Hyeres Final Day  - text updates 

 

Published: 06/07/2008
 
Text updates from the final day on the Hyeres race courses

(Timings are local - all results provisional)

1646: 470 Men
Result - Nic Asher and Elliot Willis go OCS in the medal race, finishing 9th overall

1631: RS:X Women and 470 Women
Light winds put an end to racing for the day - the RS:X Women and 470 Women's fleets are cancelled

1449: Finn
Result - Ed Wright ends the regatta in style, with a bullet in the medal race.  He takes gold for Skandia Team GBR 23 points clear of the Croatian sailor in second

1440: Yngling
Result - a 6th in the medal is enough to hand Ayton's team a silver.  Haberland-Lush-Macgregor cross the start early and have to turn back, finishing eighth from the medal race and fourth overall, on equal points with the German bronze medallists

1427: 2.4mR
Race 9 - a bullet for Helena Lucas

1404: 49er
Result - a silver for Morrison-Rhodes, who finish the medal race in second.  Draper-Hiscocks cross in 5th to finish 6th overall

1315: 49er
Medal race gets underway

1313: 2.4mR
After a slow start waiting the shore, the 2.4mR first race gets underway

1030:  Schedule for Friday's final races:
North course:
1200 - Yngling
1245 - Laser
1330 - Laser Radial
1415 - 470 Men
1500 - 470 Women

South course:
1215 - 49er
1300 - Finn
1345 - Tornado
1430 - RS:X Men
1515 - RS:X Women

Foxtrot
1200 - 2.4mR