Smiles on the final Melbourne day + How to follow live racing

It’s all smiles at the Sailing World Cup with a brilliant Melbourne summer’s day and most importantly, breeze forecast for the closing Medal Races.

This morning’s light north to north-easterly is expected to swing to a sea breeze direction,  south-east to south-westerly in the early afternoon and increase to 15 -20 knots.

Invited classes open the final day racing schedule at 10:00 and the first Olympic class off is the Finn at 11:50 on the stadium course off the St Kilda Sailing Precinct and Pier. The program will roll through until the closing act, the IKA Kites starting at 16:20 local time.

Straight after each Medal Race the top three finishers will head ashore to the presentation stage next to the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron to receive their medals and sponsor’s prizes.

The Medal Race is a double point earner with each winner automatically moving to the next stage of World Sailing’s definitive international series for the best in the Olympic and Paralympic world, the Sailing World Cup Miami event in January.

Follow live streaming via link below: https://youtu.be/wUUMoaMtojo
1150 Finn Medal Race / 1230 Finn Medal Presentation
1230 49erFX Medal Race / 1305 49erFX Medal Presentation
1305 RSX Medal Race / 1340 RSX Medal Presentation
1340 470M/W Medal Race / 1420 470M/W Medal Presentation
1420 49er Medal Race / 1455 49er Medal Presentation
1455 Laser M Medal Race / 1535 Laser M Medal Presentation
1535 Laser Radial Medal Race / 1615 Laser Radial Medal Presentation
1620 IKA Kite Medal Race / 1700 IKA Kite Medal Presentation
1715 INVITED CLASSES MEDAL PRESENTATION

RESULTS / ENTRIES
Results will be available throughout when racing commences on 9 December here – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/results/index.php
 
LIVE TRACKING
The racing will be available to watch in 2D and 3D via the live tracking. Live tracking will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/multimedia/tracking.php
 
Live Tracking via the Sailviewer-3D Tablet App will be available for devices with 7″ or greater screens.
Click here to download the iOS Application – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sailviewer-3d/id912801278
Click here to download the Android Application – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stsportservice.sailviewer

COMPETITION STATUS
The Competition Status Screen feeds in straight from the Race Committee boats with the teams inputting data such as race times, course type, the status of each race and the plan moving forward. The competition status screen will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/worldcup/multimedia/tracking.php

SOCIAL MEDIA
The hashtag of Sailing World Cup Melbourne is #SWCMelb

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Sailing World Cup
The Sailing World Cup is a world-class annual series for Olympic sailing. It is open to the sailing events chosen for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition. Its centre piece is the Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The 2016 Sailing World Cup will consist of five regattas for all ten Olympic events and where possible, Formula Kite Racing. Qualification places for the Sailing World Cup final are up for grabs at each event. The final will bring together the top 20 boats in each Olympic event and an Open Kiteboarding event where the World Cup champions will be crowned

2016 Sailing World Cup
Melbourne – 7-13 December 2015
Miami – 23-30 January 2016
Hyères – 25 April – 1 May 2016
Weymouth and Portland – 6-12 June 2016
Qingdao – 12-18 September 2016
2015 Final Abu Dhabi – 24-28 October 2016