London 2012 day six: Percy, Simpson and Ainslie assured of medals

As British sailors dominate the 470s

Friday August 3rd 2012, Author: James Boyd, Location: United Kingdom

Laser Radial

The Laser Radial had a general recall before getting away on the Harbour course. On the second occasion it was Irish express Annalise Murphy who made the best of the beat to round the top mark narrowly ahead of China's Lijia Xu with Australia's Krystal Weir third and Britain's Ali Young 7th.

On the run the slippery Xu rolled past Murphy to take the lead. On the second beat Finnish veteran Sari Multala pulled up to third and the positions remained like this to the finish with Ali Young coming home sixth.

In the second race Ali Young got off to a good start, went left and was in front at the top mark ahead of Belgium Evi van Acker and Lijia Xu. On the reaching leg Young faltered and van Acker was quick to accept the lead from the Czech Republic's Veronika Fenclova and Xu. On the run it was Mrs Scheidt who came into her own to lead at the leeward gate ahead of van Acker and Sari Mulata. Van Acker and Multata slogged it out swapping the leadfor the next two leg with the Belgium sailor finally coming out on top to lead to the finish with the Netherland's Marit Bouweester edging into third on the final run with Ali Young coming home eighth.

"I had a good first race," said Annalise Murphy, who has dropped back into second place overall just one point behind Evi van Acker.  "The second race wasn’t perfect but it was still an alright race in the end. I didn’t have a great start and the girls closer to the committee boat had a much better start than me, so it made it difficult to catch back up - it is was quite a one way track so it was difficult to get by anyone.

"It is really difficult inside the harbour, it is very shifty and the course is quite short and anything can happen, you can suddenly do well and then not, so it is difficult to stay ahead."

Marit Bouwmeister who posted a 4-3 today said: "I had a bit of a better day today. It was tricky on the flat water but I was happy with the way the results went. I had to step it up with my starts. I was not so happy with my upwind but downwind was quick and normally there isn’t much in it in flat water but I managed to really knock some points off my score, so I am happy with that."

See the race reports on the Finn, Star, 470 Men, 470 Women, 49er, Laser Men, Laser Women, Rick Tomlinson's photo gallery and Carlo Borlenghi's photo gallery.

Results 

Pos Nat Helm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Tot Net
1 BEL Evi Van Acker 3 2 3 -8 1 5 8 1 31 23
2 IRL Annalise Murphy 1 1 1 1 8 -19 2 10 43 24
3 NED Marit Bouwmeester -6 3 4 5 6 1 4 3 32 26
4 CHN Lijia Xu 5 8 -11 3 5 4 1 4 41 30
5 GBR Alison Young 7 10 2 2 2 -11 6 8 48 37
6 FIN Sari Multala 4 6 15 4 19 -21 3 2 74 53
7 LTU Gintare Volungeviciute Scheidt 2 13 9 10 3 -14 11 7 69 55
8 CZE Veronika Fenclova -23 4 7 6 21 2 17 6 86 63
9 USA Paige Railey 8 5 12 17 4 9 -21 20 96 75
10 MEX Tania Elias Calles 12 9 6 19 13 -33 13 5 110 77
11 ESP Alicia Cebrian 15 11 14 9 -24 23 5 9 110 86
12 AUS Krystal Weir 18 18 10 23 7 -35 7 12 130 95
13 BLR Tatiana Drozdovskaya 10 7 -23 16 16 13 19 16 120 97
14 FRA Sarah Steyaert 21 14 19 12 11 -26 10 19 132 106
15 DEN Anne-Marie Rindom 17 19 8 22 12 7 -27 23 135 108
16 SUI Nathalie Brugger 13 25 18 14 15 10 -42 14 151 109
17 CRO Tina Mihelic 14 12 22 -25 17 25 14 13 142 117
18 ITA Francesca Clapcich 20 16 24 7 9 -27 18 25 146 119
19 ARG Cecilia Carranza Saroli 9 28 13 28 10 30 12 -35 165 130
20 SWE Josefin Olsson 25 17 5 18 14 24 -29 29 161 132
21 NZL Sara Winther 31 23 21 15 -35 31 9 11 176 141
22 POL Anna Weinzieher 16 -26 25 21 20 16 22 24 170 144
23 NOR Marthe Enger Eide 30 24 -32 11 23 15 23 21 179 147
24 BRA Adriana Kostiw 11 15 27 31 25 17 -42 26 194 152
25 SIN Elizabeth Yin -34 27 29 13 28 12 26 18 187 153
26 GER Franziska Goltz 26 20 26 24 18 -42 28 15 199 157
27 CAN Danielle Dube 22 21 20 -33 31 32 25 17 201 168
28 POR Sara Carmo 32 22 17 20 27 20 32 -38 208 170
29 TUR Cagla Donertas 19 35 16 30 22 -38 20 32 212 174
30 ISR Nufar Edelman 33 33 33 -34 29 3 34 28 227 193
31 GUA Andrea Aldana 24 36 34 -39 38 8 24 33 236 197
32 JPN Manami Doi 29 32 31 27 26 -36 30 22 233 197
33 GRE Anna Agrafioti 28 29 30 32 -34 34 15 34 236 202
34 IOA Philipine Van Aanholt 36 -38 38 29 33 37 16 27 254 216
35 EST Anna Pohlak 27 39 -41 37 36 6 36 36 258 217
36 RUS Svetlana Shnitko -37 31 35 35 37 18 31 30 254 217
37 URU Andrea Foglia 39 34 37 26 32 -40 38 31 277 237
38 PER Paloma Schmidt 35 30 36 36 30 39 33 -41 280 239
39 LCA Beth Lygoe 38 37 28 38 -39 29 37 37 283 244
40 ISV Mayumi Roller 40 -41 40 41 41 22 35 40 300 259
41 COK Helema Williams -41 40 39 40 40 28 39 39 306 265
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