Bundesliga: Despite South win in the North: VSaW top of the table at half-time

At the halfway point of the seventh season of the still young Bundesliga, the Seglerhaus am Wannsee (VSaW) club is dominating the action. After three of six league weekends, the Berliners have extended their lead in the table to five points ahead of Wassersport-Verein Hemelingen (14 points) with consistently good performances. Fourth place at the third summit meeting of the year off Travemünde was enough for the team from the capital around helmsman Tim Elsner. The four-time record champions from the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (NRV), whose team led by helmsman Tobi Schadewaldt had to be satisfied with eighth place in Travemünde after mixed results, are third in the table ahead of the remaining three first league regattas of the season. The VSaW league sailors are thus once again on course for the championship trophy, which they have never been able to win in six attempts so far despite four podium finishes at the end of the season.

Several clubs celebrated during the Travemünde Week on the final Monday of the league. First and foremost the Travemünde winners from Württembergischer Yacht-Club, who with helmsman Dennis Mehlig, Lukas Ammon, Yannick Hafner and Kevin Mehlig were able to secure their place on the top step of the podium by winning the last of the 48 races. The couple Andreas and Suzanne Willim could also have cheered on the Baltic Sea until the very end - in the end, the strong climbers and their team from Schlei-Segel-Club with Timm Schönig and Knud Schröter were only two points short of their first Bundesliga triumph. The team from Segel- und Motorboot-Club Überlingen with helmsman Steffen Heßberger sailed to third place off Travemünde. This meant that two Lake Constance teams finished on the podium in this summery showdown.

It was not only the Hemelingen Water Sports Club in seventh place and the North German Regatta Club in eighth place that had a harder time than usual in the north, but also other league heavyweights such as the German Touring Yacht Club in ninth place, the Chiemsee Yacht Club in eleventh place and the Bavarian Yacht Club in twelfth place. The crew from the Flensburger Segel-Club, which had initially shown great promise, had a black streak. Two early starts took the team so far off course that in the end they only managed 18th and last place off Travemünde.

Here to see the results from Travemünde and the table.