It seems amazing that it’s already Day 9 of the Women’s Match Racing World Championships already, and yet we’re only about two thirds of the way through the event!
A delayed start today eventually saw a light sea breeze take over from the gradient, with racing getting under way about three hours later than scheduled. We were out in the first two flights, beating Silvia Roca Mata (ESP) and Silja Lehtinen (FIN). Six more flights were sailed but none for us, as racing was curtailed before we were due out again.
However an interesting one to watch was a head-to-head between the two Aussie teams, world #8 Nicky Souter against the young world #19 Olivia Price — formerly a crew member on Souter’s team who has recently turned rival and is proving a real challenger for Olympic Selection. It was a very close match with a number of lead changes keeping the crowds in the grandstand on the edge of their seats, but it was Price who edged over the line first to take the win away from the older and more experienced team.
So all in all quite a lot of waiting around for us, but a good day ending on 6–1 and still leading the repechage ahead of Price (AUS) on 7–3 and Kjellberg (SWE) 6–3.
In the fleet racing, the top 10 in each of classes that have been competing this week had their medal race, with four new World Champions decided. Massive congratulations to our fellow Skandia Team GBR team mates have put in some great results, with Giles Scott (@GilesScott) taking the title in the Finn class and Ed Wright (@EdWright11) picking up the bronze. In the Mens 470 Luke Patience and Stu Bithell (@PatienceBithell) took the silver medal, while Bryony Shaw and Alison Young finished 7th in the RS:X Women and Laser Radial classes. The remaining Olympic classes — Star, 49er, 470 Women, RS:X Men and Men’s Laser — start tomorrow and carry on through to the weekend.
The schedule for Women’s Match racing tomorrow is for the final three gold group seeding flights to be completed first, before another 7 flights of the repechage where we’re due to sail in 4 matches. We need to keep getting wins on the board to ensure we make it through to the quarters, so another big day tomorrow!
Keep an eye on the ISAF Channel on YouTube for the daily video round-ups.
Cheers,
Lucy, Annie and Kate x
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