Day 4 of the 470 European Championships in San Remo, Italy and two races were completed for all fleets.
The British pair Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre took back the lead of the women’s championship, a 3 and 2 taking them to 13 points, and five points clear of Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz of France now in second place.
Overnight leaders, Israel’s Gil Cohen and Noha Lasry crashed out with a 28 and 27 to sit in seventh with 39 points.
Race winners were, Nia Jerwood and Monique Devries of Austria and Lecointre and Retornaz in the second.
Britain’s Amy Seabright and Anna Carpenter are 19th overall.
Tough conditions as the men’s Gold and Silver fleets and the women had their first race of the day in the late morning in some 15 knots of wind that kept increasing and exceeded 25 knots. A halt was called and they started again later in the day.
In the men’s championship Australia’s Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan continue to top the leaderboard.
A win and seventh place take them to 6 points and seven clear of Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergstrom of Sweden.
Dahlberg and Bergstrom, the reigning European champions, were forced to abandon the first race after capsizing.
Jordi Xammer and Nicolas Rodriuez of Spain move into third overall despite a DNF in the second race, they have 19 points.
Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox NZL, won the final rac of the day, race 6.
Britain’s Luke Patiance and Chris Grube drop to 14th overall after a 18 and 9 leave them with 41 points and 10 points outside the Medal race cut-off.
Martin Wrigley and James Taylor GBR are 23rd overall.
International 470 – Women, leading positions after 6 races
1st GBR 1 Hannah MILLS and Eilidh MCINTYRE 3 2 – – 13 pts
2nd FRA 9 Camille LECOINTRE and Aloise RETORNAZ 6 1 – – 18 pts
3rd ESP 18 Silvia MAS DEPARES and Patricia CANTERO REINA 4 4 – – 24 pts
4th NED 11 Afrodite ZEGERS and Lobke BERKHOUT -9 8 – – 27 pts
5th POL 11 Agnieszka SKRZYPULEC and Jolanta OGAR 2 3 – – 30 pts
6th ISR 11 Noya BAR-AM and Shahar TIBI UFD 6 – – 36 pts
7th ISR 311 Gil COHEN and Noa LASRY -28 27 – – 39 pts
8th GER 24 Nadine BOEHM and Ann-Christin GOLIASS 10 DNC – – 42 pts
9th AUS 5 Nia JERWOOD and Monique DEVRIES 1 5 – – 43 pts
10th GRE 216 Maria BOZI and Rafailina KLONARIDOU 5 DNC – – 43 pts
International 470 – Men, leading positions after 6 races
1st AUS 11 Mathew BELCHER and Will RYAN 1 -7 – – 6 pts
2nd SWE 349 Anton DAHLBERG and Fredrik BERGSTRÖM -35 2 – – 13 pts
3rd ESP 44 Jordi XAMMAR and Nicolas RODRIGUEZ 4 DNF – – 19 pts
4th GRE 1 Panagiotis MANTIS and Pavlos KAGIALIS 3 -10 – – 21 pts
5th AUT 1 David BARGEHR and Lukas MÄHR 6 -28 – – 24 pts
6th NZL 1 Paul SNOW-HANSEN and Daniel WILLCOX -12 1 – – 27 pts
7th GER 11 Simon DIESCH and Philipp AUTENRIETH 2 6 – – 29 pts
8th SWE 350 Carl-Fredrik Fock FOCK and Marcus DACKHAMMAR 5 5 – – 30 pts
9th TUR 890 Deniz CINAR and Ates CINAR -15 4 – – 30 pts
10th FRA 27 Kevin PEPONNET and Jeremie MION 9 (16 – – 31 pts