The international part of Kiel Week came to an end with a total of six German overall victories in 15 classes. The second most successful nation on the regatta courses was Denmark with five wins, two class wins went to Australia and one win each to Belgium and Italy.
The duo Wolfgang Hunger/Holger Jess (Kiel/Eckernförde) finally prevailed in the 505. For Hunger, this meant his 14th victory in total at the Kieler Woche - he is now just one win away from the previous record held by Gerd Eiermann (Duisburg).
On the sea course, the action is dominated by the races in the IMS 600 European Championship. A total of six short races have been completed so far by the 14 participating yachts, with the "Hanseatic Lloyd" of Christian Plump (Bremen) a German ship in the lead. But the programme for the boats is far from complete with the races sailed so far. Another short race will be sailed on Wednesday before the medium distance race across the entire Baltic Sea starts at 12.00 noon.
The rules are tough in the thoroughly professional scene of the IMS 600 boats: no strings, limiting the number of professionals on board and other rules make for pure regatta sailing. The resulting disadvantages have already been felt by one of the favourites, the Mann/Jungblut team with the "Hispaniola". After a black flag decision, the ship is only in fourth place overall despite a first and a second place in the last two races. The "Hanseatic Lloyd" (Plump/Swiss) is in the lead with three first places, one third, one fifth and one sixth place.
Final results of the Kiel Week so far:
Bénéteau 25
1st Philipp Kadelbac/Jan Böttcher/ Sven Kruse/Solveig Boy/Marc Föge, GER, 12 points
2. Mads Christensen/Michael Casparij/Simon Mørup Petersen/Thomas Nathan/Casper Vang, DEN, 17 points
3. Claus Nehrig/Cornelius Heeschen/ Bahne Carstensen/Christian Boehmer/ Jörn Carstensen, GER, 26
Contender
1. Andrea Bonezzi, ITA, 8 points
2. Karsten Kraus, GER, 16
3. Sören Andreasen, DEN, 28
Dragons
1. Jørgen Schönherr/Anders Kaempe/ Axel Waldersdorph, DEN, 11 points
2. Harm Mueller-Spreer/Vincent Hoesch/Gunnar Bahr, GER, 21 points
3. Jesper Bendix/Jacob Grønbech/ Lars Christensen, DEN, 28
Europe M
1. Mikkel Bonde, DEN, 23 points
2nd Per Thorsell, SWE, 25
3. Arvid Claeson, SWE, 25
Flying Dutchman
1. Jacob Bojsen-Moller/Jorgen Bojsen-Møller, DEN, 8 points
2. Jörn Borowski/Andreas Berline, GER, 15 points
3. Kay-Uwe Lüdtke/Jens Salow, GER, 20
Folkboat
1st Kim Koch Fogde/Tonny Povlsen/ Allan Hansen, DEN, 22 points
2nd Henrik Kold/Flemming Kold/Bent Nielsen, DEN, 27
3. Per Hovmark/Søren Bredal Schultz/Claus Lauritsen, DEN, 30
H-Boat
1. Herluf Jörgensen/Christian Pasbjerg/Christen Justesen, DEN, 13 points
2nd Morten Nielsen/Niels Henrik Borch/Per Kloster Hansen, DEN, 13 points
3. Rolf Schuberth/Rainer Sorg/Karsten Meyer, GER, 35
Hobie 16
1. Ingo Delius/Katrin Wiese-Dohse, GER, 13 points
2nd Jens Goritz/Simone Monrea, GER, 14
3. Detlef Mohr/Thomas Reinke, GER, 23
J24
1. Jan Kähler/Sascha Tippe/Carsten Kerschies/Tobias Peters/Marc Schleifer, GER, 15 points
2nd Manfred König/Dr Olaf Schmidt/ Michael Peters/Anne Paech/Grit Möller, GER, 16 points
3. Peer Kock/Till Uterharck/Hans Brinck/Frank Kuhlmann, GER, 17
Keel draft bird
1st Thomas Schiffer/Heinz Lenz, GER, 7 points
2nd Manfred Braendle/Joachim Heinz, GER, 19 points
3. Michael Hotho/Alex Gensch, GER, 24
Laser Radial
1. Simon Morgan, AUS, 10 points
2nd Paige Railey, USA, 15
3. Paul McMahom, IRL, 26
OK-Dinghy
1st Bart Bomans, BEL, 11 points
2nd Martin von Zimmermann, GER, 29
3. Greg Wilcox, NZL, 31
Pirate
1. Karsten Bredt/Malte Frese, GER, 13 points
2. Jan Seekamp/Björn Schütte, GER, 13.5 points
3. Ralf Strzelecki/Frank Thieme, GER, 14
505
1. Wolfgang Hunger/Holger Jess, GER, 13 points
2nd Philippe Boite/Fabrice Toupet, FRA, 22
3. Claas Lehmann/Martin Schöler, GER, 25
420
1. Nathan Outteridge/Iain Jensen, AUS, 9 points
2. Luke Patience/Adam Wagner, GBR, 28
3. Robin Zinkmann/Stephan Heinze, GER, 41
