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12 Aug 2010

Hotting Up in Weymouth

The 470 Women have been brutally competitive all week, no less so today, where the Dutch World Champions and overnight leaders Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout (NED) dropped to third – and the Spanish team of Tara Pacheco and Berta Betanzos now take the top spot after some really solid and consistent sailing.

The wind today was a northwesterly blowing straight from the land, making it extremely shifty with very flat water. Perhaps that unseated some, as the conditions have been a bit breezier on previous days.

Whilst the Dutch moved down, the situation was even worse for the Danish team, Henriette Koch and Lene Sommer, who were third overall in the ISAF Sailing World Standings and third overall yesterday, but have now dropped down to twelth after there most disappointing day so far in this regatta. They will need to work hard in tomorrow's two races to shift up a gear and get themselves into the top 10 cut for the medal race to have any chance of a podium place in the overall 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup series.

Alongside the new overnight fleet leaders Tara Pacheco and Berta Betanzos, who only last year were the 2009 470 Junior World Champions, it was also a glory day for the American team of Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving, who fired two bullets in racing today. It's not often in the 470 fleet that a crew gets to achieve such a peformance and for Erin and Isabelle the excitement was pretty tremendous – and a repeat of their performance three and a half weeks ago at the 2010 470 Worlds in Holland. They put today's success down to reading the shifts well.

Many of the fleet are keeping their eyes on double Olympic medallist in the Yngling, Sarah Ayton (GBR) who made her debut appearance in the 470 Class at the 2010 Miami Rolex OCR in February this year. Sarah with crew Saskia Clark, are now in 18 and 31 points adrift of the medal race.

The 470 Men were a little more predictable, with World Champions and ISAF Sailing World Cup winners Matt Belcher and Malcom Page (AUS) ascending to the top of the leaderboard, and none of the top seeds looking like missing the cut.

Replay the 470 Tracked Races:  
470 Women  
Race 3 REPLAY
Race 4 REPLAY
Race 5 REPLAY
Race 6 REPLAY
470 Men  
Race 3 – Yellow REPLAY
Race 3 – Blue REPLAY
Race 4 – Yellow REPLAY
Race 4 – Blue REPLAY
Race 6 – Yellow REPLAY
Race 6 – Blue REPLAY

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