Nacra 17 Worlds 2015 @Aarhus: Day 4
Images: Laurens Morel / www.saltycolours.com , D4 gallery at Nacra 17 Class Fb . Mogens Hansen portfolio for Day 3 at his Fb page. Another tough day at Aarhus with blown out conditions, Gold fleet went out at 7pm to complete 3Fin al races, Silver fleet did not race at all.
Before the 7th race Billy & Marie were second scoring a 23rd, as the only discard available was assigned to the qualifying stage. Without much margin the French crew simply went for two more bullets the final races of the day to grab the lead again over Waterhouse-Darmanin.
New stars in the fleet in third place, with Paul Kohlhoff & Carollina Werner, winners of Kiel Week 2014.
Happy to see Thijs & Nicole and Iker & Marine in the top ten too, key event for both teams towards Rio.
Best US team is Newberry-WHitehead currently 19th overall.
3 Slots will be granted for 2016 Olympics at Aarhus.
Official report at sailing-aarhus.dk
I really don´t recall such a domination over a fleet as Besson & Riou are demonstrating in the Nacra 17 for three years in a row now, only Ashby comes to mind.
Top ten below, full results here.
Rank | bow | sailno | HelmName | CrewName | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | F1 | F2 | F3 | Total | Nett |
1 | 3 | FRA 001 | Billy Besson | Marie Riou | -2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 29 |
2 | 1 | AUS 003 | Jason Waterhouse | Lisa Darmanin | 1 | 3 | -22 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 55 | 33 |
3 | 70 | GER 211 | Paul Kohlhoff | Carolina Werner | -10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 47 | 37 |
4 | 10 | NED 244 | Mandy Mulder | Coen De Koning | 3 | 4 | -15 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 56 | 41 |
5 | 8 | NZL 222 | Gemma Jones | Jason Saunders | 5 | 2 | -13 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 5 | 65 | 52 |
6 | 20 | ARU 212 | Nicole van der Velden | Thijs Visser | -12 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 67 | 55 |
7 | 2 | ITA 262 | Vittorio Bissaro | Silvia Sicouri | 1 | 2 | 5 | -21 | 5 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 78 | 57 |
8 | 17 | DEN 281 | Allan Nørregaard | Anette Viborg | 6 | 4 | 1 | -10 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 4 | 68 | 58 |
9 | 16 | GBR 201 | John Gimson | Hannah Diamond | 4 | -9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 67 | 58 |
10 | 25 | ESP 246 | Iker Martinez | Marina Lopez Casanova | 8 | -15 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 77 | 62 |