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20
Aug 2010

French President (well, the 420 one anyway) wishes all sailors 'Bonne Chance!'

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Final preparations for the start of the 2010 Junior European Championships are being made at SR Rochelaises in La Rochelle. The second day of measurement today, with the Practice Race this afternoon, when the boats will sail in two arbitrary flights for this race only.
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31
Jul 2010

Singapore & Italy are 420 World Champions in Haifa

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Roberto Caputo & Bernedetta Barbiero of Italy are Ladies' World and Junior World 420 Champions 2010 and Justin Liu & Sherman Cheng of Singapore are the World Champions.

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30
Jul 2010

Leadership line-up holds, but SINs extend lead at Haifa

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Leaders hold their places in the Open Gold Fleet at Haifa on the second day of the Finals, while a British dual develops in the Silver Fleet, with challenges from Portugal and Germany..

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30
Jul 2010

Caputo-Barbiero lead an ITA-USA-GBR line-up in Ladies Finals Day2

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Meanwhile, The Italians seem to want to sew-up the podium in the Ladies' Silver Fleet....will they hold the line?

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29
Jul 2010

Liu & Cheng (SIN) take over Open lead at end of Day 1 of the Finals

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With three races on Thursday and a very “nervous”` Fleet - with 19 BFD in Race 2 – a somewhat different pattern from the end of the Qualifiers emerged, for now at least..

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29
Jul 2010

Kalderon & Brewer (GBR) assume the lead in the Ladies after Day 1 of the Finals

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Similarly to the Open Fleet, but in Race 3 in this case, there were 11 BFD the Ladies’ Fleet. Again there will be some careful watching for the impact of the discard in due course. The advantage here in Haifa is certainly that seven hours of racing seems assured.

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29
Jul 2010

Greece & Italy lead after Qualifiers at Haifa

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160 boats, 320 sailors from 6 continents, are competing in the 420 World Championships 2010 in Haifa, Israel.

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26
Jul 2010

Ladies Results after Day 1 revised after Protest Hearings; good prospects for today

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The Championship website had some outage overnight, but is back up.

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22
Jul 2010

420s gather in Haifa for 50th Anniversary World Championships

Event News

160 boats, 320 sailors and a whole host of coaches, team managers, officials – Jury, Race Committee, Measurers, Organisers and staff of the Haifa Sailing Club and the Haifa Municipality…. and a good many supporters too….are gathered on the Hashaket Beach, the ‘quiet beach’ [well hardly with 420s around! (ed)] just between the very large, tertiary referral Rambam Hospital and the Naval Dockyard and Port of Haifa.

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16
Jul 2010

420 fleets race at dusk on day two at Istanbul

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Lara Vadlau & Elli Smolka (AUT) took the women’s lead with a 2nd (home team Ipeknaz Özden & Deniz Gökmeral scored a bullet) and Linda Fahrni & Maja Siegenhalter (SUI) hold in 2nd overall, while Maelenn Lemaitre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) move up to 3rd.
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