Wilmot and Page on target for 470 World title

by Di Pearson on 28 Aug 2005 Australia’s Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page are on target to win their second 470 World title in succession at the St. Francis Yacht Club hosted event in San Francisco, USA.

Following further racing overnight, in which the pair scored a win and a second place, Wilmot and Page have a 28 point lead over their nearest rivals, Nick Rogers/Joe Glanfield (GBR), with current third placed overall Gildas Philippe/Nicolas Leberre a further three points behind.

Mathew Belcher/Nick Behrens (AUS) are also having a great run in fifth place overall, two points behind Portugal’s Alvaro Marinho/Miguel Nunes and with some hard work and only one day remaining, could reach a podium finish.

Women’s World no. 1 ranked pairing, Ingrid Petitjean/Nadege Douroux (FRA) have worked their way to the top of the leaderboard, with 2-1 results, overtaking yesterday’s leaders, Marcelien de Koning/Lobke Berkhout (NED) who have slid down to third place, while Christina Bassadone/Saskia Clark (GBR) have moved up one place into second place with a win and a second place.

Australia’s top two ranked pairs, Elise Rechichi/Tessa Parkinson and Lauren Jeffries/Rike Ziegelmayer are 11th and 13th placed respectively.

Racing finishes Sunday San Francisco time.


Provisional top five Men’s Gold results after 12 races:

1 AUS 311 Nathan Wilmot Malcolm Page Gold 2 1 *8 1 1 1 2 4 1 *11 1 2 16

2 GBR 817 Nick Rogers Joe Glanfield Gold 7 3 *11 1 2 6 1 8 10 *12 2 4 44

3 FRA 2588 Gildas Philippe Nicolas Leberre Gold 1 4 14 2 2 6 3 7 *DSQ 3 *18 5 47

4 POR 22 Alvaro Marinho Miguel Nunes Gold *12 3 6 7 3 3 8 9 7 7 3 *11 56

5 AUS 351 Mathew Belcher Nick Behrens Gold 8 1 3 11 4 10 4 *12 3 8 6 *19 58

Provisional top five Women’s results after 12 races:

1 FRA 2644 Ingrid Petitjean Nadege Douroux *11 *15 6 6 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 26

2 GBR 819 Christina Bassadone Saskia Clark 3 2 3 5 4 4 *21 *12 1 3 1 2 28

3 NED 11 Marcelien de Koning Lobke Berkhout 1 1 1 4 6 1 3 3 5 4 *23 *8 29

4 CZE 1 Lenka Smidova Elizabeth Kratzig 4 *12 2 3 3 6 6 1 3 *20 10 3 41

5 ISR 10 Nike Kornecki Vered Bouskila 10 *OCS 10 1 2 5 1 *15 4 1 7 11 52

*11 AUS 357 Elise Rechichi Tessa Parkinson *25 5 13 2 12 13 16 11 8 11 *OCS 10 101

*13 AUS 346 Lauren Jeffries Rike Ziegelmayer 5 9 *24 16 13 19 *24 13 14 13 12 12 126


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