Olympic Classes - World Championships 2018 - Aarhus DEN - Day 6

Another day with light winds only and only a reduced program was completed. In some classes, the ranking lists were quite mixed up.
The Final Series of the 470 women have been concluded. Ai Kondo/Miho Yoshioka JPN will go to the Medal Race next Friday with a 5 points' lead on Camille Lecointre/Aloïse Retornaz FRA. Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre GBR follow with a 10 points' backlog on rank 3. In the 470 men, Anton Dahlberg/Frederik Bergström SWE extended their lead on Kevin Peponnet/Jérémie Mion FRA on 7 points. Matthew Belcher/Will Ryan AUS are on rank 3 with an 11 points' deficit. The 470 men will sail their last Final Series race today.
The RS:X men windsurfers completed 3 races and the new leader is Pawel Tarnowski POL, 3 points ahead of Dorian Van Rijsselberghe NED new on rank 2. Daniele Benedetti ITA and Mattia Camboni ITA follow tied on the ranks 3 and 4. In the RS:X women windsurfers, Yunxiu Lu CHN move on top thanks to 2 race wins. With a 3 points' backlog is Liliane De Geus NED on rank 2. The Olympic Champion Charline Picon FRA advanced on rank 3.
In the Finns, Ed Wright GBR stays on top 7 points ahead of Tom Ramshaw CAN on rank 2. Josh Junior NZL is new on rank 3. In the Nacra 17, a major overthrow occurred as the big favorites Ruggero/Banti ITA had a disaster day and dropped from rank 1 to rank 12. New in the lead are the Olympic Champions Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza ARG, 5 points ahead of Samuel Albrecht/Gabriela Nicolino BRA on 2nd. Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin AUS follow on rank 3.
Leader change also in the Lasers Standard with Matthew Wearn AUS new on top, 4 points in front of Pavlos Kontides CYP. The former leader Sam Meech NZL dropped on rank 3. One race only was sailed in the Lasers Radial and Anne-Marie Rindom DEN defended her lead by a small margin. Paige Railey USA is only one point back. New on rank 3 is Sarah Douglas CAN.
Im 49erFX, Ida-Marie Baad/Marie Thusgaard DEN extended their lead on 10 points. Annemiek Bekkering/Anette Duetz NED moved up on rank 2. Tanja Frank/Lorena Abich AUT are now on the 3rd place. The 49ers had their lay day and begin today with their Final races.
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