Jordi XAMMAR / Nora BRUGMAN (ESP) © Sailing Energy/World Sailing
GOLDEN STARTS TO GOLD FLEET IN HYÈRES AS OLYMPIANS BEGIN TO SWOOP
27 Apr 2023All ten Olympic classes were on the water in building easterly winds as the top of the 900 competitors in 670 boats from 66 nations from the first three days split into gold fleets at the 54th Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères - TPM.
The pressure cranked up several notches and cracks appeared in many of the podiums, as some of the dominant forces of the opening three days fell away as they faced all the best boats together for the first time. Across the fleet, Olympic medal winners who had struggled earlier in the week began their rise.
Friday could be trickier with light 6-8 knot easterlies in the morning veering south in the afternoon.
Three races today
Spain’s Jordi Xammar- Hernandez & Nora Brugman retained the overall lead and opened up a significant gap at the top as the only leading boat to register three single digit results, finishing 4, 2, 6 as others floundered.
After flourishing in the light winds on Wednesday, Portugal’s Beatrice Gago & Rodolfo Pires finished 3, 29, 10 and dropped to third just behind Austria’s Lara Vadlau and Lukas Mähr (9, 10, 2).