New Leader at Star Worlds

Miami, FL (April 15, 2016) – The conditions for the fifth day of the Star World Championship were gorgeous, with 7 knots from the south building to 10 knots. It took four attempts for the 72 teams to get underway, with three teams over on the final start: Lars Ahlstrom/ Lars Edwall, Bert Collins/ Jacob Doyle and James Babel/ Scott Benson.

With five races completed, the teams now can drop their worst race, which has helped vault Diego Negri/ Sergio Lambertenghi (ITA) past Augie Diaz/ Bruno Prada (USA) who had held the lead since the second race.

Only one more race is planned as the series concludes tomorrow.

Day Five Standings (Top 10 of 72; 5 races, 1 discard)
1. Diego Negri / Sergio Lambertenghi , ITA – [7] -3 -4 -1 -1 ; 9
2. Augie Diaz / Bruno Prada , USA – 3 -[4] -1 -3 -3 ; 10
3. Brian Ledbetter / Joshua Revkin , USA – 5 -[20] -2 -2 -7 ; 16
4. Peter Vessella / Phil Trinter , USA – 4 -[25] -11 -5 -5 ; 25
5. Lars Schmidt Grael / Samuel Goncalves , BRA – 9 -[12] -5 -4 -8 ; 26
6. Torben Schmidt Grael / Guilherme de Almeida , BRA – [73] -2 -16 -6 -6 ; 30
7. Andrew Macdonald / Brad Nichol , USA – 11 -5 -8 -11 -[14] ; 35
8. Luke Lawrence / Ian Coleman , USA – 2 -6 -[29] -26 -4 ; 38
9. George Szabo / Steve Mitchell , USA – 1 -9 -[19] -16 -15 ; 41
10. Paul Cayard / Brian Fatih , USA – [73] -14 -7 -18 -2 ; 41

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Seventy-two teams are competing from 13 nations: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine and United States.

Six races are scheduled, with a boat’s series score to be the total of her race scores with her worst score discarded when five or more races are completed. Racing is scheduled on April 10-16.