Piotr Cichocki secures Sailing World Championships gold, Vilma Bobeck and also Rebecca Netzler in 49erFX medal opinion – Eurosport

Piotr Cichocki secured Men’s Hansa 303 gold at the Sailing World Championships, while the Women’s Hansa 303 is established for a thrilling ending inThe Hague

Three bullets for Cichocki made certain the Pole can not be captured with simply one race ahead, while his compatriot and also training companion Olga Gornas-Grudzien has the opportunity to match him onWednesday

Elsewhere, Vilma Bobeck and also Rebecca Netzler have actually placed themselves in a solid placement to assert the 49erFX title prior to the medal race, while Maximilian Maeder put down a pen in theFormula Kite Men

Piotr Cichocki (POL) has actually just completed outside the leading 2 in the Men’s Hansa 303 when all regatta, and also 3 bullets sufficed to guarantee that he can not be captured with one race to go.

Cichocki has actually currently won 6 of the 9 races to day, with his nine-point benefit over Takumi Niwa (JPN) sufficient to assure gold.

“This regatta is super, we’ve had super wind, super weather, super organisation, everything is super, and I am super!” Cichocki joked after his win.

Niwa has a 13-point barrier of his very own in advance of Wednesday’s ending, implying that he will certainly leave from the Netherlands with silver, while Joao Pinto (POR) and also Jens Kroker (GER) will certainly fight for bronze.

Cichocki was not the only seafarer in Braassemermeer that had the opportunity to secure gold, yet the Women’s Hansa 303 will certainly currently drop to the cable.

Betsy Alison (USA) held a three-point lead entering into the day, yet a sixth-place coating in the initial race unlocked to Olga Gornas-Grudzien

Gornas Grudzien (POL) capitalized by completing 2nd because race in the past Alison reacted with 2 bullets.

That leaves the American one factor clear on 14 factors with one race to visit choose the champ, while Alison Weatherly (AUS), Violeta del Reino del Valle (ESP) and also Valia Galdi (ITA) are all still in the quest for bronze.

Two days right into the Formula Kite Men and also Singaporean 16-year-old Maximilian Maeder is meeting his undisputed possibility with 3 even more bullets and also a 2nd location as he controls the yellow fleet.

That suffices for a one-point lead over the male that defeated him to gold a year ago in Cagliari, Toni Vodisek (SLO) in heaven fleet, while Axel Mazella rests 3rd, 3 factors even more back.

And while Maeder confesses that he needed to ride his good luck on the initial day of competitors, it was an entirely various tale on day 2 as he constantly remained free from the area.

He stated: “It really doesn’t get much better.

“The conditions were much, much steadier [than Monday] and it was much more a measure of skill in your riding rather than your tactical prowess and your ability to read the wind along with some good luck.

Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler (SWE) are primed to wrap up gold ahead of the medal race in the 49erFX, although struggles in the final race of the day ensured they still have some work to do.

The Swedish duo, who have been in impressive form all regatta despite far from ideal preparation, finished second and third in the first two races of the day, before a 19th place in the final race of the gold fleet.

Even with that setback, they sit on 19 points, 36 clear of nearest rivals Olivia Price and Evie Haseldine (AUS).

As a result, even with double points in the medal race, the Swedes could secure an unassailable lead with a strong showing in the last three qualification races.

While there is a clear leader in the 49erFX, that is certainly not the case in the 49er, where James Peters and Fynn Sterritt (GBR) have roared back into contention.

After winning the only race in the red fleet on Sunday, the pair won the first two races in the gold fleet and despite struggling in the last, they are up to third overall on 46 points.

Sterritt said: “We had two amazing races, two firsts, and a bit of a disappointing one in the last one. We’ve had a really consistent series up until this point so we managed to drop that one and we are right on the tails of the top two boats so overall, a really good day.”

The top two are split by just 0.2 points after 12 races, Diego Botin and Jan Trittel (ESP), on 39.8 points, with reigning champions Bart Lambriex and Floris van der Werken (NED) just behind them on 40 in what is currently a reverse of last year’s gold and silver.

Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka (JPN) underlined their status as the top crew in the Mixed 470 as they took victory in the last race of the day.

That win, combined with an 18th place for Simon Diesch and Anna Markfort (GER) meant that the Japanese pair have a 24-point lead through eight races, with three more races scheduled for Wednesday ahead of the medal race.

Okada said: “We need to keep pushing hard and we should be champions. I think it will not be easy though.”

Joining Okada and Yoshioka on the provisional podium are compatriots Tetsuya Isozaki and Yurie Seki, but while there is a big lead at the top, just 11 points separate the teams in second and seventh with plenty still left to play for.

Paris Test Event champion Lauriane Nolot is back on top in the Formula Kite Women, but has a huge British contingent chasing her down.

The Frenchwoman won four of five races in the yellow fleet to surge into top spot on eight points, with Ellie Aldridge (GBR), who finished second to Nolot in Marseille, two points back.

Aldridge is one of four Brits in the top six with Lily Young third on 12 points, while Katie Dabson and Madeleine Anderson are fifth and sixth respectively.

Daniela Moroz (USA), who has won six successive world titles in the discipline, finds herself with work to do, sitting ninth overall.

Emma Wilson made a strong start to proceedings in the iQFOiL Women, with a bullet in the fourth race and finishing inside the top four in each of the five heats to sit first overall.

The Brit has a two-point lead over 2021 world champion Helene Noesmoen (FRA), who finished the day by taking the last two races in the yellow fleet.

Wilson, the Olympic bronze medallist, leads the way however, impressing in the yellow fleet, with China’s Zheng Yan starting and finishing strongly as she won the first and fifth races to sit third.

Nicolo Renna (ITA) finished with two bullets in the iQFOiL Men to move up to second overall but hometown hero Luuc van Opzeeland is the man to beat as it stands.

The Dutchman sits on 14 points, four clear of Renna, while defending champion Sebastian Kordel (GER) is now third.

While it is still very early in the competition, Van Opzeeland is currently on course to complete the full set of World Championship medals, having won bronze in 2021 before silver last year in Brest.

On a day where the conditions made it tricky for the ILCA 7 sailors to race, Micky Beckett (GBR) took the limited opportunities that came his way and now sits top of the leaderboard after four races.

Finishing third and then second in the blue fleet, Beckett has a one-point lead over Pavlos Kontides (CYP) at this early stage, while Philipp Buhl (GER) is third after winning the second race of the day in the yellow fleet.

Ange Margaron and Olivier Ducruix (FRA) had already clinched gold in the RS Venture Connect and the first gold medal of the Allianz Sailing World Championships, but silver and bronze have not yet been decided.

There was just one race in the class on Tuesday, with Pau Homar Munar and Ramos Gutierrez Alcantara (ESP) taking it in the blue fleet to stay in podium contention.

They edged out Pedro Reis and Guilherme Ribeiro (POR), who will need to wait another day to secure silver, sitting two points clear of John McRoberts and Scott Lutes (CAN), who in turn have a two-point lead on the Spanish pair.