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470 World Championships

POLAND TAKES LEAD IN 470 WOMEN - SWEDEN MAINTAINS DOMINATION IN 470 MEN

12 Jul 2017

The final series for the 470 Men and Women got underway today off Thessaloniki, Greece with two races for each of the gold and silver fleets.

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2017 470 World Championships
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Lighter breeze meant lots of bunching around the marks. Get it wrong and it was a focus to get back into rhythm with the ever present attack.

No let-up in the performance of Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom (SWE) who hold tight to the 470 Men lead, racking up a 2,3. A matching scorecard from the new series leaders in the 470 Women, Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek (POL), propels them to the front.

Reflective of the transition amongst teams in the opening year of campaigning to Tokyo 2020, the top ten is not the usual leader board hierarchy.  Interestingly, both leading teams, the Swedish and Polish, have taken time away from the race track and appear to have returned fresh and with a renewed impetus.

Final series racing continues on Thursday with two more races scheduled for gold and silver fleets, starting at 1400 hours.

470 WOMEN
Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek have delivered the most consistent scorecard across the women’s fleet, with no result lower than third. Today’s 2,3 performance propels them up to first overall, with Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) and Slovenia’s Tina Mrak/Veronika Macarol dropping to 2nd and 3rd.

“I didn’t expect this, as we had quite a bad regatta before the Worlds,” Skrzypulec explained on their performance at the warm-up event.”

Earlier this year, as Mrozek recovered from injury, Skrzypulec competed with Jola Ogar as a temporary crew, and the 470 Worlds marks the team’s return to elite competition.

“I think that now we are stronger. I think that mentally we are stronger and that we can count on each other. It was tough for Irmina watching me sail with Jola,” explained Skrzypulec. “We had some really hard times, but finally we are back together.

“So, I have a lot of respect for the fleet. From last week, I knew that we had to control the fleet, stay focused and relaxed and realised that we would fight for each place during the whole race. We don’t have to win the first beat, we just have to be very good at the finishing line.

“We sit in a very comfortable position, and I am relaxed. The others might get a bit nervous, but not me, and that is an advantage.

“But I don’t get too excited. I think that we sailed smart and our speed was good, so we are fighting each place in every race and finally we got such good results. I am very happy for that, but I know there is still a long way to go and a medal race, so we have to stay focused, relaxed and do what we are doing now," Skrzypulec concluded on the challenge ahead.

China’s Xiaoli Wang/Haiyang Gao sit just 1 point off third.  Two-time Olympian Wang partnered up with Gao after Rio 2016, and they are coached by the vastly experienced Romain Bonnaud, who has been working with the Chinese 470 squad for several years.

“They have been working pretty hard during the last couple of months,” reflected Bonnaud. “That is the conditions how we like to work, and they have been sailing pretty well. We don’t feel any pressure here and we just want to enjoy every race. So far so good."

An incredible passage of play from Switzerland’s Linda Fahrni/Maja Siegenthaler rewarded them with two wins and an escalation up the leaderboard to 5th.

"The first race we were a bit lucky as we had a really bad start on the pin," said Siegenthaler on their success. "We had to give way to all the boats, we went to the right corner and tacked and we managed to cross all the boats from the left, so we were a bit lucky to find a right shift as well as the puff we found there.

"In the second race we had a really good start, went to the left and could cross all the boats and led from the first mark.I feel really good. We had breakfast in a different restaurant this mornng, and perhaps that helped us," laughed Siegenthaler.

470 Women - Provisional Results after 7 Races
1. Agnieszka SKRZYPULEC/Irmina MRÓZEK GLISZCZYNSKA (POL 11) - 15 pts
2. Hannah MILLS/Eilidh MCINTYRE (GBR 321) - 20 pts
3. Tina MRAK/Veronika MACAROL (SLO 64) - 29 pts
4. Xiaoli WANG/Haiyang GAO (CHN 1221) - 30 pts
5. Linda FAHRNI/Maja SIEGENTHALER (SUI 5) - 32 pts
6. Shasha CHEN/Xufeng HUANG (CHN 0619) - 33 pts
8. Barbara CORNUDELLA/Sara LOPEZ (ESP 14) - 33 pts
8. Silvia MAS DEPARES/Patricia CANTERO REINA (ESP 18) - 36 pts
9. Maria BOZI/Rafailina KLONARIDOU (GRE 216) - 36 pts
10. Afrodite ZEGERS/Anneloes VAN VEEN (NED 1) - 40 pts

470 MEN
Sweden’s Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom again set the pace around the race track and again retain the leaders’ yellow bibs. Mathew Belcher/Will Ryan (AUS) took out the race 7 win and hold firm in second overall, with Austria’s David Bargehr/Lukas Mähr just 1 point behind in third.

“Today was tough, very close racing,” explained Dahlberg. “In the first race we just managed to get to the windward mark at the right moment so it came quite easy. Second race we fought the whole way around,“ he added on the battle between the Australians, Austrians and Thai teams.

“Today people thought it was going to be more one track, but it was a lot more open. You had to do the big things right and really maximise the small details.”

Thailand’s Navee Thamsoontorn/Nut Butmarasri managed the competition skilfully to seize a 4th place finish in race 7, just behind the Swedes.

Third placed Bargehr/Mähr have certainly stepped up their game at the Worlds, as they achieve a career best position. 

“It was pretty tough racing in the lighter breeze, and at the marks and gates the whole pack was there and you could easily win or lose ten or fifteen places,” remarked Bargehr on converting a 10th place position to a 25th place position after some mark rounding. “It was a little bit like the wild west at the marks, but otherwise good.”

470 Men - Provisional Results after 7 Races
1. Anton DAHLBERG/Fredrik BERGSTROM (SWE 349) - 9 pts
2. Mathew BELCHER/Will RYAN (AUS 11) - 15 pts
3. David BARGEHR/Lukas MÄHR (AUT 1) - 16 pts
4. Deniz CINAR/Ates CINAR (TUR 890) - 32 pts
5. Hippolyte Machetti/Sidoine Dantes (FRA79) - 36 pts
6. Paul SNOW-HANSEN/Daniel WILLCOX (NZL 2) - 36 pts
7. Carl-Fredrik FOCK/Marcus DACKHAMMAR (SWE 350) - 41 pts
8. Zangjun XU/Chao WANG (CHN 067) - 41 pts
9. Giacomo FERRARI/Giulio CALABRO (ITA 757) - 47 pts
10. Stuart MCNAY/David HUGHES (USA 1) - 47 pts

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SCHEDULE
Races will take place over two race courses, for each of the men’s and women’s fleets. Fleets will be seeded for the five race Qualification Series into yellow and blue fleets, before being split into gold and silver for the six race Final Series. The top ten teams in the men’s and women’s fleets will advance to the Medal Races on Saturday 15 July 2017.

7-9 July 2017 - Measurement/Registration
9 July 2017 - Opening Ceremony
10-11 July 2017 - Qualification Series (5 races)
12-14 July 2017 - Final Series (6 races)
15 July 2017 - Medal Races, Closing Ceremony/Prize Giving

ABOUT THE 2017 470 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2017 470 World Championships is organized by Nautical Club of Thessaloniki in co-operation with the International 470 Class Association. Racing starts on Monday 10 July, with a 5 race qualification series and 6 race final series scheduled for the 470 Men and 470 Women fleets, before the top 10 teams advance to the final Medal Race on Saturday 15 July 2017.

All six continents are represented in the 32 nations competing at the 2017 470 World Championships: Australia, Austria, Chile, China, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USA.

470 Men - Provisional Results after 5 Races
1. Anton DAHLBERG/Fredrik BERGSTROM (SWE 349) - 5 pts
2. Mathew BELCHER/Will RYAN (AUS 11) - 10 pts

3. David BARGEHR/Lukas MÄHR (AUT 1) - 10 pts
4. Hippolyte Machetti/Sidoine Dantes (FRA79) - 14 pts

5. Stuart MCNAY/David HUGHES (USA 1) - 17 pts
6. Paul SNOW-HANSEN/Daniel WILLCOX (NZL 2) - 19 pts
7. Deniz CINAR/Ates CINAR (TUR 890) - 20 pts
8. Panagiotis MANTIS/Pavlos KAGIALIS (GRE 1) -20 pts

9. Zangjun XU/Chao WANG (CHN 067) - 21 pts
10. Malte WINKEL/Matti CIPRA (GER13) - 27 pts

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