Outteridge and Jensen win Gold for Australia in 49er class

6:53 PM Sun 31 May 2009 GMT

'Outteridge and Jensen win at Delta Lloyd Regatta in Holland 2009' Craig Heydon Click Here to view large photo

The Australian Sailing Team's Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen have won the 49er class at the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Holland, comfortably defending the points lead they took into Sunday's medal race.

In just their first regatta together Outteridge and Jensen showed the fleet that their long hours of training in Australia had paid off quickly getting up to speed and claiming six top three finishes in the regatta's 12 races.

'We had a really good day out there today in the medal race,' said Outteridge. 'We took in an 11 point lead and the goal today was to maintain a points lead and get the overall win.'

'We had a nice breeze of 12 knots and after a good start cruised around the course and finished second. Our goal was to come here and learn and hopefully make the medal race but to win I think we're both happy with that.'

For Jensen it was his first ever medal race and he's now looking forward to competing in the 49er World Championships in Italy in July.

'The medal race was fast and intense, the course is short which managed to keep all the boats together and Nathan and I didn't make a mistake which was good,' he said.

Fellow 49er crew Darren Bundock and Ben Austin finished the regatta in 19th with Euan McNicol and Sam Newton one place behind in 20th and Clint and Ty Marshall in 38th.

Jessica Crisp flew the Australian Sailing Team flag in the RS:X women's medal race, finishing sixth to move up to fifth overall.

'The start of the regatta wasn't great but I went up each day which was good,' said Crisp. 'It's funny coming back to Europe again and competing against everyone, you think you're going really well but you get here and see there's still a bit of work to do before the World Championships in England later this year.'

In the women's 470 class Stacey Omay and Chelsea Hall finished the regatta in 13th position while in the men's class Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page came sixth, Sam Kivell and Will Ryan 21st, Shane Hughes and Felix Paterson 37th and Alexander and Patrick Conway 54th.

Tom Slingsby was Australia's leading Laser sailor finishing in 13th, ahead of Ashley Brunning in 30th, Ben Gunther in 47th and Tom Burton in 48th.

Australia's Women Match Racing crew of Lucinda Whitty, Amanda Scrivenor and Nina Curtis finished their first ISAF Sailing World Cup regatta in sixth and now head to Italy for a strength and conditioning camp with the rest of the Match Racing squad.

by Craig Heydon

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