Klaus Diederichs wins gold with Diego Negri and Jamie Lea
Philipp Ocker, Florian Grossser and Oliver Davies take the Corinthian title
From wave to wind to calm and champagne breeze, everything was present in a week of world championships off the Baltic Sea resort of Kühlungsborn, with their title win Klaus Diederichs now goes into the hall of fame of dragon sailors as double world champion.
Together with Jamie Lea in the foredeck and Diego Negri as tactician, the Dragon crack, who lives in England, now also wins the World Championship in the International Dragon Class after the Marblehead Trophy in May; after winning the World Championship in 2013 in Weymouth and bronze in 2019 in Fremantle, it is his third podium finish overall at a Dragon World Championship. World Champion in the Korinthian classification in 8th place overall is Philipp Ocker, based at Lake Starnberg, with Florian Grosser and Oliver Davies.
Andy Beadsworth, the double World Champion competing for Turkey, took second place in the professional classification. Actually black-flagged in the last race, but rated in the end, he won the silver medal with sailing pro Simon Fry and Arda Baykal. Bronze went to the reigning European Champion Wolf Waschkuhn from Switzerland, sailing together with Joao Vidinha and Charles Nankin.
Best German in the professional ranking and definitely winner of hearts in the end was Ingo Ehrlicher (GER 77) in 4th place with tactician Malte Philipp and trimmer Michael Lipp. The team had to bite the bullet that they had sailed excellently well, in fact on the podium, and then were removed again via the 'green table' without any involvement.
6 окт 2024
