Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre won the opening race of the 470 World Championships in Enoshima, Japan.
After a delay for the wind to settle, racing finally got underway on day 2 of the championship.
Mills and McIntyre finished ahead of Afrodite Zegers and Lobke Berkhout of Holland, with Spain’s Silvia Mas Depares and Patricia Cantero taking third.
Racing was again delayed today and the women eventually started in 6 to 8 knots of breeze at the second attempt.
Reality set in for the British pair in the second race where they finished down in 18th.
Winners were Agnieszka Skrypulec and Jolanta Ogar of Poland, with second Ai Kondo Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka of Japan and third Depares and Cantero.
This put Spain’s Depares and Cantero top of the leaderboard with 6 points, and Mills and McIntyre in 5th place with 19 points.
The men have also completed their first flight races.
After two qualification races for each flight, four teams are tied on 8 points at the top of the men’s leaderboard:
Balazs and Zsombor Gyapas HUN, Keiju Okada and Jumpei Hokazono JPN, Hippolyte Machetti and Sidoine Dantes FRA, and Matt Belcher and Will Ryan AUS.
Britain’s Luke Patience and Chris Grube (10, 23) are in 24th place with 33 points.
470 Women – Leaders after 2 races (39 entries)
1st ESP 18 Silvia MAS DEPARES and Patricia CANTERO REINA 3 3 – – 6 pts
2nd JPN 1 Ai KONDO YOSHIDA and Miho YOSHIOKA 10 2 – – 12 pts
3rd SUI 5 Linda FAHRNI and Maja SIEGENTHALER 6 6 – – 12 pts
4th POL 11 Agnieszka SKRZYPULEC and Jolanta OGAR 13 1 – – 14 pts
5th GBR 1 Hannah MILLS and Eilidh MCINTYRE 1 18 – – 19 pts
6th JPN 12 Mano UDAGAWA and Ayano KUDO 12 7 – – 19 pts
7th AUS 5 Nia JERWOOD and Monique DEVRIES 7 12 – – 19 pts
8th CHN 621 Mengxi WEI and Haiyan GAO 8 16 – – 24 pts
9th NED 11 Afrodite ZEGERS and Lobke BERKHOUT 2 23 – – 25 pts
10th GRE 216 Maria BOZI and Rafailina KLONARIDOU 5 20 – – 25 pts
470 Men – Leaders after 2 flight races (52 entries)
1st HUN 1 Balazs GYAPJAS and Zsombor GYAPJAS 7 1 – – 8 pts
2nd JPN 20 Keiju OKADA and Jumpei HOKAZONO 1 7 – – 8 pts
3rd FRA 79 Hippolyte MACHETTI and Sidoine DANTÈS 3 5 – – 8 pts
4th AUS 11 Mathew BELCHER and Will RYAN 4 4 – – 8 pts
5th RUS 5 Pavel SOZYKIN and Denis GRIBANOV 9 2 – – 11 pts
6th ITA 757 Giacomo FERRARI and Giulio CALABRÒ 2 11 – – 13 pts
7th JPN 11 Kazuto DOI and Naoya KIMURA 6 8 – – 14 pts
8th JPN 15 Daichi TAKAYAMA and Kimihiko IMAMURA 8 10 – – 18 pts
9th USA 1 Stuart MCNAY and David HUGHES 14 6 – – 20 pts
10th SWE 350 Carl-Fredrik FOCK and Marcus DACKHAMMAR 5 16 – – 21 pts
