Nacra 17 Worlds 2016 @Clearwater: Day 3
Images by Laurens Morel / Saltycolours.com . Day 3 full gallery Nacra 17 Class FB – . Billy & Marie continue to dominate Nacra 17 major events, they’ve won past 3 Nacra 17 Worlds and are leading the pack at Cleawater. Second place overall for Vittorio Bissaro & Silvia Sicouri, who are also stepping up in big championships.
5th overall for two time Tornado Olympic medalist Santi Lange, sailing with Ceci Carranza, the Argies had an almost perfect day with a bullet and a 2nd, they finished 2nd overall last 2015 Nacra 17 Worlds behind Besson & Riou granting themselves a spot for Olympics.
Meanwhile in the US qualy, Mike Easton & Katherine Pettibone have established a good gap with the rest of their teammates, and they 1pt away to match Gulari-Chafee in overall selection standings to decide who will represent USA at Rio.
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Top ten below. Full results after 7 races Here.
| Nr | Sail | Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | T | N |
| 1 | FRA 1 | Billy BESSON Marie RIOU | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | -13 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 13 |
| 2 | ITA 307 | Vittorio BISSARO Silvia SICOURI | 11 | 4 | 10 | -23 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 62 | 39 |
| 3 | DEN 281 | Allan NORREGAARD Anette Viborg ANDREASEN | (44.0)DNF | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 7 | 91 | 47 |
| 4 | GBR 120 | Tom PHIPPS Nicola BONIFACE | 15 | 15 | 1 | -20 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 72 | 52 |
| 5 | ARG 226 | Santiago LANGE Cecilia CARRANZA SAROLI | 8 | 20 | 3 | -26 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 80 | 54 |
| 6 | AUS 2 | Jason WATERHOUSE Lisa DARMANIN | 4 | 16 | 21 | 4 | (44.0)OCS | 5 | 4 | 98 | 54 |
| 7 | FRA 285 | Moana VAIREAUX Manon AUDINET | 5 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 15 | -17 | 16 | 72 | 55 |
| 8 | AUT 277 | Thomas ZAJAC Tanja FRANK | 10 | 17 | -18 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 76 | 58 |
| 9 | NED 3 | Mandy MULDER Coen de KONING | 7 | 10 | -22 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 83 | 61 |
| 10 | SUI 220 | Matías BÜHLER Nathalie BRUGGER | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 12 | -26 | 22 | 91 | 91 |
