Doha: Germany and France overcame tough weather conditions on the last day of the 47th World Military Sailing Championship to win the men’s and women’s title at Katara Beach here yesterday.
In the men’s section, overnight leaders Wagner Jan-Jaspe and Baldwein Dustin from Germany stormed to victory accumulating nine nett points.
Ukraine finished second with 18 points while Polish pair of Marcin Czajkowski and Piotr Przybylski came third with 36 nett points.
Hosts Qatar had to settle for the fifth spot behind Indian pair of Pushparajan Muttu and Narendra Singh Rajput.
The Qatari pair accumulated 37 nett points, one less than the third-placed Polish team and fourth-place Indian squad, who both finished with 36 nett points.
Yesterday at Doha Bay, overnight leaders Jan-Jaspe and Dustin from Germany successfully battled the tough weather conditions to win both the races.
The Germans thus finished on the top of the summit at the end of the 11-race competition.
Finland had to settle for the sixth position followed by Norway, USA, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Canada and Tunisia.
In the women’s section Olympian Camille Lecointre, racing for the first time with Sophie De Turckheim, edged the Russian pair of Alisa Kiriluyk and Liudmila Dmitrieva to clinch the top honours.
The tussle for supremacy in the last two races on the concluding day was evenly contested between France and Russia.
France took their final tally to 13 nett points on the last day while Russia fell short by one point, having to settle for the second place.
Lecointre thus added one more title to her collection, having finished runners-up in the 470 worlds in 2012 and won the Class 40 Open three years ago.
Poland, with a 29 nett points final score did not pose much of a threat to the top two as they came third followed by Ukraine, Germany, USA and Indonesia.
Around 100 sailors from 17 countries took part in the championship. The closing ceremony of the championship will take place today. THE PENINSULA
