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"It will be a good Championship and we hope we will qualify. We came here one month ago for 10 days and we saw it was really light wind here, so we lost some weight and that has helped and I think
that is why our results are higher."
The 470 Men gold and silver fleets will have two races on Wednesday 14 October, starting after the 470 Women.
Final Results after 5 Races
1. Mathew Belcher/Will Ryan (AUS 11) - 5 pts
2. Sime Fantela/Igor Marenic (CRO-83) - 15 pts
3. Luke Patience/Elliot Willis (GBR 868) - 16 pts
4. Pavel Sozykin/Denis Gribanov (RUS-5) - 16 pts
5. Matthias Schmid/Florian Reichstaedter (AUT 3) - 16 pts
6. Ferdinand Gerz/Oliver Szymanski (GER 10) - 16 pts
7. Jordi Xammar/Joan Herp (ESP 44) - 17 pts
8. Stuart McNay/David Hughes (USA 1713) - 17 pts
9. Johan Molund/Sebastian Östling (SWE 348) - 17 pts
10. Joonas Lindgren/Niklas Lindgren (FIN 7) - 19 pts
470 WOMEN
Overnight leaders Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek Gliszczynska of Poland hold firm in the lead, able to discard their 36th from race 4. Defending World Champions Lara Vadlau/Jola Ogar (AUT) up their game to score a 2,1 and accelerate to second overall, whilst Hannah Mills/Saskia Clark (GBR) maintain third place on the scoreboard.
Catching up with defending 470 World Champions, Vadlau/Ogar, after racing gave a small insight into some of the rituals which help them get in the zone for Championship success.
"We always have a Championship song," laughed Vadlau. "Here it is an Israeli song. I heard it in a restaurant and I said to Jola 'this will be our World Championship song.'"
"It is a cheesy song," chipped in Ogar. "But it makes us smile and it is our song."
For Ogar, the day starts with an energising run, accompanied by track of choice, Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills".
"I need energy in the morning and then when I am here I need to cool down. If I am too motivated, it is not good," explained Ogar.
Today's 2,1 scorecard on the race track was clearly aided by Ogar brushing off most of yesterday's illness.
"Oscar was up in the first race, which meant no coffee break for me," smiled Ogar. "It was a lot easier than yesterday's racing. Yesterday I was totally out of energy, but today I feel much, much better. Today was much more about brain than muscles."
"We want to defend our title, but it is just the second day," said Vadlau. "We are happy with our day, but we need to keep it simple and keep it boring."
Clarifying the boring statement, Vadlau added, "Our coach said please keep it boring in the races!"
Translated, it is about playing it safe and working the percentages.
2012 Olympic Gold Medallists, Jo Aleh/Polly Powrie move up to fourth, with Aleh describing the day as, "Rather tricky sailing today. We made things about as hard for ourselves as we could with some truly terrible first beats, but we held our composure and had some great catch ups.
"We ended up with a 10th and a 5th, not a great day, but from where we were half-way up the first leg each time it still felt pretty good to finish with those two results."
A display of genius from Israel's Tsuf Zamet/Stav Brokman gave them the first race win of the day, in complete contrast to the rest of their high scoreline. They are one of five Israeli teams all intent on securing their nation's qualification to Rio 2016. In tenth overall, Noya Bar-Am/Rimon Shoshan, the 2014 470 Junior World silver medallists, are currently the highest placed team.
Preferring the lighter airs, Finland's Niki Blässar/Mikaela Wulff stamped a march up the leaderboard, moving up to 16th overall from an overnight 31st placing as they also attempt to lay claim to Rio 2016 Olympic qualification.
In the 470 Women, 13 nations are gunning for 3 Olympic Qualification places: Australia, Canada, Chile, Spain, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey.
Two races on Wednesday 12 October for the 470 Women, with a scheduled starting time of 1300 hours.
Final Results after 4 Races
1. Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Irmina Mrozek Gliszczynska (POL 11) - 8 pts
2. Lara Vadlau/Jolanta Ogar (AUT 431) - 9 pts
3. Hannah Mills/Saskia Clark (GBR 118) - 13 pts
4. Jo Aleh/Polly Powrie (NZL 75) - 17 pts
5. Anne Haeger/Briana Provancha (USA 1712) - 21 pts
6. Afrodite Kyranakou/Anneloes Van Veen (NED 216) - 23 pts
7. Camille Lecointre/Helene Defrance (FRA 9) - 26 pts
8. Marina Gallego/Fatima Reyes (ESP 33) - 27 pts
9. Annika Bochmann/Marlene Steinherr (GER 72) - 30 pts
10. Noya Bar-Am/Rimon Shoshan (ISR 11) - 32 pts
470 World Championship Format
Racing gets underway on Monday 12 October, with a qualifying and final series for the 470 Men who will be split into two fleets for the 11 races followed by the Medal Race for the top ten teams. The 470 Women will race a single series of 10 races before the top ten advance to the Medal Race on Saturday 17 October.
Racing takes place on Haifa Bay, along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. After a week of breezy weather, the forecast is looking much lighter for next week's World Championship series. What is guaranteed though, is an air temperature of around 28-30 degrees and water temperature of 28 degrees.
Rio 2016 Olympic Qualification
Find out more about qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and details of nations already qualified.
Useful Links
Entry Lists - http://2015worlds.470.org/en/default/races/race-inscriptions
Results - http://2015worlds.470.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall
Official Noticeboard - http://2015worlds.470.org/en/default/toa/race