Advantage Poland at 2016 RS:X Worlds

Polish windsurfers will start the last day of racing at the 2016 RS:X World Championships in Eilat, Israel top of both the men’s and women’s sections.

Looking at the double for their country, Piotr Myszka leads the men’s section while compatriot Malgorzata Bialecki heads up the women’s after day five of racing, a day that benefitted from an early start to make the most of the predicted wind.

Women’s RS:X

With three top 10 finishes, Bialecki goes in to the final race day top of the leader board on 39 points, but still can’t shake off the attention of Netherlands’ Lilian De Geus. With 50 points, De Geus is the closest rival to Bialecki, but even she has strong sailors nipping at her heels. Poland’s Zofia Noceti-Klepacka is in third with 51 points with Great Britain’s Bryony Shaw slowly but surely making her way up the leader board following a slow start. Shaw is fourth on 52 points.

With a bullet, third and seventh, Youth World Champion, Stefania Elfutina (RUS) has moved within touching distance of the top four where she sits in fifth position on 58 points. Elfutina is some distance ahead of her nearest rival in the U21 Section.

Men’s RS:X

With a little more daylight over his rivals than his female counterpart, Myszka has a 22.8-point lead in the men’s section thanks to a 1-2-3 for the day. That lead is over second placed Nick Dempsey (GBR) who scored a second and third before a redress added 11.8 to his scorecard and leaving him on 49.8 points.

The Netherlands occupy third and fourth with Kiran Badloe on 51 points and fresh from his Sailing World Cup Miami victory, Dorian Van Rijesselberge has 57 points, despite a retirement in the last race of the day.

Mattia Camboni (ITA) moves down a few places to 17th overall but still tops the U21’s section. Camboni has 138 points.