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Perfect sailing on fourth day of Sail for Gold Regatta
Skandia Team GBR made the most of the perfect sailing conditions on the fourth day of the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at Weymouth and Portland, ending up with in pole position in two of the classes.
The Brits finished the day leading in the Star and 470 men’s divisions at this seventh and final leg of the ISAF Sailing World Cup series.
Topping the 470 leaderboard for the first time this event, sliding in front of the Australians who have dominated the regatta so far, are Nic Asher and Elliot Willis were pleased with their day's performance.
Asher said: “Competition is really high with all the top guys here, so it’s good to beat them and even better to beat them here at the Olympic venue.”
He continued: “Hopefully if we put a good race in tomorrow we can create a nice points margin going into the medal race which will put us in a good position – it’s looking good at the moment.”
Willis added: “We had a disappointing Worlds the other week which put a lot of focus on this regatta for us. So far we’ve been a lot sharper than we have been and up our game I think – still two more races to go but we’re feeling confident at the moment.”
Recovering from a false start in their first race of the day Percy and Simpson went on to post a 1,4 in their second and third races, continuing to place them firmly top of the Star class.
The Paralympic classes were able to get back to business on Thursday and relieve the frustration of not having raced for two days, with three races taking place in the three Skud18, Sonar and 2.4mR classes. Pascoe sits at a respectable fourth in the 2.4mR with Rickham and Birrell sitting at second place in the Skud18s the same position as Robertson, Stodel and Thomas occupy in the Sonars.
Stodel commented: “Racing is really tight on our course, it’s between us and the Americans at the moment. We’re keen to get in front of them so it was good to get out today and get some racing in.”
Today signalled the end of the women’s match racing round robin stage with two British crews qualifying for the quarter-finals knock out stage. Lucy Macgregor and her crew dropped one race against Laser Radial Olympic Champion Anna Tunnicliffe, but finished their group in second place to take on Australian Lucinda Whitty tomorrow.
Mary Rook and her crew secured their place in the quarters after sailing a superb third place repecharge round beating number one ranked Katie Spithill, which means she’ll go on to race Renee Groeneveld of the Netherlands on Friday.
Brits hold on to second places in the Finn (Ed Wright), Laser (Nick Thompson) and RS:X women’s (Bryony Shaw) classes with four British sailors in the top ten of the 49er class, three in the Laser Radial, and one in the RS:X men's and 470 women’s.
The Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy continues until Saturday, 19 September
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