ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres - World no.1 and 2014 World Cup winners

by Mat Belcher and Will Ryan on 1 May 2014 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres - We are pleased to report a Gold Medal win at the Hyeres ISAF World Cup, which has seen us also secure the overall ISAF World Cup for 2014 and continues our hold on the no.1 World Ranking!

After what seemed a very short break following the Palma regatta, we once again found ourselves in the dinghy boat park, but this time in Hyeres, France. Although with the usual sandflies, baguettes and variable wi-fi ,contrary to what anyone could remember from years past in Hyeres... we were met with warm weather!

Although the breeze was light in the lead-up to the event, we were fortunate to have good consistent winds for the entire racing week. We had ended Palma regatta feeling we had struggled to find our usual racing form and that we had made some uncharacteristic mistakes which ultimately cost us a chance at the top podium position.

With the extra racing experience of Palma, our focus for Hyeres was to perform more to our own personal standards and an opening qualifying day posting a first, seventh, first was a better way to start!

The next few days saw a see-saw of good results with tight racing against the French, Greek and Swedish teams before on the final day we were able to secure two first place finishes in the Gold fleet to then hold a useful 17 point lead into the Medal Race. Lighter winds greeted us for the final day but the points gap allowed us to sail conservatively while keeping an eye on the Greek team who were the only boat able to mathematically beat us, and we crossed the finish line in fifth to win the event.

This marks the second ISAF World Cup Hyeres win in a row for our team, and is Mat's third in a row! This event victory also secured the overall ISAF World Cup win for our team. Although ISAF does not officially recognise the World Cup circuit anymore or award any overall prizes, similar to last year we have un-officially presented it to ourselves. Impressively since the inception of the ISAF World Cup in 2010 Mat has been the winner each year in the 470 Class!

For the team we will now return to Australia for Mat to fulfill his role as skipper of the Team Australia America's Cup challenge; but we will be looking to return to Europe in May to prepare towards the ISAF World Championships and Olympic Selection event in Santander, Spain to be held in September.

Thank you as always to our Coach Victor, and to all our sponsors, suppliers and supporters!

Full Results:
 470 - Men - Overall Results:

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race												Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total	Net
1	AUS	AUS11	Mathew Belcher William Ryan	1	7	1	9	1	(11)	1	9	1	1	1	10	53.00	42.00
2	GRE	GRE1	Panagiotis Mantis Pavlos Kagialis	6	4	2	6	2	2	8	6	6	7	(21)	16	86.00	65.00
3	FRA	FRA27	Sofian Bouvet Jeremie Mion	2	4	12	2	3	10	5	1	5	(24)	10	12	90.00	66.00
4	ARG	ARG7	Lucas Calabrese Juan de la Fuente	1	7	6	21	3	6	4	2	(25)	4	11	6	96.00	71.00
5	SWE	SWE349	Anton Dahlberg Fredrik Bergström	2	9	3	9	2	8	(42) RET	5	2	8	9	18	117.00	75.00
6	GBR	GBR863	Luke Patience Elliot Willis	14	9	3	18	6	4	7	(30)	9	19	8	4	131.00	101.00
7	CRO	CRO83	Sime Fantela Igor Marenic	3	6	7	13	8	21	(33)	27	3	2	3	8	134.00	101.00
8	USA	USA1713	Stuart Mcnay David Hughes	7	3	5	3	9	13	2	(42) DNC	24	13	13	14	148.00	106.00
9	ESP	ESP9	Onan Barreiros Juan Curbelo Cabrera	18	2	1	2	17	18	(42) BFD	17	4	3	7	20	151.00	109.00
10	GER	GER55	Jan-Jasper Wagner Dustin Baldewein	11	5	6	4	18	5	21	14	(29)	6	19	2	140.00	111.00
11	GRE	GRE165	Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos	24	3	8	6	5	20	(27)	7	8	12	18		138.00	111.00
12	FIN	FIN7	Joonas Lindgren Niklas Lindgren	4	12	18	1	1	1	10	28	12	30	(42) BFD		159.00	117.00
13	CHN	CHN1267	Hao Lan Chao Wang	16	13	4	12	11	15	17	3	15	15	(33)		154.00	121.00
14	AUT	AUT437	David Bargehr Lukas Mähr	15	1	21	(30)	6	3	9	4	22	20	22		153.00	123.00
15	JPN	JPN12	Tetsuya Matsunaga Yugo Yoshida	8	17	10	3	10	17	11	22	20	(42) DNC	5		165.00	123.00
16	ESP	ESP44	Jordi Xammar Joan Herp	3	8	9	15	4	33	14	20	13	5	(38)		162.00	124.00
17	FRA	FRA4	Vianney Guilbaud Vincent Guillarm	7	2	14	26	12	16	3	11	(35)	26	16		168.00	133.00
18	GER	GER10	Ferdinand Gerz Oliver Szymanski	19	1	13	7	9	(31)	31	8	14	9	28		170.00	139.00
19	SUI	SUI16	Yannick Brauchli Romuald Hausser	5	24	20	10	7	(30)	6	12	11	22	23		170.00	140.00
20	FRA	FRA76	Guillaume Pirouelle Sipan Valentin	16	15	17	12	4	12	18	(29)	17	17	15		172.00	143.00
21	RSA	RSA1	Asenathi Jim Roger Hudson	10	(42) DNC	19	26	7	7	13	23	31	21	2		201.00	159.00
22	FRA	FRA44	Pierre Leboucher Nicolas Le Berre	17	5	2	17	16	29	28	(31)	10	10	26		191.00	160.00
23	FRA	FRA7	Nicolas Charbonnier Achille Nebout-Javal	6	8	16	24	10	28	12	35	21	(36)	4		200.00	164.00
24	RUS	RUS2	Mikhail Sheremetyev Maxim Sheremetyev	20	18	8	8	5	23	(32)	10	27	27	30		208.00	176.00
25	ISR	ISR17	Gal Cohen Dan Froyliche	23	(27)	5	16	20	14	23	13	23	25	14		203.00	176.00
26	CHN	CHN67	Zangjun Xu Wei Wang	19	11	9	14	13	38	26	19	(41)	16	12		218.00	177.00
27	ITA	ITA29	Simon Sivitz Kosuta Jas Farneti	9	14	29	5	23	(34)	22	25	7	29	24		221.00	187.00
28	JPN	JPN 11	Kazuto Doi Kimihiko Imamura	11	25	23	4	14	32	15	16	28	(42) BFD	20		230.00	188.00
29	NZL	NZL2	Paul Snow-Hansen Daniel Willcox	4	21	16	25	13	19	(42) BFD	15	18	34	29		236.00	194.00
30	AUT	AUT3	Matthias Schmid Florian Reichsteaedter	12	13	4	23	19	(42) BFD	42 BFD	18	16	14	34		237.00	195.00
31	BRA	BRA 1	Geison Mendes Dzioubanov Gustavo Thiesen	8	15	18	24	15	24	(36)	33	30	23	6		232.00	196.00
32	BRA	BRA27	Henrique Haddad Bruno Bethlem De Amorim	9	33	23	7	14	27	(42) BFD	26	26	18	17		242.00	200.00
33	AUS	AUS6	Alexander Conway Patrick Conway	20	10	22	11	11	25	16	21	37	(38)	27		238.00	200.00
34	ITA	ITA5	Giulio Desiderato Andrea Trani	13	11	7	5	15	(42) BFD	19	38	36	31	32		249.00	207.00
35	ESP	ESP769	Jorge Martínez Doreste Aaron Sarmiento	27	6	30	8	12	26	29	34	(39)	11	25		247.00	208.00
36	GER	GER15	Julian Autenrieth Philipp Autenrieth	14	12	15	19	18	(35)	20	24	33	32	31		253.00	218.00
37	SWE	SWE350	Carl-Fredrik Fock Marcus Dackhammar	17	28	12	11	20	(36)	34	32	19	28	36		273.00	237.00
38	POR	POR1	Gonçalo Pires Miguel Nunes	5	27	25	19	16	9	35	(40)	38	33	35		282.00	242.00
39	CHN	CHN1041	Wuwei Liu Dongwu Lyu	13	23	13	1	24	39	30	37	34	35	(42) BFD		291.00	249.00
40	RUS	RUS7	Vladimir Chaus Denis Gorety	21	22	32	17	8	22	25	36	32	(42) DNC	42 DNC		299.00	257.00
41	ITA	ITA99	Francesco Rebaudi Matteo Ramian	10	26	10	20	19	37	24	39	(40)	37	37		299.00	259.00
42	FRA	FRA8	Kevin Peponnet Nicolas Rossi	15	(29)	24	10	27	17	17	1	1	2	1		144.00	115.00
43	RUS	RUS5	Pavel Sozykin Denis Gribanov	22	25	19	18	22	7.5	(41) UFD	4	3	1	3		165.50	124.50
44	GBR	GBR843	Mike Wood David Kohler	25	21	11	13	(26)	15	11	7	7	15	5		156.00	130.00
45	JPN	JPN4422	Ikuko Sakudo Shinji Hachiyama	(31)	19	24	20	21	7.5	16	9	10	4	7		168.50	137.50
46	AUS	AUS 5	Matthew Crawford Robert Crawford	23	(42) DSQ	22	23	17	3	6	11	15	14	8		184.00	142.00
47	ITA	ITA10	Matteo Capurro Matteo Puppo	21	16	26	27	32	1	8	12	4	3	(41) BFD		191.00	150.00
48	ITA	ITA7	Francesco Falcetelli Matteo Bernard	(28)	16	11	21	28	16	10	24	16	7	2		179.00	151.00
49	GRE	GRE333	Alexandros Kavvas Georgios Kavvas	(36)	24	28	27	26	6	14	6	17	6	4		194.00	158.00
50	GRE	GRE10	Vasilis Papoutsoglou John Orfanos	12	14	17	28	25	2	20	3	2	(41) BFD	41 BFD		205.00	164.00
51	FRA	FRA 18	Hugo Feydit Charlie Aganeau	30	23	25	29	27	10	2	5	11	(41) BFD	11		214.00	173.00
52	ITA	ITA300	Emanuele Savoini Enzio Savoini	33	29	20	14	22	9	4	(41) UFD	19	13	14		218.00	177.00
53	FRA	FRA5	Rémy Thuillier Mathieu Corruble	(32)	20	31	31	29	13	15	8	14	18	9		220.00	188.00
54	DEN	DEN164	Balder Tobiasen Magnus Jung Johansen	(37)	31	15	33	30	24	1	19	8	10	19		227.00	190.00
55	JPN	JPN4420	Naoki Ichino Jyunpei Hokazono	28	22	(34)	22	21	20	30	14	9	20	10		230.00	196.00
56	AUS	AUS7	Angus Galloway Timothy Hannah	32	26	14	(35)	30	4	24	29	25	8	6		233.00	198.00
57	GER	GER75	Denny Naujock Paul Kuebel	25	17	21	29	34	12	12	18	26	(41) BFD	12		247.00	206.00
58	GER	GER13	Malte Winkel Matti Cipra	(38)	18	28	37	33	25	5	31	12	5	13		245.00	207.00
59	ITA	ITA753	Niccolò Bertola Massimiliano Berta	31	19	27	25	(36)	18.3 RDG	18.3 RDG	32	6	17	18		247.60	211.60
60	POR	POR7	António Rosa Ricardo Schedel	27	10	32	37	33	(41) UFD	3	15	5	11	41 BFD		255.00	214.00
61	UKR	UKR67	Yurii Zhuravlov Pavlo Matsuyev	22	20	31	15	24	(41) DSQ	7	2	18	41 BFD	41 DNC		262.00	221.00
62	ESP	ESP 1	David Charles Vila Alex Charles	26	37	27	22	35	5	9	25	20	25	(41) BFD		272.00	231.00
63	GRE	GRE4	Antonios Tsimpoukelis Vasileios Kontakis	30	34	(36)	36	29	18	19	10	30	9	17		268.00	232.00
64	POR	POR10	Joao Villas-Boas Francisco Pinheiro de Melo	26	34	33	28	(39)	11	27	26	21	16	24		285.00	246.00
65	CRO	CRO3	Ante Botica Jure Vuletic	18	31	36	38	31	19	23	13	23	(41) BFD	15		288.00	247.00
66	GER	GER11	Simon Diesch Patrick Aggeler	29	30	30	34	(38)	23	13	33	35	12	16		293.00	255.00
67	AUS	AUS3	Scott Cotton Tom Potter	(38)	28	35	33	31	29	18	22	22	27	20		303.00	265.00
68	SUI	SUI2	Fabrice Rigot Guillaume Rigot	35	(38)	29	30	32	22	22	17	31	31	22		309.00	271.00
69	GBR	GBR828	Robert Gullan Sam Brearey	34	35	26	(42) UFD	23	32	41 UFD	28	13	22	25		321.00	279.00
70	SUI	SUI1453	Philippe Erni Stephan Zurfluh	24	33	38	32	34	21	28	23	28	19	(41) BFD		321.00	280.00
71	GER	GER48	Julian Patrunky Max Schümann	34	32	(42) BFD	16	25	26	25	30	29	41 BFD	41 DNC		341.00	299.00
72	AUT	AUT477	Stefan Scharnagl Helmut Schulz	(39)	36	37	39	36	27	26	27	27	23	21		338.00	299.00
73	FIN	FIN77	Okko Konttinen Zacharias Still	(37)	32	35	34	37	34	21	20	36	24	28		338.00	301.00
74	RUS	RUS10	Kristian Chekh Maxim Cherenkov	40	35	33	31	28	14	(41) UFD	21	33	26	41 BFD		343.00	302.00
75	FIN	FIN111	Miikka Nikkilä Leo Tykkyläinen	(39)	37	34	38	35	28	31	16	32	30	27		347.00	308.00
76	POR	POR19	João Pestana Tomas Marques	35	38	39	32	37	31	29	(41) UFD	34	28	23		367.00	326.00
77	UKR	UKR1	Oleksandr Izarov Ivan Savchenko	33	(39)	38	35	39	33	32	35	38	29	26		377.00	338.00
78	FRA	FRA 77	Sacha Pelisson Berger Amaury	36	36	37	36	38	30	(41) UFD	41 DNC	24	21	41 RET		381.00	340.00
79	LTU	LTU4	Andrius Ramonaitis Emilis Valentinaitis	40	40	40	39	(42) DNC	35	33	36	39	32	30		406.00	364.00
80	CRO	CRO111	Sime Soric Marin Jakovcev	(41)	41	39	40	40	41 UFD	34	34	37	33	29		409.00	368.00
81	BEL	BEL16	Corentin Demanet Quinten Lauwers	29	30	(42) DNC	42 DNC	42 DNF	41 DNF	41 DNC	41 DNC	41 DNC	41 DNC	41 DNC		431.00	389.00