Star Class European Championship Archives

2019 Star Class European Championship

May 13-19, 2019

Fraglia Vela Riva - Riva Del Garda, ITA

RESULTS

TOP FINISHERS

Mateusz Kusznierewicz Frederico Melo CASDAIS POL
Robert Scheidt Henry Boening BRA
Diego Negri Frithjof Kleen Yacht Club Sanremo/Fraglia Vela Riva ITA

RACE DOCUMENTS

SCHEDULE

Thursday, May 09, 2019
elcoming Star Class Sailors
Friday, May 10, 2019
Measurement
Race Village Opening
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Measurement
1300 Trofeo Arch. Giancarlo Maroni Warning Signal
After Sailing Aftersail Party at Race Village
Sunday, May 12, 2019
5/12/2019 1:56 PM
1300 Trofeo Arch. Giancarlo Maroni Warning Signal
1600 Prizegiving Ceremony
Monday, May 13, 2019
Measurement
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Until 1300 Measurement
1700 Opening Parade
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
1300 Warning Signal
After Racing Aftersail Party at Race Village
2000 Traditional Trentino Dinner
Thursday, May 16, 2019
1300 Warning Signal
After Racing Aftersail Party at Race Village
Friday, May 17, 2019
1300 Warning Signal
After Racing Aftersail Party at Race Village
2100 Sailors Party w/ DJ Set
Saturday, May 18, 2019
0830 Warning Signal
After Racing Aftersail Party at Race Village
Sunday, May 19, 2019
1300 Warning Signal
After Racing Aftersail Lunch at Race Village
1400 Finals Warning Signal
After Racing SSL Medal Ceremony at Race Village
1900 Championship Prizegiving & Gala Dinner

2019 REGATTA NEWS

2019 STAR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP / SSL BREEZE GRAND SLAM:  THE MOVIE

It’s been about one month since the end of the SSL European Championship / SSL Breeze Grand Slam, one of the best and most attended Star Class event in the past few years.

It was the union of both the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association and the Star Sailors League that attracted so many sailors on the start line – 90 boats – but along that so many other successful details fell into place to make it an event that sailors will remember in a long time.

First we should start from the end, when Brazilian superhero Robert Scheidt with Henry Beoning won the European title by just one meter after the French duo Xavier Rohart and Pierre-Alexis Ponsot dominated the last downind, who took the lead off the hands of American legend Paul Cayard – who led all the way from the start to the second upwind mark – on the day of his 60th birthday.

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ROBERT SCHEIDT AND HENRY BOENING’S DOWNWIND PACE SEALS VICTORY BY SECONDS

The Brazilian pairing had been the dominant force for much of the week at the Star Sailors League Breeze Grand Slam and European Championship, but they did not have it all their own way

 

It was an incredibly tense final race at the end of a thrilling, and at times, heart stopping finals day in Riva del Garda, Italy. Victory came for the Brazilian in the last few meters of the last leg of the last race. “I was so tired at the end that [Henry] had to tell me that we had won I didn’t know we had. I was seeing black already, my heart rate was up that much,” explained an exhausted but elated Scheidt at the end of the day.

“We are really happy. It was a long week and after we were over the line in the week, it was quite tense from then on. Henry did great, he did a super job all through the week and he kept saying to me that we can still win and that gives you a lot of confidence.”

There is little that has not already been said about Schiedt’s mastery downwind, but when it mattered most today, in the closing stages, he was in another league turning a 30m deficit into victory through sheer skill and determination, it would not be hyperbole to call his performance sheer poetry.

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KUSZNIEREWICZ AND MELO TAKE THE LEAD ON PENULTIMATE DAY OF THE 2019 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP / SSL BREEZE GRAND SLAM

With only one day of racing remaining, Robert Scheidt (BRA) and Henry Boening (BRA) have lost the lead for the first time this week at the combined Star Sailors League Grand Slam Breeze and European Championship in Riva del Garda, Italy.

Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL) and Frederico Melo (POR) sailed another impressive two races to secure their spot at the top of the leaderboard ahead of tomorrow’s ‘Super Sunday’, which will see the final race in the qualification series in the morning before an action-packed knockout finals in the afternoon.

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Risk management and damage limitation order day 3 of the Star European Championship/SSL Breeze Grand Slam

Very light winds with patchy cloud coverage made for tough conditions on the third day of the Star Sailor’s League Breeze Grand Slam and European Championships in Riva del Garda, Italy, which saw many top teams suffer a big score.

The Race Committee briefly tried for a second race today, but with the wind slowly dropping from around 10 knots at the start of the only race, to 4 knots at the finish it was quickly called off and the fleet returned to the dock on glassy waters. Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL) and Frederico Melo (POR) made up for their bad fortune yesterday, when they broke their mast, to take the win in today’s only race. But it will be one that many will wish to forget.

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SCHEIDT’S STAR SCHINES BRIGHTEST BUT THE FLEET GETS TIGHT AT THE TOP

It was another tough day physically and mentally for the sailors at the Star Sailor’s League Breeze Grand Slam and Star Europeans,
with big scores for many.

Robert Scheidt and Henry Boening (BRA) delivered another masterclass on the second day of racing at the Star Sailors League Grand Slam Breeze and European Championship, leading the field after a big day of racing in Riva del Garda, Italy.

There will be plenty of weary sailors after an epic three-race day in winds that hovered around the high teens. But with variable winds predicted later in the week, the race committee wisely decided to take advantage of today’s weather to provide flexibility later in the series.
 
It was not just the breeze that was taking its toll on the teams, however, as the 1.5 mile beats consistently saw a drag race to the right hand side of the course, making it an effective conveyer belt towards the windward mark and a hiking contest to get there first.  
 

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EIGHT GOLD STARS LEAD THE WAY AT THE 2019 STAR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP / SSL BREEZE GRAND SLAM

Robert Scheidt (BRA) and Paul Cayard (USA) face off in Garda classic on the opening day of the 2019 Star European Championship / SSL Breeze Grand Slam.

The opening day of the first ever combined Star Sailors League Breeze Grand Slam and Star European Championships dawned with a change in conditions from the blue skies and sunshine, which had filled the skies over Rival del Garda, Italy, for the practice race.
 
With little-to-no breeze in the morning, the reliable Ora wind dutifully arrived somewhat earlier than usual and was already blowing hard by the time some of the legends of the fleet had concluded a formal press conference at 11am.
 
With the cold breeze firmly in and grey skies covering the beautiful Lake Garda, it was a hesitant fleet who headed out to the race course with many choosing a last minute coffee in the Yacht Club bar before finally getting into their sailing kit and making their way to the race area.
 

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2019 VIDEOS


Star Sailors League | 167.80 min

Star Sailors League | 314.52 min

Star Sailors League | 218.78 min

Star Class | 1.72 min

Star Sailors League | 1.72 min

2019 ENTRY LIST

Country Sail Skipper Crew
GER 8355 Christian Paucksch Melanie Bentele
GER 7779 Hannes Ramoser Anna Freiwald
GER 8384 Frank Thurner Jerzy Sukow
ITA 8452 Davide Leardini Sebastian Mazzarol
RUS 8343 Alexander ZYBIN Stanislav Azarov
GER 8321 Arnd Glunde Jan-Ole Burzinski
DEN 8532 Jørgen Schönherr Jan Eli Gravad
NED 7753 Floris Van Ede Pieter Bas Hendriks
SWE 8517 Tom Lofstedt Anders Ekstrom
POL 8544 Ireneusz Stawiany Jakub Stawiany
ITA 8290 Mario Borroi Mark Strube
ITA 8480 Guglielmo Danelon Mattia Gazzetta
CRO 8531 Marin Misura Tonko Barac
AUT 8323 Maximilian Stelzl Michael Müller
AUT 8485 Christian Nehammer Florian Urban
ITA 8514 Guido Falciola Luca Paloschi
GER 8534 Thomas Appel Christian Knoll
GER 8225 Helge Spehr Jesper Spehr
RUS 8526 Alexey Zhivotovskiy Lev Shnyr
USA 8423 Eric Doyle Payson Infelise
ITA 8197 Fabiano Avancini Vincenzo Armenio
POL POL Mateusz Kusznierewicz Frederico Melo
BRA 8172 Robert Sheidt Henry Boening
GER 8446 Hubert Merkelbach Markus Koy
FRA 8237 Xavier ROHART Pierre Alexis PONSOT
ARG 8430 Daniel Della Torre Gerardo Della Torre
USA 8507 Jim Revkin Alexey Selivanov
IRL 8527 Peter O'Leary Robert O'Leary
SOL 573 Vasilij Zbogar Jan Orel
GER 8027 Soenke Westphal Andreas Kaerger
HUN 8386 Tibor Tenke Miklós Bezeréti
SWE 8496 Staffan Thunell Peter Soderblom
GER 8299 Heiko Winkler Uwe Thielemann
GER 8122 Uwe Barth Steffen Rutz
ITA 8533 Diego Negri Frithjof Kleen
ITA 8200 riccardo improta andrea lupoli
ITA 8180 Renato Irrera Paolo Cisbani
ITA 8545 Giuseppe Di Stefano Davide Bortoletto
GER 8438 Daniel Fritz Arnis Baltins
NOR 8234 Eivind Melleby Joshua Revkin
GER 8305 Dominik Fallais Simon Fallais
DEN 8428 Frank Berg Peter Oersted
GBR 8443 Ante Razmilovic Brian Hammersley
USA 8550 Paul Cayard Arthur Lopes
FRA 8196 Raoul DABRY Tristan Cotté
ARG 8008 FABIAN MAC GOWAN JUAN PABLO PERCOSSI
AUS ?TBA Torvar Mirsky Ian Coleman
ITA 8331 Guido Gallinaro Kilian Weise
GER 8311 Axel Hampe Karol Stepka
ITA 8363 graziano bonanno massimiliano ticulin
ITA 8513 Giovanni Coppo Giovanni Bradanini
SUI 8457 Hans Stöckli Alex Gouda
USA 8274 Tomas Hornos Ed Morey
GER 8365 Stefan Lehnert Vitaliy Kushnir
FRA 8021 Philippe DUMONT Philippe GUITTONNEAU
GER 8055 Manuel Voigt Michael Schulz
USA 8509 Augie Diaz Bruno Prada
AUT 8441 Armin Wiedergut Florian Klaura
ITA 8016 Silvio Santoni Sergio Lambertenghi
GER 8501 John Helmsing John Schlubach
DEN 7683 Bo Echwald Stig Rahbek
SUI 8549 Christoph Gautschi Tina Gautschi
GER 8130 Nils Ubert Kai Schnellbacher
SWE 8475 Lars Nordling Bernhard Rost
BRA 8474 LARS GRAEL PEDRO TROUCHE
GER 8198 Martin Jahrmarkt Kristian Klein
GER 7971 Robin NolteFranzen Andi NolteFranzen
USA 8518 Doug Smith Brian O'Mahony
BEL 8381 Manu Hens Joost Houweling
USA 8546 Shane Zwingelberg Luke Morton
DEN 7575 Morten Thomsen Jesper Marchener Daldorph
SUI 8487 Urs Hunkeler Andreas Hanakamp
SWE 8108 Erik Dahlén David Nogén
UKR 8493 Vasyl Gureyev Andriy Shafranyuk
GER 7272 Reiner Petersen Oliver Berger
DEN 8010 Per Madsen Jonas Elkjær Jensen
ARG 8421 Diego Peisajovich Humberto Fabio Scarpati
NED 8541 Thomas Allart Gert van der Heijden
NED 8473 Haico de Boer Samuel Goncalves
DEN 8296 Flemming Sorensen Niels Thrysoe
ARG 8553 Juan Kouyoumdjian Fernando Rivero
UKR 8119 pavlo bondar Kostyntyn Maltsev
UKR 8240 Yaroslav Issakov Olexandr Meninkov
SUI 7829 Vincent Guidoux Yann Dorset
DEN 7694 Erik Otterstad Finn Hoff
USA 8528 George Szabo Guy Avellon
SWE 8442 fredrik lööf Brian Fatih
NED 7380 Alexander JORISSEN Erik Veldhuizen
NED 8070 Huub De haer Jent Zijlstra
ITA 7488 Roberto Benamati Alberto Ambrosini
ITA 7988 Alessandro Angelini Martin Hejlsberg
NED 7443 Marcel Ceelen Roosmarijn Ceelen
AUT 8429 Florian Raudaschl Michael Fischer
ITA 8332 Enrico Chieffi Manlio Corsi
For more information about this race, contact:
Fraglia Vela Riva - Host Club - Email
Sherri Campbell - Star Class Office - Email