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U.S. Sailors Complete First Two Races at Pan Am
Games
RIO DE
JANEIRO, Brazil (July 23, 2007) - Most U.S. sailors completed their first two
races of the XV Pan American Games today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All nine
sailing classes were underway as scheduled Monday at Glória Marina following
yesterday's cancellations. The women's RS:X was the lone class to complete
only one race after light winds prevented the sailors from rounding the course
within the time limit.
Andrew
Campbell (San Diego, Calif.), led off competition with a bullet in the first
race. He dropped to fifth in the second race, but finished the day in a tie
for first in the Laser class along with Chile's Matias del Solar (six points).
Paige Railey
(Clearwater, Fla.) started strong, finishing her first Laser Radial race in
fourth place. Despite calming winds as the second race got underway, she
completed the course in first to end the day in second (five points).
RS:X sailor
Nancy Rios (Cocoa Beach, Fla.) led part of the first race, and finished in
third place in her only scored race of the day.
In the
Sunfish class, Paul Foerster (Rockwall, Texas) sits in a three-way tie for
second after finishing second and fifth in the first two races.
The U.S.
Lightning team of Bill Faude (Chicago, Ill.), David Starck (Buffalo, N.Y.) and
Jody Starck (Buffalo, N.Y.) are tied for third with seven points (3-4).
The U.S. Snipe pair of Augie Diaz (Miami, Fla.) and Tracy Smith (Newport,
R.I.) are in fourth, and Ben Barger (Tampa, Fla.) is in fourth in the men's
RS:X.
Eliza Cleveland (Branford, Conn.) and Bob Merrick (Branford, Conn.) improved
from sixth in their first race to fourth in the second to enter day two of
sailing tied for fifth in the Hobie 16.
The U.S. J-24 boat of Dan Borrer (St. Augustine Beach, Fla.), Josh Putnam
(Augusta, Ga.), Nate Vilardebo (Tampa, Fla.) and Patrick Wilson (Savannah,
Ga.) finished 6-5 in the first two races to head into tomorrow tied for sixth.
The sailors will be back on the water tomorrow with races scheduled to get
underway at 1 p.m. local. If wind conditions are favorable, they will attempt
to complete three races before daylight runs out to make up for Sunday's
cancellations.
The XV Pan American Games feature 5,654 athletes from 42 nations competing in
37 sports. The sailing competition is taking place at the Glória Marina in the
Guanabara Bay. The Pan American Games are held every four years, historically
one year before the Olympic Games. The first Pan American Games were held in
1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, visit:
www.rio2007.org.br.
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and oversight of competitive sailing across the country, including National
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RESULTS
Top Three and USA
Laser Radial (12 boats) -- 2 races
1. Canada 2-2: 4 (Lisa Ross)
2. USA 4-1: 5 (Paige Railey/Clearwater, Fla.)
3. Argentina 3-4: 7 (Cecilia Carranza Saroli)
Laser (12 boats) -- 2 races
T1. USA 1-5: 6 (Andrew Campbell/San Diego, Calif.)
T1. Chile 4-2: 6 (Matias del Solar)
3. Brazil 3-4: 7 (Robert Scheidt)
RS:X Men (nine boats) -- 2 races
1. Mexico 1-1: 2 (David Mier Y Teran)
T2. Brazil 3-2: 5 (Ricardo Winicki)
T2. Argentina 2-3: 5 (Mariano Reutemann)
T4. USA 5-4: 9 (Ben Barger/Tampa, Fla.)
T4. Venezuela 4-5: 9 (Carlos Flores)
RS:X Women (seven boats) - 1 race
1. Canada 1 (Dominique Vallee)
2. Argentina 2 (Florencia Gutierrez)
3. USA 3 (Nancy Rios/Cocoa Beach, Fla.)
Lightning (seven boats) -- 2 races
1. Chile 1-1: 2 (Alberton Gonzalez, Diego Gonzalez, Cristian Herman)
2. Brazil 2-3: 5 (Claudio Biekarck, Gunnar Ficker, Silva Marcelo)
T3. Ecuador 5-2: 7 (Sebastian Herrera Castro, Juan Santos Dillon, Juan Santos
Garces)
T3. USA 3-4: 7 (Bill Faude/Chicago, Ill.; David Starck/Buffalo, N.Y.; Jody
Starck/Buffalo, N.Y.)
Sunfish (11 boats) -- 2 races
1. Venezuela 3-1: 4 (Eduardo Cordero)
T2. Peru 1-6: 7 (Alexander Zimmermann)
T2. Virgin Islands 5-2: 7 (Peter Stanton)
T2. USA 2-5: 7 (Paul Foerster/Rockwall, Texas)
J24 (seven boats) -- 2 races
1. Argentina 1-2: 3 (Joaquin Duarte Argerich, Gustavo Gonzalez, Sebastian Peri
Brusa, Alejo Rigoni)
T2. Uruguay 4-3: 7 (Alejandro Foglia Mafio, Sebastian Rana, Nicolas Shaban,
Santiago Silveria)
T2. Canada 3-4: 7 (Mark Goodyear, Rossi Milev, Erwyn Naidoo, Mike Wolfs)
6. USA 6-5: 11 (Daniel Borrer/St. Augustine Beach, Fla.; Nate Vilardebo/Tampa,
Fla.;Patrick Wilson/Savannah, Ga.; Josh Putnam/Augusta, Ga.)
Hobie Cat 16 (eight boats) -- 2 races
1. Brazil 1-1: 2 (Bernardo Arndt, Bruno Oliveira)
2. Guatemala 3-2: 5 (Cristina Guirola, Juan Ignacio Maegli)
3. Venezuela 4-3: 7 (Gonzalo Cendra, Yamil Saba)
T5. USA 6-4: 10 (Bob Merrick/Branford, Conn.; Eliza Cleveland/Branford, Conn.)
T5. MEX 5-5: 10 (Javier Cabildo Quiroz, Katia Dennise Real Lopez)
Snipe (11 boats) -- 2 races
T1. Brazil 1-3:4 (Pedro Amaral, Alexandre Paradeda)
T1. Uruguay 2-2: 4 (Pablo Defazio, Eduardo Medici)
3. Argentina 6-1: 7 (Francisco Bonaventura, Adrian Oscar Marcatelli)
4. USA 5-4: 9 (Augie Diaz/Miami, Fla.; Tracy Smith/Newport, R.I.)
QUOTES FROM MONDAY, JULY 23, 2007
Andrew Campbell (San Diego, Calif.)
"I didn't get off the line quite as well as I wanted to in the second race.
It's pretty difficult out there. It's really shifty back and forth, and I
didn't really find myself in the best spot to get a good lane. I think I ran
in about seventh or eighth, so I picked up a few boats in the first reach,
picked up two more on the second run. So, I was gaining the whole time, and
I'm in the top five - that's where I wanted to be. It's not a bad finish, and
the first race kind of gave me a glimpse of how I can be sailing against the
other boats."
"The first race was good. I got off the line in a great spot and hit the first
shift, and was long gone. It was really nice to just punch out, be in clear
air and going fast the whole time. My boat speed felt fine, but it's a little
hard to tell. That second race I think showed that everybody is a little more
even."
Paige Railey (Clearwater, Fla.)
"I achieved what I wanted to today, which was just consistent scores, and I
just kept going race-by-race."
"The wind shifted and died a lot, so the second race was completely different
conditions than the first."
Nancy Rios (Cocoa Beach, Fla.)
On the conditions: "When we first went out, it was breezy, and right before
the start it got light. The first race was fine, and the second race the wind
just died."
On the competition: "I race against a lot of these girls frequently - Canada
and Mexico - we actually train together. When it's such a small fleet, you
don't know what's going to happen. Someone can get a little big of breeze and
pass you. It's really about whoever stays in the wind and pumps harder.
Whenever everyone's that close, there's a lot more pressure, and when there's
just one point between you and another girl."
(End)
Marni H. Lane
Press Officer, US Sailing Teams
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