Sailing at Rio 2016 Day 2: Time to throw the form book into Guanabara Bay?
by Mark Jardine 9 Aug 2016 22:18 BST
8-18 August 2016
The course area may have changed, and the wind was from the opposite direction, but the performance early on stayed the same for Nick Dempsey. He picked up where he left off on day 1 in Race 4 of the Men's RS:X class on the Escola Naval race area to record his third win in 4 races. Poland's Piotr Myszka finished 2nd with Brazil's Ricardo Santos 3rd.
In the Women's RS:X Race 4 Italy's Flavia Tartaglini took the win followed by Brazil's Patricia Freitas with the Netherland's Lilian De Geus third. Overall leader France's Charline Picon knocked in a solid 4th, Britain's Bryony Shaw was 7th and USA's Marion Lepert 13th.
Red-hot favourite in the Finn class is without doubt Giles Scott but not everything is going by the form-book in Rio. Racing on the Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) course, described as the most unpredictable race area, a 17th in Race 1 is not the start he'll have been looking for. The race win went to Argentina's Facundo Olezza Bazan followed by Turkey's Alican Kaynar in 2nd and Slovinia's Vasilij Zbogar 3rd. Time to throw the form book into Guanabara Bay...?
USA's Caleb Paine knocked in a respectable 7th but Australia's Jake Lilley finished one place ahead of Giles Scott 16th and New Zealand's Josh Junior was a place behind in 18th.
Race 3 of the Women's Laser Radial regatta, racing on the Ponte course in up to 12 knots of breeze, saw Hungary's Maria Erdi win followed by Belgium's Evi van Acker and China's Lijia Xu bouncing back after her disqualification yesterday with a 3rd. Ireland's Annalise Murphy finished 4th, USA's Paige Railey 10th, Britain's Alison Young 13th and Australia's Ashley Stoddart 17th.
In Race 3 of the Men's Laser class, Cypriot Pavlos Kontides took a convincing win from Australia's Tom Burton with Guatemala's Juan Ignacio Maegli 3rd. New Zealand's Sam Meech finished 5th with Britain's Nick Thompson 9th and USA's Charlie Buckingham 10th. No Laser sailors have recorded three top 6 results - the predictions of a high scoring Laser regatta look to be accurate.
Italy's Flavia Tartaglini made it two wins from 2 today in race 5 of the Women's RS:X followed by Russia's Stefania Elfutina, and the Netherland's Lilian De Geus third. Britain's Bryony Shaw finished 14th with USA's Marion Lepert 22nd.
London 2012 gold medallist Dorian Van Rysselberghe collected his 2nd win in race 5 of the Men's RS:X regatta with Poland's Piotr Myszka 2nd, France's Pierre Le Coq 3rd and regatta leader Nick Dempsey (GBR) 4th.
Race 2 in the Finn class saw Slovenia's Vasilij Zbogar win followed by London 2012 Silver Medallist Jonas Hogh-Christensen from Denmark in 2nd and Britain's Giles Scott 3rd. USA's Caleb Paine finished 10th. There were UFD starting penalties for Jake Lilley (AUS), Josh Junior (NZL), Alejandro Foglia Costa (URU) & Zsombor Berecz (HUN) - that's an early DSQ in the results for all of them.
Race 4 in the Women's Radial class saw China's Lijia Xu win followed by Finland's Tuula Tenkanen and Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom 3rd. Ireland's Annalise Murphy knocked in a solid 7th but Canada's Brenda Bowskill was 20th, USA's Paige Railey 21st and Britain's Alison Young 26th.
In Race 4 of the Men's Laser class Argentina's Julio Alsogaray won with Norway's Kristian Ruth 2nd and South Korea's Jeemin Ha 3rd. New Zealand's Sam Meech was 6th, Canada's Lee Parkhill 9th, Australia's Tom Burton 10th, Britain's Nick Thompson 15th and USA's Charlie Buckingham 23rd.
The RS:X windsurfing classes finished off the day with race 6 of their regattas. China's Peina Chen won the final Women's race followed by Thailand's Siripon Kaewduang-Ngam and Israel's Maayan Davidovich. Britain's Bryony Shaw was 12th and USA's Marion Lepert 23rd. On the Men's course the Netherland's Dorian Van Rysselberghe won again with France's Pierre le Coq 2nd and Poland's Piotr Myszka 3rd. Nick Dempsey had his first bad race of the regatta in 14th.
So where does another topsy-turvy day put everyone overall? The answer is somewhat confused.
In the Men's Laser class Argentina's Julio Alsogaray is the clear leader counting a 1st, 2nd & 4th, with Croatia's Tonci Stipanovic 2nd, New Zealand's Sam Meech 3rd and Australia's Tom Burton 4th. All the leaders have a big score as their discard which means than none of the top 15 are out of running.
London 2012 Gold Medallist Lijia Xu leads the Women's Laser Radial class but has a DSQ as her discard. Ireland's Annalise Murphy is in second followed closely by Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom. USA's Paige Railey is in 10th, Britain's Alison Young 18th and Canada's Brenda Bowskill 19th.
Italy's Flavia Tartaglini has taken the lead after 6 races in the Women's RS:X fleet with yesterday's leader Charline Picon close behind. Britain's Bryony Shaw is in 10th after a 7,14,12 score line from today.
In the Men's RS:X Nick Dempsey is still in the lead but Dorian Van Rysselberghe is just a point behind and has a much better discard. Poland's Piotr Myszka rounds out the top three.
After the first two races in the Finn class, Slovenia's Vasilij Zbogar is the early leader with USA's Caleb Paine 8th, Britain's Giles Scott 10th, Canada's Tom Ramshaw 16th, Australia's Jake Lilley 19th and New Zealand's Josh Junior 21st.
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