Seven races up

Racing pauses now at Volvo ISAF Youth Worlds

Two races were completed today in all of the class’s at the 35th Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships being held in Busan, Korea. Seven races have been completed in this first stage of the championship, and the first discard has kicked in.

In the Laser class, Paige Railey (USA) and Rutger van Schaarenburg (NED), have maintained their overall leads, but Great Britain have bounced back today and are currently lying in second place in both the boys and girls fleets.

In the Mistral boys fleet, Poland’s Lukasz Grodzicki has had another great day on the water and maintains his lead by an impressive margin, but in the girls fleet it is still all to play for with only three points dividing the top four places, which is currently lead by Laura Linares (ITA) with 12 points.

In the 420 Boys class, Singapore’s Wee Chin Teo and Terence Koh have taken over the lead after a couple of days of really good consistent racing and results. While in the girls 420 fleet, the lead is still being dominated by the French pair of Lumeau and Bossard, who have won five of the seven races so far in this championship.

The racing is still really close in the Hobie fleet, the French and Australian teams are leading the class both on 16 points, followed by the British pair on 21 points.

France, USA, Great Britain and Australia are the nations battling it out at the top of the leader board and at this stage France are still the favourites for the Volvo Nations Trophy.

Tomorrow is the lay day and the organisers have arranged a local cultural tour of Busan, racing will commence again on Wednesday.

Results (country, sailor, points, race scores, (discard)):

Hobie 16
1 FRA Villion Bataille 16 1 4 2 (6) 6 1 2
2 AUS Walker Langford 16 3 2 3 2 5 (8) 1
3 GBR Phipps Cook 21 6 1 5 1 (7) 4 4
4 ITA Bissaro Lejari 22 2 3 6 5 3 (10) 3
5 GUA Ignacio Lejari 24 4 7 (9) 3 1 3 6

420 Girls
1 FRA Lumera Bossard 8 1 1 1 1 3 1 (6)
2 USA Magill Provancha 23 2 (10) 8 4 4 2 3
3 SIN Liu Tam 31 3 (15) 2 8 10 6 2
4 BRA Basilio Biekarck 32 5 4 (15) 3 5 11 4
5 GBR Mills Webster 34 10 9 10 (11) 1 3 1

420 Boys
1 SIN Teo Koh 24 (BFD) 15 2 2 2 1 2
2 JPN Saito Yoshinaga 25 (17) 6 1 5 1 8 4
3 GBR Mallindine Clark 31 2 7 (18) 8 6 7 1
4 AUS Thomas Rechichi 40 13 2 12 22 4 6 3
5 USA Roberts Martin 47 5 5 21 4 7 5 (OCS)

Laser Girls
1 USA Railey 8 1 2 1 1 2 1 (13)
2 GBR Young 34 13 3 7 (14) 3 7 1
3 CRO Mihelic 34 7 12 4 3 6 (19) 2
4 CHI Gumucio 42 3 16 5 2 12 (17) 4
5 CHN Lijia 44 2 1 OCS (OCS) 1 3 5

Laser Boys
1 NED Van Schaardenburg 25 6 5 3 (10) 1 8 2
2 GBR Scott 25 7 4 (22) 6 5 2 1
3 FRA Bernaz 31 4 1 9 (18) 13 1 3
4 USA Weber 36 (15) 2 8 2 3 13 8
5 NZL McLay 38 14 11 1 1 (17) 6 5

Mistral girls
1 ITA Linares 12 2 2 2 2 (6) 1 3
2 ESP Dominguez 13 4 1 1 4 1 2 (OCS)
3 ISR Davidovich 15 1 (6) 3 3 3 4 1
4 FRA Le Page 15 3 4 (OCS) 1 2 3 2
5 CHN Chun 26 5 3 5 5 4 (6) 4

Mistral boys
1 POL Grodzicki 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 (3)
2 CYP Sofroniou 20 2 (9) 2 3 6 5 2
3 ESP Moreno 22 3 7 3 5 2 2 (8)
4 FRA Lecoq 22 5 2 5 2 (8) 3 5
5 AUT Kargl 33 (12) 4 7 6 4 8 4