Sailing WS 470 World Championships 2021

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

Day 5 Results

 

Men's 470 (11 Races)

1. Dahlberg/Bergstrom - 46

2. Costa/Costa - 57

3. Xammar/Rodriguez - 64

4. Sozykin/Gribanov - 72

5. Mantis/Kagialis - 81

 

Olympic Qualifier

- 57 (Q)

- 108

- 113

- 128

- 132

- 167

- 201

 

Women's 470 (11 Races)

1. Mas/Cantero - 67

2. Zegers/Berkhout - 70

3. Berta/Caruso - 74

4. Mills/McIntyre - 80

5. Lecointre/Retornaz - 91

 

Olympic Qualifier

- 160 (Q)

- 172

- 229

[Makedonas 2,155]

So Bozi/Klonaridou lost their spot to Spanaki/Tsoulfa. Such a ridiculous decision by the Greek Sailing Federation. Tsoulfa may be a former Olympic gold medalist but that was in 2004. She is going to be 48 years old in Tokyo.

 

Bozi and Klonaridou won the quota place for us in 2018. They did very well over the last five years. They deserve to be in Tokyo. Spanaki/Tsoulfa came out of nowhere to "steal" their spot. This is so unfair.

 

At least Bozi and Klonaridou are young so they will have more chances to go to the Olympics but this is very disappointing. We haven't even qualified anyone in this event since Tsoulfa's gold in 2004. If she wanted to continue then she could've gone in Beijing, London or Rio. Now that we finally have a good young team in the women's 470, they don't get to go because of these dumb rules imposed by our federation.

 

 

Hopefully Mantis/Kagialis hold onto their place. We will know about them tomorrow.

[phelps 7,680]

very unexpected Bronze for the Italian duo Elena Berta/Bianca Caruso in the women's event...

 

they've been quite consistent through the entire week, but they almost threw it away in the medal race...

 

however, a double penalty for the British crew at the last mark and right on the finish line saved them from being overtaken in the final ranking by the same British duo...

 

that penalty also saved Spain's Gold medal in a dramatic sprint finish, because if the British women would have put themselves in between NED and ESP (which was going to happen without that last penalty), the Dutch women would have won the Gold medal by a single point...

 

unfortunately for them, the penalties against the Britons allowed the Spanish boat to end up right behind the Dutch crew in the medal race, which was enough to keep the Spaniards ahead by 1 point in the final overall ranking...

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

very unexpected Bronze for the Italian duo Elena Berta/Bianca Caruso in the women's event...

 

they've been quite consistent through the entire week, but they almost threw it away in the medal race...

 

however, a double penalty for the British crew at the last mark and right on the finish line saved them from being overtaken in the final ranking by the same British duo...

 

that penalty also saved Spain's Gold medal in a dramatic sprint finish, because if the British women would have put themselves in between NED and ESP (which was going to happen without that last penalty), the Dutch women would have won the Gold medal by a single point...

 

unfortunately for them, the penalties against the Britons allowed the Spanish boat to end up right behind the Dutch crew in the medal race, which was enough to keep the Spaniards ahead by 1 point in the final overall ranking...

Why unexpected? 4th in last world championship