P, Royal Norwegian Yacht Club Artemis XIV 21,0 6 2 5 2 5 (ocs) 1
3 FIN 66 Thelen Kenneth, Male, Hallberg Thomas /Nyberg Robert, Nyländska Jaktklubben Kan-Bej 2 28,0 5 4 1 7 (9) 2 9
4 NOR 65 Christoph Burger, Male, Marcel Simon/Mathias Daheman, TYC / GYC ODLO 28,0 2 3 4 4 7 8 (10)
5 BAH 19 McKinney Gavin, Male, Hauff Peter /Westergaard Bjorn, Nassau Yacht Club John B 33,0 4 6 8 (dnf) 1 7 7
6 SUI 214 bernard haissly, Male, bernard haissly/nicolas bertho, sng caracole 38,0 3 9 6 5 (14) 1 14
7 SUI 213 HANS-PETER SCHMID, Male, Gilbert Dürr/Jürg Baumgartner, SC MURTEN PUNGIN 41,0 8 7 3 8 (17) 13 2
8 FIN 49 Gullichsen Johan, Male, Lundberg Henrik/Telkola Timo, NJK addam 4 43,0 9 5 9 6 (10) 10 4
9 SUI 222 Jürg Menzi, Male, Léonard Gaume/Daniel Stampfli, TYC Thunersee Yachtclub, GYC G Marie-Françoise XVIII 45,0 7 10 (20) 3 11 11 3
10 NOR 64 Fjeld Petter, Male, Borgen Thomas /Johannessen C, Fredrikstad SF Clark Kent 45,0 12 (13) 7 12 6 3 5
11 NED 26 Arend Jan Pasman, Male, Ron Azier/Kin Chabani, Braassemermeer Feng Shui 46,0 10 8 10 10 2 (12) 6
12 NED 31 Victorine Bredero, Female, Jeroen Behrend/Wiebe de Witte, ws braasemermeer Duchess of B 69,0 11 14 (16) 9 15 9 11
13 SUI 210 Rolf KELLENBERGER, Male, Martin HUBER/Andreas KINDLIMAN, TYC SHAOLIN 71,0 17 11 14 (18) 8 6 15
14 SUI 211 Jörg Hotz, Male, Marc Dangel/Ernst Schiess, ZYC Forza Del Destino 82,0 15 17 (21) 21 4 4 21
15 GER 30 Andreas Christiansen, Male, Jens Rathsack/Andreas Föh, NRV CRIOLLO 90,0 13 15 (26) 15 13 16 18
16 SUI 215 Thomas TREIB, Male, Patrick RÜFENACHT/Katja SCHEID, YCB Yacht Club Bielersee RANA 91,0 14 (18) 15 17 18 14 13
17 GER 42 Queisser Hans-Juergen, Male, Kruse Gerhard/Blenckner Klaus, NRV RTYC SNR For Fun Too 94,0 18 16 12 19 (20) 17 12
18 BAH 20 Symonette Craig, Male, Vlasov Peter/Boisen-Moeller Je, Nassau Yacht Club Silver Fox 100,0 (dnf) dns 13 14 19 15 8
19 NOR 62 Huser Are Andenæs, Male, Ferner Car-Christian /Bellingh, KNS Plan B Redux 106,0 16 12 18 13 16 (ocs) dnc
20 ITA 73 Delli Alfredo, Male, Gianluca Marolli/Claudio Mazza, CVMV CARABELLA 118,0 19 20 22 20 (24) 21 16
21 GER 33 Lutz Dr. von Meyerinck, Male, Felix von Meyerinck/Oskar de F, SVAOe Blueprint 118,0 20 19 19 (dnf) 21 20 19
22 SUI 201 Tobias Isler/Jörg Sonntag, Male, Kaspar.Stubenrauch, SCE / WSV 1921 ZICCA 125,0 24 22 17 23 (26) 19 20
23 SUI 217 Jack Frei, Male, Thomas Frei/Roland Ledergerber, Yacht Club Romanshorn TOPAS III 127,0 (dnf) dns 11 11 12 dnf dnc
24 SWE 50 Gustafsson Jan, Male, Kellner Håkan/Kellner Rickard, Tulka SS Apriori 128,0 21 21 24 (dnf) 22 18 22
25 NED 11 van Opzeeland Piet, Male, Eijkman Tom/De Coster Dave, W V Braassemermeer Woelgeest 133,0 23 23 25 22 23 (dnf) 17
26 SUI 175 Frédéric de Rutté, Male, Frédéric Saudan/Matthieu MacGi, SNR Bellagioia II 148,0 22 (dnf) 23 16 25 dnc dnc
27 ITA 14 Pozzo Vittorio, Male, Marolli Enzo/Marolli Alessandr, C.V.P. MAVI 159,0 26 (dnf) 28 24 27 dnc 23
28 SUI 152 Gilbert-Xavier MARTINET, Male, Marc-Antoine MONNARD/Sébastien, SNR-Société Nautique Rolloise BARA-GWEN XI 176,0 25 (dnf) 27 dnf dnc dnc dnc
29 ITA 57 Leupold Richard, Male, Giorgetti Paolo /Rossi Andrea, CVMV Whisper 184,0 (dnf) dns 29 dnf dnc dnc dnc
30 AUT 21 Münnich Hans-Peter, Male, Werr Phillip/Rottner Bernhard, Union Yacht Club Wolfgangsee Schakal 186,0 (dnf) dns dnc dnf dnc dnc dnc

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