Hyères Demands Patience Before the Mistral with Sunset Finish
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Here is a guide to waiting by Belgium’s two-time World Champion, Emma Plasschaert: 1. Try not to think about sailing too much “I mean, I’m still trying to like improve on this as well,” Plasschaert confessed. “But I guess having an an on-switch and an off-switch, which you can like really flick and then the moment where the postponement goes down and then, you have a second moment maybe when you put your boat in the water or when you actually are on the water and see the orange flag go up. Really try to differentiate between the two switches. One is don’t waste energy, the other one is focus.” On top of those sound recommendations, Germany’s Anna Markfort (470) was trialling her version of retail therapy. “I’m actually trying out something new as well,” Markfort said. “I brought my noise cancelling headphones today, and I spent half of the time looking at a new road bike that I might buy. And it worked! Just research today. It’s a reward! We’ll see if the week is enough or if it’s the year.” It worked, Simon Diesch & Anna Markfort finally extended their lead when they finally got out on the water yesterday. |
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ILCA 6 and 7 – (women’s & men’s solo dinghy) ILCA 6 Denmark’s Anna Munch took the overall lead outright after making it a perfect two days by adding a win in the only race of the day in yellow group, after her two yesterday in blue group. In blue group USA’s Charlotte Rose stays second overall after finishing third behind her training partner Belgium’s Emma Plasschaert. Italy’s Emma Mativi beat them both to move into fourth place. Charlotte Rose (USA): “I think we tag-teamed the whole race. I think we got off the line quite well and then another Italian girl. We kind of all like, played mixed up throughout the entire race, but Emma finished second and Emma from Italy, I think, finished first It’s just connecting pressure and staying in clean air and – it sounds easier than it is! I’m super excited, I hear it’s mistral tomorrow and I really like breeze, and three races, so game on!” Emma Plasschaert (BEL): “I think we tag-teamed the whole race. I think we got off the line quite well and then just kind of like, pretty took the same lines both up and down.I’m just looking to have a nice regatta. This year for me is it’s about getting back into the boat, I haven’t sailed for quite some time after the (Olympic) Games and I’m looking to execute well, trying to work on some of my less strong points and in the process really have fun, enjoy racing, just have fun with it.” |
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Anna Markfort (GER): “We’re quite happy with the day, super solid. There was one boat that did an even better job than us today, France 7, I think, but yeah, super solid, second and third. Two keepers.” “When we towed out it looked like absolutely nothing, and then it took a little while to finally fill in. And we would have expected it to fill in properly, but during the race, it was just starting to decrease again, so we had the shortening of the course, on the second upwind, which was, I think, super good race management.” “And then in the second race, we had to wait for quite a long time to get that started as it went super glassy. But eventually the wind filled in like forecast said. And yes tomorrow, We’ll take a bit of mistral!” Lucie de Gennes (FRA): “We started with a long wait on land, then it was a first race in very light winds with less than 6 knots. We got off to a bad start, but we ended up catching up. We got off to a very good start in the second race and finished fourth, so it was a day saved, especially since these aren’t the conditions we prefer. We’re happy. It’s rare to have so many boats on the same line, usually there are two fleets, so you have to know how to get off to a good start and then get away as quickly as possible.” |
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Nacra 17 (mixed double-handed catamaran) The Nacra 17s were last back in the boat park just before 20:00. Italy’s duo of Gianluigi Ugolini & Maria Giubilei underlined their class by winning the first and third races of the day and finishing second in the second to consolidate their overnight lead. Austria’s Laura Farese & Matthäus Zöchling continued their battle in the first race of the day, finishing second, but were then 13th and 7th. It was enough to hold onto second place overall ahead of the Dutch duo of Willemijn Offerman & Scipio Houtman, who won the second race. Ominously for them, Britain’s John Gimson & Anna Burnett, winners in Palma and one of the favourites, shifted up a gear and finished 3, 4, 2 for the day to move into fourth place. 49er (men’s and women’s double-handed skiff) On a day of very varied results through the fleet, Belgium’s Isaura Maenhaut & Anouk Geerts won two of the three races to extend their overall lead. After finishing the second race in 22nd place, their day was in the balance, but the second victory gives them a nine-point advantage and all their rivals have similarly large discards. Spain’s Patricia Suarez Gonzalez & Melania Henke Riera are second overall. They won the second race, but could only manage 19th in the third. USA’s Paris Henken & Helena Scutt were second in the second race, but also lost contact in the third, finishing 18th. Men’s 49er (67 entries) |
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iQFOiL (men’s & women’s windsurfing) Men (76 entries) Grae Morris, Australia’s Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist kept his lead across the two groups, by winning yellow group’s only race of the day. Poland’s Pawel Tarnowski and France’s Clément Bourgeois both took third paces to stay in second and third overall respectively. |
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Formula Kite (men’s and women’s kite) China’s Wan Li won the only race of the day to move to the top of the leaderboard above Britain’s Lily Young, who was seventh. Poland’s Izabela Satrjan finished second to stay in third place overall. France’s Lauriane Nolot was third and moved up a place into sixth. Men (60 entries) With the fleet of 60 racers split into two groups, Italy’s leader Riccardo Pianosi, was equally dominant after being switched to the yellow group, winning their only race of the day. Likewise, for the 18-year-old Singaporean, Maxim |
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