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13 December 2002, 03:20 pm

Kaklamanakis (GRE) Drops to Second

Mistral World Championship and Olympic Qualification Regatta

Pattaya

The wind took time to build and settle today but by 1430hrs racing was underway. The women were called to start first and after one general recall were soon racing in a good 8-9knot breeze.

Faustine Merret (FRA) was first to mark 1 and was never headed from there on. Sandrine Nuvolone (FRA) rounded 2nd but had been called OCS so lost her place to country woman Lise Vidal who finished 2nd just in front Sheena McKinnon (NZL). The word before the regatta started was that Sheena could show a real turn of speed and this 3rd place is the proof. Meanwhile Barbara Kendall (NZL) was playing the averages back in 8th place and maintains her overall lead, slightly reduced to six points

Nikos Kaklamanakis (GRE) had a bad one today and finished 14th. Ricardo "Bimba" Santos (BRA) had a great race to finish 2nd and jump from 4th to 2nd equal on the same points as Nikos. Jon Paul Tobin (NZL) finally demonstrated what he is capable of by winning the only race of the day by a long way. He must be pleased that he is at least in the top 20 overall but is still at least 10 places below where a betting man would guess he should be.

The strong wind specialist Przemyslaw Miarczynski (POL) finished 3rd so he can deliver in semi planing conditions as well. He just has to overcome the mental block more regularly to ensure the top 5 ranking his talent deserves.

All this sees Gal Fridman (ISR) returned to the top spot after finishing 4th today. Racing continues till Sunday.

Top Ten Results

Men

Position	Nation	Name	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7
1	ISR	FRIDMAN Gal	41	19	1	1	2	13	1	4
2	BRA	SANTOS Ricardo	52	21	11	3	1	9	5	2
3	GRE	KAKLAMANAKIS Nikolas	52	4	4	2	4	21	3	14
4	FRA	BONTEMPS Julien	61	16	3	13	13	1	2	13
5	ARG	GALVAN Marcos	59	13	1	5	10	14	10	6
6	CHN	YUANGUO Zhou	79	12	6	3	4	20	14	20
7	CHN	CHUANWEI Gao	94	7	6	5	5	11	34	26
8	FRA	HASSEN Fabrice	95	10	8	7	5	35	8	22
9	GBR	DEMPSEY Nick	82	21	5	9	11	8	16	12
10	FRA	GUYADER Olivier	100	15	5	4	6	3	30	37

Women

Position	Nation	Name	Total	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6
1	NZL	KENDALL Barbara	22	3	1	1	7	2	8
2	FRA	MERRET Faustine	32	5	10	2	2	12	1
3	ITA	SENSINI Alessandra	58	8	4	7	14	1	24
4	FRA	VIDAL Lise	62.3	12	6	26	9	7	2
5	FRA	NUVOLONE Sandrine	108	1	14	21	3	4	OCS
6	GER	LUX Amelie	113	21	11	3	4	---	9
7	GBR	STURGES Natasha	68	10	18	5	17	7	11
8	SUI	KASER Anja	110	27	5	4	8	24	42
9	FRA	GROS Synthia	106	2	15	8	34	16	31
10	POL	BRYGOLA Agata	99	22	2	12	13	23	27