Russian Women’s MR Championship: Cold, windy, rainy day two of racing.

As reported by Yana Dobzhitskaya, Russian Yachting Federation:

Russian Women Match Race Championship - 1st Round Robin

As compared with the other match race events in Russia this year where we did not have enough wind, on the first racing day of the women championship we had a lot of wind.

The racing committee ran 12 flights on day one which left 2 flights to complete the 1st round robin. These remaining flights were put off to day two. The 2nd racing day begins from strong cold wind and rain. But it did not stop the competitors. The 1st round robin was completed by 12.00. 
 
Leaders of the 1st RR are Ekaterina Skudina, Moscow Лидерами (she lost only one race to Alisa Kirolyuk, Dolgoprudny) and Silja Lehtinen, FIN (she lost to Skudina), both of them have 6 wins of 7 races. Alisa Kirilyuk has 5 wins, Ekaterina Kutovaya, Vladivostok - 4; Valerya Pospelova (Ekaterinburg), Ekaterina Ananina (Miass) and Svetlana Chekhova (Azov) - 2;  Alexandra Reshetova has 1 win.

The organizers have provided 5 Laser SB3 boats. These are good, fast and easily handled by both the experienced sailors and the young sailors alike. 

The event venue is yacht-club "Royal" located on Khimkinskoe reservoir of Moscow river. There the Moscow Yacht Show is starting today.

Results at the end of Round Robin 1:
Ekaterina Skudina, Elena Syuzeva, Irina Lotsmanova (RUS) 6-1
Silja Lehtinen, Mikaela Wulff, Silja Kanerva (FIN) 6-1
Alisa Kirilyuk, Anastassia Chernova, Regina Zakirova (RUS) 5-2
Ekaterina Kutovaya, Vera Dubina, Alina Dotsenko (RUS) 4-3
Ekaterina Ananina, Ekaterina Vlasova, Margarita Kudrina (RUS) 2-5
Valeriya Pospelova, Olga Ivanova, Larissa Fomyagina (RUS) 2-5
Svetlana Chekhova, Anastassia Kryuchkova, Irina Butskaya (RUS) 2-5
Alexandra Reshetova, Natalia Reshetova, Liubov Balakireva (RUS) 1-6

For more information, please visit: http://www.wimra.org/regatta_detail.asp?rk=346