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Two races were sailed on the final day in Västervik and ECHAVARRI and PAZ were able to keep their cool, whilst last year's winners and their closest challengers Darren BUNDOCK and Aaron WORRALL (AUS) had a terrible day and fell back to seventh overall. Whilst the Australians were struggling, ECHAVARRI and PAZ sailed scored a fifth and a fourth place, to make it six consecutive top five finishes since a 29th in race one, and win the Championship by a comfortable margin.

HAGARA and STEINACHER took advantage of the problems of BUNDOCK and WORRALL by finishing sixth and then scoring the final bullet of the Championship to take second place above last year's top European team Mitch BOOTH and Herbert DERCKSEN (NED). They came from nowhere on the final day to take two third place finishes and the bronze medal.

For HAGARA and STEINACHER it proved to be a frustrating Championship. Whilst ECHAVARRI and PAZ sailed consistently throughout the regatta, the Spanish pair never managed to win any of the seven races. HAGARA and STEINACHER meanwhile took victory three times, but were unable to score any other top five finishes.

Top Ten Results

Pos	Nation	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Pts
1	ESP	Fernando ECHAVARRI	Antón PAZ	(29)	2	3	2	2	5	4	18
2	AUT	Roman HAGARA	Hans Peter STEINACHER	1	(19)	9	16	1	6	1	34
3	NED	Mitch BOOTH	Herbert DERCKSEN	(OCS)	5	1	9	20	3	3	41
4	FRA	Xavier REVIL	Christophe ESPAGNON	(18)	3	17	8	4	8	9	49
5	FRA	Francois MORVAN	Matthieu VANDAME	5	7	(29)	1	7	17	13	50
6	USA	John LOVELL	Charlie OGLETREE	10	(16)	5	15	11	4	5	50
7	AUS	Darren BUNDOCK	Aaron WORRALL	(23)	4	2	6	8	22	20	62
8	GER	Johannes POLGAR	Florian SPALTEHOLZ	16	(23)	7	20	23	1	2	69
9	GER	Roland GAEBLER	Gunnar STRUCKMANN	20	1	(23)	11	12	7	18	69
10	FRA	Matthieu SOUBEN	Gurvan BONTEMPS	(43)	10	27	5	6	16	7	71