Enjoying a big lead after the last race sailed on Thursday, Mitch Booth and Herbert Dercksen had already packed their Tornado to go home. Siren Sundby who only had to secure her lead in today’s first race, didn’t have to sail the last one scheduled for the Europe. Same situation for the British trio in the Yngling class: Shirley Robertson, Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb did a round of honour in the last race before heading back to the harbour.

It wasn’t such a simple matter in the other classes where the places for the podium were disputed until the last race. In the 470 women, the French girls were on equal points with the British team going into the 10th and last race. Ingrid Petitjean and Nadege Douroux from Marseille placed 5th to take the title from Christina Bassadone and Katherine Hopson (GBR). A win in the last race brought the Spanish team of Dufresne/Azon to 3rd overall. In the Men’s division, it is another victory for the French team with Benjamin and Romain Bonnaud stealing the regatta title from Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield now in third position. Despite a win on the last race, the Portuguese Marinho Alvaro and Miguel Nunes have to settle for Silver.

In the 2.4, the last race wasn’t enough to separate regatta leader Thierry Schmitter from Daniel Seguin. The Dutch who collected 4 victories this week, won the regatta on count back and won his ticket for Athens. The French is in second position, in front of Allan Smith who is in a good position to win the Olympic selection for Great Britain. Decision will be taken by a selection committee panel next week in England.

There are only 3 points between the top 4 in the Mistral Women. Amelie Lux (GER), in 5th place this morning accedes to 3rd place after winning today both races. Olga Maslivets (UKR) was able to conserve the lead of the regatta, only 1 point ahead of Pauline Perrin (FRA).

The Mistral Men is won by French Fabrice Hassen who overcame the New-Zealander Tom Ashlet by winning the last race of the Championship. Joao Rodrigues remains in 3rd position.

In the 49er, the Sibello brothers conserved their lead to win the event from two Spanish crews. Padron/De la Plaza and Paez/de Bricio realized a good day to grab Silver and Bronze with only a point between them.

Emilios Papathanasiou sailing under GRE 7, increased his lead in the Finn class to 41 points over young Croatian, Marin Misura. Rafael Trujillo from Spain climbed to third after suffering from the light conditions earlier this week.

Robert Scheidt continued today on his impressive record. He placed in the top 4 in every race to win the regatta with a 10 points lead over Andreas Geritzer from Austria and Paul Goodison (GBR).

In the Europe class, the countries who have qualified for the Olympic Games are (upon ISAF confirmation): Italy, Argentina, Sweden, Portugal and Japan.

A total of 16 countries are sharing the 33 medals.

Medal tally:

Great Britain>> 6 (1Gold)

France>> 5 (3 Gold)

Espagne>> 5

Holland>> 2 (2 Gold)

Portugal, Germany, USA>> 2…

Source: Event media