Rankings at January 15th 2010

[FDBulletin]

Since last update of the VM World Ranking 1 events has been sailed:

The Australian National Championship was sailed in Sorrento and was won by Ian McCrossin and James Cook in the AUS 33.

However the scores of 2 events do no longer apply for the ranking:

The New Zealand's National Championship in Napier
The 2008 World Championship in New Zealand

The first place of the HUN 70 in the 2008 was good for 176 points that now are no longer admissable. Their lead in the VM Worldranking lasted 8 weeks. The new leaders are Bas and Marc van der Pol in the NED 32 who were in the lead 8 weeks ago.

1 NED 32 Bas van der Pol and Marc van der Pol
2 GER 199 Dirk Bogumil and Michael Lisken
3 HUN 70 Szabolcs Majthényi and András Domokos
4 NED 26 Enno Kramer and Ard Geelkerken
5 GER 113 Kilian König and Johannes Brack
6 ITA 10 Roberto Cipriani and Stefano Morelli
7 NED 25 Harold Wijgers and Niels Kamphuis
8 NED 5 Fred Schaaf and Casper Schaaf
9 DEN 21 Jörgen Bojsen-Møller and Jacob Bojsen-Møller
10 GER 87 Hans-Peter Schwarz and Roland Kirst

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Next update of the "Vogel & Meier" FD World Ranking will be around February 12th 2010

[Sjors]

The leading score of Bas and Marc van der Pol in the NED 32 of 852 points includes the following results:

1st at the Easter Regatta NED 22 X 4 = 88 points
4th at the Trapezregatta GER = 39 points
1st at the Westeinder NED 13 X 4 = 52 points
8th at the Voor-Braassem NED = 3 points
1st at the North Sea Regatta - Dutch NC 21 X 4 = 84 points
9th at Kiel Week GER = 19 points
5th at Workum NED = 15 points
2nd at the Tune-up Regatta NED 20 X 3 = 60 points
3rd at the World Championship NED 90 X 2 = 180 points
1st at the 4th Centennial New Netherlands Championship USA 53 X 4 = 212 points
21st at the 400th Anniversary of New Amsterdam Championships USA = 28 points
2nd at the Gulcher Memorial Regatta NED 24 X 3 = 72 points