49er World Championship day one - Outteridge and Jensen lead

2:56 AM Tue 5 Jan 2010 GMT

'49er World Championship 2010' 49er Class Association

Australians Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen lead the fleet after three races at the 49er World Championship in the Bahamas.

After a third and two first places today, they are ahead of the British pair Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes (4, 2, 1).
Another British team, John Pink and Rick Peacock (2,1,7).

Race 1 got underway in 15-18 knots of breeze, in perfect conditions. By the start of race 2 the wind had increased to 18-20 knots but dropped down to 6-8 knots during the race.

49er World Championships top 10 overall after three races:

1. AUS 1 (Outteridge/Jensen)
2. GBR 4 (Morrison/Rhodes)
3. GBR2 (Pink/Peacock)
4. AUS1134 (Phillips)
5. GER961 (Schadewaldt/Baumann)
6. GBR1096 (Evans/Powys)
7. UKR 1081 (Luka/Leonchuk)
8. AUT5 (Delle Karth/Resch)
9. FRA8 (Dyen/Christidis)
10. DEN1113 (Nielsen)

Overall results:

Full results: www.49erworlds.org