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ROYAL YACHTING ASSOCIATION |
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Monday, 4th August 2003. |
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Fifth place finish for Goodison at Europeans |
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SPLIT, CROATIA – Team GBR sailor Paul Goodison finished the Laser European Championships in fifth place overall after a week of sailing in a variety of conditions. |
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The week long championship attracted some of the best Laser sailors in the world and despite leading for the majority of the championships, the final two days provided tricky conditions which saw a seventeenth and a thirteenth place finish for Goodison, knocking him out of medal contention and into fifth place overall. |
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Vasilij Zbogar of Slovenia won the event by two points from local sailor Mate Arapov of Croatia. Fellow team GBR sailor Dan Holman finished in seventh place overall with the next best placed British sailor Ed Wright finishing seventeenth despite winning the final race of the championship. |
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The next event for Goodison is the Pre-Olympics, which take place from the 20-28 August in Athens, providing an opportunity to test the waters of Athens a year before the Olympic Games. |