Laser Standard - World Championship 2016 - Nuevo Vallarta MEX - Day 5, the Swiss

The first two Final Series races of the Laser Standard World Championship off the Mexican Pacific Coast were sailed yesterday in a 15 kn seabreeze. Man of the day was the Cypriot Olympic Medalist Pavlos Kontides CYP, winner of both heats and advancing on rank 5. The positions on top of the classifications remained unchanged but the gaps between the top sailors got closer. Nick Thompson GBR remains on rank 1 with Jean-Baptiste Bernaz FRA on 2nd reducing his backlof on 4 points. Robert Scheidt BRA on 3rd came closer as well and his deficit is now 15 points.
Sailing in the Silverfleet, the best of the day was Guillaume Girod SUI thanks to a race win and he moved up on the 3rd place (= 59th overall) and also Cyrill Knecht SUI climbed two places and is now 41st (= 97th overall).
The ranking list, the event facebook page and the event website, where the news of day 5 will be posted during this morning UTC.