28 Jan 2010
Great Britain and France Dominate In Miami
It was “do or die” today for sailors in the final medal races of US SAILING’s Rolex Miami OCR. Reserved for the top-ten fleet racing finishers they certainly delivered a final punch of excitement to six days of racing in Miami and delivered Gold Medals to Great Britain and France.
In the Men’s 470, the battle between two British teams has been intense all week long, but today Nic Asher and Elliot Willis turned in the Gold Medal performance, pushing the leaders going into the Medal Race and British teammates Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell to third overall and the Bronze Medals. Patience and Bithell finished last in the ten-boat medal race and picked up double points, adding 20 points to what was otherwise an incredible scoreline, too many points to keep the gold medal in their grasp. They actually finished on equal points to Australia's Mathew Belcher andMalcolm Page, the reigning 470 class World Champions who are also ranked #1 in the world, but the tiebreak gave the Silver medal to the Australians.
470 Men Top 10
Pos | Helm | Crew | Nation | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | Medal | Pts |
1 | Asher, Nic | Willis, Elliot | GBR | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 10 | [32] | 2 | 6 | 45 |
2 | Belcher, Mathew | Page, Malcolm | AUS | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | [12] | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 51 |
3 | Patience, Luke | Bithell, Stuart | GBR | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | [17] | 9 | 20 | 51 |
4 | Leboucher, Pierre | Garos, Vincent | FRA | 10 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 5 | [18] | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 58 |
5 | Kliger, Gideon | Sela, Eran | ISR | [23] | 10 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 63 |
6 | McNay, Stuart | Biehl, Graham | USA | 8 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | [14] | 4 | 14 | 69 |
7 | Kampouridis, Eanagiotis | Papadopoulos, Efstathios | GRE | 6 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 3 | [21] | 8 | 8 | 75 |
8 | Fantela, Sime | Marenic, Igor | CRO | 5 | 4 | [17] | 4 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 78 |
9 | Barreiros, Onan | Sarmiento, Aaron | ESP | 4 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 2 | [22] | 10 | 7 | 12 | 83 |
10 | Calabrese, Lucas | de la Fuente, Juan | ARG | 12 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 14 | [23] | 15 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 94 |
470 Women
By winning today’s medal race in the 24-boat Women’s 470 class, Argentina’s 2008 Olympians Maria Fernanda Sesto and Consuelo Monsegur moved themselves past Camille Lecointre and Mathilde Geron (FRA) to claim the bronze, showing how critical the medal race can be in securing a podium finish. “We had it in mind to win, but if the French had come in second we would not have made the medal. We had to beat them and put one boat between us.”
Skipper Fernanda Sesto added, “It was not easy, this medal race; you need to be mentally fast, focusing not just on what is happening but what will happen.”
Leaders going into the Medal Race, France's Ingrid Petijean and Nadege Douroux delivered a fourth place finish and secured the gold medal – but only just. They had a 1-point margin over the chasing British pair of Penny Clark and Katrina Hughes (GBR) in second overall. The British maintained that position for the Silver Medal after turning in a second-place finish in the Medal Race.
470 Women Top 10
Pos | Helm | Crew | Nation | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | Medal | Pts |
1 | Petitjean, Ingrid | Douroux, Nadege | FRA | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 1 | [18] | 8 | 36 | 1 |
2 | Clark, Penny | Hughes, Katrina | GBR | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | [BFD] | 6 | 10 | 4 | 37 | 2 |
3 | Sesto, Maria Fernanda | Monsegur, Consuelo | ARG | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | [16] | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 41 | 3 |
4 | Lecointre, Camille | GERON, mathilde | FRA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | [BFD] | 2 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 51 | 4 |
5 | Oliveira, Fernanda | Barbachan, Ana | BRA | 13 | 13 | 4 | 5 | [14] | 4 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 59 | 5 |
6 | Conti, Giulia | Micol, Giovanna | ITA | 5 | [17] | 9 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 59 | 6 |
7 | Grael, Martine | Swan, Isabel | BRA | [16] | 10 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 64 | 7 |
8 | Koch, Henriette | Sommer, Lene | DEN | [17] | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 73 | 8 |
9 | Lutz, Tina | Beucke, Susann | GER | 15 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | [OCS] | 20 | 73 | 9 |
10 | Ayton, Sarah | Clark, Saskia | GBR | 7 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 2 | [18] | 14 | 9 | 12 | 75 | 10 |
“In the final medal count, 14 different countries won 39 medals, with eight different countries sharing Gold,” said US SAILING’s Olympic Sailing Committee Chair Dean Brenner at the final Rolex Prizegiving, held at Coral Reef Yacht Club.
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Next stop on the 2010-2011 ISAF Sailing World Cup circuit is Spain's Trofeo Princess Sofia in Palma, Mallorca from 2-9 April 2011.
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Images: 470 Men Medallists (L to R) 2. Matthew Belcher/Malcolm Page (AUS); 1. Nic Asher/Elliot Willis (GBR); 3. Luke Patience/Stuart Bithell (GBR). 470 Women Medallists (L to R) 2. Penny Clark/ Katrina Hughes (GBR); 1. Ingrid Petijean/ Nadege Douroux (FRA); 3. Maria Fernanda Sesto/ Consuelo Monsegur (ARG) © Rolex / Daniel Forster