Paris 2024: Busy day on Bay of Marseille

Marseille, France (August 2, 2024) – As the Men’s Skiff and Women’s Skiff events held their Medal Races, the sixth day at the Paris 2024 Olympics continued the competition for the Windsurfing and One Person Dinghy events, and began racing in the Mixed Two Person Dinghy event.

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Event details – Results – Notice Board

Men’s and Women’s Windsurfing:
For the second consecutive day, the winds of Marseille failed to provide enough punch to award medals. Yesterday it was the Skiffs that were skunked and today the Windsurfer events must wait until tomorrow to complete their Medal Series. To understand the competition format, click here.

North America Results:
Men:
7. Noah Lyons (USA)

Women:
13. Mariana Aguilar Chavez Peon (MEX)
22. Dominique Stater (USA)

Men’s and Women’s One Person Dinghy
After two more races today, Matt Wearn (AUS) and Marit Bouwmeester (NED) moved into the top spots of their fleets.

The reigning World Champion Wearn had a great start to the day, winning race three, and despite following that with an 18th, a discard kicked in to give the Australian a three-point advantage at the top of the standings.

Croatia’s Filip Jurisic closely followed in second, carried in large part by his first place finish in race four. Yesterday’s leader Stefano Peschiera has dropped down to third after enduring a slightly less profitable day with a 14-11.

Bouwmeester of the Netherlands is the only sailor in the ILCA 6 class to score in the top five in all three races so far, dominating today with a 1-2. The Rio 2016 gold medalist has mastered the Marseille wind early, but is only two points clear of France’s Louise Cervera who sits in second.

“I was very happy with my first races,” Bouwmeester said. “And then I got a yellow flag in the last one that was abandoned 20 seconds before the end, so that was a shame. But I’m happy with the results so far. I definitely have the same hunger. With a family at home it’s sort of important, but not the most important, so I feel a bit more comfortable this time.”

Cervera had an uncharacteristically off opening race today, finishing 24th, but she recovered well to take fourth in the subsequent race. Finland’s Monika Mikkola, who was 18th after the opening day of action, rallied well to pick up second and fifth on the water today, propelling her up to third overall.

North America Results:
Men
10. Juan Maegli (GUA)
34. Thad Lettsome (IVB)
36. Pedro Luis Fernandez Gamboa (PUR)

Women
17. Sarah Douglas (CAN)
20. Erika Reineke (USA)
26. Adriana Penruddocke (BER)
31. Elena Oetling Ramirez (MEX)
41. Charlotte Webster (CAY)

Mixed Two Person Dinghy
The latest class to launch was the 19 470 teams and Japan’s Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka made the most of their first outing, coming first and second to lead the fleet overall.

Reigning world champions Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman of Spain kept close to the leaders with fifth and sixth place finishes today.

Meanwhile, Germany’s Simon Diesch and Anna Markfort combined well on the water to edge into third, just a point off the Spanish crew.

North America Results:
18. Stuart McNay Lara Dallman-Weiss (USA)

Tomorrow:
The Windsurfer fleets will try again to hold their Medal Series to finalize results, while the Men’s and Women’s One Person Dinghy fleets have two and three races scheduled, respectively. The Mixed Two Person Dinghy has two races planned and racing for the Mixed Multihull gets underway with three races on the schedule.

Event details – Results – Notice Board

Source: World Sailing