Olympic Worldcup 2017 - Santander ESP - Day 4, McNay/Hughes USA 470 and Buckingham Laser are 2nd

The first classes concluded the Qualification Series yesterday again in perfect winds around 15 kn and are ready for today's Medal Races. In three of the five Classes in the final race today, the overall winners are already known.
Patricia Freitas BRA has a 20 points' advantage in the RS:X women windsurfers. Considering the big points' gaps, Yunxiu Lu CHN and Stefania Elfutina RUS have Silver and Bronze for sure. 16 points is the advantage of Kiran Badloe NED in the RS:X men windsurfers and Silver and Bronze will be decided today between Louis Giard FRA and Shahar Zubari ISR.
Nacra 17, Fernando Echevarri/Tara Pacheco ESP have an 18 points' lead on John Gimson/Anna Burnet GBR. Tom Phipps/Nicola Boniface GBR follow on the 3rd place.
In the two skiff classes however, the leading teams are closely together. In the 49ers, Peters/Sterritt GBR are only one point ahead of Prszybytek/Kolodsinski POL, and with a 6 points' backlog, Fletcher/Bithell GBR remain in the race for the title. In the 49ersFX, Martine Grael/Kahena Kunze BRA and Charlotte Dobson/Saskia Tidey GBR will duel for Gold, while Lili Sebesi/Albane Dubois FRA should finish on the Bronze Medal rank.
The Finns, 470s and the Laser sail their last Qualification races today. In the Finns, the new leader is Ben Cornish GBR, and the best of the day (2/1) Beresz Zsombor HUN moved up on rank 2. Ed Wright is now 3rd. Mantis/Kagialis GRE stay on top of the 470 men 8 points ahead of McNay/Hughes USA new on rank 2. Bargehr/Mähr AUT are now on 3rd. In the 470 women, Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre GBR extended their lead on Afrodite Zegers/Anneloes Van Veen NED to 8 points.
The Laser results follow in the separate news text below.

The results of best North Americans by nation:
Finn: 13th Tom Ramshaw CAN, 15th Kyle Martin CAN
470 men: 2nd Stu McNay/ David Hughes USA, 12th Wiley Rogers/Jack Parkin USA
49er: 15th Andrew Mollerus/ Matthew Mollerus USA
Laser Standard: 2nd Charlie Buckingham USA, 18th Chris Barnard USA
Laser Radial: 17th Haddon Hughes USA
RS:X men: 17th Juan Bosco Varela Barba MEX
IKA Formula Kite: 16th Catherine Dufour CAN

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