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5 September 2003, 02:13 pm

Croatia Still Dominate

470 Junior World Championship

Lake Neuiesdl

The young Croatian sailors are still dominating the top of the leaderboard on the penultimate day of racing in Austria, and now hold a seven point lead over the third placed boat after 12 races.

It has been a reversal of places though as Ante CESIC and Ante KUJUNDZIC have redressed an eight point deficit and turned it into a nine point lead over their team mates Sime FANTELA and Igor MARENIC who, after a string of first places in the early part of the regatta, have slipped slightly.

The pair scored a string of discards in races 10 11 and 12 before returning to form in race 13 with a second place in the light conditions.

Full results are available on the event website at the address below.

Overall Top Ten

No	Nation	Crew	Total
1	CRO	Cesic Ante, Kujundzic Ante	50
2	CRO	Fantela Sime, Marenic Igor	59
3	NED	De Koning Coen, Stavenuiter Wilco	66
4	ITA	Fonda Enrico, Buchberger Igor	71
5	ISR	Eyal Lewin, Stav Cohen	72
6	AUT	Glanz Stefan, Kohout Florian	79
7	GER	Metzing Martin, Eckelmann Sascha	81
8	ARG	Bühler Matias, Lamas Marcos	84
9	ITA	Bianchi Niccolo, Bianchi Francesco	86
10	ISR	Yaniv Moshe, Ofer Kohn	89

ISAF News Editor (Source: Event Media)

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