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10 December 2005, 02:44 pm

Website Launched

49er World Championship 2006

Aix-les-Baines, France

The website for the ISAF Grade W 49er World Championship 2006 in Aix-les-Baines, France is now online at www.aixlesbains.com/world49er. The Worlds is set to take place from 4-11 June.

The website includes information on Aix-les-Baines, accommodation, the event programme with the Notice Of Race and other relevant information to follow.

Following registration on 4-5 June, three days of qualifying rounds will be followed by the final races on 9-11 June with Olympic silver medallists Rodion LUKA and George LEONCHUK (UKR) looking to defend the title they won in Moscow, Russia in September.

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Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.