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Rio Olympics – Charline Picon wins gold in Women's Windsurfer

by Andy Rice - World Sailing on 14 Aug 2016
Charline relief - Women's Windsurfer (RS:X) - Rio Olympics World Sailing
Rio 2016 – Charline Picon (FRA) has won gold in the Women's Windsurfer (RS:X) after the most tense and exciting Medal Race ever seen in Olympic sailing.

Of the ten competitors in the double-points final, seven had a shot at gold. Picon started badly but moved through to second by the first mark. Meanwhile Peina Chen (CHN) had another gear downwind and shot up from sixth to second by the bottom of the first lap. China looked set to take the gold from France, but Picon held on in the light winds to the finish to secure the Olympic title, with Chen settling for silver. Lillian de Geus (NED) sailed an excellent Medal Race to cross the line in first place just in front of Picon, and had an anxious wait to see if she had done enough for bronze.

Stefaniya Elfutina (RUS) had a shocking start, being given a double penalty turn for infringing Bryony Shaw (GBR) at the start line. But the 19-year-old Russian rallied to seventh place and just edged out Lillian de Geus (NED) for the bronze.




Rs:X - Women - Overall results

 

Pos

NOC

Crew

Race

Points

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

MR

Total

Net

1

FRA

Charline Picon

1

2

1

4

5

10

5

11

8

(27)
UFD

3

10

4

91

64

2

CHN

Peina Chen

9

11

11

(15)

7

1

4

10

4

1

1

1

6

81

66

3

RUS

Stefania Elfutina

2

5

3

6

2

9

8

4

6

3

(16)

7

14

85

69

4

NED

Lilian De Geus

3

4

14

3

3

7

15

(19)

5

2

7

5

2

89

70

5

ESP

Marina Alabau Neira

8

7

2

8

6

8

7

2

1

(27)
DSQ

9

3

10

98

71

6

ITA

Flavia Tartaglini

(12)

1

5

1

1

4

1

12

10

9

5

6

16

83

71

7

ISR

Maayan Davidovich

5

6

6

11

4

3

2

(15)

14

5

2

2

18

93

78

8

BRA

Patricia Freitas

6

8

4

2

13

(16)

10

1

3

8

8

9

8

96

80

9

GBR

Bryony Shaw

7

(20)

9

7

14

12

3

5

2

4

4

4

12

103

83

10

FIN

Tuuli Petäjä-Sirén

4

9

8

5

9

5

(27)
DNF

3

12

10

6

8

20

126

99

11

EST

Ingrid Puusta

(18)

13

12

10

8

11

9

18

7

16

14

14

 

150

132

12

NOR

Maria Mollestad

14

10

(20)

14

18

20

14

6

11

6

17

11

 

161

141

13

MEX

Demita Vega de Lille

11

18

18

9

10

17

(27)
DNF

8

13

17

11

15

 

174

147

14

POL

Malgorzata Bialecka

13

21

13

23

12

6

(27)
DNF

14

9

11

13

18

 

180

153

15

DEN

Laerke Buhl-Hansen

17

16

17

20

16

13

12

9

(21)

12

10

12

 

175

154

16

USA

Marion Lepert

10

3

10

13

12.9
RDG

23

6

23

15

(27)
UFD

19

22

 

183.9

156.9

17

HKG

Sonia Lo

15

15

15

16

19

(22)

11

17

17

7

12

13

 

179

157

18

THA

Siripon Kaewduang-Ngam

19

23

22

18

11

2

(27)
DNF

7

18

14

15

17

 

193

166

19

GRE

Angeliki Skarlatou

16

17

7

12

17

15

(27)
DNF

20

16

15

20

16

 

198

171

20

JPN

Megumi Iseda

23

22

19

22

15

14

(27)
DNF

13

19

13

18

20

 

225

198

21

ARG

Maria Tejerina Mackern

21

12

16

17

21

19

16

16

24

(27)
DNF

23

21

 

233

206

22

TUR

Dilara Uralp

20

19

23

24

20

21

(27)
DNF

21

20

19

24

19

 

257

230

23

HUN

Sara Cholnoky

22

14

21

19

23

24

13

22

25

(27)
DNF

25

27
DNF

 

262

235

24

LAT

Ketija Birzule

24

24

(27)
DNF

21

24

26

27
DNF

25

23

18

21

23

 

283

256

25

SIN

Audrey Yong

25

25

24

25

22

18

(27)
DNF

24

22

27
DNC

27
DNC

27
DNC

 

293

266

26

ALG

KATIA BELABBAS

(27)
DNF

27
DNF

27
DNF

27
DNF

27
DNF

25

27
DNF

27
DNF

27
DNF

27
DNF

22

27
DNF

 

317

290

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