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TURKEY TAKES OUT 50TH BALKAN SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE

11
Sep 2017

Held from 5-10 September 2017 at the Tekirdag Sailing Club on the Marmara Sea, the 50th Balkan Sailing Championships featured 420 teams from host nation Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece.

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The Championship was an 11 race series over four days, with the thirteen 420 teams racing in an open fleet.

Turkey’s Rasim Yasar/Kaan Parlas opened their campaign with back to back wins, going on to add two more victories to their 7-race scorecard. The pair was chased hard by team mates, and ultimately the top placed girls team, Deniz Saltik/Aylin Tezol and Greece’s Arvanitis Aggelos/Kavakaris Theofanis who between them picked up the other race wins.

This trio established a clear points advantage over the rest of the pack and went into the final race separated by just 4 points.

Yasar/Parlas targeted a conservative approach to the final race 7, opting to keep clear of the battle unfolding beween Saltik/Tezol and Aggelos/Theofanis for the podium spots, with a 4th place finish rewarding them with the overall victory.

Saltik/Tezol took out the race win, to leapfrog over Aggelos/Theofanis and wrap-up second place on tiebreak advantage.

Full results at: www.balkan2017.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/results/final/420.pdf

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