Australia’s Angus Galloway, Alexander Gough clinch 2011 420 Open Junior European Championship title
Australia’s 420 sailors, Angus Galloway and Alexander Gough had a rough final day at the 2011 420 Open Junior European Championship but they navigated brilliantly to finally clinch the title with 25 points despite a poor performance in the 10th race.
Due to lighter wind conditions, only one race could be conducted instead of three scheduled races.
The Australian team couldn’t perform well in the only race of the final day and finished 26th, however, the race was discarded from the event. With the help of their consistently superb performance throughout the event, Galloway and Gough secured
the top position in the Men’s gold fleet with 25 points overall to become the champions in the end.
While speaking to the local media at the end of the event, Galloway said, “We won by the skin of our teeth. We never really got back in the race and basically just were really deep by the finish. It's a little bit strange I guess. It is also a kind of relief.
We were the most consistent and we were able to use our drop to the last race. We are really happy with how our European sailing has panned out.”
Gough added, “Most of the fleet took 2 or 3 minutes to cross the line. From 4 minutes to go, we were pulled on trying to get across the line and we just couldn't get across, we were caught in a really light patch. We didn't get going until 3 or 4 minutes
after the gun when some pressure came through from the right.”
The overall standings of the Men’s gold fleet at the end of 420 Open European Championship are given below:
1. AUS 54203 Angus Galloway, Alexander Gough 2, 1, 1, 7, 2, 1, 7, 3, 1, (26) = 25 points
2. FRA 53922 Guillaume Pirouelle, Valentin Sipan 2, 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 3, (17), 4, 11 = 30 points
3. GRE 51581 Alexander Kavas, George Kavas 6, 2, 4, (DNF), 1, 8, 1, 2, 9, 1 = 34 points
4. GBR 53967 Tim Gratton, Ed Riley 1, 14, 2, 1, 3, 2, 5, 11, 3, (21) = 42 points
5. POR 54213 Goncalo Pires, Caetano Lacerda 4, 1, 11, 16, 2, 4, 9, 4, 6, (23) = 57 points
6. ISR 53972 Gal Cohen, Hadar Moran 1, 5, 4, 3, 1, 14, 18, 1, (21), 12 = 59 points
7. NED 53562 Floris van de Werken, Laurens van de Werken 3, 6, 2, 1, 18, 1, 13, 10, (30), 5 = 59 points
8. ESP 53398 Adrian Barcelo, Pedro Terrones 1, (DNF), 6, 2, 2, 3, 4, 13, 27, 6 = 64 points
9. ESP 53835 Jordi Xammar, Alex Claville 3, 1, 3, 5, 3, 3, 11, 22, 16, (34) = 67 points
10. ESP 52781 Xavier Antich, Ramon Lleonart 5, 2, 5, 19, 3, (DNF), 12, 15, 2, 4 = 67 points
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