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very good day of non-racing for finally we got a full set of quota places in the Wind- and Kitesurf events, with 1 medal already mathematically in our pocket and 2 more chances to improve our ranking and if no tsunami happens, also in the ILCA 6 and 7 tomorrow we should add 2 more quota places, making the final score of our team very good and fully compliant with the early expectations, even if some success came unexpected (the ILCAs) and some fails came where it shouldn't have happened (the mixed 470 and the women's 49er FX).

women's Windsurf (iQFoiL), 11 quota places available, sailors qualified to the Medal Races 1. Emma Wilson (advances straight to the Final, medal assured) 2. Shahar Tibi (advances to the Semifinal) 3. Katy Spichakov (advances to the Semifinal) Surfers qualified to the Quarterfinal: Marta Maggetti Sharon Kantor Yan Zheng Mina Mobekk Helene Noesmoen Tamar Steinberg Mariana Aguilar Chavez Peon with already qualified as Host Nation, the 11 Olympic Quota Place go to

men's Windsurf (iQFoiL), 11 quota places available, sailors qualified to the Medal Races 1. Nicolò Renna (advances straight to the Final, medal assured) 2. Sebastian Koerdel (advances to the Semifinal) 3. Luuc Van Opzeeland (advances to the Semifinal) Surfers qualified to the Quarterfinal: Grae Morris Nimrod Mashiah Louis Pignolet Thomas Goyard Josh Armit Luca Di Tomassi Sam Sills with already qualified as Host Nation, the 11 Olympic Quota Place go to

women's Kitesurf, 8 quota places available, sailors qualified to the Medal Races 1. Lauriane Nolot (advances straight to the Final with 2 "ghost wins") 2. Eleanor Aldridge (advances straight to the Final with 1 "ghost win") 3. Lily Young 4. Daniela Moroz 5. Katie Dabson 6. Annelous Lammerts 7. Chen Jingyue 8. Madeleine Anderson 9. Poema Newland 10. Li Wan Semifinal A: ( 2 "ghost wins", 1 "ghost win") Semifinal B: ( 2 "ghost wins", 1 "ghost win") with already qualified as Host Nation, the 8 Olympic Quota Place go to

men's Kitesurf, 8 quota places available, sailors qualified to the Medal Races 1. Toni Vodisek (advances straight to the Final with 2 "ghost wins") 2. Maximilian Maeder (advances straight to the Final with 1 "ghost win") 3. Riccardo Pianosi 4. Axel Mazella 5. Denis Taradin 6. Valentin Bontus 7. Huang Qibin 8. Martin Dolenc 9. Bruno Lobo 10. Benoit Gomez Semifinal A: ( 2 "ghost wins", 1 "ghost win") Semifinal B: ( 2 "ghost wins", 1 "ghost win") with already qualified as Host Nation, the remaining 8 surfers qualified to the Medal races also earned an Olympic Quota Place

it's the same as scheduled originally medal races for iQFoiL and Kite and final preliminary races for ILCA classes (their medal races will be on Sunday) quota places for iQFoiL and Kite are decided after yesterday's races

mixed Team 10m Air Pistol Gold: India 2 (Esha Singh & Shiva Narwal) Silver: Turkey 1 (Sevval Ilayda Tarhan & Ismail Keles) Bronze: China 1 (Jiang Ranxin & Zhang Bowen) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18318

women's Individual Skeet Gold: Danka Bartekova Silver: Dania Jo Vizzi Bronze: Emmanouela Katzouraki Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the shooters): Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18329

Danka! @hckošice

no wind today...all the boats still ashore hopefully, sooner or later they can stage at least the 2 medal races scheduled for today, but it's more and more unlikely

yes, as I explained in the world cup thread, all the shooting competitions got back to the same format ISSF used until Tokyo 2020

won the team title ahead of and

so, Emmanouela Katzouraki, Danka Bartekova, Dania Jo Vizzi and Austen Jewell Smith are qualified to the Final meanwhile Francisca Chadid Crovetto, Martina Bartolomei, Sena Can and Samantha Simonton are qualified to the shoot-off for the last 2 places in the Final

meanwhile, in the women's Skeet, the preliminary stage is coming to a conclusion so far, Emmanouela Katzouraki, Danka Bartekova, Dania Jo Vizzi are sure to make the Final Austen Jewell Smith and Vanesa Hockova still have to shoot their last series and with a clean sheet, they would also make the Final with 24/25 they would enter a big shoot-off, which Francisca Chadid Crovetto, Martina Bartolomei, Sena Can and Samantha Simonton are already qualified to

5th event, 5th gold medal for but guys! we have some great news for the rest of the world...event no.6 won't finish with a Chinese gold medal! mixed team air pistol GMM, in fact, will feature and (but don't worry, are still in the BMM, most likely they won't come home empty handed even in this event )

mixed Team 10m Air Rifle Gold: China 1 (Huang Yuting & Sheng Lihao) Silver: Iran 1 (Shermineh Chehel Amirani & Amir Nekounam) Bronze: France 1 (Oceanne Muller & Romain Aufrere) Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18315

no, unlike in 2020, this time there's no specific qualification event for the team competitions it's simply a matter of qualifying at least 1 man and 1 woman individually

it should be the 1st straight to the final (so, medal assured), then 2nd and 3rd to the semis and 4th through 10th to the quarters there are still 6 races (all tomorrow) in the qualifying stage before we know who's progressing to the medal races and who's not

Aurora Russo won the gold medal in the women's -59kg class! she completed the double with the European title she won just a month ago in Tirana on her route to the gold medal she won clearly very tough matches vs , so it's not that she didn't face people from the usual women's wrestling powerhouses maybe it's time we've found a truly promising wrestler who might have a quick and winning transition from junior to senior ranks

yeah, right now there's quite a big difference between the top 2 crews (3 if we consider also Ugolini & Giubilei, who didn't go as well as expected here, but they're ranked no.2 in the WR) and the rest of the world

no, that's even more complicated, there should be 3 medal rounds with single races (with the final being a 3-sailor race deciding only the colour of the medals)

if they use the same format of the world cup races: the top 2 of the ranking advance directly to the finals, while the remaining 8 surfers are divided into 2 4-man heats "semifinal round" according to the serpentine system (3rd/6th/7th and 10th in one heat, 4th/5th/8th and 9th in the other heat) the best ranked surfer in each heat starts with 2 "ghost wins", the 2nd best with 1 and the other 2 surfers with 0 the first to 3 wins in each semifinal group advances to the final round, which has the same format (the no.1 of the qualification races starts with 2 "ghost wins", the 2nd with 1 and the 2 surfers coming from the semis with 0. once again, the first to 3 wins gets the gold medal, then silver and bronze are awarded to the surfers with more wins in the final round and, if tied, the actual result of the last race counts for the final positions)

mixed Dinghy (470) Gold: Keiju Okada & Miho Yoshioka Silver: Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Nora Brugman Cabot Bronze: Tetsuya Isozaki & Yurie Seki Full Result https://worlds2023.sapsailing.com/gwt/Home.html#/regatta/leaderboard/:eventId=03b11a50-8446-43e9-878c-6cb60dc75715&regattaId=Worlds 2023 - Mixed Dinghy

so, end of day #1 quick summary: 4 competitions, 4 gold medals for that's all, folks!

women's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Jiang Ranxin Silver: Anna Korakaki Bronze: Li Xue Olympic Quota Places (to the NOCs, NOT to the shooters): Full Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=18303