Olympic Classes - World Championship 2023 - The Hague NED - Day 9 - Maud Jayet SUI in Führung

On the second last day of the joint World Championships of all Olympic classes, there were best conditions with 12-15kn wind again. With ranks 3 and 13, Maud Jayet SUI continued her constant series in the ILCA 6 and took the lead. With a lead of 4 points over Olympic Champion Anne-Marie Rindom DEN and Maria Erdi HUN, who is tied on points, the Swiss goes into the Medal Race today (start 15h, we will broadcast live). Last year's runner-up in the World Championships has thus already secured an Olympic starting place for Switzerland (the fourth after 49er, Mixed 470, iQ-Foil windsurfers). In ILCA 7, Olympic champion Matthew Wearn AUS took the title even before the Medal Race: In a tough match race, he sailed the previously leading Michael Beckett GBR to the end of the fleet (ranks 65 and 66) in the last qualification race. The Englishman had already sailed his strike result with an early start in race 5 and has to count the 66 points in full, he dropped behind George Gautry NZL to rank 3. Defending champion Jean-Baptiste Bernaz FRA is 4th, 19 points behind 3rd place, he remains without a medal. In the final of the Kiteboard Men's Medal Race, Max Maeder SGP celebrated his first World Championship title as a 16-year-old with two race wins. Toni Vodisek SLO and Axel Mazella FRA took the other medals. In the women's event, Lauriane Nolot FRA also won the Medal Race, Eleanor Aldridge GBR and Lily Young GBR came in second and third. In the iQ-Foil windsurfing event, Luuc Van Opzeeland NED was already the new World Champion before the Medal Race. Sebastian Kördel GER took silver, Nicolo Renna ITA was 3rd. In the women's windsurfing there was an Israeli double victory by Shahar Tibi ISR and Katy Spychakov ISR, Emma Wilson GBR, who had been leading all week, had to settle for bronze. All rankings and the report.