Wassersport Verein Friedrichshafen-Fischbach, Lake Constance, Mai 30th – June 1st

The International German Championship on lake Bodensee in the southern Part of Germany was dominated by light winds apart from a thunderstorm on saturday.
Sitting, waiting, wishing was part of the patience game – especially that the race officer Mr. Peter H�rger would finally be able to lay a proper starting line and a fair course.

Both the Danes were stong from the begining on. Jorgen Holm (DEN 14) was leading till Juliane Hofmann (GER 699) overtook him at the end of the second day. Two strong wind races in saturdays thunderstorm mixed up the places completely. Finaly after a light wind sunday Rene Johansen (DEN 1370) could consolidate his lead and became German Champ in 2008. Second was Juliane Hofmann, a result a women has never achived so far in the OK-classe before. Jorgen Holm became third over all.

Second best German was Martin von Zimmermann (GER 693) on place 4, followed by Olliver Gronholz (GER 717) and Thomas Glas (GER 731). 42 starters from five nations took part in the event.

– Results
Pos Sailno. Name Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Tot-1
1 DEN 1361 Rene Johansen KBL 4 4 1 2 15 3 14
2 GER 699 Juliane Hofmann SWS 5 1 17 7 4 1 18
3 DEN 14 Jorgen Holm KBL 1 6 4 4 18 4 19
4 GER 693 M. v. Zimmermann SCOe 7 14 3 3 2 8 23
5 GER 717 Oliver Gronholz SSC 2 12 2 OCS 1 15 32
6 GER 731 Thomas Glas SSC 14 9 7 1 6 14 37
7 POL 101 Bartosz Rakocy ZLKS 20 2 12 5 17 2 38
8 GER 656 Andreas Pich LYC 13 7 10 6 5 13 41
9 GER 688 Dirk Dame SVM 17 10 8 8 10 30 53
10 GER 750 Ralf Tietje SVG 10 15 9 11 13 10 53
11 GER 737 Thorsten Schmidt SCV 12 8 5 9 23 22 56
12 GER 711 Ralf Mackmann SCH 16 3 16 14 8 23 57
13 GER 671 Andreas Deubel HSC 6 16 11 10 28 18 61
14 GER 697 J�rg Posny SCST 27 22 13 13 3 11 62
15 GER 691 Stefan Bleich SVS 3 5 DNF DNF 11 6 74
16 GER 659 Falk Hagemann SWS 8 21 21 16 14 17 76
17 POL 27 Jakub Kania ZLKS 9 17 24 DNF 22 5 77
18 GER 607 Christian Heinze SCV 15 13 29 19 24 7 78
19 GER 559 Marion R�ck WYC 11 20 33 20 7 25 83
20 GER 745 Rainer Pospiech YCBG 18 OCS 23 15 9 19 84
21 GER 662 Gerd Breitbart SC� 35 11 14 23 19 31 98
22 BEL 214 Paul Verrijdt 28 19 18 18 16 34 99
23 GER 735 Dirk Gericke SGE 23 29 15 21 20 21 100
24 GER 640 Sven Marchot SGSP 32 25 31 17 26 9 108
25 GER 577 Yves Kaminski SVEW 19 32 25 27 27 12 110
26 BEL 220 Ronny Poelman KLYC 24 26 26 22 21 20 113
27 GER 651 Heinz Ridder SVP 21 18 22 25 35 38 121
28 GER 687 Gunnar Goronzi SCST 25 DSQ 27 24 37 16 129
29 GER 645 Arne Lindemann PSCW 22 OCS 6 12 DNS 41 130
30 GER 63 Joachim Ullrich ASVS 31 27 28 26 29 24 134
31 GER 567 Karl-Hans G�hring 26 30 DNF DNF 12 33 150
32 GER 599 Uwe B�hm SCST 30 DSQ 20 DNF 25 32 156
33 GER 664 Thomas Neveling SCPS 38 23 36 DNF 30 29 156
34 GER 588 Joachim Singethan ASVS 33 33 32 DNF 32 28 158
35 GER 550 Ortwin Zimmer BSG MTU 34 34 34 DNF 36 27 165
36 LUX 1 Michel Lesure 29 24 30 DNF DNS 39 171
37 GER 596 Albrecht, Torsten ESF 39 28 19 DNF DNS 40 175
38 GER 630 Norbert Petrausch TSVS 40 35 DNF DNF 31 26 181
39 GER 497 Rolf Meilenbrock SCST 41 36 35 DNF 34 36 182
40 GER 543 Alexander Hirsch ASVS 37 31 DNF DNF 33 35 185
41 GER 357 Ralf Gerbig SCST 42 37 DNF DNF 38 37 203
42 GER 694 Gunnar Specht PSCW 36 OCS DNF DNF DNS 42 225