Leaderboards take shape at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games 2014

by ISAF on 20 Aug 2014 Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games - The discard came into play at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games with the leader boards taking shape at the midway point of the event.

Three races were completed in the Boy's and Girl's Byte CII and Techno 293 fleets with the best breeze of the week saving itself for the third day of competition. A north easterly breeze in between six-eight knots ensured all of the days scheduled races were completed.

The Boy's and Girl's Byte CII fleets raced on Race Area B whilst another packed crowd of 2,000 spectators watched the Techno 293 races play out on Area A.

Girl's Techno 293

The home crowd had something to cheer about on a packed spectator stand as China's Linli Wu swooped into the lead in the Girl's Techno 293 with an exceptional day of racing.

Wu was in fine form and read the conditions on Jinniu Lake to perfection as she won the first race by a convincing margin. A second and a bullet then followed and she sits seven points ahead of Russia's Mariam Sekhposyan, who took the day's other race win, and Lucia Pianazza (FRA). The Russian and French racers are tied on 16 points apiece.

Dutch sailor Aimee Van't Hoff had a solid day on the water taking a fourth, a third and a discarded eighth. 'It's pretty hard work,' said Van't Hoff on the conditions. 'I was pumping in all the races but my races were okay. It's really hot out here and I just pumped the whole race so it was really hard and now I need some ice.'

Like so many sailors competing in Nanjing Van't Hoff is on top of the world, 'It's really nice to see my surf friends and to make new friends from all the other sports and learn about new people. It's really big and a great life experience.'

Four years ago Singapore's Audrey Yong claimed a bronze medal for her nation at the 2010 edition of the Youth Olympic Games. Onwards to 2014 and Sue Ying Lim is flying the windsurfing flag for her nation and has taken in some knowledge from the 2010 medallist, 'I spoke to her before I came and she told me to just do my best and give my all and not think so much about medal chances. As long as I do well there's always that chance to win.'

Lim had a steady day on the water, posting a six-seven-six score line, improving on her opening three races. With sailing an experience like no other combined, Lim is loving the YOG life, 'It's a stepping stone up to the Olympic class for every windsurfer. The Youth Olympics is awesome to make new friends and come together as one and have friendly match as well. It's a different atmosphere compared to other regattas. I'm just focusing on the racing and I did pretty well today.'

Click here for the Girl's Techno 293 results.

Boy's Techno 293

Very little separates the Boy's Techno 293 fleet with 11 points splitting Maxim Tokarev (RUS) in top spot and Kensei Ikeda (JPN) in eighth.

The fleet is tight and Argentina's Francisco Saubidet Birkner loves the competition, 'I did very good today, I finished eighth, first but the last race was very bad but I am happy. The competitors are all very good; they're the top guys in the world in the Techno so it is very difficult.' Saubidet Birkner is second overall, a point off Tokarev and from the six race series he has taken three bullets.

With the fleet tight and competition tough Israel's Yoav Omer, who is fourth overall, is thriving in it, 'I'm enjoying the competition. The competition is so good. The judges and the race committee are really good and I am happy.

'In the first race I was fourth, my start was not so good but after that my decisions were good and I finished fourth. In the second race my start was good but my decisions were really bad, I didn't surf good and I was very slow so finished sixth and in the last one I finished fifth. The race was good and my start was perfect.'

Omer is aiming to follow in the footsteps of compatriot Mayan Rafic who won gold at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games and Rafic offered a small piece of advice to his younger countryman, 'He didn't tell me much he just said that it's a very good experience and said it's a very big competition.'

Click here for the Boy's Techno 293 results.

Girl's Byte CII

Odile Van Aanholt (NED) has a slender lead over Singapore's Samantha Yom following three Byte CII races. Van Aanholt posted an 8-8-2 scoreline to Yom's 2-2-11 and is four points clear. Carolina Albano (ITA) is third overall, 23 points off Van Aanholt.

Improvement and personal gain has been the aim of the game for many of the sailors competing in Nanjing with individual goals and targets set ahead of racing.

Great Britain's Hanna Brant had an up and down day as she took a bullet and a seventh with a 31DNF marring her day. Nonetheless the Briton was pretty happy with how things went, 'The beginning was pretty good, I had a first and an eighth so that was good but the last race went a bit wrong but it was pretty hard conditions so I'm happy.'

Brant read the conditions better than anyone else in the first race to take the victory and she explained what went down on Race Area B, 'I had an okay start, I was at the pin end and I tacked off straight away so the whole fleet was going up on port. I played the shifts up the first beat and I was at the front of it. I was second or first at the first mark but then I went downwind and lost a couple of places.

'I was going round the bottom mark and I saw there was a massive left hand shift and the whole fleet and the people in front of me kept going off left and I was like 'I'm going to tack' so I just tacked and I was making the mark and then it came out from the right and I tacked and crossed everyone so it worked out quite well.'

The British sailor has pushed up the leader board and is 16th overall and concluded by saying, 'I haven't had a great regatta so far but it was really nice to see that my work over the winter and summer has paid off a bit.'

Further race victories on the day went the way of Celeste Lugtmeijer (DOM), who is eighth overall, and Ukraine's Kateryna Gumenko, who is fifth.

Click here for the Girl's Byte CII results.

Boy's Byte CII

Singapore's Bernie Chin had an exceptional day of racing to take the Boy's Byte CII lead. The Singaporean recorded a one-five-three score line to overthrown Brazil's Pedro Correa and lead him by four points. Portugal's Rodolfo Pires remains in contention and is seven points off Chin.

Cayman Islands racer Pablo Bertran picked up his first top finish of the competition as he took second in the final race of the day and he was happy with how the race played out, 'I'm pretty happy. I wasn't doing too well coming into the top mark, I was about tenth but coming into the downwind I split from everybody at the gate and when I came back I was second. I'm very happy for the last one but not for the first two races.'

In the first two races of the day Bertran finished 23rd and 15th and is positioned 20th overall. With a single race scheduled on 21 August his plan is to, 'Just go for it and try my hardest.'

Antigua's Rhone Kirby also had his best race result of the competition in the third and final race of the day as he sealed a seventh and he was pleased with his performance, 'It was quite good. In the first two races I wasn't doing too good but I came back strong in the last one.'

Sailing on Jinniu Lake is a new experience for the Antiguan who is used to the Caribbean Sea, 'I've sailed Lasers back home and I've been to the Cayman Islands for two weeks training and that was my only training. It's completely different because I sail in the sea back home with a lot of current and more wind. Here there's no current and light wind.'

Kirby has improved as the week has gone on and currently sits 23rd overall and the Youth Olympic experience is like no other, 'This event, I think it's a bit more tense because it's the Olympics and everybody wants a gold and wants to be at the top. There are a lot of tough sailors and if you want to be tough you've got to train very hard for it.

'You learn from your mistakes, you gain from a lot of things and improve as you go along.'

Click here for the Boy's Byte CII results.

Having lost races due to light breeze the race committee will look to catch up on Thursday 21 August. There will be one Byte CII Boy's and Girl's race on Area A and the Techno 293 fleets will follow with two further races.

The four YOG Sailing events are:

Boy's Windsurfer - Techno 293
Girl's Windsurfer - Techno 293
Boy's One Person Dinghy - Byte CII
Girl's One Persona Dinghy - Byte CII

The YOG Sailing Competition will consist of an opening series and final race. The format will be fleet racing but slalom racing may be run for the Boy's and Girl's Windsurfers if the weather conditions are suitable.

Techno 293 - Women - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race						Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Net
1	CHN	CHN	Linli Wu	4	(7)	1	1	2	1	16.00	9.00
2	RUS	RUS	Mariam Sekhposyan	7	2	3	(10)	1	3	26.00	16.00
3	FRA	FRA	Lucie Pianazza	2	3	4	3	4	(5)	21.00	16.00
4	NED	NED	Aimee Van't Hoff	3	6	6	4	3	(8)	30.00	22.00
5	THA	THA	Duangkamon Phongern	1	12	2	(14)	14	2	45.00	31.00
6	ITA	ITA	Giulia Alagna	10	1	9	7	(11)	10	48.00	37.00
7	PER	PER	Maria Belen Bazo	6	5	(14)	8	5	13	51.00	37.00
8	SIN	SIN	Sue Ying Lim	(19)	9	11	6	7	6	58.00	39.00
9	JPN	JPN	Rina Niijima	11	4	7	9	9	(17)	57.00	40.00
10	HKG	HKG	SANDY CHOI WING CHI	5	(17)	10	11	6	9	58.00	41.00
11	ISR	ISR	Noy DRIHAN	9	10	5	13	8	(15)	60.00	45.00
12	POL	POL	Magdalena Majewska	8	(16)	16	2	15	12	69.00	53.00
13	LAT	LAT	Ketija Birzule	(16)	11	13	15	10	4	69.00	53.00
14	EST	EST	Brigita Villop	(20)	15	12	5	18	11	81.00	61.00
15	ESP	ESP	MARIA FATOU LOSADA	14	8	(22) DSQ	17	16	7	84.00	62.00
16	NZL	NZL	Coral Headey	12	(18)	8	18	12	18	86.00	68.00
17	TUR	TUR	Derin Gunenc	13	13	(18)	12	17	16	89.00	71.00
18	MEX	MEX	Mariana Aguilar Chavez Peon	(17)	14	17	16	13	14	91.00	74.00
19	ARG	ARG	Micaela Rocio Lauret	15	(19)	15	19	19	19	106.00	87.00
20	IND	IND	katya ida coelho	18	20	20	20	(22) DNF	20	120.00	98.00
21	VEN	VEN	Barbara Moya	21	(22) OCS	19	21	20	21	124.00	102.00

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

Techno 293 - Men - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race						Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Net
1	RUS	RUS	Maxim Tokarev	(9)	3	6	1	2	4	25.00	16.00
2	ARG	ARG	Francisco Saubidet Birkner	6	1	1	8	1	(11)	28.00	17.00
3	NED	NED	Lars van Someren	1	4	(10)	9	3	2	29.00	19.00
4	ISR	ISR	yoav omer	5	2	(13)	4	6	5	35.00	22.00
5	FRA	FRA	Tom MONNET	4	9	4	(11)	5	1	34.00	23.00
6	HKG	HKG	Tsz Kit Chan	8	5	(9)	3	4	3	32.00	23.00
7	NZL	NZL	Finn Croft	(11)	6	3	2	7	6	35.00	24.00
8	JPN	JPN	Kensel Ikeda	3	7	2	7	(9)	8	36.00	27.00
9	ITA	ITA	Ruggero Lo Mauro	(14)	8	8	10	8	9	57.00	43.00
10	THA	THA	Thanatip Suebyubon	10	12	5	6	(13)	12	58.00	45.00
11	SLO	SLO	toni Vrscaj	12	13	7	(14)	10	7	63.00	49.00
12	BRA	BRA	Daniel Pereira	2	(14)	11	12	14	13	66.00	52.00
13	MYA	MYA	Set Naing Aung Aung	7	(19)	16	5	16	14	77.00	58.00
14	TPE	TPE	Ting Yu Wang	(15)	15	12	13	15	10	80.00	65.00
15	ARU	ARU	Mack van den Eerenbeemt	16	10	(18)	18	11	15	88.00	70.00
16	VEN	VEN	Manu De La Rosa Hernandez	13	(21) OCS	14	17	12	18	95.00	74.00
17	USA	USA	Maximo Nores	(18)	11	15	15	18	16	93.00	75.00
18	PUR	PUR	Lucas Miranda	19	16	19	16	17	(20)	107.00	87.00
19	TUN	TUN	Safouane Mami	17	17	17	(19)	19	17	106.00	87.00
20	SVK	SVK	Martin Beránek	(20)	18	20	20	20	19	117.00	97.00

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	Total	Net
1	NED	NED	Odile Van Aanholt	6	3	1	1	(8)	8	2	29.00	21.00
2	SIN	SIN	Samantha JingYi Yom	2	5	3	(21)	2	2	11	46.00	25.00
3	ITA	ITA	Carolina Albano	5	7	12	8	3	9	(31) DNS	75.00	44.00
4	PER	PER	Jarian Brandes	3	6	7	15	11	(21)	3	66.00	45.00
5	UKR	UKR	Kateryna Gumenko	9	(18)	9	12	7	10	1	66.00	48.00
6	NOR	NOR	Caroline Sofia Rosmo	10	4	10	7	12	(17)	6	66.00	49.00
7	MAS	MAS	Nur Shazrin Mohamad Latif	13	13	(16)	11	5	5	5	68.00	52.00
8	DOM	DOM	Celeste Lugtmeijer	12	2	6	6	27	1	(31) DNF	85.00	54.00
9	BER	BER	Cecilia Wollmann	(14)	31 DNE	2	5	4	4	13	73.00	59.00
10	ECU	ECU	Romina De iulio	(27)	22	17	2	15	3	7	93.00	66.00
11	BRA	BRA	Natascha Böddener	18	10	5	3	24	(27)	10	97.00	70.00
12	URU	URU	Dolores Moreira Fraschini	4	(19)	14	16	18	15	4	90.00	71.00
13	HUN	HUN	Mária Érdi	19	26	4	10	6	6	(31) DNF	102.00	71.00
14	FIN	FIN	Alexandra Dahlberg	1	1	(29)	13	16	20	21	101.00	72.00
15	MEX	MEX	PAULA PELAYO	7	21	11	14	10	(25)	9	97.00	72.00
16	GBR	GBR	Hanna Brant	22	14	15	20	1	7	(31) DNF	110.00	79.00
17	ISV	ISV	Paige Clarke	16	12	(23)	4	19	12	19	105.00	82.00
18	FRA	FRA	Louise Cervera	(21)	8	8	19	14	13	20	103.00	82.00
19	POR	POR	Mafalda Pires de Lima	(31) DSQ	9	13	9	22	18	22	124.00	93.00
20	THA	THA	Nichaporn Panmuean	15	17	21	(22)	17	11	17	120.00	98.00
21	BUL	BUL	Viktoriya Hinkovska	23	15	(24)	18	9	23	14	126.00	102.00
22	CAY	CAY	Florence Allan	8	24	25	17	13	16	(31) DNF	134.00	103.00
23	CRO	CRO	Karla Savar	20	16	19	(23)	20	14	16	128.00	105.00
24	AUS	AUS	Elyse Ainsworth	17	11	18	24	(26)	22	23	141.00	115.00
25	CHI	CHI	Kelly Miche Gonzalez Dreyer	11	(28)	22	26	21	26	18	152.00	124.00
26	EGY	EGY	Kholoud Mansy	24	25	20	27	23	(29)	12	160.00	131.00
27	ALG	ALG	Nouha El Alia Akil	26	(27)	27	25	25	19	24	173.00	146.00
28	INA	INA	Kirana Wardojo	(31) DSQ	31 DNE	28	28	31 DSQ	24	8	181.00	150.00
29	TTO	TTO	Abigail Affoo	28	23	26	29	29	(30)	15	180.00	150.00
30	RSA	RSA	Megan Robertson	25	20	(30)	30	28	28	25	186.00	156.00

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 - Men - Overall Results

Pos	Nation	Sail Number	Crew	Race							Points
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total	Net
1	SIN	SIN	Bernie Chin	21	(31) DNF	1	2	1	5	3	64.00	33.00
2	BRA	BRA	Pedro Luiz Marcondes Correa	1	4	2	3	(20)	18	9	57.00	37.00
3	POR	POR	Rodolfo Pires	16	2	8	4	9	1	(26)	66.00	40.00
4	THA	THA	Apiwat Sringam	10	(13)	9	5	4	2	13	56.00	43.00
5	CRO	CRO	Pavle ZIVANOVIC	5	8	7	6	(21)	7	11	65.00	44.00
6	NZL	NZL	Alastair Gifford	7	(16)	4	16	5	9	4	61.00	45.00
7	HUN	HUN	Jonatan Vadnai	(22)	5	11	10	8	11	1	68.00	46.00
8	CAN	CAN	Justin Vittecoq	2	11	(18)	17	3	3	12	66.00	48.00
9	USA	USA	Henry Marshall	9	(12)	3	11	10	10	6	61.00	49.00
10	FRA	FRA	Romén Richard	14	6	10	8	11	4	(16)	69.00	53.00
11	MAS	MAS	Asri Azman	(31) DSQ	1	31 DNE	7	2	8	10	90.00	59.00
12	CHI	CHI	Clemente Seguel	6	7	13	(25)	18	6	15	90.00	65.00
13	ISV	ISV	Scott McKenzie	19	19	5	1	6	19	(29)	98.00	69.00
14	AUS	AUS	Thomas Cunich	3	15	(24)	24	7	13	14	100.00	76.00
15	PER	PER	Angello Giuria Farias	4	3	14	20	15	23	(24)	103.00	79.00
16	SWE	SWE	Arvid Nordquist	(23)	9	17	15	17	20	5	106.00	83.00
17	LCA	LCA	luc chevrier	13	17	12	14	14	16	(25)	111.00	86.00
18	ITA	ITA	Vittorio Gallinaro	17	23	6	19	22	(24)	8	119.00	95.00
19	INA	INA	Ahmad Zainuddin	12	10	20	(21)	19	17	17	116.00	95.00
20	CAY	CAY	Pablo Bertran	18	(27)	19	22	23	15	2	126.00	99.00
21	BAH	BAH	Paul de Souza	11	24	21	(26)	13	14	18	127.00	101.00
22	NED	NED	Scipio Houtman	8	18	22	12	25	(26)	21	132.00	106.00
23	ANT	ANT	Rhone Kirby	31 DNE	22	16	9	24	(27)	7	136.00	109.00
24	RSA	RSA	Calvin Gibbs	15	20	15	23	16	(25)	22	136.00	111.00
25	IVB	IVB	Sam Morrell	24	14	25	18	12	(28)	19	140.00	112.00
26	ALG	ALG	AMINE GUEDMIN	20	25	23	13	(31) DNF	22	23	157.00	126.00
27	GRE	GRE	Georgios Papadopoulos-Kouklakis	25	26	26	(29)	26	12	20	164.00	135.00
28	UAE	UAE	hamad al hamadi	27	21	(29)	27	27	21	27	179.00	150.00
29	COK	COK	Joshua Ioane	26	28	27	28	28	(29)	28	194.00	165.00
30	PNG	PNG	Teariki NUMA	28	29	28	(30)	29	30	30	204.00	174.00

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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