Tufte and Karsten hold the Silverskiff

Silverskiff winners Karsten and Tufte

The home of next year's winter Olympics, Turin, Italy was inundated with single scullers over the weekend for the annual Silverskiff regatta. Amongst the 284 participants Olympic Champion Olaf Tufte of Norway finished the 11km course in the fastest time. Tufte started in position 123 and worked his way through the field to end just 26 seconds shy of the course record (set by Andre Willms of Germany in 2003).

First to start, last years Silverskiff winner and Olympic silver medallist Jueri Jaanson of Estonia could only manage 18th. Instead Sweden's Lassi Karonen made it a Scandinavian double header by finishing second.
Holding the flag for Italy, Leonardo Pettinari led the way crossing the line in third and just five seconds ahead of his former lightweight doubles partner, Elia Luini.  

Tufte races to first

On the women's side, Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus remained queen of the Silverskiff for the second time. Karsten easily took the women's title over Italy's Elisabetta Brugo. Karsten finished 35th overall. Local rower, Brugo has won the event eight times and holds the current course record.

Tufte and Karsten took away ?golden coins? to the value of 800 Euros for their respective wins.

Race organiser, Umberto Gellona pointed out the diversity of countries involved. ?We wish to mention as well the participation of Dirk Bangert from Denmark, Charles Burckmyer from U.S.A., Paul John Flory and Carlo Zezza also from the U.S.A.?

Women's winner, Karsten

This is the 14th edition of the Silverskiff and, as is traditional, junior racing opened the weekend with 124 juniors competing in the Kinder Skiff on Saturday over a 4km course followed by senior racing on Sunday. Turin is the original home of Italian rowing and the local club on the river Po, Reale Società Canottieri Cerea, dates back to 1863.

Complete results can be found on www.silverskiff.org

Top 20 positions

1. Olaf Tufte – Norway
2- Lassi Karonen – Sweden
3. Leonardo Pettinari – Italy
4. Elia Luini – Italy
5. Lorenzo Bertini – Italy
6. Franco Sancassani – Italy
7. Marcello Miani – Italy
8. David Nestola – Italy
9. Matteo Motta -Italy
10. Federico Gattinoni – Italy
11. Alessio Sartori – Italy
12. Andrea Messina – Italy
13. Vittorio Altobelli – Italy
14. Bruno Pasqualini – Italy
15. Luca Motta – Italy
16. Juri Vlceck – Italy
17. Andrea Tranquilli – Italy
18. Jueri Jaanson – Estonia
19. Andrea Serventi – Italy
20. Luca Livio – Italy

Related Links
Karsten and Jaanson win in 2004
Willms wins in 2003

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