Río Negro regatta 2012 for Pinta and Mozzicafredo

 

The 2012 edition of Río Negro regatta is over and the same picture again at the arrival to Viedma. Néstro Pinta and Martín Mozzicafredo celebrate their eleventh victory in a row as a couple, twelveth for each in their own account. The last stage was a "copy-paste" of the six before. Pinta and Mozzicafredo won with a hard attack at the last portage, leaving behind the Scalesi brothers, second, and Percaz - Soto, third, keeping them all that same position in the final overall standings. Bad day for the other couple fighting for the podium, Orellana - di Renzo, who finally got out of the picture just for 49 seconds after more than 14 hours of paddling.

Río Negro: current overall standings

Here are the current overall standings for Río Negro Regatta after 5 stages:

K2 SENIOR VARONES		5th stage	Overall
1º	N. Pinta - M. Mozzicafredo	2:15:28	10:20:45
2º	F. Pércaz - M. Soto	2:15:32	10:26:02
3º	S. Scalesi - JM Scalesi	2:15:52	10:26:07
4º	P. Orellana - G. Di Renzo	2:16:38	10:26:32
5º	J. Algañarás - J. Siriscevic	2:16:36	10:43:43
6º	C. Penchulef - J. Penchulef	2:28:55	11:35:03
7º	R. Gajardo - C. Vega	2:32:37	11:53:06
8º	V. Silva  - F. Aguayo	2:36:17	11:58:42
9º	M. Wright  - S.  Jones	2:35:54	12:12:13

Río Negro: 5th stage

Fifth stage and fifth victory in a row for the favourites Pinta - Mozzicafredo, who go straight for their eleventh victory, twelveth for each of them as individuals. Yesterday, with the arrival at General Conesa, after a 34 km. course in a terrible fight for the lead, the couple Percaz - Soto where about to make it, but finally paid the effort with a fall down to the fifth place. Pinta and Mozzicafredo stopped the clock in 2h.15'28", followed by Scalesi - Scalesi, Algañaraz - Sericevic and Orellana - di Renzo.

In the overall standings, Pinta Mozzicafredo are comfortably in the lead, but the fight seems to be tough for the second place, which right now is for Percaz - Soto (5'17" behind), followed very closed by Scalesi - Scalesi (5'22") and Orellana - di Renzo (5'47").


In K1 Senior, Daniel Dal-Bo gave another bite to his disadvantage after the rudder break in the third stage and won the stage after a strong paddle. He becomes closer to his rivals for the title in the overall, which is lead by David Ortega and Jonathan Calvo, second.

Today's stage will bring the paddlers down to Monte Bagual.

Rietvlei Rumble to celebrate this Saturday

Next Saturday, South African top paddlers have a date at Gauteng's Rietvlei Rumble, one of the last qualifyiers for Dusi batches. It's confirmed, as everybody suspected, that McGregor will team up with Len Jenkins to face the Dusi. Some of the best Dusi paddlers will be also at the start line: Dusi winners Andy Birkett and Jason Graham, the impressive U23 Kwanda Mhlope and Lance Kime, the former U23 world champion Brandon van der Walt and his partner Clinton Cook and the rising local paddlers Gavin Shuter and Alex Roberts, among many others.


This particular race is held at Rietvlei Dam, under 30 km., where 10 out of them belong to two tough portages through the surrounding prairies and hills. The other 20 km. will be raced in a flatwater course, divided in three stages of 3, 2 and 1 lap each at the circuit.

Río Negro: 4th stage

Pinta y Mozzicafredo keep leading Río Negro regatta for their eleventh overall win in a row. Yesterday, after a short (it was cutted down to 21 km.) but tough day, deserved a new partial win, while their rivals fight each other for a second position, so first look now rather far away for them.

The main novelty in this shortest course ever at Río Negro were the compulsory portages, which, along with the strong stream, made this stage particularly tough for the paddlers

In K1, Daniel Dal-Bo made a brilliant stage, cutting down 3 minutes to David Ortega and Jonathan Calvo, so in the overall is now 8 minutes behind his rivals. We'll see if the three stages left are space enough for him to go again into the lead or he will pay for the unlucky rudder break of the third stage.