Three months before the European Championship the entry list shows already 36 entries. We have already introduced the British fleet being the second largest after Russia. With this post we would like to say a word about another valuable squadron – the Germans. The Germans also have impressive sailing traditions and helmsmen from that country regularly conquer the podiums at different international competitions.
GER 11 Marcus Brennecke is probably the most impressive German team with Jochen Schümann as tactician. Schümann won three gold Olympic medals in Finn (1976) and Soling (1988 and 1996) as well as one silver medal (2000). He also won the 2003 and 2007 America’s Cup with Swiss Team Alinghi acting as sporting director.
GER 1123, Michael Zankel, helm of “Powwow”, is sailing with Pedro Andrade, a top tactician from Portugal. The team has ad a fantastic season last year in Cascais, winning one and taking two times third places in the winter sailing series down in Cascais.
GER 1157 Michael Schmidt, also a great and very competitive sailor, won the 2015 Regattes Royales and the Swiss Open Championship.
GER 1162 Stephan Link, silver medalist of the German Championship in 2015 and the winner of Grand Prix in Cannes, is coming with former olympian Frank Butzmann as a tactician and Michi Lipp as a very experienced crew.
And the fifth German helmsman is Marcus Wieser (UAE 7). We have already written about him, his honors and crew here: http://dragoneuro2016.ru/2016/04/06/entry-list-from-uae-to-europe/
At present there are 36 entries and 3 month to go to the Gazprom Dragon European Championship 2016.
