Olympic Classes - Trofeo Princesa Sofia - Palma ESP - Day 4

A 16-18 kn wind prevailed yesterday, favoring the big-breeze specialists and allrounders. Today, the last Final Races are on the program before the crucial Medal Races tomorrow Saturday.
All set once more in the Nacra-17 where Billy Besson/Marie Riou FRA won another race and have now a 43 points' lead on Thomas Zajac/Tanja Frank AUT. A clear situation also in the 470 men with Matthew Belcher/Will Ryan AUS 18 points ahead of Panagiotis Mantis/Pavlos Kagialis GRE. A different outlook however in the 470 women with Fernanda Oliveira/Ana Barbachan BRA only 2 points in front of Kyranakou/Van Veen NED, and another 3 points back Seabright/Carpenter GBR on 3rd just waiting to benefit from the duel on top.
Even closer is the situation on top of the 49ers with Delle-Karth/Resch AUT and Seaton/McGovern IRL tied on first, and Heil/Plössel GER on 3rd 1 point behind. The last Olympic berth goes to Sweden as Bergström/During SWE are the only non-qualified nation representatives in the Goldfleet. The report of the 49er class. In the 49erFX, Annemiek Bekkering/Anette Duetz NED extended their lead on Jena Mai-Hansen/Katja Salskov DEN on 8 points. Tina Lutz/Susann Beucke GER advanced on rank 3.
Giles Scott GBR has now joined Josh Junior NZL on the first place with another race win yesterday. Tapio Nirkko FIN on 3rd is already 24 points behind. The report of the Finn class.
Tom Squires GBR remained on top of the RS:X men windsurfers ahead of Pawle Tarnowski POL who reduced his backlog on 2 points with a race win. Thomas Goyard FRA is 3rd. No change on top of the RS:X women windsurfers as well with Olga Maslivets RUS as first. Maja Dziarnowska POL and Flavia Tartaglini ITA moved up on the ranks 2 and 3.
See separate news for Lasers.

The North Americans:
470 men: McNay/Hughes USA 4th, Jacob and Graeme Saunders CAN 42nd
470 women: Haeger/Provancha USA 9th, Bolger/Shewitz USA 28th, Surrett/Ten Hove CAN 50th (the US teams did not compete yesterday)
49er: Barrows/Morris USA 39th, Ryan/Henken USA 42nd
49er FX: Henken/Scutt USA 8th, Rafuse/Boyd CAN 15th
Finn: Paine USA 15th, Robitaille CAN 30th, Ramshaw CAN 34th
Nacra-17: Ramsay/Girke CAN 11th, Gulari/Chafee USA 14th
Laser Standard: Buckingham USA 7th, Bowers USA 25th, Davies CAN 28th, Chris Barnard USA 29th,
Mclaughlin CAN 42nd
Laser Radial: Bowskill CAN 29th, Douglas CAN 37th
RS:X men: Verrier-Paquette CAN 35th, Suitt USA 37th
RS:X women: Lepert USA 9th, Hall USA 25th


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