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NOVEMBER 2012 SILVER CUP IN MAUBUISSON FULL OLYMPICS ROUND-UP NATIONAL REPORTS 2 FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2012 Photos: François Richard The Olympic Finn fleet in Weymouth GOLD SILVER BRONZE Ben Ainslie Jonas Høgh-Christensen Jonathan Lobert Great Britain Denmark France The pre-regatta favourite didn’t In many ways the dark horse After a consistent performance perform as expected and by the of the regatta, the double world all week and always near the half way stage was struggling. champion surprised everyone by top, he left himself one last However he turned it around in leading through the entire event, chance to go home with a the second half and went into amassing a 10 point lead by the medal. His positive attitude the medal race with just a two half way stage. A capsize and a brought him to the front in the point deficit to take his third bad start cost him heavily in the medal race to dominate and Finn Olympic Gold Medal after a second half and then a poor shift win comfortably, but as events tense 30 minutes to become out of the start in the medal race behind him developed the the most decorated Olympic gave the early lead to Ainslie and bronze medal was never a surety sailor of all time. the dream was all over. until the final mark was passed. FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2012 President’s Letter is the official publication of the International Finn Association Dear Finn Sailors, No. 142 • November 2012 Dear Friends of the Finn Community, FINNFARE is a non-profit publication that is distributed free of charge to all IFA members and interested parties connected ith the to the International Finn Class around the world. For extra 2 0 1 2 copies, or if you have addresses of people who you think LW o n d o n - should be receiving FINNFARE, please contact the IFA Office. W e y m o u t h Articles, race results, photographs and reports from countries Olympics now are always welcome. Please include FINNFARE in your mailing over there is for newsletters, bulletins, press releases and race reports. another four All advertisement enquiries should also be addressed to the year cycle Editor. A media pack is available on www.finnclass.org ahead for the Finn Class. FINNFARE Editor Robert Deaves, 2 Exeter Road, Ipswich IP3 8JL, England Weymouth showcased a great fight for Mob: +44 (0)7932 047046 Olympic Finn medals with Ben, Jonas Email: [email protected] and Jonathan occupying the podium. However, the whole Olympic Finn fleet contributed to the fact that the Finn Executive Committee of IFA 2012-13 repeatedly appeared on the media President of Honour Executive Director headlines before, during and after the Gerardo Seeliger Corinne McKenzie Games. The Finn not only delivered a Paseo Marquesa Viuda Aldama 52 39 Rue du Portal d’Amont memorable fight between true sailing 28109 Madrid, Spain 66370 Pezilla la Riviere, France heroes, but showed the world that sailing Mob: +34 609 20 1020 • Tel: +34 91 661 6133 Mob: +33 670 10 18 13 is a truly athletic sport complemented Email: [email protected] Tel/fax: +33 4 68 92 60 46 with a variety of technical skills, Email: [email protected] meteorological and tactical knowledge. President Skype: corinnerollandmckenzie Dr Balazs Hajdu On top of that, the Finn looked great on Chairman Technical Committee Furj u 25, H-1124 Budapest, Hungary TV thanks to our gear evolution and the Richard Hart boat’s athleticism. 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Tel: +1 727 439 5505 (cell) Michele Marchesini Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] All in all, this summer saw the Finn in Skype: zachsail Chief Measurer extremely good shape and on behalf of Jüri Saraskin Vice-President – Masters’ Fleet the IFA Executive I would like to thank Lossi 1A, Tallinn, EE0026, Estonia everyone for their support from sailors to Fons van Gent Tel: (W) +372 6726 777, (H) +372 6726 222 Moerbeilaan 19, 6086 EC Neer Mobile: + 372 501 1321, Fax: +372 6726 778 coaches, event organisers to supporting The Netherlands Email: [email protected] parents, sailing clubs, sponsors and Tel: +31 475 592048 federations. Email: [email protected] Chairman Marketing Committee Robert Deaves Skype: fonsvangent Olympic Finn campaigns offer the 2 Exeter Road, Ipswich IP3 8JL, England www.finnworldmaster.com Mob: +44 (0)7932 047046 challenge that is envisioned in the Email: [email protected] Olympic ideals. The Finn allows the Skype: robert.deaves widest range of weight, age and physical sizes to compete on a truly equal level Cover photo: Ben Ainslie celebrates his and is the only dinghy to allow sailors third Finn gold medal in Weymouth. IFA WEB SITE above 85 kg to compete at Olympic Photo: François Richard www.finnclass.org level. Insets: Start in Weymouth (photo by François Richard), Silver Cup, Michele Sandrucci FINN SHOP All countries across the world bring more (photo by Marina Prinzivalli). www.finnclass.org/shop and more sailors to the Finn at a younger Next issue: April 2013 FINN MASTERS age. Class newcomers are now mainly Back issues: Back issues are available www.finnworldmaster.com juniors or ex Laser sailors with many through the Finnshop on the IFA website new countries starting Finn programmes from GBP 2 each including postage. THE FINN CHANNEL targeting the 2016 Rio Games. www.youtube.com/thefinnchannel FINNFARE NOVEMBER 2012 Finn news Photo: Conrad Brown New President for British Finn Association The British Finn Association (BFA) held its Big Ben Sail Past AGM during the Finn Open weekend at Christchurch on the 7-8 July. Andy Denison Could this be the last time that Olympic Champion Ben Ainslie (right) stood down as chairman and was sails his Finn? To celebrate his Olympic success he sailed thanked by all for his contribution to the his Finn specially adorned with a Union flag in front of the class over the past seven years, Graham famous Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on the River Brookes (left) was duly elected the new Thames in London. He was welcomed by a nice breeze and president of the BFA. a big crowd of onlookers coming to support him. It ended a spectacular summer for Ainslie after winning the Finn Gold Cup for the sixth time, being the first bearer of the Olympic torch in the UK and then winning his third Finn Olympic gold medal to take his total tally to one silver and four gold to become the most decorated Olympic sailor of all time. ISAF World Rankings - all change New Secretary of Italian Finn Association ISAF has introduced a new world ranking • Olympic Games and Test Events will not Francesco Faggiani (ITA 4) is the new system using a simplified formula that it be graded regattas. Secretary of the Italian Finn Association. hopes will be more representative of true He was unanimously elected on September sailor performance. The final ranking list The new formula for calculating ranking 23 at the AGM which was held in Scarlino using the old scoring system was released points is: Points=E(N-P+1)/N (E is Event during the Italian Open Championship. on August 15 2012 and it is interesting to Rank, N is # entries and P is place). The Francesco has been actively sailing the note the changes from one scoring system top 85% of finishers at a regatta will receive Finn for more than 10 years and is one of to the other points and scores will be rounded down to the top Italian Masters. He was 10th at the the next whole number. 2012 Finn World Masters in Pwlheli. His Fleet racing - Open - Finn - August 15 2012 predecessor Marco Buglielli stepped down 1 Rafa Trujillo Villar ESP 5460 All ISAF Sailing World Cup regattas will be after eight years and will continue sailing the 2 Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic CRO 5433 200-pointers along with the class World Finn and supporting the Italian Association. 3 Pieter-jan Postma NED 5419 Championships and the ISAF Sailing Thank you Marco (left) for all your hard work 4 Deniss Karpak EST 5412 World Championships. A sailor may count 5 Jonas Høgh-Christensen DEN 5286 and welcome Francesco (right). a maximum of three results from the World 6 Brendan Casey AUS 5231 Cup. ISAF Regulation 27 sets out the other 7 Zach Railey USA 5190 considerations for regatta grading. The 8 Jonathan Lobert FRA 5015 first ranking release using the new system 9 Dan Slater NZL 5010 10 Ben Ainslie GBR 4989 was published on 19 September. Regattas 11 Daniel Birgmark SWE 4971 that have taken place since 6 November 12 Vasilij Zbogar SLO 4818 2011 have been re-graded and the new 13 Eduard Skornyakov RUS 4773 calculation system applied.