London Olympics 2012 – 470 Champions return to top
by Rob Kothe on 4 Aug 2012
Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS) competing today, 03.08.12, in the Men’s Two Person Dinghy (470) event in The London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition. onEdition
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London Olympics 2012 day 2 of competition for Mens 470 class.
Australia’s Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page have dominated the Mens 470 Class (dual mends dinghy) for the last 12 months and are strong favourites to win an Olympic Gold medal.
They have set very high standards for themselves. Yesterday they were angry for what they called 'a school boy error', a costly port starboard which meant they recorded a ninth. But today they bounced back with a 2,1 result.
Just out of the boat park they were both smiling.
Malcolm Page was relieved. 'Certainly we were back in our groove. Back in our style today. Our downwind speed was good so we were saving ourselves and fighting for the inches when it mattered.
‘Today it was nice to be fighting out in the front. It was really close with our British guys.
'I think we changed the lead a bunch of times throughout both races. In Aussie fashion and fighting spirit we fought hard and it is just nice to come away with good results.
'We are lucky to have Victor (Kovalenko), with us now you couldn’t ask for any more. He is the most experienced. He is the best coach in the world and he has proven that.'
Mat expanded on conversations. 'We have high expectations, maybe a little too high in the sense that we are overall fourth yesterday. We are pretty hard on ourselves and we expect a lot.
'It’s nice today that we have come out to prove that and we will go tomorrow and do the same.
'The Brits (Patience and Bithell) are going very well but we are not looking at point scores at the moment. We have just got to worry about ourselves. We are only four races in of 11. It is a long road ahead.
'’They are great sailors. They are great guys. Hey we can only sail our boat. We can’t sail their boat so we have just got to keep concentrating on ourselves at the start and worry about the wind shifts and then worry about the tacks and the gybes as the race builds. It is too early to start playing the points game.'
Results to date:
1 |
GBR |
Luke Patience
Stuart Bithell
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2
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1
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4
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2
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9.0 |
9.0 |
2 |
AUS |
Mathew Belcher
Malcolm Page
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3
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9
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2
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1
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15.0 |
15.0 |
3 |
AUT |
Matthias Schmid
Florian Reichsteaedter
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1
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4
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7
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19
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31.0 |
31.0 |
4 |
SWE |
Anton Dahlberg
Sebastian Östling
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4
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6
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8
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14
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32.0 |
32.0 |
5 |
POR |
Álvaro Marinho
Miguel Nunes
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12
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2
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16
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5
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35.0 |
35.0 |
6 |
FRA |
Pierre Leboucher
Vincent Garos
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9
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10
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11
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6
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36.0 |
36.0 |
7 |
NED |
Sven Coster
Kalle Coster
|
8
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5
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19
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7
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39.0 |
39.0 |
8 |
NZL |
Paul Snow-Hansen
Jason Saunders
|
28
DSQ |
3
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5
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4
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40.0 |
40.0 |
9 |
ITA |
Gabrio Zandonã
Pietro Zucchetti
|
6
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26
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1
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8
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41.0 |
41.0 |
10 |
ARG |
Lucas Calabrese
Juan de la Fuente
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5
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24
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3
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9
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41.0 |
41.0 |
11 |
USA |
Stuart Mcnay
Graham Biehl
|
15
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22
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10
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3
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50.0 |
50.0 |
12 |
ESP |
Onan Barreiros
Aaron Sarmiento
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7
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8
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12
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27
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54.0 |
54.0 |
13 |
GRE |
Kampo Kampouridis
Efstathios Papadopoulos
|
14
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7
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20
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15
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56.0 |
56.0 |
14 |
ISR |
Gideon Kliger
Eran Sela
|
17
|
11
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17
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11
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56.0 |
56.0 |
15 |
GER |
Ferdinand Gerz
Patrick Follmann
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13
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17
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13
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16
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59.0 |
59.0 |
16 |
CRO |
Sime Fantela
Igor Marenic
|
28
DSQ |
13
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9
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10
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60.0 |
60.0 |
17 |
RUS |
Mikhail Sheremetyev
Maxim Sheremetyev
|
21
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18
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14
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13
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66.0 |
66.0 |
18 |
CHN |
Weidong Wang
Daokun Deng
|
20
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15
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6
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26
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67.0 |
67.0 |
19 |
SUI |
Yannick Brauchli
Romuald Hausser
|
11
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16
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18
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22
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67.0 |
67.0 |
20 |
JPN |
Ryunosuke Harada
Yuugo Yoshida
|
19
|
12
|
25
|
12
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68.0 |
68.0 |
21 |
KOR |
Gunwoo Park
SungMin CHO
|
23
|
14
|
15
|
24
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76.0 |
76.0 |
22 |
TUR |
Deniz Cinar
Ates Cinar
|
10
|
23
|
26
|
18
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77.0 |
77.0 |
23 |
FIN |
Joonas Lindgren
Niklas Lindgren
|
22
|
19
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22
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17
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80.0 |
80.0 |
24 |
CAN |
Luke Ramsay
Michael Leigh
|
24
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20
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21
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21
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86.0 |
86.0 |
25 |
IRL |
Ger Owens
Scott Flanigan
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16
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25
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24
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25
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90.0 |
90.0 |
26 |
RSA |
Jim Asenathi
Roger Hudson
|
18
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27
|
27
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20
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92.0 |
92.0 |
27 |
CHI |
Benjamin Grez
Diego Gonzalez
|
25
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21
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23
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23
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92.0 |
92.0 |
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