2012 Vintage Yachting Games – Soling

The Soling was an event on the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games program at Lake Como, Italy. Six out of the nine scheduled race were completed. Seven nations entered 39 sailors in 13 boats.

Soling
2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Soling
Event information
Race area	Campo Charlie, Bellano, Italy
Period	July 7 to July 14
Competitors	39
Boats	13
Countries	7
Results
Gold	Ukraine
Silver	The Netherlands
Bronze	Austria
Succession
Previous	2008
Next	2018

2012 Vintage
Europe female			Female
Europe male			Male
O-jolle			Open
Flying Dutchman			Open
Tempest			Open
Soling			Open
Dragon			Open
5.5 metre			Open

Venue overview

Race area and course

Of the three Campos (Race areas) available for the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games at Lake Como Campo Charlie was used for the Soling event. This Campo is situated in front of the city of Bellano.

For the Soling the Campo Charlie was available.	Course 2

For the 2012 edition of the Vintage Yachting Games, three different courses were available. The Soling could only use course 2.

Wind conditions

The northern part of Lake Como is reportedly a thermic wind venue. At this time of year, the normal situation is that at about 1 pm the Swiss mountains are heated up and a southern wind hits the racing areas at about 10 to 14 knots. As a result of this, no races are scheduled in the morning. Unfortunately, during the event, the temperature in Switzerland was low. Also, the thermal south breeze battled with the gradient wind from the north. As a result, the actual wind did not rise above eight knots during the races and was unstable at times.

Campo Bravo has normally a tendency to have a slightly higher wind speed than the two other Campos due to it being more northern than Charlie so that the southern thermal breeze is strengthened and to the lake narrowing in front of Dervio.

Date	Race	Sky	Wind direction	Wind speed (m/s)
09-JUL	I		SW	8-12
09-JUL	II		SW	8-12
10-JUL	No races due to lack of wind
11-JUL	III		SW	8-12
11-JUL	IV		SW	8-12
12-JUL	No races due to lack of wind
13-JUL	V		SW	8-12
14-JUL	No races due to lack of wind

Races

Summary

In the Soling six out of the planned nine races were completed.

The Soling class (Olympic between 1972 and 2000) brought the top sailors of their countries to Lake Como. When the races started it could be anyone's series. When the dust of the first two days of racing was settled, Peter Neumann, Rudolf Rager, Rudolf Hubauer from Austria, Igor Yushko, Sergiy Pichugin, Dmitriy Yarmolenka from Ukraine and Rudy den Outer, Gavin Lidlow, Ramzi Souli from The Netherlands, were battling for gold. In the final race, the decision came: UKR gold, AUT bronze and NED silver.

Results

Rank	Team (Country)	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Total Points	Total -1
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	Ukraine (UKR) Igor YUSHKO Serhiy PICHUGIN Dmitriy YARMOLENKA	3	5.7	2	3.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	1	0.0	1	0.0	17.4	11.7
	Netherlands (NED) Rudy DEN OUTER Gavin LIDLOW Ramzi SOULI	1	0.0	3	5.7	10	16.0	3	5.7	2	3.0	2	3.0	33.4	17.4
	Austria (AUT) Peter NEUMANN Rudolf RAGER Rudolf HUBAUER	9	15.0	1	0.0	2	3.0	7	13.0	6	11.7	4	8.0	50.7	35.7
4	Germany (GER) Roman KOCH Max KOCH Dominik MEISSNER	10	16.0	7	13.0	1	0.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	6	11.7	56.7	40.7
5	United States (USA) Stuart H. WALKER Nikki SEEMANN Volker MOSER	2	3.0	4	8.0	4	8.0	raf	22.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	64.0	42.0
6	Austria (AUT) Ludwig BEURLE Stephan BEURLE Ekkehart STEINHUBER	11	17.0	8	14.0	5	10.0	1	0.0	8	14.0	3	5.7	60.7	43.7
7	Austria (AUT) Christian HOLLER Peter FARBOWSKI Mattijs HOLLER	4	8.0	10	16.0	6	11.7	5	10.0	3	5.7	5	10.0	61.4	45.4
8	Germany (GER) Thomas SCHERER Andi BAUMÜLLER Daniel DIESING	6	11.7	6	11.7	8	14.0	8	14.0	dnf	22.0	9	15.0	88.4	66.4
9	Italy (ITA) Beniamino ZERMINI Attilia PAPINI Nicola ARMELLINI	8	14.0	9	15.0	9	15.0	9	15.0	7	13.0	8	14.0	86.0	71.0
10	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe ROSSI Alessandro SGORBATI Roberto MINOLA	5	10.0	5	10.0	7	13.0	dnc	20.0	dnc	20.0	ocs	22.0	95.0	73.0
11	Netherlands (NED) Steven BAKKER Casper VAN DRUNEN Robin SEGAAR	7	13.0	dnf	22.0	11	17.0	6	11.7	11	17.0	12	18.0	98.7	76.7
12	France (FRA) Marc LEFEVRE François GOMBEAUD Louis Etienne DU REAU	12	18.0	12	18.0	12	18.0	10	16.0	9	15.0	11	17.0	102.0	84.0
13	Italy (ITA) Frederico BORACCHI Federico ROLLA Alberto ROTTA	13	19.0	13	19.0	13	19.0	11	17.0	10	16.0	10	16.0	106.0	87.0

• dnc = did not compete
• dns = did not start
• dnf = did not finish
• dsq = disqualified
• ocs = on course side
• ret = retired after finish
• Crossed out results did not count for the total result.

Daily standings

Graph showing the daily standings in the Soling during the 2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Victors

Medalist 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Soling

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  Igor YUSHKO (l),
  Sergiy PICHUGIN (m) and
  Dmitriy YARMOLENKA (r)
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  Rudy DEN OUTER (l),
  Gavin LIDLOW (m) and
  Ramzi SOULI (r)
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  Peter NEUMANN (r),
  Rudolf RAGER (m) and
  Rudolf HUBAUER (l)

References

• Vintage Yachting Games Organization. "Results 2012 Vintage Yachting Games: Soling". Vintage Yachting Games Organization. Retrieved 2012-07-29.