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Ben Ainslie is 2008 Finn European Champion
Ben Ainslie on the hunt wins the Finn European Championship and rules in Maremma. Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) is second and Guillaume Florent (FRA) third. Junior title won by Jan Kurfeld (GER)....
Tomorrow Medal Race promises to be a nail biter
Tomorrow’s Medal Race will be crucial to determine the European Finn Champion. The eighth race took place today under sunny skies and a 8 to 11 knot southwesterly breeze. Olympic silver medallist (Athens 2004) and main trimmer on +39 Spaniard Rafael Trujillo won, followed by Irish Timothy Goodbody ...
The tables turn at the European Finn Championship.
The result of the protest between the leader of the provisional scoreboard Ben Ainslie and Canadian Christopher Cook saw both sailors disqualified. The protest concerned two incidences in the pre-start phase of race 7. Ben Ainslie was disqualified when he established an overlap too close to allow Co...
Florent flies into the lead at Finn Europeans
Guillaume Florent (FRA) has yet to make a mistake at the 2008 Finn European Championship. A first and third today moves him into the overall lead. Chris Cook (CAN) won the second race to move up to second overall, just one point behind the Frenchman....
Enormous entry of 280 for Finn World Masters
First sailed in 1970 when just 18 boats turned up, the Finn World Masters Championship has grown year on year and is regularly the highest attended Finn event in the calendar. This year is no exception, and with the event being held at the popular venue of Medemblik in Holland, an unprecedented and ...
Long day afloat but two great races
The glorious Tuscany weather returned for the second day of racing at the Finn Open and Junior European Championship in Scarlino, Italy. However, again, the wind didn't make things easy. It took four hours waiting for the wind to stabilise and three general recalls before racing could finally start....
Ainslie unsttopable?
After a three hour delay, the 2008 Finn European Championship got underway in Scarlino, Maremma Italy with a single race in 6-8 knots of patchy breeze. Ben Ainslie (GBR) made his intentions quite clear, with a clean race win, after leading at each and every mark. Piotr Kula (POL) was the best of the...
2008 Finn European Championship
A sunny day with 6-8 knots of wind from the South South West produced a nice race with 50 boats sailing in the blue water of Tyrrenian Sea. The other 33 competitors stayed ashore to finalise their boat preparations for the championship that starts tomorrow at 12:00. ...
Ben Ainslie - On top of the World for the fifth time
Britain’s freakishly talented single-handed Finn sailor Ben Ainslie with a second placing in the medal race of the Finn Gold Cup today won the class’ world championship for the fifth time. Ainslie already held the world record for the number of wins in this long established and legendary Olympic...
Four men for a title
For the first time since the start of the Finn Gold Cup, the lead has changed hands. After an intense race Ben Ainslie passed Dan Slater on the line to get ahead by one point before tomorrow’s medal race. With Pieter Jan Postma climbing to 3rd and Jonas Hoegh-Christensen in 4th position after a 9t...