49er, 49erFX - World Championship 2017 - Matosinhos POR - Day 4, the Swiss

Yesterday, rough conditions prevailed for the first time at the Olympic 49er Skiff World Championship with an 18 to 20 kn wind and 2-meter Atlantic waves, and the qualification series to split the fleet in Gold and Silver rounds have been concluded.
Alexandra Maloney/Molly Meech NZL dominated the day in the 49ersFX with the ranks 1/2/1/1 and took the overall lead with a 4 points advance on Jena-Mai Hansen/Katja Salskov DEN. The Olympic Champions Martine Grael/Kahena Kunze BRA moved up on rank 3. Jurczok/Lorenz GER are now on 4th, but with a 10 points' deficit on the leaders, they still keep an option on the title. Livia Naef/Nelia Puhze SUI lost some ranks and are now 48th.
Three bullets for Dylan Fletcher/Stuart Bithell GBR in the 49ers now leading overall with 3 points on Diego Botin/iago Lopez ESP and Justus Schmidt/Max Böhme GER on the ranks 2 and 3 with the same number of points. Sébastien Schneiter/Lucien Cujean SUI on rank 16 qualified for the Goldfleet, the best 20.
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