World Champs - Day 1

[davidP]

Can't find an official site with the results on anywhere, but I did find the following. Can't guarantee it's accuracy obviously, and Latvia seems to be in twice. Individuals are by weight rather than points, but I would imagine it means Scotthorne & Conroy scored the section win & fourth for England, although don't know who got which. Either way there's a good chance of a medal for an England individual, but it looks like a team medal may not be too likely after two of the team appear to have nightmares (21st & 25th in section).

 

 

Teams

 

1. Belgium 32 (3-9-5-1-14)

2. Hungary 36 (15-10-1-7-3)

3. Croatia 38 (9-11-2-11-5)

4. France 45 (5-3-32-4-1)

5. Germany 56 (6-5-25-10-10)

6. England 63 (4-1-12-25-21)

7. Wales 65 (2-12-13-3-35)

8. Poland 68

9. San Marino 68

10. Austria 70

11. Slovakia 72

12. Italy 81

13. Portugal 86

14. Czech 87

15. Spain 87

16. Ireland 88

17. Finland 97

18. Macedonia 98

19. Latvia 101

20. Netherlands 102

21. Slovenia 102

22. Sweden 104

23. Denmark 106

24. Luxembourg 106

25. Latvia 111

26. Romania 114

27. Bulgaria 115

28. Norway 118

29. South Africa 129

30. Scotland 130

31. Switzerland 131

32. Serbia 134

33. Russia 135

34. Ukraine 135

35. Bosnia 138

36. USA 151

37. Channel Islands 153

38. Estonia 168

39. China 184

 

 

Individuals

 

1. Robert Bednarski, Poland, 9710g

2. Andrew Murphy, Wales, 8920g

3. Christophe Gazannois, France, 7310g

4. Guido Nullens, Belgium, 7130g

5. Stuart Conroy, England, 6090g

6. Alan Scotthorne, England, 5980g

7. Gilles Caudin, France, 5800g

8. Hans Slegers, Belgium, 5560g

9. Jose Duarte, Portugal, 5440g

10. Stefan Posselt, Denmark, 5400g

[The Flying Tench]

It's interesting that all the teams bar 2 are from Europe. I wonder why coarse (match) fishing is such a European sport?

[davidP]

Mainly because only Europe fishes the way we do, and our style of match fishing is totally alien to the rest of the world. Most of the non-European teams (usually USA, Australia & South Africa) are made up of UK ex-pats anyway. No Australia seemingly this year, but China are competing for the first time.

[davidP]

Still can't find an official report, but the same site is reporting that Alan Scotthorne is world champion and that Hungary were first, Poland 2nd and France 3rd. Hope it's true about Alan

[Chris the Fish]

does anyone know how the rest of the brits faired?

[davidP]

Still can't find anything with the full result. Here's what I've found so far :

 

Individuals

GOLD: Alan Scotthorne, ENGLAND, 3pts

SILVER: Karoly Schater, Hungary, 5pts

BRONZE: Robert Bednarski, Poland, 7pts

 

Teams

GOLD: Hungary 55pts

SILVER: Poland 93.5pts

BRONZE: France 102.5pts

4th Belgium 109pts

5th ENGLAND 119pts

6th Slovakia 128.5pts

10th Wales 153pts

17th Ireland 187pts

26th Scotland 230pts

 

If this is correct then that's a phenomenal 19 point 2nd day performance by Hungary and a 25.5 point day for Poland - pretty impressive stuff.

 

It also means Alan and Sandra now have matching trophies. We should put then out to stud to create a team for 20 years time