DUTCH STEAM THROUGH TO CLAIM WORLD #1 470 WOMEN RANKINGS
03 Feb 2017The first release of the World Rankings for 2017, published on 30 January 2017, sees the Dutch partnership of Afrodite Zegers/Anneloes van Veen take control of the 470 Women leaderboard, whilst Australia's Mat Belcher/Will Ryan remain unchallenged in the 470 Men.
Afrodite Zegers/Anneloes Van Veen make a massive climb up the World Rankings to check in as the new World #1 470 Women partnership, up from world #6 last month. They kicked off their 2017 season where they want to be, after back to back wins from the 2017 470 North American Championship, followed by SWC Series Round 1 - Miami.
Big climb too for Sophie Weguelin/Eilidh Mcityre who jump up to #5 from #17 aided by their 2nd place finish at SWC Miami, preceded by a win at Enoshima Olympic Week back in October 2016.
Also knocking out a World Ranking career best are Spain’s Olympians Barbara Cornudella/Sara Lopez who break into the top ten for the first time at #10, up from #14. An upwards climb too for Spain’s younger partnership, and reigning 470 Junior World Champions, Silvia Mas/Paula Barcelo who also secure a career best ranking of #22, climbing eleven places from #33 after their 3rd place result at Miami.
World Ranking | Nation | Team | Ranking Points |
1 | NED | Afrodite Zegers / Anneloes van Veen | 912 |
2 | FRA | Camille Lecointre / Helene Defrance | 869 |
3 | AUT | Lara Vadlau / Jolanta Ogar | 859 |
4 | CHN | Carrie Smith / Jaime Ryan | 794 |
5 | GBR | Sophie Weguelin / Eilidh McIntyre | 766 |
6 | USA | Anne Haeger / Briana Provancha | 735 |
7 | GBR | Hannah Mills / Saskia Clark | 723 |
8 | POL | Agnieszka Skrzypulec / Irmina Morzek Gliszczynska | 708 |
9 | CHN | Shasha Chen / Haiyan Gao | 694 |
10 | ESP | Barbara Cornudella / Sara Lopez | 675 |
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No change in the 470 Men top three, and despite neither Australia’s Olympic silver medallists Mat Belcher/Will Ryan or Croatia’s Olympic gold medallists Sime Fantela/Igor Marenic not taking to the race track since Rio 2016, their points advantage on the leaderboard continues to hold them firm at world #1 and #2 respectively.
A third consecutive win for America’s Stu McNay/David Hughes at SWC Miami helps them close the points gap to the Aussies and Croatians, but it will take a few more months and events to change the rolling calculation of the rankings and see the USA partnership have a chance of moving on in to swap places.
Shifting a gear up and also on a rankings high are Sweden’s Carl-Fredrik Fock/Marcus Dackhammar who convert their world ranking #11 from December 2016 to a #6 in January 2017, after two fourth place finishes at the 2017 470 North American Championship and SWC Series Round 1 - Miami.
Elsewhere fairly stable in the world's top 10.
World Ranking | Nation | Team | Ranking Points |
1 | AUS | Mathew Belcher / William Ryan | 984 |
2 | CRO | Sime Fantela / Igor Marenic | 949 |
3 | USA | Stu McNay / David Hughes | 866 |
4 | SWE | Anton Dahlberg / Fredrik Bergstrom | 865 |
5 | ESP | Jordi Xammar / Nicolas Rodriguez | 861 |
6 | SWE | Carl Fredrik Fock / Marcus Dackhammar | 826 |
7 | GBR | Luke Patience / Chris Grube | 783 |
8 | GRE | Panagiotis Mantis / Pavlos Kagialis | 774 |
9 | GER | Ferdinand Gerz / Oliver Szymanski | 765 |
10 | FRA | Sofian Bouvet / Jeremie Mion | 765 |