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On Saturday afternoon in Tallinn, Estonia, Jorge Zarif (BRA) completed the task he began on Friday and won the 2013 Finn Gold Cup. A ninth place in the medal race was enough for him to become Brazil’s first Finn world champion since the late Jorg Bruder in 1972. Ed Wright (GBR) placed third to keep the silver, while Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) won the race to take the bronze.

The sailors in the medal race launched on schedule for the first time all week but still, the wind died almost straight away and they sat and waited until past 14.00 until finally a stable breeze of around 6-8 knots became established and the race could start.

Jorge Zarif (BRA) had a 19 point lead and all he had to do was finish the race. He started safely and stayed out of trouble to cross in ninth to take the title. Ahead of him a fascinating race full of drama was played out.

Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) had promised to give it his all and he got a great start mid-line and controlled the lane to the favoured left side. However, Michele Paoletti (ITA) had managed to come up just enough to tack and cross ahead of the group to lead round the top mark from Ioannis Mitakis (GRE), Postma and Ed Wright (GBR).

Postma briefly passed Paoletti downwind but the Italian led through the gate and the leading four led the fleet back to the left side of the course. The wind started getting lighter and shiftier, which allowed Postma into the lead from Zsombor Berecz (HUN) on the final upwind. Wright rounded in third, just ahead of Milan Vujasinovic (CRO).

Postma and Berecz extended on the fleet downwind, but Postma needed one more place between himself and Wright to take the silver, and he almost got it. Wright picked up a penalty, did turns, and Vujasinovic closed the gap. Wright then found a lane away from the chasing boats and sailed back into a safe third to secure the silver, while Postma led Berecz across the line to take the bronze.

In taking the bronze a clearly elated Postma has broken a run a fourth places and adds to his two silvers from 2007 and 2011. He said, “I am very, very happy with this. I had quite a difficult week. I had a couple of good races but I was totally wrong a few times, and then it’s hard to focus until the end, as I had two bad results making it really hard to get the gold, which is what I wanted. But then you have to be strong and fight to the end, so I am very happy with that. It was a good race.”

“It’s been very light this week. Normally I am not that strong with the light winds as I am 5 or 6 kg more than the others. So I wished for more breeze and then in the light I also performed so I am happy.”

“It’s nice to have a strategy and a plan and even it you are not 100 per cent sure, make a plan and go for it. I had to focus all the race but it came together today.”

Wright has now been on the podium for the past four years and was also really pleased with his silver medal. “It’s been a really, really tricky week without much wind, so just keeping focus with all the waiting around has been very important so that you’re ready to race when you do go out there.”

“The medal racing today was pretty stressful and not that enjoyable. It was all pretty close. My goal here was a top three finish and of course you would always prefer to win, but I’m happy with silver after the week we’ve had. Things would have been a lot closer with the Brazilian if I hadn’t had my OCS yesterday.”

“This week has been really good for me as I’m mainly known for my strengths in the strong winds, and this week has been really light. I’ve lost weight and trimmed down a lot of my equipment for this season to be more competitive in the light winds, which we expect more of in Rio, so it’s great that that seems to be paying off and that I’m back showing more of the light wind form that I had when I first came into the class."

The new Finn world champion, Zarif, said “It’s feel great, fantastic. I couldn’t be happier. I tried to stay outside the action but it was hard sometimes. I tried to start a little bit after the guys and played the right because you can come back with rights, and in the end everything went quite well.” “I am surprised we actually raced. Three or four times we had some puffs because of the clouds, so I thought when the wind came it was just another puff, but it got a little bit stronger and was sailable.”

“I think this will have a big effect back in Brazil. There is much more money around because of the Olympic Games so I hope with a world title they can support me a little bit more.”

“I had no idea that I would win the Finn Gold Cup. I want to thank everyone who helped with this championship, the competitors and organisers. We didn’t have the best wind we could have but the organisation and the hospitality was fantastic here in Tallinn, so I would just like to thank everybody.”

At the prizegiving Saturday evening, the prizes and the Finn Gold Cup were presented by Esko Rechardt (FIN) who won the Olympic Gold medal during the 1980 Olympics in Tallinn.

Zarif also won the juniors. The top five were Zarif, Jake Lilley (AUS), Arcadiy Kistanov (RUS), Peter McCoy (GBR) and Riccardo Bevilacqua (ITA) – see photo.

In winning the 2013 Finn Gold Cup Jorge Zarif, who turns 21 next month, is one the youngest Finn world champions ever and he is definitely the only sailor to hold the Silver and Gold Cups at the same time.

After finishing 20th in the London 2012 Olympics Zarif went back to Brazil to recover and think about his next move. The removal of the Star class was instrumental in him teaming up with multiple world champion and Olympic medalist Bruno Prada (BRA). Prada asked if Zarif wanted to just take part at the next Games or win a medal. Zarif said he wanted to win a medal, so they started training together. They employed the services of former world champion and 2004 Olympic Silver medalist Rafa Trujillo (ESP) and the training began. Trujillo thought his young apprentice could could place top ten this week, but it seems Zarif didn’t want to wait and had all but confirmed the title before the final race. The medal race was a mere formality.

Zarif won the Junior Finn World Championship, the Jorg Bruder Silver Cup, in 2009 and 2013. His father Jorge Zarif Neto (BRA) sailed two Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988 but passed away in 2008 at the age of just 50. But as the young Jorge has said many times this week it was his father winning a race at the 2004 Finn Gold Cup in Rio that inspired him down this path to top level Finn sailing. You get the feeling it is only just beginning.

Final results after medal race (medal race position in brackets)
1 BRA109 Jorge Zarif 63 (9)
2 GBR11 Edward Wright 70 (3)
3 NED842 Pieter-Jan Postma 71 (1)
4 CRO69 Milan Vujasinovic 76 (4)
5 FRA112 Jonathan Lobert 80 (8)
6 ITA146 Michele Paoletti 87 (5)
7 HUN40 Zsombor Berecz 88 (2)
8 GRE77 Ioannis Mitakis 90 (7)
9 NZL24 Josh Junior 98 (6)
10 GBR85 Andrew Mills 99 (10)

Full results at:http://www.finngoldcup.org/2013/data/Results/res-after-medal-overall.html

Written by: Robert Deaves, International Finn Association

Søndag var dagen som var stålsat på at være bedre end lørdag. Umiddelbart skulle man mene at der var en overkommelig opgave. Men hvis man ikke har forudsætningerne til at løse en opgave, så kan det godt gå hen og blive svært.

Det begyndte ellers godt. En anelse mindre vind, ingen hvide skumtoppe i horisonten og så videre i den dur, I har fået billedet.

Nå men. Så kom Staal. Og det som sker når Staal skifter til sejltøj det er, at himlen åbner sig og det begynder at regne. Ikke bibelske dimensioner med frøer og fisk og den slags, men det regner. Den opmærksomme læser vil nu have fået et dejavu til beretningen fra i går. Og det er med fuldt overlæg. For dagen lignede på mange måde en kopi af lørdagen. Og så er det ligesom ikke lykkedes for søndagen at være bedre, vel? Nej. Dog var det nogle andre som kæntrede, blandt andet undertegnede. Og Kenneth. Når Kenneth vælter så er det svært. Det ved alle.

Nå men, der blev sejlet tre sejladser. I tredje sejlads havde Svend krammet på hele banden, altså de som var tilbage, og så kom der et 40 grader vindspring. Og så står verden altså ikke mere. Svend er blevet gode venner med sin 1/2 bror, så alt er godt igen.

På podiet var nogle af de lokale, Jacob og Mads. Rækkefølgen kendes ikke lige, men imens de to blev båret i guldstol op på torvet for at blive fejret af hele byen, måtte vi andre med bøjet nakke og skammen malet i ansigtet pakke joller og køre hjem. Hjem og træne til næste år. For vi ses næste år. I smilets by

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Så blæste det lidt mere. Og for at runde dagen rigtigt af, så sluttede dagen med at det blæste yderligere op.

Det har ellers været en spændende dag, som udover at være blæsende, startede med en ordentligt regnbyge. Så var der ligesom sagt velkommen til Århus.

Dagen har ellers budt på masser af vandleg, bytte både og ikke mindst en del ventetid mellem starterne. Lad os tage det fra en ende af; i krabsø og masser af luft ned af bakke, var der mere end en som væltede. Nogen var hurtigt oppe igen og andre brugte lidt mere tid på det med at rejse skøjten op igen. En enkelt blev sågar taget i mål mens han var kæntret. Det er noget som tærer på kræfterne, men Kenneth viser sig atter fra sin mest godmodige side og tog den på hovedet i baljen så der atter kunne komme styr på det. En sand sportsmand! Finnjollerne var ikke de eneste som væltede på Bravo banen. Contenders kan også vælte på kryds. Og halvvind. Og alle andre retninger. Ligesom Wayfarer og Bananbåde.
Så var der det med at bytte både. Udover Kenneth og Christian Poulsen, så synes Ole at det med at lave kæntringsøvelser var en brilliant idé. Hvilket bedre sted at lave dem end under Bøgeskovens lumske vinde!? Som sagt så gjort. Men Ole må have haft en lang uge, i hvertfald kunne han ikke få den op, jollen. Det blev Svend lidt træt af at se på, så Ole og Svend byttede joller. Ole mente at det måtte være hans gamle jolle den var gal med, så for lige af teste hypotesen valgte han at kæntre Svends. Det gik ikke meget bedre, men nu ville Svend så godt have sin egen nye jolle igen. Så det fik han og til sidst var alle i havn igen. Og det var vidst meget godt. Nu har jeg aldrig været nogen wind guru, men det var åbenlyst at der nu kom endnu mere luft.

Da dagen var omme var der gennemført tre sejladser, det kunne være blevet til flere, men med alle kæntringerne fordelt på fire klasser var der meget ventetid på banen. Måske Finnjollerne ville være mindre fejlcastede blandt E-jollerne som alt andet lige sejler og ser en bane på samme måde som Finnjollerne.

Resultatet er at nogen vandt og nogen kom til sidst. Den præcise rækkefølge kendes ikke her på redaktionen på Hotel Ritz, men uanset hvad så er der en som fører.

Senere på aftenen blev en del af den hårde kerne spottet i nærheden af vandet igen. Nærmere bestemt nær Kanalen i midtbyen, hvor sorgen over at skulle undvære de bedre halvdele blev skyllet ned med et par kolde fadøl, mens der blev håndsejlet.

I morgen kan da næsten kun blive god.

I det netop afholdte DM for OK joller, perfekt afholdt af Bønnerup Strand Sejlklub, viste en af Danmarks bedste Finnsters, hvordan man skal sejle jolle.

Jeg rundede som nummer fire ved første topmærke, men sejlede hurtigt forbi de andre. Det blæste 11-12 m/sek. og det var ligesom at jeg satte båden i gear ud mod slagmærket. Jeg gik luv om Myralf, jeg blæste forbi ham og ved slagmærket bommede jeg, mens Lindhardtsen og Myralf stagvendte for ikke at kæntre, og så var jeg endnu længere foran.

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Måske er det noget med optikken, men ser J/80 sejlerne ikke temmelig små, og måske skræmte, ud i forhold til ham Finnjollesejleren til venstre i billedet?

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