Marseille, France (August 2, 2024) – As the men’s and women’s single sculls held their medal races, day six of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games continued competition in the windsurfing and single-seater dinghy events, and began racing in the mixed double-seater dinghy event.
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Event Details – Results – Scoreboard
Windsurfing men and women:
For the second day in a row, the winds in Marseille were not strong enough to award medals. Yesterday, it was the skiffs that were beaten and today, the windsurfing events must wait until tomorrow to finalize 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 (United States)
Single-seater dinghy for men and women
After two more races today, Matt Wearn (AUS) and Marit Bouwmeester (NED) took the top positions in their fleets.
Reigning world champion Wearn made a great start to the day by winning race three, and despite finishing 18th, a gap was formed to give the Australian a three-point lead at the top of the standings.
Croatian Filip Jurisic follows closely in second, buoyed largely by his first place in race four. The previous day’s leader, Stefano Peschiera, drops to third after a slightly less profitable day with a 14-11.
Bouwmeester of the Netherlands is the only ILCA 6 class sailor to have finished in the top five in all three races so far, dominating today with a one-two finish. The Rio 2016 gold medallist mastered the wind in Marseille from the start but is only two points ahead of second-placed Louise Cervera of France.
“I was very happy with my first races,” said Bouwmeester. “And then I got a yellow flag in the last race that was abandoned 20 seconds before the end, that was a shame. But I am happy with the results so far. I definitely have the same desire. With a family at home, it is somehow important, but not the most important, so I feel a bit more comfortable this time.”
Cervera had an unusual first race today, finishing 24th, but she recovered well to take fourth in the following race. Finland’s Monika Mikkola, who was 18th after the first day of action, recovered well to take second and fifth on the water today, propelling her 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)
Two-seater mixed dinghy
The last class to be launched was the 19,470 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 remained close to the leaders with fifth and sixth places today.
Meanwhile, Germany’s Simon Diesch and Anna Markfort combined their efforts well on the water to move up to third place, just one point behind the Spanish crew.
North America Results:
18. Stuart McNay Lara Dallman-Weiss (USA)
Tomorrow:
The windsurfing fleets will again attempt to stage their Medal Series to finalise their results, while the men’s and women’s single-seater dinghy fleets have two and three races scheduled respectively. The mixed two-seater dinghy has two races scheduled and the mixed multihull races begin with three races scheduled.
Event Details – Results – Scoreboard
Source: World Sailing
