London 2012 day 3: Better day for the Brits

Percy extends as Ben pulls up as Ireland's Annalise Murphy gets four straight bullets

Women’s Match Racing

Today all the teams got to sail two more matches and at the end of the day the team of Australia’s Olivia Price is now the only one with a 100% win record after six races. Spain holds second with one losses and there is group on two losses including Lucy Macgregor’s team, which won both their matches today on the Nothe course.

The Brits firstly saw off the Finnish trio of Silja Lehtinen, Silja Kanerva, Mikaela Wulff, who had beaten Macgregor’s team en route to clinching the World crown in Sweden in June. The British girls, who themselves won the World title in 2010 and took silver in 2011, followed up that success with another impressive, gritty display in seeing off the French trio of Claire Leroy, Elodie Bertrand and Marie Riou.

Lucy said: “It’s certainly very tight across the whole fleet and they are two very good competitors so we were really pleased to have beaten them both in what were both really good races. The last couple of days we have felt like we have been there or thereabouts, we just weren’t quite nailing it even in the races we were winning. We felt a bit more like we were in the game today.”

In their race against the Brits, the Finnish team had been over early and had lost it at that point, but their match was much much closer with American Anna Tunnicliffe. As Silja Lehtinen described it: “It was a great match race, it can’t be closer than that. We lost that, but it was a matter of centimetres.”