Diego NEGRI | Frithjof KLEEN | ITA | ||
Tonči STIPANOVIĆ | Tudor BILIĆ | CRO | ||
Johann SPITZAUER | Hans-Christian NEHAMMER | AUT |
Saturday, September 04, 2021 | |
0900 - 1800 | Registration |
0900 - 1800 | Inspection of boats |
0900 - 1800 | Team Weigh-In |
Sunday, September 05, 2021 | |
0900 - 1700 | Registration |
0900 - 1700 | Inspection of boats |
0900 - 1700 | Team Weigh-In |
1830 | Opening Ceremony (Dress Code Blazer) |
Monday, September 06, 2021 | |
0800 - 1000 | Registration |
0800 - 1000 | Inspection of boats |
0800 - 1000 | Team Weigh-In |
1000 | All Boats afloat (NOR 13) |
1030 | Skippers Meeting |
1030 | Warning Signal for Racing |
After Racing | Social hour with snacks and beer |
Tuesday, September 07, 2021 | |
1200 | Warning Signal for Racing |
After Racing | Social hour with snacks and beer |
Wednesday, September 08, 2021 | |
1200 | Warning Signal for Racing |
After Racing | Mid-week trophy awards |
Thursday, September 09, 2021 | |
1200 | Warning Signal for Racing |
1930 | Gala Dinner (Dress-Code Blazer) |
Friday, September 10, 2021 | |
1200 | Warning Signal for Racing |
After racing | Social hour with snacks and beer |
Saturday, September 11, 2021 | |
1030 | Warning Signal for Racing |
1430 | Latest warning signal time |
After Racing | Championship Awards, Farewell Party |
Entry is now open for the 2022 Star World Championship. This will be a celebration of the first 100 years of the Star World Championships.
Read Full ArticleThe 2021 Star World Champions who won the event yesterday at the end of Race 5, Diego Negri (ITA) and Frithjof Kleen, have sailed a flawless series and topped everyone else in the 83-boat fleet. They opted for not racing today and left the field free to the teams fighting for the Star Worlds podium. And it proved to be quite a battle, first of all with their nerves.
18 boats were spotted over the starting line early in the second general recall of race six with a black flag hoisted, and for this they were disqualified. A heavy burden for a few, already discarding a high result in their scorecard. They all presented a request for redress, but the jury rejected all but one. Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Bruno Prada were granted redress by the International Jury but due to their first UFD, it didn’t help much in their hunt for a place in the spotlight.
On the water, the fight for the medals was decided between the Austrians Johann Spitzauer and Hans-Christian Nehammer (AUT) and Olympic silver medalist Tonci Stipanovic with Tudor Bilic (CRO). The 2017 Star World Champion Eivind Melleby (NOR) with Guy Thomas Avellon (USA) and Denmark's Jörgen Schönherr, who had three-time European Champion Markus Koy (GER) onbord, were also still in the game.
“It is unbelievable, a dream come true", commented a very emotional Diego Negri, who has been a three-time runner-up at the Star Worlds. "And today was a tough day with rain and clouds around. Towards the end the wind dropped a lot so I was really, really afraid that it would be cancelled and it would have been too much to take in, but luckily we made it to the finish line”.
“It’s been a long way to come to this finish line. All my sailing history is coming together here, today. I think it was a tough championship, with some waiting in the beginning, and then two long races per day, trying to keep the focus at all times. But it’s great, and it came in a good moment in my sailing career. I don't know what I could have done better this week, I knew that we had to do something special to beat the other guys, Mateusz and Bruno, Xavier and the others, and I think Frithjof and I really did something special. We’ve prepared hard for this, with Werner Fritz helping us, coming out so many times with us on Lake Garda, always trusting us, and then thanks to Folli who gave me this amazing beautiful girl, I love her!! I named her ‘21’ because she arrived after the pandemic in 2021, and she is a winner like in blackjack, where 21 is the winning number. So she will now be my baby forever. Special thanks go to my family, of course, especially my wife, without her, there would be no chance I could have done any of this. Thanks to everyone!”
It was a lovely summer day in Kiel this morning, and some great conditions awaited the 83 teams on the racecourse for some fantastic racing with 8 to 15 knots of steady easterly breeze. The splendid weather was letting everyone forget about how tough the competition is at the Star World Championship, but with the first starting procedures and a few notable black flags the attention level was right back up.
Reigning World and European champions, respectively Mateusz Kusznierewicz (POL) with Bruno Prada (BRA) and Enrico Chieffi with Nando Colaninno (ITA), were caught over the line early and with the U flag in place they were only advised at the top mark. Same fate for yesterday's winners Hans Spitzauer and Christian Nehammer (AUT). So there goes their throw-out – when five races are reached – and they’ll have to sail more conservatively from now on.
Day three of the 2021 Star World Championship in Kiel, Germany, started in a very similar way as the previous two. A very long wait ashore with the dreaded AP flag hanging low and lifeless on the notice pole until about 1pm, when it was lowered and a voice on the VHFs unbelievably called the 83 teams on the racecourse. Joy exploded on the dock and in no-time everyone was on their way to join the Race Committee, about an hour away from the harbor.
The scenario they met wasn’t exciting, the clouds were still blocking the east wind from filling in. Only at 15.30, the same voice announced the starting procedures of race one would begin in 20 minutes. The 2021 Star World Championship was then finally on with the first race underway.
The high pressure system over Europe is sadly affecting the 2021 Star World Championship in Kiel, Germany. It’s almost ironic if you think the 83 teams are all so keen to get on the water after missing the Worlds last year for the pandemic.
Read Full ArticleCountry | Sail | Skipper | Crew |
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GER | 8225 | Helge Spehr | Andreas Kaerger |
GER | 8501 | John Helmsing | Wolfgang Joppich |
DEN | 8562 | Jørgen Schönherr | Markus Koy |
GER | 8204 | Jan Borbet | Jesper Spehr |
DEN | 8296 | Flemming Sørensen | Niels Thrysøe |
SWE | 8541 | Anders Högland | Peter Söderblom |
DEN | 8010 | per Madsen | Henrik Ahrentsen |
GER | 8446 | Hubert Merkelbach | Kilian Weise |
DEN | 8380 | Johnny Jensen | Søren Brask |
DEN | 8582 | Frank Berg | Marcel Beltz |
DEN | 8517 | Lars Hendriksen | Jan Eli Gravad |
GER | 8103 | Arnd Glunde | Bennet Schuettke |
USA | 8564 | Thomas Londrigan | TC Belco |
GER | 8361 | Stefan Lehnert | Dietmar Hobbie |
GER | 8262 | Jochen Diercks | Herbert Braasch |
GER | 8299 | Heiko Winkler | Uwe Thielemann |
ITA | 8563 | enrico chieffi | Ferdinando Colaninno |
ITA | 8290 | MARIO BORROI | Edward Wright |
SUI | 8539 | Piet Eckert | Frederico Melo |
SWE | 8475 | Lars Nordling | Gustav Johansson |
GER | 7272 | Reiner Petersen | Oliver Berger |
GER | 8400 | Jörg Mellis | Felix Schwill |
DEN | 7994 | Michael Posselt | Allan Reinert |
GER | 8055 | Phillip Kasueske | Michael Schulz |
GER | 7865 | Georg Faber | Holger Stockfleth |
AUS | 8261 | Jake Lilley | Alexey Selivanov |
GER | 8419 | Florian von Linde | Robin von Linde |
GER | 8427 | Reinhard Schmidt | Niels Hentschel |
HUN | 8386 | Tibor Tenke | Miklós Bezeréti |
CRO | 8531 | Marin Misura | Tonko Barac |
USA | 8310 | Benjamin Sternberg | Stuart MacIntosh |
SWE | 8566 | Tom Lofstedt | Johan Tillander |
GER | 7971 | Robin Nolte | Andree Nolte |
GER | 8179 | Klaus Meyer | Bernhard Schaefer |
GER | 8311 | Thorsten Huelsmann | Ralf Vockel |
FRA | 8196 | Raoul DABRY | Tristan COTTE |
AUT | 8529 | Johann Spitzauer | Hans-Christian Nehammer |
GER | 8378 | Frank Tusch | Sven Winkelmann |
SWE | 5618 | Leif Carlsson | Tomas Karlsson |
SWE | 7978 | Ingvar Krook | Christoffer Lundgren |
GER | 8552 | Thomas Kohler | Alexander Fischer-Brandies |
ITA | 8527 | Paolo Nazzaro | Paolo Cisbani |
DEN | 7694 | Erik Otterstad | Karsten Ahrentsen |
USA | 8570 | Doug Smith | Brian O'Mahony |
POL | 8548 | Mateusz Kusznierewicz | Bruno Prada |
SUI | 8560 | Juerg Ryffel | Beat Heinz |
SUI | 8549 | Christoph Gautschi | Dominik Schenk |
GER | 8513 | Daniel Fritz | Alberto Ambrosini |
PUR | 8455 | Joshua Powell | Mark Strube |
SWE | 8108 | Erik Dahlén | David Nogén |
GER | 7863 | lars keilwitz | Matthias Wolff |
GER | 7392 | Vincent Schrader | Marcel Vockel |
ITA | 8567 | Diego Negri | Frithjof Kleen |
GER | 8534 | Thomas Appel | Christian Knoll |
USA | 8308 | Charles Beek | Uli Seeberger |
DEN | 7667 | Jesper Christiansen | Finn Hoff |
DEN | 8571 | Jørgen Svendsen | Frederik Svendsen |
GER | 8198 | Martin Jahrmarkt | Kristian Klein |
SWE | 8433 | carl schröder | henrik glimmstedt |
SUI | 8512 | Bernhard Seger | Walter Oess |
DEN | 8305 | Bo Echwald | Stig Rahbek |
ITA | 8200 | RICCARDO IMPROTA | andrea lupoli |
GER | 7866 | Felix Gold | Philip Behn |
GER | 7466 | Günter Kellermann | Gebhard Jagelki |
GER | 8385 | Hubert RAUCH | Gregor Bornemann |
NOR | 8565 | Eivind Melleby | Guy Avellon |
GER | 8027 | Soenke Westphal | Malte Westphal |
ARG | 8553 | Juan Kouyoumdjian | Enrico Voltolini |
GER | 8321 | Max Kohlhoff | Ole Burzinski |
CRO | 8540 | Tonči Stipanović | Tudor Bilić |
GER | 8122 | Uwe Barth | Steffen Rutz |
SWE | 8496 | staffan thunell | Nils Bergstrand |
POL | 7974 | Marcin Styborski | Jerzy Sukow |
POL | 8544 | Ireneusz Stawiany | Bartosz Szydłowski |
NED | 8417 | Roelof van Olst | Tjacko van Olst |
SWE | 8358 | Lars Ahlström | Benjamin Pettersson |
FRA | 8237 | Xavier ROHART | Ante Sitic |
NED | 8350 | Floris Van Ede | Pieter Bas Hendriks |
NED | 8381 | Guus Poelen | Hans Mersmann |
GER | 8149 | Jolanda-Lene Engel / Müller | Christopher Engel |
GER | 8396 | Lothar Geilen | Carlos Miquel |
GER | 8093 | Marko A. Hasche | David Fetterle |
GER | 8434 | Juergen Wolff | Gerd Habermüller |