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18 Sep 2009

Sail For Gold - Top Day 4 In Weymouth

470 Women - Day 4 - Sail For Gold © Ingrid Abery www.hotcapers.com

 

Skandia Sail For Gold - Weymouth, Great Britain
14-19 September 2009

Nic Asher and Elliot Willis (GBR) finished third and second in today’s 470 races to move to the top of the leaderboard. They have a one-point lead over Australia’s Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page, who were seventh and 10th today, and drop down from the front of the fleet. Britain’s Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell are a further two points behind in third on 14.

Willis said: “It’s been a weird day, the wind dropped off quite a bit in the day. The first race was pretty windy and not that shifty, but it got pretty shifty as it heated up. People’s results were all over the place, which is good for us. There were some pretty big discards today. We sailed pretty conservatively today, we weren’t on too many edges.

"We had a disappointing worlds the other week which put a lot of focus on this regatta for us.”

Asher added: “Competition is really high with all the top guys here so it’s good to beat them and even better here at the Olympic venue. It’s looking good at the moment.”

New Zealand’s Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie continue to lead the women’s 470 fleet, but had a disappointing day with 13th and 14th place finishes. Their lead over Yuka Yoshisako and Noriko Okuma of Japan has been cut from 17 to just four points. Today’s races were won by Giulia Conti and Geovanna Micol (ITA) and Emmanuelle Rol and Helene Defrance (FRA). Britain’s Pippa Wilson and Saskia Clark are sixth, with two seventh places today.

Top 3 places at end of day four of Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta.

470 Men
1. Nic Asher and Elliot Willis (GBR)
2. Matthew Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS)
3. Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell (GBR)

470 Women
1. Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie (NZL)
2. Tara Pacheco and Berta Betanzos (ESP)
3. Ai Kondo and Wakako Tabata (JPN)

More Information
Skandia Sail For Gold event website
470 Men Results
470 Women Results