29er World Championships at Lake Ontario, Canada - Day 5
by Jerelyn Biehl 2 Aug 2014 08:26 BST
26 July - 2 August 2014
Aussies move into the lead
Lighter winds from 6-10 knots prevailed on Friday giving some teams a chance to move up in the rankings while some of the heavier teams struggled. Three teams were consistent to stay at the top with Kurt Hansen & Harry Morton (AUS) sailing a 6-3-8-2 to give them a lead in the 25 boat Gold fleet with 52 points. Sitting in second overall are Tania Bonilla and Marc Chapon (ESP) who had a great day with 8-6-9-3 to give them 63 points. The French team of Brice Yrieix and Loic Ficher-Guillou, fresh off their ISAF Youth Worlds win, are in the hunt but suffered an OCS in the 3rd race today. Their other races were 7-2-4 which puts them in 4th overall behind the German team of Jasper Steffens and Tom Lennart Brauckmann who have been very consistent using their last race as their discard.
Tomorrow's racing with 2 races remaining will be all out with light winds again forecasted. If the scheduled 10 races are met, each team will receive 2 discards which can change the
In the silver fleet Argentines Ignacio Varisco and Nicolas Peirano Prat lead with the Bronze leaders the female team of Theresa Blumroth and Maria Berking (GER).
The finals races will be held tomorrow followed immediately by the award ceremonies at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour.
Results can be found at www.29erworlds.org/index.php/results
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