Australia’s Men’s and Women’s 470 teams have been forced to wait until today to complete their final two fleet races at Tokyo 2020, with little to no winds prevailing across the Olympic race course yesterday.
The races have been postponed to today with their Medal Races remaining as scheduled on Wednesday.
The team of Mat Belcher and Will Ryan are already assured of a place in the Medal Race, they currently have a 19-point lead over the second-placed team from Spain. Olympic debutantes Nia Jerwood and Monique de Vries are in 16th place and will be ready to fire come the start time of today’s first race.
It will be a busy day for the Aussies, as the Nacra 17 (Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin) and Finn (Jake Lilley) classes already have their Medal Races scheduled for today.
Darmanin and Waterhouse sit in fourth place coming into the race, just seven points behind the German team in third and 19 behind Great Britain in second. They will be hoping to add another Olympic medal to their collection after coming home from Rio five years ago with Silver in their bags.
Lilley is no stranger to success in the final stages of regattas. He won the Medal Race at the 2019 Finn Gold Cup in Melbourne and enters today’s race coming off second and a sixth in the final fleet races on Sunday. He is currently in seventh place and whilst a medal is mathematically out of reach the big Queenslander is looking to go out with a bang.
Australian Sailing would like to acknowledge and thank the Australian Olympic Committee for the work done in managing the athletes and staff of the Australian Olympic Sailing Selection at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
You can follow live tracking of the races on the Australian Sailing Team website: https://www.australiansailingteam.com.au/olympics/live-tracking/
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Regatta standings:
49er (19 boats)
1st: Peter Burling & Blair Tuke (NZL) (12), 3, 7, 2, 10, 1, 3, 6, 2, 5, 2, 11 – 52 pts
2nd: Dylan Fletcher-Scott & Stuart Bithell (GBR) 2, 8, 4, 1, 12, 2, 2, (16), 3, 9, 6, 7 – 56 pts
3rd: Diego Botin & Iago Lopez Marra (ESP) 5, 1, 2, 5, 4, 10, (15), 2, 5, 4, 12, 6 – 56 pts
12th: Will Phillips & Sam Phillips (AUS) 7, 4, 1, 8, 11, 15, 16, (UFD), 18, 14, 8, 9 – 111 pts
49erFX (21 boats)
1st: Martine Grael & Kahena Kunze (BRA) – (15), 5, 1, 10, 7, 6, 1, 6, 10, 12, 2, 10 – 70 pts
2nd: Annemiek Bekkering & Annette Duetz (NED) (13), 8, 2, 1, 6, 1, 12, 5, 6, 5, 12, (16) – 71 pts
3rd: Tina Lutz & Susann Beucke (GER) 5, 6, 8, 3, (13), 12, 11, 12, 3, 7, 3, 3 – 73 pts
13th: Tess Lloyd & Jaime Ryan (AUS) 9, 11, 7, 9, 11, 10, 15, 10, (19), 11, 8, 8 – 128 pts
Finn (19 boats)
1st: Giles Scott (GBR) (9), 9, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 1, 7 – 28 pts
2nd: Zsombor Berecz (HUN) 2, 2, (9), 4, 6, 7, 3, 5, 4, 4 – 37 pts
3rd: Joan Cardona (ESP) 3, 3, 5, 3, 2, 3, (13), 7, 5, 8 – 39 pts
7th: Jake Lilley (AUS) 10, 8, 4, 11, 7, 9, (15), 6, 2, 6 – 63 pts
Laser (35 boats) – Complete
1st: Matt Wearn (AUS) 17, (28), 2, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 12, 8, MR: 2 – 53 pts (GOLD)
2nd: Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR) 3, (18), 15, 2, 6, 8, 10, 5, (19), 4, MR: 8 – 82 pts
3rd: Tonci Stipanovic (CRO) 15, 6, 3, (22), 13, 4, 5, 11, 7, 10, MR: 14 – 85 pts
Laser Radial (44 boats) – Complete
1st: Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) 6, 5, 3, 13, 4, 4, 2, 1, 26, (DNF), MR: 14 – 78 pts
2nd: Josefin Olsson (SWE) (34), 15, 8, 4, 1, 6, 4, 9, 22, 10 MR: 2 – 81 pts
3rd: Marit Bouwmeester (NED) 21, 14, 7, 2, 3, 9, (BFD), 7, 1, 7, MR: 12 – 83 pts
14th: Mara Stransky (AUS) 12, 26, 19, 10, 19, 16, (BFD), 24, 3, 1 – 130 pts
Men’s 470 (19 boats)
1st: Mat Belcher & Will Ryan (AUS) 2, (5), 1, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1 – 14 pts
2nd: Jordi Xammar & Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz (ESP) 10, 1, 10, 6, (14), 1, 3, 2 – 33 pts
3rd: Anton Dahlberg (SWE) 1, (15), 8, 5, 6, 11, 1, 5 – 37 pts
3rd: Luke Patience & Chris Grube (GBR) 3, 8, 2, 4, (10), 5, 9, 6 – 37 pts
Women’s 470 (21 boats)
1st: Hannah Mills & Eilidh McIntyre (GBR) 4, 3, (7), 1, 3, 3, 1, 3 – 18 pts
2nd: Agnieszka Skrzypulec & Jolanta Ogar (POL) 1, 1, 2, 5, (12), 1, 5, 4 – 19 pts
3rd: Camille Lecointre & Aloise Retornaz (FRA) 3, 2, 4, 7, 1, (12), 6, 5 – 28 pts
16th: Nia Jerwood & Monique de Vries (AUS) 7, 12, 12, 8, 18, (19), 15, 13 – 85 pts
Nacra 17 (20 boats)
1st: Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti (ITA) 1, 3, 1, 2, (5), 1, (8), 3, 2, 2, 1, 2 – 23 pts
2nd: John Gimson & Anna Burnet (GBR) (7), 5, 2, 1, 1, 2, 5, (10) , 1, 5, 2, 4 – 35 pts
3rd: Paul Kohlhoff & Alicia Stuhlemmer (GER) 5, 1, 7, 3, 3, (11), 3, 2, 8, 3, 6, 6 – pts
4th: Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin (AUS) 2, (11), 4, 4, 7, 8, 1, 5, 4, 6, 5, 8 – 54 pts
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