2003 Laser 4.7 World Championship

Cesme, Turkey

Day 1.

Blue skies, warm sun, big waves and 16 knot winds provided sparkling conditions
for the opening day of the Laser 4.7 World Championships.  There were smiles all
around as the 95 competitors from 18 countries and 3 continents returned to the
shore after completing two races on the first day.

The biggest smile was on the face of 17 year old Milosz Landowski from Poland who
was the only sailor to score two first places.  The total fleet is split into two
groups of equal merit for each race for the first 4 days of the championship. For
the final two days the fleet is split into gold and silver groups.

For the first race of the day the left hand side of the windward legs paid.
Landowski took a while to settle after a close battle with Alican Kaynar TUR.
In the second race the left side was less favoured and Landowski produced a
dominating performance extending his first mark lead to 1.5 minutes at the end of
the race.  Second place Philip White from Great Britain said "Milosz was very fast.
At 61 kg I am pleased with my third and second place and hope that Milsoz with be a
little slower in lighter conditions!"

In the yellow fleet Onur Derebasi TUR, who recently won the Balkan Championship,
was led home by fellow countryman Mustafa Cakir in the first race.  In the second
race Derebasi had to fight his way through the field before finally catching
Bojan Ive from Croatia on the last downwind leg of the trapezoid course.

Provisonal Overall Results:
No        Sailno  Name                                    Scores   1   2
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  1 POL    176745  LANDOWSKI Milosz, Male                     2,0   1   1
  2 TUR    172432  DEREBASI Onur, Male                        3,0   2   1
  3 GBR    164397  WHITE Philip, Male                         5,0   3   2
  4 TUR    157359  CINAR Ates, Male                           6,0   3   3
  5 TUR    172556  CAKIR Mustafa, Male                        8,0   1   7
  6 ITA    167956  MECOZZI Alfredo, Male                      8,0   4   4
  7 CRO    171270  IVE Bojan, Male                           10,0   8   2
  8 FIN    173351  COLLURA Pierre Angelo, Male, U15          10,0   4   6
  9 TUR    174874  KARAGUN Ercan, Male                       11,0   6   5
 10 TUR    162683  UNVER Ayda, Female                        12,0   7   5
 11 TUR    169911  KAYNAR Alican, Male                       13,0   2  11
 12 CRO    142677  BILIC Tudor, Male                         14,0  10   4
 13 SLO    167974  DOMIJAN Luka, Male, U15                   14,0   5   9
 14 PER    167196  STEWART Alek, Male                        14,0   6   8
 15 TUR    167864  TARIM Batuhan, Male                       16,0   9   7
 16 TUR    167869  SAVAS Halil, Male                         17,0  11   6
 17 TUR    172557  SARMAN Didem, Female                      18,0   9   9
 18 TUR    169908  YEKSAN Ali Emrah, Male                    19,0   5  14
 19 TUR    169958  YILMAZKOC Yaman, Male                     20,0   7  13
 20 CHI    164141  GREZ AHRENS Cristóbal, Male               20,0   8  12


Full results:www.laserchampionships.org