SEBASTIEN COL TAKES 3rd PLACE IN THE Y's CUP BEFORE NEW TRAINING SESSION IN VALENCIA WITH IAN WILLIAMS

Marseille, France - 2008-02-18

YCPR, Marseille :

The third edition of the ISAF Grade 3 Y's Cup in Marseille saw victory for home French sailor, Bertrand Pacé (FRA) in front of the head of series World number seven Eugeniy NEUGODNIKOV (RUS) and world number nine Pierre-Antoine MORVAN (FRA).

A complete Round Robin with 45 matchs was sailed with very shifty east winds conditions Saturday and Sunday.

Bertrand PACE won all the matches during the Round Robin and chose as adversary, for the semi-final, the young French sailor Pierre-Antoine MORVAN. Pacé won the semi-finals and met in finals Eugeniy NEUGODNIKOV, who defeated Sébastien COL in semi-finals.

Bertand Pacé defeated Eugeniy Neugodnikok (2 wins to 1) during a beautiful final and gets its ticket for the ISAF Grade 1 event: Marseille International Match-Race, scheduled from 11 to 15 march 2008.

This event was a very good practice for Sébastien Col (FRA), Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS) and Andrew Arbuzov (RUS), who were already invited for the MIMR.

Y’s Cup Final Standings:

1 –Bertrand PACE (FRA)
2 – Eugeniy NEUGODNIKOV (RUS)
3 –Pierre-Antoine MORVAN (FRA)
4 - Sébastien COL (FRA)
5 – Sébastien DESTREMAU (AUS)
6 – Maxime PAUL (FRA)
7 – Michel COHEN (FRA)
8 – Andrew ARBUZOV (RUS)
9 – Victor LANIER (FRA)
10 – Jelle ROOS (NED)


SEBASTIEN COL : “WE REACHED OUR OBJECTIVE FOR THE START OF THE NEW MATCH RACING SEASON »

Sebastien Col : « The objective of these five last days between training and racing was to sail as much as possible with my crew (Christophe André, Philippe Mourniac, Gilles Favennec and Christian Scherrer), and thanks to the good conditions, we did the maximum. We have identified the areas that we need to work on for the next Grade 1 event, which will be held in Marseille in March. Philippe and Christian are two new team mates, and they have a lot of experience. We shared a lot together. This new crew configuration seems very positive for the future.”

Sebastien and his crew will carry on working on the match racing this week, as they will take part to a training session, which will allow them to use what they learnt in Marseille, and particularly the work for the starts.
This training is organized in Valencia, Spain, with SM40 boats, and with a famous sparring partner : Ian Williams (world’s number one).





Stephanie Nadin / YCPR

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