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Rio Olympic Sailing – GBR wins 470 Women's gold, New Zealand silver

by Andy Rice - World Sailing on 18 Aug 2016
Gold for Hannah Mills & Saskia Clark (GBR) in the Women’s 470 at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition Sailing Energy/World Sailing
With Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark (GBR) having already won the Women's 470 gold medal, the battle for silver and bronze came down to a six-way fight between New Zealand, USA, France, Japan, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

Annie Haeger and Briana Provancha (USA) took up the early running and led for the first lap, putting them in silver medal position ahead of the 2012 Olympic Champions Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie (NZL).

The shifting wind produced some new race leaders on the final lap, with Tina Mrak and Veronika Macarol (SLO) streaking away to win the Medal Race. Meanwhile the battleground for the medals was changing by the moment.



The Americans were given a penalty turn for fouling the Japanese crew which put them to the back and out of the medals. This left the way clear for New Zealand to take a jubilant silver medal with reigning World Champions Camille Lecointre and Hélène de France (FRA) making a late charge from the back of the fleet to finish sixth, sufficient to give France the bronze by a single point from the Netherlands crew, Afrodite Zegers and Anneloes van Veen (NED). It was tears of joy for the three Medal winning crews but the Americans were distraught after having controlled the race early on, only to come away with nothing.



470 - Women - Overall results
 

Pos

NOC

Crew

Race

Points

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

MR

Total

Net

1

GBR

Hannah Mills

Saskia Clark

4

7

1

6

1

(8)

1

3

2

3

16

52

44

2

NZL

Jo Aleh

Polly Powrie

(21)
DSQ

1

4

1

12

21
UFD

3

1

1

4

6

75

54

3

FRA

Camille Lecointre

Hélène Defrance

6

(18)

2

3

4

13

7

7

6

2

12

80

62

4

NED

Afrodite Zegers

Anneloes van Veen

(15)

2

8

8

14

4

11

2

3

7

4

78

63

5

JPN

Ai Kondo Yoshida

Miho Yoshioka

1

4

3

7

(19)

9

12

4

11

1

14

85

66

6

SLO

Tina Mrak

Veronika Macarol

2

6

5

4

(21)
DSQ

12

4

21
DSQ

5

6

2

88

67

7

USA

Anne Haeger

Briana Provancha

7

3

(10)

2

5

5

2

8

8

9

20

79

69

8

BRA

Fernanda Oliveira

Ana Luiza Barbachan

5

5

13

10

2

(21)
UFD

9

6

13

5

8

97

76

9

AUT

Lara Vadlau

Jolanta Ogar

3

12

12

5

6

1

5

16

(21)
DSQ

14

18

113

92

10

POL

Agnieszka Skrzypulec

Irmina Gliszczynska

10

14

9

(21)
RET

3

14

19

12

7

8

10

127

106

11

CHI

Nadja Horwitz

Sofia Middleton

9

11

(18)

16

10

2

10

10

14

15

 

115

97

12

ESP

Bàrbara Cornudella Ravetllat

Sara López Ravetllat

14

13

7

11

13

11

13

(18)

9

10

 

119

101

13

RUS

Alisa Kirilyuk

Liudmila Dmitrieva

(21)
UFD

21
DSQ

6

9

11

7

18

9

12

11

 

125

104

14

SUI

Linda Fahrni

Maja Siegenthaler

8

15

15

12

9

10

8

11

16

(19)

 

123

104

15

AUS

Carrie Smith

Jaime Ryan

16

8

11

(17)

7

6

14

15

17

12

 

123

106

16

CHN

Lizhu Huang

Xiaoli Wang

11

10

14

13

16

16

(17)

13

4

16

 

130

113

17

ISR

Nina Amir

(21)
UFD

9

19

15

17

17

15

5

10

13

 

141

120

18

GER

Annika Bochmann

Marlene Steinherr

12

16

17

(21)
DNF

15

3

6

14

21
DSQ

17

 

142

121

19

ITA

Elena Berta

Alice Sinno

13

19

16

14

8

15

16

19

15

(20)

 

155

135

20

SIN

Jovina Choo

Amanda Ng

17

17

20

(21)
DNF

18

21
UFD

20

17

18

18

 

187

166

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