Western Hemisphere & Asia Championship - Day 2 - Snipe Class International

Algarrobo, Chile, March 15, 2023. Results after 3 races:

ARG Luis Soubie & Diego Lipszyc, 15
BRA Rafael Gagliotti & Matheus Manezes Goncalves, 15
CHI Matias Seguel & Constanza Seguel, 17
USA Randy Lake & Alice Schmid, 17
PUR Raul Rios & Lexi Pline, 19

New Leader(s) at the top of the Snipe WHA Championship

Only was race was held on Wednesday, March 15 due to very light winds. Although the forecast was for freshening breeze as the day wore on, it did not materialize and the Race committee did their best in the 5-6 knots they were given.

All competitors headed out for the normal start time but were postponed on the water while the race committee searched for wind. After moving the course closer to the Club, a race was off in a double windward-leeward course around 3pm local time.

Juliana Duque/Rafael Martins (BRA) started in the middle of the line and punched out to an early lead rounding the weather mark first and extending in the light air. The pair recently won the very competitive Brazilian Nationals and are poised to earn the Brazilian Pan Am entry while also working on a 470 campaign. Second in today’s race were Matias and Constanza Seguel, local Chileans who were ready to move up after yesterday. Nicolas Garcia with son Juan Cruz Garcia (ARG) crewing crossed 3rd followed by Pablo Defazio and Mariana Foglia (URU) enjoying being back in the Snipe after their own Olympic campaigns. Rounding out fifth in the race was Julio Alsogaray and Malena Sciarra (ARG) with Alsogaray an Olympian in the Laser.

Being consistent in these 3 races has now put Luis Soubie/Diego Lipszyc (ARG) tied for first with Rafael Gagliotti/Matheus Goncalves (BRA) both with 15 points. Team Seguel moves into 3rd overall with Randy Lake/Alice Schmid (USA) in 4th and Raul Rios/Lexi Pline (PUR) in 5th. Yesterday’s leaders Rodriguez/Tocke (USA) posted a 19 in today’s race pushing them to 6th overall in the standings.

SCIRA Representative Paola Prada commented that “today was a challenging day not only for us but for the sailors too, but we managed to get the right timing for one good race and we hope to make up the lost race tomorrow.”

The WHA serves as a country qualifier for 2 nations for the Pan Am Games to be sailed in these same waters October 25-Nov 5, 2023. The Snipe is a mixed dinghy for the Pan Am Games with 21 of the teams registered as mixed.

Racing continues on Thursday with 2 races scheduled per day, although 3 can be held to make up for today’s missed second race, with the final day on Saturday, March 18.

The regatta can be followed on the Championship website: https://wha.snipechampionships.org/ for results and additional information with photos by Matias Capizzano.

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	SAILORS	SAIL NUMBER	DIVISION	NET	TOTAL	R1	R2	R3
1	Luis Soubie Diego Lipszyc	ARG 317014	Open Master	15	15	2	2	11
2	Rafael Gagliotti Matheus Manezes Goncalves	BRA 312086	Open	15	15	3	5	7
3	Matias Seguel Constanza Seguel	CHI 3155421	Open Mixed	17	17	7	8	2
4	Randy Lake Alice Schmid	USA 3129833	Open Master Mixed	17	17	4	7	6
5	Raul Rios Lexi Pline	PUR 2984130	Open Mixed	19	19	5	4	10
6	Ernesto Rodriguez Kathleen Tocke	USA 3133736	Open Master Mixed	21	21	1	1	19
7	Juliana Duque Rafael Martins	BRA 316785	Open Mixed	25	25	18	6	1
8	Julio Alsogaray Malena Sciarra	ARG 310451	Open Mixed	27	27	13	9	5
9	Nicolas Garcia Juan Cruz Garcia Quiroga	ARG 298273	Open	29	29	12	14	3
10	Ricky Fabini Silvia Tourn	URU 3154632	Open Master Mixed	32	32	21	3	8
11	Pablo Defazio Mariana Foglia	URU 2982931	Open Mixed	32	32	11	17	4
12	Antonio Poncell Carola Martinez	CHI 3144317	Open Master Mixed	32	32	6	13	13
13	Enrique Quintero Charlie Bess	USA 3114438	Open Mixed	36	36	8	10	18
14	Nick Pellicano Grael Felipe Berardo	BRA 313687	Open	37	37	9	12	16
15	Ismael Muelle Alessia Zavala	PER 3108327	Open Mixed	39	39	15	15	9
16	Agustín Segovia Cristian Segovia	CHI 2884320	Open	51	51	16	23	12
17	BENJAMIN GUZMAN Rodrigo Guzman	CHI 3119910	Open	52	52	19	19	14
18	Diego Figueroa Fernanda San Roman	PER 3108628	Open Mixed	53	53	25	11	17
19	Roberto Malsch Jacinta Martinez	CHI 3132316	Open Master Mixed	56	56	10	25	21
20	Jorge González Ignacio Seguel	CHI 3178712	Open	59	59	14	22	23
21	Jose Diaz Mercedes Delgado	PUR 3037729	Open Mixed Junior	62	62	20	20	22
22	Francisco Viada Maria Jesus Viada	CHI 2927423	Open Mixed	63	63	17	26	20
23	Juan Sanchez Juan Valenzuela	CHI 2991019	Open	69	69	UFD – 36	18	15
24	Alec Hughes Valeria Brena	PER 3108537	Open Mixed	72	72	26	16	30
25	Matias Poncell Trinidad Prieto	CHI 3179118	Open Mixed	79	79	22	21	UFD – 36
26	Rodrigo Sánchez Ignacio Annunziata	CHI 3178622	Open	81	81	27	30	24
27	Guillermo Contreras Catalina Vienne	CHI 317539	Open Master Mixed	83	83	23	28	32
28	Fernando Gallyas Constanza Gallyas	CHI 3166711	Open Master Mixed	83	83	29	27	27
29	Juan Lyon Valentina Lyon	PER 3108426	Open Mixed	84	84	24	32	28
30	Nicolas Halles Felipe Halles	CHI 315513	Open	84	84	28	31	25
31	Ignacio Almarza Patricio Flores	CHI 317858	Open Master	91	91	31	29	31
32	Sebastian Larrain Vicente Larraín	CHI 3180614	Open	92	92	32	24	DNC – 36
33	Alberto Prieto Carlos Gomez	CHI 3168125	Open Master	94	94	33	35	26
34	Francisco Jacobsen Rodrigo Sotomayor	CHI 3178124	Open	97	97	30	34	33
35	Patricio Middleton Emilia Salvatore	CHI 2864315	Open Master Mixed	98	98	DNS – 36	33	29