Champalimaud (POR) new leader of Dragon Gold Cup
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Manuel Champalimaud is the new leader of the Cascais Dragon Gold Cup. The Portuguese sailor was eighth in the championship's fourth race and has a three point advantage from Poul Richard Hoj Jensen, Theis Palm and Andrew Mordem and 8,7 from Robert Campbell, Matt Walker and Jonathan Hill, both from Great Britain.
Champalimaud with Mark Hart and Ed Streeter are showing an impressive regularity and reached the first place. An unexpected result as Champalimaud says:
'I didn't expect to be the leader. Here, there are 74 crews that can win. My crew is doing a fantastic job. We're a real team and all the decisions are made as a team. I think that's the main reason why we're so regular and sailing so well.'
Champalimaud doesn't feel any extra pressure to win the Cascais Dragon Gold Cup: 'I just want keep sailing calmly, as I've been doing these days', says the helm of 'Mar'.
Lars Hendriksen, George Leonchuk and Martin Leifelt, from Ukraine scored a 1st place in Race 4, on a 12 mile course, with the south wind blowing 6 to 8 knots. Russia's Maxim Semerkhanov, Dmitri Tereshkin and Russian Formichev were second and Ireland's Don O'Donoghue, Brian Mathews and Mark Pettitt, ended third.
Thursday the fleet will have one race, starting at 14:00h.
Dragon Gold Cup - Positions after 4 races
| Place | Sail No | Helm | Crew | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | POR-42 | Manuel Champalimaud | Mark Hart / Ed Streeter | 63 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 14 |
| 2 | GBR-735 | Poul Richard Hoj Jensen | Theis Palm / Andrew Mordem | 66 | 10 | 26 | 22 | 8 |
| 3 | GBR-688 | Robert Campbell | Matt Walker / Jonathan Hill | 71,7 | 27 | 15 | 5,7 | 24 |
| 4 | DEN-166 | Tom Carlsen | Mark Flint / Philipp Skafte-Holm | 78,4 | 11,7 | 34 | 11,7 | 21 |
| 5 | GBR-716 | Gavia Wilkinson-Cox | Jon Mortimer / Ron Rosenberg | 79 | 45 | 3 | 16 | 15 |
| 6 | UKR-8 | Eugeniy Braslavets | Sergey Timokhov / Claus Olesen | 81 | 26 | 0 | 29 | 26 |
| 7 | UKR-9 | Lars Hendriksen | George Leonchuk / Martin Leifelt | 82 | 17 | 30 | 35 | 0 |
| 8 | SUI-288 | Robert Stanjek | Markus Koy / Friedemann Nisch | 82 | 22 | 10 | 37 | 13 |
| 9 | RUS-77 | Inna Shternberg | Yury Bozhedomov / Petr Zakharov | 90 | 36 | 29 | 15 | 10 |
| 10 | UKR-7 | Markus Wieser | Thomas Auracher / Sergei Pugatchev | 91 | 8 | 21 | 32 | 30 |
| 11 | GER-976 | Dirk David | Stefan Abel / Mark Bayer | 98 | 34 | 14 | 30 | 20 |
| 12 | RUS-31 | Emelianov Konstantin | Mikhail Senatorov / Alexandz Prokorov | 105 | 18 | 22 | 28 | 37 |
| 13 | RUS-44 | Artiom Kuznetsov | Vladimir Silkin / Georgy Shayduko | 113 | 0 | 32 | 26 | 55 |
| 14 | GER-1036 | Max Glas | Wolfi Steuer / Simon Ramstetter | 116 | 29 | 25 | 27 | 35 |
| 15 | POR-47 | Henrique Anjos | Vasco Serpa / Pedro Costa Alem?o | 119 | 38 | 33 | 17 | 31 |
| 16 | RUS-71 | Maxim Semerkhanov | Dmitri Tereshkin / Ruslan Formichev | 123 | 42 | 37 | 41 | 3 |
| 17 | GER-996 | Thomas Muller | Vincent Hoesch / Maximillian Scheibmair | 124,4 | 81 | 11,7 | 20 | 11,7 |
| 18 | RUS-25 | Alexey Krylov | Vlad Kapitonov / Alexey Bushuev | 128 | 19 | 20 | 8 | 81 |
| 19 | USA-310 | Edward Sawyer | Martin Payne / William Willet | 130,7 | 5,7 | 23 | 43 | 59 |
| 20 | GBR-723 | Quentin Strauss | Nigel Young/Lars Wegener | 133 | 50 | 43 | 13 | 27 |
| 21 | GBR-708 | Len Jones | Claus Hoj Jensen / Jaime Lee | 133 | 48 | 48 | 18 | 19 |
| 22 | RUS-81 | Mikhail Apukhtin | Leonid Klepikov / Alexander Mironov | 133 | 30 | 18 | 24 | 61 |
| 23 | GER-1042 | Philip Dohse | Oliver Mose / Jan Scharfetter | 136 | 37 | 38 | 3 | 58 |
| 24 | RUS-27 | Anatoly Loginov | Alexander Shalagin / Andrei Kirilyuk | 136 | 49 | 31 | 40 | 16 |
| 25 | RUS-47 | Igor Skalin | Valery Zatsarinskiy / Oleg Edokimenko | 137 | 31 | 44 | 34 | 28 |
| 26 | POR-51 | Filipe Silva | Joaquim Moreira / Miguel Pinto | 139 | 47 | 60 | 0 | 32 |
| 27 | DEN-391 | Jorgen Schonherr | Jan Eli Gravad / Christian Videbaek | 141 | 3 | 59 | 57 | 22 |
| 28 | RUS-35 | Oleg Khopersky | Victor Fogelson / Eugeny Ivanov | 141 | 57 | 17 | 50 | 17 |
| 29 | SUI-296 | Harro Kniffka | Michael Lipp / Michael Koch | 142 | 32 | 8 | 61 | 41 |
| 30 | GER-1056 | Burkhard Keese | Phil Blin / Jorg Moesnang | 142 | 35 | 40 | 44 | 23 |
| 31 | DEN-266 | Frank Berg | Soren Nielsen/ Soren Kaestel | 145,7 | 60 | 5,7 | 10 | 70 |
| 32 | SUI-297 | Ulli Libor | Frank Butzmann / Stefan Hellriegel | 156 | 43 | 13 | 56 | 44 |
| 33 | IRL-204 | Don O`Donoghue | Brian Mathews / Mark Pettitt | 157,7 | 13 | 58 | 81 | 5,7 |
| 34 | POR-55 | Jose Matoso | Charles Nankin / Afonso Marques | 160 | 14 | 52 | 45 | 49 |
| 35 | RUS-1 | Arnold Shternberg | Artem Smirnov / Alexander Andrianov | 165 | 44 | 50 | 33 | 38 |
| 36 | POR-146 | Jorge Pinheiro | Frederico Pinheiro de Melo / Francisco Mour?o | 166 | 41 | 47 | 31 | 47 |
| 37 | RUS-96 | Mikhail Muratov | Valentin Uvarkin / Viacheslav Varnachkin | 169 | 56 | 49 | 39 | 25 |
| 38 | NED-305 | Bram de Wilde | Henri Boere / Gijs Evers | 171 | 39 | 61 | 53 | 18 |
| 39 | FRA-365 | Louis Urvois | Gwen Chapalian / Jimmy Pahun | 171 | 51 | 53 | 21 | 46 |
| 40 | POR-56 | Miguel Magalh?es | Jorge P. Melo / Jos? Magalh?es | 171 | 46 | 67 | 25 | 33 |
| 41 | GER-1009 | Ulrich Matthiesen | Michael Nesselhauf / Jorg Fischer | 172 | 33 | 24 | 52 | 63 |
| 42 | MON-11 | Christian Boillot | Lionel Pean / Gerad Le Goff | 173 | 52 | 41 | 38 | 42 |
| 43 | RUS-2 | Sergey Maslov | Vladimir Krutskikh / Aleksandr Ezhkov | 174 | 40 | 16 | 54 | 64 |
| 44 | POR-49 | Francisco Lacerda | Diogo Lacerda / Diogo Pereira | 175 | 62 | 46 | 19 | 48 |
| 45 | RUS-45 | Sergey Yazikov | Igor Frolov / Vladimir Liubomirov | 178 | 23 | 63 | 42 | 50 |
| 46 | DEN-380 | Peter Warrer | Eric Orsted / Thomas Sorensen | 187 | 21 | 42 | 81 | 43 |
| 47 | SWE-338 | Stefan Winberg | Bosse Ahlstrom / Peter Casso | 187 | 25 | 36 | 81 | 45 |
| 48 | GER-972 | Christian Krausenecker | Karl Ibscher / Lasr Walter | 193 | 20 | 75 | 59 | 39 |
| 49 | POR-34 | Fernando Bello | Jorge Moya / Tiago Geraldes | 196 | 24 | 55 | 49 | 68 |
| 50 | POR-57 | Mario Quina | Fernando Passeiro / Eric Vandame | 199 | 15 | 69 | 48 | 67 |
| 51 | RUS-69 | Olga White | Igor Ivaskintsov / Alexey Murashkin | 199 | 53 | 70 | 47 | 29 |
| 52 | SWE-342 | Bjorn Osterblom | Peje Emilsson / Bo Kaijser | 202 | 28 | 35 | 64 | 75 |
| 53 | POR-58 | Jos? Duarte Bello | Henrique Costa e Silva / Miguel Cardoso | 205 | 58 | 39 | 55 | 53 |
| 54 | NED-309 | Guus de Groot | Richard van Rij / Hay Winters | 209 | 64 | 27 | 66 | 52 |
| 55 | GER-1043 | Cian O`Carroll | Thomas Hill/Kane Williamson | 215 | 71 | 65 | 23 | 56 |
| 56 | RUS-32 | Andrey Samoylov | Leonid Altukhov / Manat Nevlyutov | 225 | 54 | 74 | 63 | 34 |
| 57 | POR-54 | Ant?nio Mardel Correia | Pedro Rebelo de Andrade / Bernardo Santos | 226 | 63 | 66 | 46 | 51 |
| 58 | GER-1044 | Horst-Wilhelm Stroh | Rudiger Karsten / Katharina Stroh | 228 | 55 | 68 | 36 | 69 |
| 59 | HKG-50 | Phyllis Chang | Lowell Chang / Lars Gelbjerg-Hansen | 228 | 74 | 56 | 58 | 40 |
| 60 | POR-36 | Patrick Monteiro de Barros | Pedro Beckert / Paulo Bastos | 240 | 59 | 72 | 73 | 36 |
| 61 | POR-50 | Pedro Mendes Leal | Pedro Pinheiro de Melo / Jorge Ferlov | 253 | 65 | 71 | 60 | 57 |
| 62 | GBR-575 | Richard Davies | Titch Blachford / Patrick Welton | 256 | 61 | 54 | 70 | 71 |
| 63 | RUS-6 | Alexander Shmid | Alexander Yanin / Mikhail Markin | 258 | 67 | 45 | 67 | 79 |
| 64 | GBR-730 | Thomas Olrog | Claire Sowry / Philip Catmur | 259 | 69 | 28 | 88 | 74 |
| 65 | AUS-206 | Gordon Ingate | Christine Ingate / Robert Alp | 259 | 81 | 62 | 62 | 54 |
| 66 | POR-46 | Francisco Pinheiro de Melo | Vicente Pinheiro de Melo / Francisco Ramada | 261 | 68 | 80 | 51 | 62 |
| 67 | MON-2 | Jens Rathsack | Bjorn Oestreich / Nina Rathsack | 273 | 81 | 51 | 65 | 76 |
| 68 | GBR-690 | Stephane Baseden | Pascal Buli-Debat / Franck Corbiere | 273 | 72 | 57 | 71 | 73 |
| 69 | POR-53 | Fernando Nogueira | Fernando Gamboa / Morgan Nogueira | 279 | 70 | 77 | 72 | 60 |
| 70 | BEL-69 | Michael Van Callwelaert | Jan de Bie/Lien de Bien | 281 | 75 | 64 | 76 | 66 |
| 71 | RUS-80 | Andriy Litsynskyy | Vladimir Makaron / Andriy Golvoko | 283 | 66 | 78 | 74 | 65 |
| 72 | POR-23 | Filipe Loureiro | Miguel Tavares / Luis Vasconcelos Dias | 295 | 76 | 73 | 69 | 77 |
| 73 | POR-27 | Antonio Vianez | Andre Bravo/Henrique Lopes Cardoso/Filipe Talone | 300 | 81 | 79 | 68 | 72 |
| 74 | POR-40 | Pedro Almeida Lopes | Jo?o Almeida Lopes / Ant?nio Santos Matos | 302 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 78 |
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