Race 4 win for Ben Ainslie in the Finns

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Race 4 win for Ben Ainslie in the Finns

by Mark Jardine & Gael Pawson 10 Aug 2008 10:22 BST 9-21 August 2008

An awesome win for Ben

Race 4 - In the Finns it was a solid start for Ben Ainslie who rounded the first mark in fourth place, Brazil's Eduardo Couto leading the way. As the fleet turned upside down behind the leaders, Ben managed to cling on dropping to sixth, while many of those around him were pushed right down. At the penultimate mark he was seventh, with the overall leader Zach Railey in the front. However Ben put in an awesome final leg to take the race win ahead of Railey, leaving him second overall five points behind the American and 12 points ahead of third-placed Canadian.

Finn Results: (4 races, no discard)

Pos	Nat	Helm	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1	USA	Zach Railey	2	5	2	2	11
2	GBR	Charles Benedict Ainslie	10	1	4	1	16
3	CAN	Christopher Cook	8	3	7	10	28
4	SLO	Gasper Vincec	9	11	6	5	31
5	ESP	Rafa Trujillo Villar	12	4	3	14	33
6	CRO	Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic	7	10	10	8	35
7	POL	Rafal Szukiel	3	2	19	12	36
8	FRA	Guillaume Florent	5	8	20	3	36
9	SWE	Daniel Birgmark	14	17	1	6	38
10	FIN	Tapio Nirkko	18	9	9	9	45
11	DEN	Jonas Hoegh-Christensen	16	6	12	16	50
12	BRA	Eduardo Couto	6	16	27	7	56
13	AUS	Anthony Nossiter	11	22	8	17	58
14	ITA	Giorgio Poggi	17	7	14	21	59
15	GRE	Emilios Papathanasiou	1	27	5	27	60
16	NZL	Dan Slater	21	19	18	4	62
17	CYP	Haris Papadopoulos	13	18	21	11	63
18	IRL	Timothy Goodbody	22	13	15	15	65
19	TUR	Ali Kemal Tufekci	20	21	13	18	72
20	NED	Pieter-Jan Postma	19	15	16	22	72
21	RUS	Eduard Skornyakov	24	20	17	13	74
22	IND	Nachhatar Singh Johal	4	24	23	24	75
23	CZE	Michael Maier	15	14	22	25	76
24	NOR	Peer Moberg	23	27	11	19	80
25	VEN	Johnny Bilbao	26	12	25	23	86
26	CHN	Peng Zhang	25	23	24	20	92

© 2008 IOC. Official Results powered by Atos Origin. Timing and results management by Omega.

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