Youth Olympics Games Nanjing - Double Youth Olympic Gold for Singapore

by ISAF on 25 Aug 2014 Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014 - Bernie Chin and Samantha Yom made it double gold for Singapore as they took the Boy's and Girl's Byte CII Youth Olympic Games titles in Nanjing, China.

Chin held on to his overnight lead whilst Yom advanced from second to first in a gripping final day of the Youth Olympic sailing competition.

The Byte CII fleets raced in a steady 4-5 knot breeze that was coming from an easterly direction and the tension was high in both races.

Rodolfo Pires (POR) and Jonatan Vadnai (HUN) took silver and bronze in the Boy's Byte CII whilst the female silver went to Odile van Aanholt (NED) and bronze to Jarian Brandes (PER).

Girl's Byte CII

Samantha Yom (SIN) trailed Odile van Aanholt (NED) by four points going into the final race and knew what job had to be done.

The Singaporean fought hard to put boats in between herself and her Dutch competitor. The race was up and down with positions changing throughout. In the end Yom came through in second, behind race winner Dolores Moreira (URU) whilst van Aanholt finished seventh.

Yom ends the regatta on 27 points with Van Aanholt a point behind. Jarian Brandes (PER) held onto the bronze with a fifth place finish in the deciding race.

After racing Yom said, 'It was really intense but I just focused on my race and focused on what I could control and I let the rest fall into place. I knew if I did my best the results would fall into place.

'It's a once in a lifetime experience and to be able to make Singapore proud is really unique.'

On the second day of racing Yom recorded a 21st place finish, which she discarded, and after the day she said, 'bye bye medal chances but I'll keep fighting.' She fought back hard, taking a 2-2-11-2 scoreline to complete the event. Her reply when asked about the 'bye bye medal chances' quote, 'Hello medals,' she smiled. 'I was a bit down after a really bad race. I told myself that, 'yea that's a really bad race but keep fighting and can only get better'.'

Singapore Sailing has produced several young talented sailors and Yom is proud of the support she has received, 'It's really great to know that Singapore has won two golds. I think that Singapore Sailing Federation has given us good support and all of our good results have given us affirmation that we are on the right track and going good.'

Boy's Byte CII

Ten minutes after Singapore's Samantha Yom claimed the first Youth Olympic Sailing gold, Bernie Chin added a second for his nation.

Chin took a four point lead into the final race and stayed out of trouble as he finished fifth to seal the deal.

Before hundreds of volunteers flocked to Chin for a picture, he said, 'I am very happy because this is my first gold medal that I've won for the country. We are able to bring back two medals this time because at the last YOG we didn't medal but this time we are able to bring both gold's back to Singapore.'

There were many possibilities in the Boy's Byte CII fleet with all the medals up for grabs and any big mistake could have been costly, 'There was some stress,' said Chin, 'but I knew everybody would be stressed just as much as me because every ones points were so close below so the Brazilian and Portuguese guys were just as stressed out as me and maybe even more.'

Brazil's Pedro Correa came into the day in silver medal position with Portugal's Rodolfo Pires occupying the final podium spot. Anything was possible on the race track with those from second to ninth in with a medal shout.

Pires took a seventh and advanced up to silver medal position, dislodging Correa whose 14th place finish saw him drop to sixth. The Portuguese sailor was all smiles after racing, 'It was a very stressful regatta. I was very stressed and there was a lot to lose and a lot to win. My coach was doing the calculations and he confirmed to me that the silver was mine and then I was happy.'

Ahead of the medal ceremony Pires didn't quite know what to expect, 'It will be my first time experiencing this and I don't know what will be going through my head.'

Jonatan Vadnai (HUN) started the day in seventh and a fourth place in the final race pushed him up into bronze and he was relieved after racing, 'I am really happy. I made a bad race in the first race but I just wanted to catch as many boats as I could and finally it ended up good. I was scared, really scared. I just tried to do as good as possible. If I finished in the top five then it wasn't up to me but I did it, so I am happy.'

After a long week his celebratory plan is to, 'Sleep. I think I am going to wake up at 12, eat as much as I want and gain some weight as I am going to Santander now.'

Byte - Men - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race								Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	SIN	SIN	Bernie Chin	21	(31) DNF	1	2	1	5	3	5	69.00	38.00
2	POR	POR	Rodolfo Pires	16	2	8	4	9	1	(26)	7	73.00	47.00
3	HUN	HUN	Jonatan Vadnai	(22)	5	11	10	8	11	1	4	72.00	50.00
4	USA	USA	Henry Marshall	9	(12)	3	11	10	10	6	2	63.00	51.00
5	THA	THA	Apiwat Sringam	10	(13)	9	5	4	2	13	8	64.00	51.00
6	BRA	BRA	Pedro Luiz Marcondes Correa	1	4	2	3	(20)	18	9	14	71.00	51.00
7	CRO	CRO	Pavle ZIVANOVIC	5	8	7	6	(21)	7	11	15	80.00	59.00
8	MAS	MAS	Asri Azman	(31) DSQ	1	31 DNE	7	2	8	10	1	91.00	60.00
9	FRA	FRA	Romén Richard	14	6	10	8	11	4	(16)	9	78.00	62.00
10	NZL	NZL	Alastair Gifford	7	(16)	4	16	5	9	4	19	80.00	64.00
11	CAN	CAN	Justin Vittecoq	2	11	(18)	17	3	3	12	20	86.00	68.00
12	CHI	CHI	Clemente Seguel	6	7	13	(25)	18	6	15	11	101.00	76.00
13	AUS	AUS	Thomas Cunich	3	15	(24)	24	7	13	14	3	103.00	79.00
14	ISV	ISV	Scott McKenzie	19	19	5	1	6	19	(29)	22	120.00	91.00
15	PER	PER	Angello Giuria Farias	4	3	14	20	15	23	(24)	17	120.00	96.00
16	SWE	SWE	Arvid Nordquist	(23)	9	17	15	17	20	5	18	124.00	101.00
17	CAY	CAY	Pablo Bertran	18	(27)	19	22	23	15	2	6	132.00	105.00
18	ITA	ITA	Vittorio Gallinaro	17	23	6	19	22	(24)	8	10	129.00	105.00
19	INA	INA	Ahmad Zainuddin	12	10	20	(21)	19	17	17	12	128.00	107.00
20	LCA	LCA	luc chevrier	13	17	12	14	14	16	(25)	24	135.00	110.00
21	NED	NED	Scipio Houtman	8	18	22	12	25	(26)	21	16	148.00	122.00
22	IVB	IVB	Sam Morrell	24	14	25	18	12	(28)	19	13	153.00	125.00
23	BAH	BAH	Paul de Souza	11	24	21	(26)	13	14	18	29	156.00	130.00
24	ANT	ANT	Rhone Kirby	31 DNE	22	16	9	24	(27)	7	23	159.00	132.00
25	RSA	RSA	Calvin Gibbs	15	20	15	23	16	(25)	22	26	162.00	137.00
26	ALG	ALG	AMINE GUEDMIN	20	25	23	13	(31) DNF	22	23	25	182.00	151.00
27	GRE	GRE	Georgios Papadopoulos-Kouklakis	25	26	26	(29)	26	12	20	21	185.00	156.00
28	UAE	UAE	hamad al hamadi	27	21	(29)	27	27	21	27	28	207.00	178.00
29	COK	COK	Joshua Ioane	26	28	27	28	28	(29)	28	27	221.00	192.00
30	PNG	PNG	Teariki NUMA	28	29	28	(30)	29	30	30	30	234.00	204.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	DSQ - Disqualification
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RAF - Retired after finishing
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RDG - Redress given
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	RET - Retired
DNF - Did not finish	SCP - Took a scoring penalty under rule 44.3
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2

Byte - Women - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race								Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Net
1	SIN	SIN	Samantha JingYi Yom	2	5	3	(21)	2	2	11	2	48.00	27.00
2	NED	NED	Odile Van Aanholt	6	3	1	1	(8)	8	2	7	36.00	28.00
3	PER	PER	Jarian Brandes	3	6	7	15	11	(21)	3	5	71.00	50.00
4	UKR	UKR	Kateryna Gumenko	9	(18)	9	12	7	10	1	4	70.00	52.00
5	NOR	NOR	Caroline Sofia Rosmo	10	4	10	7	12	(17)	6	6	72.00	55.00
6	MAS	MAS	Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif	13	13	(16)	11	5	5	5	8	76.00	60.00
7	DOM	DOM	Celeste Lugtmeijer	12	2	6	6	27	1	(31) DNF	15	100.00	69.00
8	ITA	ITA	Carolina Albano	5	7	12	8	3	9	(31) DNS	25	100.00	69.00
9	URU	URU	Dolores Moreira Fraschini	4	(19)	14	16	18	15	4	1	91.00	72.00
10	BER	BER	Cecilia Wollmann	(14)	31 DNE	2	5	4	4	13	13	86.00	72.00
11	HUN	HUN	Mária Érdi	19	26	4	10	6	6	(31) DNF	3	105.00	74.00
12	FIN	FIN	Alexandra Dahlberg	1	1	(29)	13	16	20	21	10	111.00	82.00
13	MEX	MEX	PAULA PELAYO	7	21	11	14	10	(25)	9	12	109.00	84.00
14	ECU	ECU	Romina De iulio	(27)	22	17	2	15	3	7	21	114.00	87.00
15	FRA	FRA	Louise Cervera	(21)	8	8	19	14	13	20	9	112.00	91.00
16	ISV	ISV	Paige Clarke	16	12	(23)	4	19	12	19	14	119.00	96.00
17	BRA	BRA	Natascha Böddener	18	10	5	3	24	(27)	10	29	126.00	99.00
18	GBR	GBR	Hanna Brant	22	14	15	20	1	7	(31) DNF	24	134.00	103.00
19	THA	THA	Nichaporn Panmuean	15	17	21	(22)	17	11	17	11	131.00	109.00
20	BUL	BUL	Viktoriya Hinkovska	23	15	(24)	18	9	23	14	18	144.00	120.00
21	POR	POR	Mafalda Pires de Lima	(31) DSQ	9	13	9	22	18	22	28	152.00	121.00
22	CAY	CAY	Florence Allan	8	24	25	17	13	16	(31) DNF	19	153.00	122.00
23	CRO	CRO	Karla Savar	20	16	19	(23)	20	14	16	20	148.00	125.00
24	AUS	AUS	Elyse Ainsworth	17	11	18	24	(26)	22	23	27	168.00	142.00
25	EGY	EGY	Kholoud Mansy	24	25	20	27	23	(29)	12	23	183.00	154.00
26	CHI	CHI	Kelly Miche Gonzalez Dreyer	11	(28)	22	26	21	26	18	30	182.00	154.00
27	INA	INA	Kirana Wardojo	(31) DSQ	31 DNE	28	28	31 DSQ	24	8	16	197.00	166.00
28	TTO	TTO	Abigail Affoo	28	23	26	29	29	(30)	15	17	197.00	167.00
29	ALG	ALG	Nouha El Alia Akil	26	(27)	27	25	25	19	24	26	199.00	172.00
30	RSA	RSA	Megan Robertson	25	20	(30)	30	28	28	25	22	208.00	178.00

Legend
( ) - Excluded Score	DSQ - Disqualification
ARB - Scoring penalty after arbitration	OCS - On the course side of the starting line and broke rule 29.1 or 30.1
BFD - Disqualification under rule 30.3	PTS - Scoring penalty for a yellow flag after the finish
DGM - Disqualification under rule 69.1(b)(2) not excludable	RAF - Retired after finishing
DNC - Did not come to the starting area	RDG - Redress given
DNE - Disqualification not excludable under rule 88.3(b)	RET - Retired
DNF - Did not finish	SCP - Took a scoring penalty under rule 44.3
DNS - Did not start	UFD - U flag penalty imposed
DPI - Discretionary penalty imposed	ZFP - 20% penalty under rule 30.2

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