Outteridge and Jensen win 2009 49er Worlds

11:18 PM Sun 19 Jul 2009 GMT

'Outteridge and Jensen' Craig Heydon Click Here to view large photo

Australian's Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen today won the 49er World Championships Riva del Garda, Italy.
Another light weather day and it was a good start for the Australian's who were the overnight leaders. They took a fourth in the first race of the day then an eighth in the final race.

They came home with a solid second in the medal race behind Peter and Soren Hansen (DEN). Brits John Pink and Rick Peacock finished the medal race in third place to take the silver medal ahead of Italy's Sibello brothers Pietro and Gianfranco. The 2007 World Champions Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes (GBR) were fourth.

After coming out of drug testing Outteridge commented. 'That was tough. Conditions were quite shifty, so it was hard work on the course. It was great to successfully defend the 2008 title and I am really pleased for Iain, his first senior world title.'

23 year old Outteridge and 21 year old Jensen grew up sailing together on Australia's largest salt water lake, Lake Macquarie. (Outteridge lives at Wangi Wangi and Jensen just across the bay at Fishing Point)

They won the Flying 11 Nationals as juniors, then the Youth Worlds 420 in Poland. Outteridge won a total of three Gold medals at the Youth Worlds.

With Jensen in final year of his schooling, Outteridge began sailing with Ben Austin and together they won the 2008 49er World Championship at Sail Melbourne in January 2008. At the Beijing Olympics. They went into the Olympic medal race in third place, were leading on track for Gold Medal, but capsized in the last 100 metres to finish fifth.

With Jensen now able to give sailing his full time focus, the two mates have begun campaigning together again with this winning result.

No rest for the winning duo, they have already headed for their next regatta.

Today Monday is the first day of the 29er Worlds; Outteridge will be sailing with Lauren Jeffries, his girlfriend, while Jensen will be sailing with Haylee Outteridge, Nathan's 18 year old sister.

The 29ers finish on Sunday, then home to Australia for four days, then off to Moths Worlds in USA, at the famous Gorge. Outteridge in his first Moth regatta won the Australian titles in January 2009 and with foiling Moth guru and multiple World Champion Rohan Veal coaching him, he will be a chance to win the World titles, while he is on the roll.

Skandia Geelong Week 2009, Melbourne (VIC) - 23/01/09 -MOTH CLASS - Olympic sailor Nathan Outteridge - Andrea Francolini / Skandia Click Here to view large photo

Scores take intoaccount 2 discards


								qualifying series			final series								medal race
pl	No Sailno	Name	Scores	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	AUS 1	Nathan Outteridge, Iain Jensen World Champions 2009	59	2	2	10	4	2	1	3	5	8	2	1	4	7	4	6	4	8	4
2	GBR 1082	John Pink, Rick Peacock	74	4	6	2	5	1	2	2	3	2	17	5	1	16	5	9	8	3	6
3	ITA 4	Pietro Sibello, Gianfranco Sibello	74	7	4	1	2	20	1	4	2	1	8	8	2	6	6	14	1	7	14
4	GBR 2	Stevie Morrison, Ben Rhodes	77	1	1	7	3	1	3	1	4	8	1	15	20	8	3	3	15	1	10
5	AUT 10	Nico Delle Karth, Nikolaus Leopold Resch	80	3	1	4	1	6	2	4	4	6	16	12	7	1	2	1	21	4	12
6	GBR 1097	Chris Draper, Peter Greenhalgh	90	2	10	6	6	3	7	1	1	10	4	14	12	2	7	15	2	5	8
7	DEN 982	Peter Hansen, Soren Hansen	103	3	3	9	5	1	10	4	8	9	11	7	8	9	17	2	12	10	2
8	FRA 1070	Manu Dyen, Christidis Stephane	103,2	4	7	4	3	17	3	18	3	1	13	2	6	10	1	rdg	7	9	16
9	GBR 9	Paul Campbell-James, Mark Asquith	118	2	5	2	2	3	1	6	6	21	23	4	24	3	9	17	5	12	18
10	ESP 7	Iker Martinez de Lizarduy, Xavier Fernandez	119	15	15	4	1	3	4	3	1	2	7	9	13	rdg	13	8	14	6	20