London 2012 day 3: Better day for the Brits

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

Tuesday July 31st 2012, Author: James Boyd, Location: none selected

RS:X Men

Another class where today there was a two bullet winner was the RS:X competing on the Weymouth Bay West course.

There wasn’t too much to the racing today. In the first, the Netherland’s Dorian Van Rijsselberge started well, banged the left hand side to lead around the top mark ahead of Przemyslaw Miarczynski (POL) and Byron Kokalanis (GRE) with Britain’s Nick Dempsey 12th. While the leaders didn’t change with the exception of German Toni Wilhelm moving up to third, Dempsey managed to pick up pace to finish 5th.

And it was much the same in race two, with the Dutchman winning the pin and heading left at speed to round the top mark first on this occasion ahead of Wilhelm and New Zealand favourite Jon-Paul Tobin with Dempsey in 10th. The Pole climbed to third on the second beat with Dempsey up to 7th. The lead trio from race one was the lead trio in race two with Dempsey seventh.

Nick Dempsey said he was “slightly disappointed” with his day. “I sailed the races quite well, it is just I had two bad starts and on that race course you pay the price for that. Possibly I was too conservative at lining up and there were a few people going through a similar type of start and Dorian went off the pin, quite extreme, but ended up quite safe. So he ended up with the best start, fastest sailor on the water going left and was pretty hard to catch and I had to tack out in a tight lane and then it was all catch up from there. I made it difficult but I am happy with how I came back through the race, so not so bad. If you have got a good start today and went left, all the way to the layline, that was where you were going to finish.

“I am alright. It is the first day of the Games and it is nice to get started. It is not the start I wanted and it just hurts a little bit when Dorian fires off two bullets and the 5-7 is fine but it is still 10 points at the end of the day. It is not fantastic but it is not that bad.”

Results:

Pos Nat Crew R1 R2 Total
1 NED Dorian Van Rijsselberge 1 1 2
2 POL Przemyslaw Miarczynski 2 2 4
3 GER Toni Wilhelm 3 3 6
4 GBR Nick Dempsey 5 7 12
5 KOR Tae Hoon Lee 8 6 14
6 GRE Byron Kokalanis 4 11 15
7 USA Robert Willis 7 10 17
8 CAN Zachary Plavsic 6 12 18
9 NZL Jon-Paul Tobin 15 4 19
10 ISR Shahar Zubari 12 8 20
11 RUS Dmitry Polishchuk 17 5 22
12 LTU Juozas Bernotas 9 13 22
13 BRA Ricardo Santos 14 9 23
14 HKG Ho Tsun Leung 11 18 29
15 SUI Richard Stauffacher 10 21 31
16 ARG Mariano Reutemann 16 15 31
17 POR João Rodrigues 20 16 36
18 NOR Sebastian Wang-Hansen 19 17 36
19 FRA Julien Bontemps 23 14 37
20 CYP Andreas Cariolou 13 26 39
21 CRO Luka Mratovic 24 19 43
22 CHN Aichen Wang 21 23 44
23 DEN Sebastian Fleischer 18 28 46
24 ESP Ivan Pastor Lafuente 22 24 46
25 EST Johannes Ahun 27 20 47
26 BLR Mikalai Zhukavets 26 22 48
27 JPN Makoto Tomizawa 25 25 50
28 MEX David Mier y Teran 32 27 59
29 CZE Karel Lavicky 30 29 59
30 THA Ek Boonsawad 28 32 60
31 BUL Yoan Kolev 29 31 60
32 ITA Federico Esposito 31 30 61
33 HUN Aron Gadorfalvi 34 33 67
34 TPE Hao Chang 33 36 69
35 COL Santiago Grillo 35 34 69
36 UKR Maksym Oberemko 36 35 71
37 VEN Daniel Flores 37 37 74
38 EGY Ahmed Habash 38 38 76

 

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