The RS:X World Championships on Lake Garda move to gold and silver fleet racing to decide the top 10 for the Medal Races on Saturday.
After the first day of gold fleet racing for the men, Dutch competitors had the best of the day with Kiran Badloe (34,2,1) taking the lead, two points ahead of Pierre Le Coq (3,11,6) of France, and with Dorian van Rijsselberghe (6,1,2) moving into third place.
Not such a good day for Britain’s Tom Squires (25,7,22) who drops from 4th to 11th overall, with Andy Brown (5,22,44) gaining a couple of places to place 17th overall.
Shahar Zubari of Israel won the first men’s race, but could not maintain that and finished the day 13th overall.
One final series race was posted late in the day for the women’s racing Thursday.
This was won by Ingrid Puusta who has does feature in the overall top 20. It was not a good race for Holland’s Lilian De Geus, but she keeps her lead despite finishing 20th.
Second was Katy Spychakov who moves into 3rd overall, and third place went to Peina Chen who takes 6th place overall.
Britain’s Emma Wilson (19) drops to 9th overall and Saskia Sills (47) manages to place 11th.
RS:X Worlds – Leading Women after 1 final race (106 entries)
1st NED Lilian De Geus -20 – – – 29 pts
2nd ITA Giorgia Speciale U21, 4 – – – 31 pts
3rd ISR Katy Spychakov U21, 2 – – – 32 pts
4th ITA Marta Maggetti 9 – – – 33 pts
5th CHN Yunxiu Lu 11 – – – 33 pts
6th CHN Peina Chen 3 – – – 39 pts
GBR
9th GBR Emma Wilson U21, 19 – – 45 pts
11th GBR Saskia Sills -47 – – 49 pts
RS:X Worlds – Leading Men after 3 races Thursday (130 entries)
1st NED Kiran Badloe -34 2 1 – – 21 pts
2nd FRA Pierre Le Coq 3 -11 6 – – 23 pts
3rd NED Dorian van Rijsselberghe 6 1 2 – – 37 pts
4th GRE Byron Kokkalanis 4 9 4 – – 42 pts
5th FRA Thomas Goyard 9 6 16 – – 58 pts
6th POL Piotr Myszka -24 20 5 – – 61 pts
7th ITA Daniele Benedetti 19 5 9 – – 67 pts
8th KOR Wonwoo Cho 10 3 12 – – 71 pts
9th JPN Makoto Tomizawa 11 19 3 – – 72 pts
10th ISR Tom Reuveny 8 4 33 – – 76 pts
11th GBR Tom Squires 25 7 22 – – 78 pts
