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Sailing OlympicOlympic test off Enoshima: Start with victory and crash

Tatjana Pokorny

 · 10.09.2018

Sailing Olympic: Olympic test off Enoshima: Start with victory and crashPhoto: Sailing Energy/World Sailing
Day 1
Philipp Buhl started the test regatta off Enoshima with a one-day victory. The two German Nacra 17 teams have to repair their boats overnight

It was a perfect start for World Championship bronze medallist Philipp Buhl in shifty and gusty winds. The Laser helmsman from Sonthofen from the Alpsee Immenstadt Sailing Club opened the World Cup regatta in the upcoming Olympic area off Enoshima with a win on the day, followed by 10th place and was in second place in the largest fleet of 59 dinghies after the first day.

A one-day victory at the start: Philipp Buhl had a successful start to the World Cup regattaPhoto: Sailing Energy/World Sailing A one-day victory at the start: Philipp Buhl had a successful start to the World Cup regatta

The two German Nacra 17 teams Paul Kohlhoff and Alica Stuhlemmer from the Kieler Yacht-Club and Johannes Polgar/Carolina Werner (Norddeutscher Regatta Verein/Kieler Yacht-Club) each had to cope with a crash and had a lot of work ahead of them on Wednesday night. For Kohlhoff/Stuhlemmer it was still enough to finish 8th with 9th, 7th and 4th place, while for the 18-year-old foresailor Alica Stuhlemmer it was the first World Cup regatta of her career. The team reported: "It was a solid first day here in Enoshima. We were able to improve our performance throughout the day. Unfortunately, both German boats had serious collisions. Now we have some work ahead of us until we are ready to race again tomorrow." Polgar/Werner are in 13th place after the first three races after finishing 7th, 16th (as a result of the crash) and 26 points for not starting the third race. Whether their foiling catamaran will be ready to start on Wednesday was not certain in the evening in view of the serious damage.

The Nacra 17 sailors Johannes Polgar and Carolina Werner had a lot of work ahead of them after the crash at the start to get their hull fit again for the following dayPhoto: Reload Sailing The Nacra 17 sailors Johannes Polgar and Carolina Werner had a lot of work ahead of them after the crash at the start to get their hull fit again for the following day The bow number 13 brought Johannes Polgar and Carolina Werner no luck on the first day of the World Cup regatta in the Japanese World Cup and Olympic area - this is what their Nacra 17 looked like after a crashPhoto: Reload Sailing The bow number 13 brought Johannes Polgar and Carolina Werner no luck on the first day of the World Cup regatta in the Japanese World Cup and Olympic area - this is what their Nacra 17 looked like after a crash World Championship bronze medallists Tim Fischer and Fabian Graf are gaining experience in the Olympic arena for 2020 and want to achieve another top resultPhoto: Sailing Energy/World Sailing World Championship bronze medallists Tim Fischer and Fabian Graf are gaining experience in the Olympic arena for 2020 and want to achieve another top result

In the 49er, World Championship bronze medallists Tim Fischer/Fabian Graf (Norddeutscher Regatta Verein/Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee) missed out on an even better ranking than eighth place after finishing 12th and 4th, because they collected their 25-point penalty in the third race. The Berlin 470 sailors Frederike Loewe and Anna Markfort also opened this test regatta two years before the 2020 Olympic Games in 8th place. The British and Italians were noticeably strong at the start of the six-day series, with their sailors taking the lead in three classes each. Among the front-runners is Sir Ben Ainslie's America's Cup tactician Giles Scott, who is back in the Finn dinghy after a long break and has taken command straight away.

The World Cup regatta ends on 16 September with the final medal races.

Click here for the intermediate results of the World Cup regatta off Enoshima.

The German Sailing Team at the "Japanese" photo shoot in kimonosPhoto: German Sailing Team The German Sailing Team at the "Japanese" photo shoot in kimonos
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Tatjana Pokorny

Tatjana Pokorny

Sports reporter

Tatjana “tati” Pokorny is the author of nine books. As a reporter for Europe's leading sailing magazine YACHT, she also works as a correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA), the Hamburger Abendblatt and other national and international media. In summer 2024, Tatjana will be reporting from Marseille on her ninth consecutive Olympic Games. Other core topics have been the America's Cup since 1992, the Ocean Race since 1993, the Vendée Globe and other national and international regattas and their protagonists. Favorite discipline: Portraits of and interviews with sailing personalities. When she started out in sports journalism, she was still intensively involved with basketball and other sports, but sailing quickly became her main focus. The reason? The declared optimist says: “There is no other sport like it, no other sport with such interesting and intelligent personalities, no other sport so diverse, no other sport so full of energy, strength and ideas. Sailing is like a constantly refreshing declaration of love for life."

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