The second day of racing for the Sailing events of the Tokyo Games and a very different scenario, with the early effect of Tropical storm Nepartak providing a 15 knot easterly on the Enoshima and Kamakura racing courses.
And the big news for British fans was that Emma Wilson is the new leader in the women’s RS:X after a storming day.
Wilson won the first RS:X race (R4) of the day, following that with fourth and second place finishes tied with Charline Picon of France on 14 points, with Yunxiu Lu in third place and two points off the leading pair.
Wilson took her first race win of the Games in style, leading from the second mark to finish 12 seconds ahead of Yunxiu Lu of China and Yuki Sunaga of Japan.
In the second RS:X race (R5), overnight leader Charline Picon of France led from the start to take the win after a tight battle with Yunxiu Lu and Holland’s Lilian de Geus. Wilson worked her way through to take fourth at the finish.
In the third race and final RS:X race for the day, Wilson was again the early leader, but it was China’s Yunxiu Lu who took the race win, with Wilson second and Israel’s Katy Spychakov taking third.
In the men’s Laser, Kaarle Tapper of Finland is the new overall leader after three races. Tapper leads with five points, second is Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia and third Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus.
Britain’s Elliot Hanson (5, 12, 17) finished day 2 in tenth place overall.
The men’s Laser caught up with their postponed race from day 1, with Milivoj Dukic of Montenegro taking the lead on the final leg to win race 2 ahead of Germany’s Philipp Buhl with Kaarle Tapper of Finland third. Britain’s Elliot Hanson finished 12th.
In race 3 for the Laser, Robert Scheidt of Brazil led around the first mark, but eventual winner was Jesper Stalheim of Sweden ahead of Matt Wearn of Australia and Tonci Stipanovic of Croatia, with Scheidt finishing in fourth. Elliot Hanson finished 17th.
For the later RS:X and Radial races the wind began to ease, going more to the NE.
In the women’s Radial, Line Flem Høst of Norway won the first race (R3) of the day, followed it with a third in race 4 and moved into the overall lead.
Flem Høst is two points ahead of Vasileia Karachaliou of Greece, with Denmark’s Anne-Marie Rindom staying in the leading group in third, but five points off the leading pair. Britain’s Alison Young slips a place to 15th overall after four races.
Flem Høst won race 3 with Silvia Zennaro of Italy taking second and Denmark’s Anne-Marie Rindom third. Alison Young was ninth.
Those who had done well in the day 1 light conditions, suffered. Opening race winner Spain’s Cristina Pujol Bajo finishing 23rd and Malaysia’s Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif swapping a thirrd for a 33rd.
In the second Radial race Karachaliou of Greece came through to win, 13 seconds ahead of Holland’s Marit Bouwmeester with Flem Høst taking third. Alison Young finished in 20th place.
And the in the men’s RS:X the stronger wind brought familiar names to the fore with Kiran Badloe of Holland carding a 1, 2, 6 score line to take the overall lead after six races.
After Badloe was handed a DSQ in race 5, Mattia Camboni of Italy is the new leader with 15 points and day 1 leader Mateo Sanz Lanz of Switzerland is second on 19 points. Badloe placed third with 20 points and Thomas Goyard of France took two race wins to move into fourth overall.
A much better day for Britain’s Tom Squires (2, 10, 3) who moves from 14 to eighth overall.
Badloe won the first race (R4) with Squires in second place and Piotr Myszka of Poland third. In the second race (R5) Goyard led the fleet home ahead of Badloe (later disqualified) with Camboni then taking second and Sanz Lanz third. Tom Squires finished 10th.
In the final race of the day Squires grabbed the lead at the first mark from Badloe. But as the wind began to shut-down it was Goyard who came through to take a second win.
Endre Funnemark of Norway was second and then Camboni third, holding off Squires who took fourth.
For day 3 the two RS:X fleets take a rest day.
The Laser and Radial fleets continue to race and will be joined by the men’s 49er and the women’s 49erFX skiffs.
RSX Women – Leaders after 6 races, 1 discard (27 entries) – Updated
1st FRA Charline Picon 1 6 2 -9 1 4 – – 14 pts
2nd GBR Emma Wilson 5 2 -6 1 4 2 – – 14 pts
3rd CHN Yunxiu Lu 2 9 -25 2 2 1 – – 16 pts
4th ITA Marta Maggetti 6 3 3 -13 6 7 – – 25 pts
5th ISR Katy Spychakov 3 5 9 7 10 3 – – 27 pts
6th NED Lilian De Geus 8 -11 1 8 3 11 – – 31 pts
7th DEN Lærke BUHL-HANSEN -9 4 8 4 9 8 – – 33 pts
8th HKG Hei Man H V Chan 12 8 -13 5 7 6 – – 38 pts
9th POL Zofia Noceti-Klepacka 4 1 14 -16 16 9 – – 44 pts
10th JPN Yuki Sunaga 17 -24 11 3 5 12 – – 48 pts
Laser Men – Leaders after 3 races 1 discard (35 entries)
1st FIN Kaarle Tapper 2 3 14 – – 5 pts
2nd CRO Tonci Stipanovic -15 6 3 – – 9 pts
3rd CYP Pavlos Kontides 4 -7 5 – – 9 pts
4th FRA Jean Baptiste Bernaz 1 9 13 – – 10 pts
5th SWE Jesper Stalheim -22 11 1 – – 12 pts
6th GER Philipp Buhl -10 2 10 – – 12 pts
7th MON Milivoj Dukic -29 1 12 – – 13 pts
8th BRA Robert Scheidt -11 10 4 – – 14 pts
9th HUN Benjamin Vadnai 7 -21 9 – – 16 pts
10th GBR Elliot Hanson 5 12 -17 – – 17 pts
Radial Women – Leaders after 4 races, 1 discard (44 entries)
1st NOR Line Flem Høst -20 3 1 3 – – 7 pts
2nd GRE Vasileia Karachaliou 2 -19 6 1 – – 9 pts
3rd DEN Anne-Marie Rindom 6 5 3 -13 – – 14 pts
4th ITA Silvia Zennaro 13 -20 2 6 – – 21 pts
5th NED Marit Bouwmeester -21 14 7 2 – – 23 pts
6th CRO Elena Vorobeva 11 2 13 -41 – – 26 pts
7th CAN Sarah Douglas 18 4 4 -26 – – 26 pts
8th GER Svenja Weger 5 1 21 -29 – – 27 pts
9th SWE Josefin Olsson -34 15 8 4 – – 27 pts
10th FIN Tuula Tenkanen 9 6 14 -33 – – 29 pts
GBR:
15th GBR Alison Young -24 8 9 20 – – 37 pts
RSX Men – Leaders after 6 races, 1 discard (25 entries) – Updated
1st ITA Mattia Camboni 4 2 4 -8 2 2 – – 14 pts
2nd SUI Mateo Sanz Lanz 1 1 9 -10 3 4 – – 18 pts
3rd NED Kiran Badloe 5 7 1 1 DSQ 5 – – 19 pts
4th FRA Thomas Goyard -13 5 3 13 1 1 – – 23 pts
5th ISR Yoav Cohen -12 6 2 7 6 6 – – 27 pts
6th POL Piotr Myszka -11 4 6 3 5 -11 – – 29 pts
7th HKG Cheng Chun Leung 3 8 8 -12 8 9 – – 36 pts
8th GBR Tom Squires 9 13 -14 2 10 3 – – 37 pts
9th USA Pedro Pascual 6 12 7 9 4 -13 – – 38 pts
10th ESP Angel Granda-Roque 2 3 13 14 12 -15 – – 44 pts
Full results available here . . .
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