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NICK Thompson, Ed Wright and the Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Ally 3. Lucy Macgregor-Annie Lush-Ally
Sonar crew helmed by John Robertson Martin had a near-faultless display in the Martin, GBR
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made it a golden treble for Skandia Team round-robin stage of the women’s match Other GBR

GBR’s sailors at the Rolex Miami racing event, winning all but three of 7. Charlotte Lawrence-Lavinia
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Olympic Classes Regatta, which conclud- their preliminary matches to qualify them Paternoster-Liz Rushall
Get in touch with Sailing News at: ed on Saturday 31 January. for the knockout stages. Macgregor, cur- 10. Mary Rook-Rebecca Marriott-Nicky
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The Grade 1 event, which was the second rently ranked fifth in the women’s world Macgregor
of seven stops in the new ISAF Sailing match racing rankings, missed out to
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World Cup series, also saw British sailors world number four Lotte Meldgaard Star
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pick up podium spots in three further Pedersen in the semi-final, but clinched 1. Rick Merriman-Phil Trinter, USA
classes – including one in the debut event bronze over Genevieve Tulloch’s team in
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for the new Olympic Classes women’s the Petit-Final. 2. George Szabo-Rick Peters, USA
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match racing discipline. Paralympic sailors Niki Birrell and Alex (57pts)
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Training partner to the now Olympic Rickham also claimed bronze for Skandia 3. Flavio Marazzi-Petter Morland
Champion Paul Goodison, the 22-year- Team GBR in the SKUD-18 class to Pedersen, SUI (66pts)
Every effort has been made to
old Thompson won bronze at the 2007 make it a six-medal haul for the British GBR
ensure accuracy, but the publish-
Laser European Championships, but this sailors in Miami. 13. John Gimson-Ed Greig (113pts)
ers cannot accept responsibility
Miami win marks a first event victory at The ISAF Sailing World Cup tour now
for omissions
senior Grade 1 level. makes its way to Palma, Majorca, for the RS:X Men
or errors.
The Lymington sailor had to fend off the Princess Sofia Trophy (4-10 April), with 1. Dorian van Rijsselberg, NED (22pts)
two-time Youth Worlds champion from the series reaching its climax at the 2. Ivan Pastor, ESP (33pts)
Cyprus, Pavlos Kontides, in Saturday’s Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the 3. Joao Rodrigues, POR (43pts)
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final medal race to clinch the regatta title. Weymouth and Portland National Sailing
News do not necessarily "First I pinned him to the left and then I Academy in September. RS:X Women
represent the view of Strood Media pinned him on the right," explained 1. Marina Alabau, ESP (18pts)
Ltd.
Thompson about his tactics on two dif- ISAF Sailing World Cup – Leg 2 2. Zofia Klepacka, POL (20pts)
ferent upwind legs, which left Kontides 3. Blanca Manchon, ESP (28pts)
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settling for silver some 17 points behind Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta
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his British rival. 470 Men
For Ed Wright, there was a more nail-bit- Final results - Olympic Classes 1 Onan Barreiros-Aaron Sarmiento, ESP
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ing finish in the Finn class. Trailing (26pts)
in writing.
Canadian sailor Christopher Cook by just Laser 2 Stuart McNay-Graham Biehl, USA
one point heading into the final double 1. Nick Thompson, GBR, (67pts) (34pts)
General Competition Rules points scoring race, Wright fought back 2. Pavlos Kontides, CYP, (84pts) 3 Matthias Schmid-Florian Reichstaedter,
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from a bad start to secure the gold. 3. Brad Funk, USA, (86pts) AUT (44pts)
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"I got a bad shift off the line,” Wright Other GBR
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explained. “Cook got away and rounded 33. Robert Godwin (237pts) 470 Women
to anyone directly involved in the
the top mark ahead of me, but I passed 1. Henriette Koch-Lene Sommer, DEN
him on the downwind leg. Laser Radial (22pts)
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“He sailed a great regatta; it was good to 1. Anna Tunnicliffe, USA (27pts) 2. Erin Maxwell-Isabelle Kinsolving,
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beat him, but it's a shame for him. The 2. Paige Railey, USA, (34pts) USA (26pts)
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leading five sailors in the fleet have been 3. Jennifer Spalding, CAN, (60pts) 3. Molly Carapiet-Molly O’Bryan
3 The judge's decision will be final knocking on the door all week. GBR Vandemoer, USA (40pts)
and no correspondence will be
“I came for a winter's worth of training 11. Andrea Brewster (104pts)
entered into
and was pleased to get such good compe- 29. Christina Bassadone (243pts) Final results - Paralympic Classes
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In the Paralympic Sonar class, John Finn 1. John Robertson-Hannah Stodel-Alex
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Robertson, Hannah Stodel and stand-in 1. Ed Wright, GBR, (27pts) Wang-Hansen, GBR (20pts)
crew Alex Wang-Hansen put in a domi- 2. Christopher Cook, CAN (28pts) 2. Paul Callahan-Roger Cleworth-Tom
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nant display, counting all top three finish- 3. Zach Railey, USA, (45pts) Brown, USA (29pts)
6 No cash alternative to any prize
es from their 12 races to claim victory by 3. Rick Doerr-Maureen McKinnon-
is available nine points over the host’s Paul Callahan, 49er Tucker-Hugh Freund, USA (30pts)
7 Unless otherwise stated competi-
Roger Cleworth and Tom Brown. 1. Nico Delle Karth- Nikolaus Resche,
tion entries, marked with the
“After the disappointment of Qingdao, AUT (53pts) SKUD-18
competition name, should be sent
it’s good to get back into winning form 2. John Pink-Rick Peacock, GBR (58pts) 1. Scott Whitman-Julia Dorsett, USA
to (competition) Sailing News,
again,” said Robertson, who missed out 3. Federico Alonso-Arturo Alonso, ESP (10pts)
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on a Paralympic Games medal with (62pts) 2. John McRoberts-Brenda Hopkin,
Stodel and Stephen Thomas. Other GBR CAN (28pts)
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John Pink and Rick Peacock notched up 4. Paul Campbell-James-Mark Asquith 3. Niki Birrell-Alexandra Rickham,
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a career best finish, clinching a silver (68pts) GBR (35pts)
competition entries can be medal in the 49er skiff class, while Paul 6. Dave Evans-Simon Hiscocks (97pts)
returned Campbell-James and Mark Asquith – 2.4mR
winners at the first leg of the World Cup Women’s Match Racing 1 Allan Leibel, CAN (23pts)
in Melbourne in December – were unable 1. Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen-Tina 2 Damien Seguin, FRA (31pts)
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to make it two World Cup podium finish- Schmidt-Trine Palluden, DEN 3 Paul Tingley, CAN (42pts)
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es in a row, ending their regatta in fourth 2. Giulia Conti-Alessandra Marenzi- GBR
place. Alessandra Angelini, ITA 9 Megan Pascoe (82pts)
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