470 Worlds underway

Sacha Oswald reports at this early stage

Yesterday saw the start of the 470 world championships in Zadar, Croatia for the 101 men's teams and 53 women’s teams. After a short postponement waiting for the wind to fill in, two races were sailed in both fleets in 8 knots of breeze.

Team GBR sailors Christina Bassdone and Katherine Hopson made a steady start to the championship scoring an eighth and a third place which places them sixth overall after day one. The Polish team of Katarzyna Tylinska and Zuzanna Gladysz currently lead the fleet at this early stage.

Fellow British sailors Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield started well to score a second place in their group in the first race of the day. They followed this up with an eighteenth place which places them 23rd overall. Team mates Nic Asher and Elliot Willis started well scoring an eleventh and fifth and are 15th overall, two places in front of Graham Vials and Bevis Field.

The 470 competitors have four days of qualifying races where they are spit into groups, before going on to race the final series from the 13-16 May.

1 FRA 2588 Philippe Gildas Le Berre Nicolas 1 1 1 3

2 UKR 7 Braslavets Yevgen Matvienko Igor 2 3 1 6

3 SWE 317 Molund Johan Andersson Martin 1 4 3 8

4 ESP 1769 Gustavo Martinez Doreste Dimas Wood Valdivielso 2 8 1 11

5 ARG 70 Conte Javier de la Fuente Juan 4 4 3 11

6 AUS 311 Wilmot Nathan Page Malcolm 1 1 10 12

7 CRO 111 Bašić Tomislav Cupač Petar 7 2 4 13

8 GRE 131 Kosmatopoulos Andreas Trigonis Kostas 4 1 9 14

9 FRA 2623 Bonnaud Benjamin Bonnaud Romain 8 2 4 14

10 GBR 816 Asher Nic Willis Elliot 11 5 2 18

11 JPN 4011 Seki Kazuto Todoroki Kenjiro 8 9 2 19

12 ISR 7 Kliger Gideon Gal Udi 5 11 5 21

13 ITA 4332 Enrico Fonda Pietro Zucchetti 3 14 5 22

14 SLO 16 Hmeljak Karlo Nevecny Mitja 12 4 6 22

15 GBR 811 Rogers Nick Glanfield Joe 2 18 5 25

16 ITA 2 Gabrio Zandonà Andrea Trani 11 2 12 25

17 DEN 141 Kjaergaard Kristian Moeller Mads 9 3 14 26

18 AUS 351 Belcher Mathew Nick Behrens 3 5 19 27

19 GBR 818 Vials Graham Field Bevis 6 10 11 27

20 USA 1722 Foerster Paul Burnham Kevin 14 12 3 29

1 POL 55 Tylinska Katarzyna Gladysz Zuzanna 3 4 7

2 SUI 4 Duerig Franziska Meier Monika 2 7 9

3 ITA 4334 Elisabetta Saccheggiani Myriam Cutolo 6 3 9

4 BRA 177 Oliveira Fernanda Kostiw Adriana 1 9 10

5 JPN 4151 Kondo Ai Kanai Yuki 9 2 11

6 GBR 813 Bassadone Christina Hopson Katherine 8 3 11

7 NED 10 Kooistra Marjon de Goederen Petra 5 6 11

8 SLO 142 Dekleva Vesna Maucec Klara 10 2 12

9 EST 9 Veessaar Maria Saaring Maiki 10 4 14

10 JPN 4107 Yoshisako Yuka Satake Mitsuko 8 6 14

11 FRA 2594 Petitjean Ingrid Douroux Nadège 16 1 17

12 CAN 520 Jennifer Provan Girke Nikola 16 1 17

13 ESP 1788 Natalia Via Dufresne Sandra Azon 7 10 17

14 SWE 323 Torgersson Therese Zachrisson Vendela 3 15 18

15 RUS 700 Ilienko Vladelina Gaponovich Natalia 5 13 18

16 ARG 104 Sesto Fernanda Reinoso Paula 6 12 18

17 GER 4921 Kadelbach Kathrin Schröder Saskia 12 8 20

18 NED 11 de Koning Marcelien Berkhout Lobke 2 19 21

19 HUN 49 Weores Marta Payr Anna 7 15 22

20 NZL 195 Hesson Shelley Dickson Linda 18 5 23