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The British pair keep up their remarkable record in the Europeans and have now finished in the top two in all of the last four Championships.

Two races scheduled for the final series took place before the top ten went into the grand finals. Here the top competitors graduated to a series of race offs. In the initial races the losing teams were eliminated, and then when the fleet had shrunk the winner was decided by the number of race wins.

The grand final lineup oozed quality with the three Olympic medallists from Athens lining up along with all the winners of this year's ISAF Grade 1 events

Back to back European Champions Chris DRAPER and Simon HISCOCKS © Camille Parrain

The early races saw Olympic silver medallists Rodion LUKA and George LEONCHUK (UKR) struggle, whilst the final series and qualifying series winners Stevie MORRISON and Ben RHODES (GBR) and Pietro SIBELLO and Gianfranco SIBELLO (ITA) also fell by the wayside early on. The remaining six teams included DRAPER and HISCOCKS, Olympic Champions Iker MARTINEZ and Xabier FERNANDEZ (ESP), ISAF Grade 1 Semaine Olympique Française winners Jan Peter PECKOLT and Hannes PECKOLT (GER), ISAF Grade 1 Rolex Miami OCR winners LARSON and SPAULDING and two Danish teams, HANSEN and HANSEN and Allan NØRREGAARD and Jonatan PERSSON.

The British pair were able to produce the form that has kept that at the top of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings for well over a year and took the gold medal. Meanwhile LARSON and SPAULDING sailed terrifically to take second place in only their second ISAF Graded event in the 49er since the ISAF Worlds in 2003 and HANSEN and HANSEN scored by far their best European result to date with the bronze medal.

In the 29er European Championship being held simultaneously in Vallensbæk, Ed CHAPMAN and Tom PEEL (GBR) finished as clear winners, taking the title with two races to spare. The battle for silver was far closer with Denmark's Helle Ørum NIELSEN and Simon Karstoft JENSEN just holding on in the last race to beat Dylan FLETCHER and Nick HOLLIS (GBR) by a single point.

Top Ten Results

Pos	Nation	Helm	Crew
1	GBR	Chris DRAPER	Simon HISCOCKS
2	USA	Morgan LARSON	Pete SPAULDING
3	DEN	Peter HANSEN	Søren HANSEN
4	GER	Jan Peter PECKOLT	Hannes PECKOLT
5	ESP	Iker MARTINEZ	Xabier FERNANDEZ
6	DEN	Allan NØRREGAARD	Jonatan PERSSON
7	GBR	Stevie MORRISON	Ben RHODES
8	ITA	Pietro SIBELLO	Gianfranco SIBELLO
9	POL	Marcin CZAJKOWSKI	Krzysztof KIERKOWSKI
10	UKR	Rodion LUKA	George LEONCHUK

Final Series Top Ten

Pos	Nation	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	Pts
1	GBR	Stevie MORRISON	Ben RHODES	2	2	1	5	6	12	3	4	2	9	(BFD)	46
2	ESP	Iker MARTINEZ	Xabier FERNANDEZ	12	8	6	1	1	6	6	(14)	4	5	3	52
3	GBR	Chris DRAPER	Simon HISCOCKS	3	3	2	2	3	3	9	12	11	4	(BFD)	52
4	ITA	Pietro SIBELLO	Gianfranco SIBELLO	1	23	5	4	11	1	1	7	1	(24)	18	72
5	DEN	Allan NØRREGAARD	Jonatan PERSSON	5	(24)	10	3	4	5	14	10	5	17	2	75
6	UKR	Rodion LUKA	George LEONCHUK	4	6	11	7	10	8	4	6	(18)	10	11	77
7	USA	Morgan LARSON	Pete SPAULDING	7	1	15	9	2	(OCS)	2	16	13	12	6	83
8	POL	Marcin CZAJKOWSKI	Krzysztof KIERKOWSKI	8	7	3	6	12	18	(23)	2	3	22	17	98
9	DEN	Peter HANSEN	Søren HANSEN	10	14	(17)	8	16	13	10	5	14	8	5	103
10	GER	Jan Peter PECKOLT	Hannes PECKOLT	11	(DNS)	20	18	15	17	13	3	10	6	7	120