Outteridge and Jensen lead 49er Worlds Final Series after Day 1

10:35 PM Fri 17 Jul 2009 GMT

'49er fleet by the cliffs on the lake - 49 Worlds, Riva Del Garda, Italy' Richard Langdon &copy Click Here to view large photo

The first day of racing in the 49er Worlds - Final Series provided fickle winds and changing conditions which seemed to suit current 49er World Champion Nathan Outteridge with crew Iain Jensen just fine. Only two teams were able to post three consistent races in the single digits and the 2-1-4 posted by the Aussies launched them into first overall.

Pietro and Gianfranco Sibello of Italy were the only other pair to keep them low which moved them into second while the qualifying leaders of Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes and John Pink and Rick Peacock struggled a bit dropping both into fourth and third respectively. Both Pink/Peacock and Morrison/Rhodes won a race each, but they were countered by deeper finishes.

Racing was delayed while the breeze couldn't fill and remained in the eight knot range. At times it completely died onshore, but the Race Committee was able to find enough to hold three races for the Gold.

The Silver and Bronze fleets each were able to have one race a piece although the Bronze fleet had their first race abandoned due to shifting winds and completed race 2 in the morning. The lone Silver race was won by Bernadro Freitas and Francisco Andrade of Portugal who had broken their mast earlier in the week. Peter Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand are the current leaders of the Silver fleet.

Jan Hauke Erichsen and Hans Jakob Dethleffsen of Germany are the leaders of the Bronze fleet winning the single race of the day.

Three races were held for the 89 teams in winds of a consistent 18 knots once the Ora filled on Lake Garda. Morrison/Rhodes began with a win in the first race of the day but slipped with a 4-8 while Pink/Peacock sailed a consistent 2-2-3 to bring them to the even tie.

Eight races are scheduled for the final series with the medal race to take place on Sunday after morning races.

TOP TEN RESULTS IN EACH FLEET

Results 49er - GOLD
Scores take into account 1 discards

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	1f	2f	3f
1	AUS 1	Nathan Outteridge , Iain Jensen	34,0	2	2	(10)	4	2	1	3	5	8	2	1	4
2	ITA 4	Pietro Sibello , Gianfranco Sibello	40,0	7	4	1	2	(20)	1	4	2	1	8	8	2
3	GBR 1082	John Pink, Rick Peacock	44,0	4	(6)	2	5	1	2	2	3	2	17	5	1
4	GBR 2	Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes	57,0	1	1	7	3	1	3	1	4	(8)	1	15	20
5	AUT 10	Nico Delle Karth , Nikolaus Leopold Resch	60,0	3	1	4	1	(6)	2	4	4	6	16	12	7
6	ESP 7	Iker Martinez de Lizarduy , Xavier Fernandez	62,0	(15)	15	4	1	3	4	3	1	2	7	9	13
7	FRA 1070	Manu Dyen , Christidis Stephane	63,0	4	7	4	3	17	3	(18)	3	1	13	2	6
8	GBR 1097	Chris Draper , Peter Greenhalgh	66,0	2	(10)	6	6	3	7	1	1	10	4	14	12
9	DEN 982	Peter Hansen , Soren Hansen	68,0	3	3	9	5	1	(10)	4	8	9	11	7	8
10	GBR 1096	Dave Evans, Simon Hiscocks	72,0	1	4	1	(19)	16	8	7	7	2	6	6	14

Results 49er - SILVER
Scores take into account 1 discards

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	1f
1	NZL 1101	Peter Burling , Blair Tuke	74,0	(20)	8	8	3	20	9	9	14	1	2
2	GER 810	Julian Ramm , Oliver Lewin	77,0	14	13	16	(20)	11	5	5	1	6	6
3	GER 961	Tobias Schadewaldt , Hannes Baumann	80,0	15	14	(18)	4	7	5	12	2	12	9
4	CAN 1058	Billy Gooderham , Ian Hogan	80,0	6	16	12	10	9	3	13	8	(19)	3
5	AUS 1028	David O' Connor , Robert Bell	91,0	9	9	3	7	15	(19)	15	13	13	7
6	CAN 1020	Gordon Cook, Ben Remocker	96,0	5	( ocs )	6	16	23	7	12	4	5	18
7	DEN 981	Emil Toft Nielsen, Simon Tofft	97,0	7	9	14	14	15	4	(18)	5	17	12
8	AUS 1059	Chris Nicholson, Ben Austin	98,0	10	14	11	14	9	(15)	2	15	15	8
9	JPN 816	Yukio Makino , Kenji Takahashi	107,0	5	11	6	13	13	(21)	16	16	11	16
10	GBR 950	Andrew Walsh , Simon Marks	108,0	10	11	12	(23)	21	14	9	13	3	15

Results 49er - BRONZE
Scores take into account 1 discards

No	Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	1f
1	GER 914	Jan Hauke Erichsen, Hans Jakob Dethleffsen	146,0	22	20	19	20	16	17	(23)	15	16	1
2	USA 817	Peeter Must , Carl Horrocks	157,0	18	19	18	(24)	24	16	21	18	21	2
3	CAN 921	Hunter Lowden , Kevin Grierson	160,0	25	19	13	18	(27)	17	24	16	24	4
4	ITA 866	Luca Maffessoli , Petissi Stefano	162,0	17	18	19	22	22	19	(24)	22	14	9
5	CAN 1074	Jonathan Ladha , Daniel Inkpen	165,0	18	25	20	21	19	16	19	22	(27)	5
6	GBR 940	James Peters , Dicken Maclean	169,0	23	16	25	17	22	26	17	( dnf )	20	3
7	AUS 984	Clint Marshall, Ty Marshall	170,0	19	17	20	13	21	24	15	19	( ocs )	22
8	GRE 852	Stelios Noutsos , Dimitri Benakis	175,0	20	24	21	(27)	11	24	22	19	26	8
9	CAN 946	Matthieu Dubreucq , Tej Trevor Parekh	176,0	20	20	17	18	17	20	(26)	23	23	18
10	BEL 864	Yannick Lefebvre, Matthieu Janssens	178,0	24	( dnf )	24	19	17	26	16	dnf	15	6