Top ranked sailors to start in leader bibs

The highest ranked sailors competing at Sailing World Cup Weymouth and Portland have been presented with the yellow, blue and red bibs in advance of the first day of racing on Wednesday.

Traditionally sailors are handed the leader bibs after the first day of racing but in Weymouth and Portland the sailors at the top of the World Sailing Fleet Racing Rankings received the bibs in advance of the competition.
 
They will wear them on the first day of racing to highlight their long-running, continued good form at Olympic Sailing events.
 
Sailors receiving bibs are:
 
Men’s 470
Yellow – Mat Belcher & Will Ryan (AUS)
Blue – Sime Fantela & Igor Marenic (CRO)
Red –Anton Bergstrom & Fredrik Bergstrom (SWE)
 
Women’s 470
Yellow – Camille Lecointre & Hélène Defrance (FRA)
Blue – Lara Vadlau & Jolanta Ogar (AUT)
Red – Hannah Mills & Saskia Clark (GBR)
 
49er
Yellow – Nico Delle-Karth & Nikolaus Resch (AUT)
Blue – John Pink & Stuart Bithell (GBR)
Red – Dylan Fletcher & Alain Sign (GBR)
 
49erFX
Yellow – Alexandra Maloney & Molly Meech (NZL)
Blue – Sarah Steyaert &Aude Compan (FRA)
Red – Charlotte Dobson & Sophie Ainsworth (GBR)
  
Laser
Yellow – Matthew Wearn (AUS)
Blue – Tom Burton (AUS)
Red – Nick Thompson (GBR)
 
Laser Radial
Yellow – Evi Van Acker (BEL)
Blue – Marit Bouwmeester (NED)
Red – Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN)
 
Finn
Yellow – Jonathan Lobert (FRA)
Blue – Jake Lilley (AUS)
Red – Max Salminen (SWE)
 
Nacra 17
Yellow – Vittorio Bissaro & Silvia Sicouri (ITA)
Blue – Billy Besson & Marie Riou (FRA)
Red – Ben Saxton & Nicola Groves (GBR)
 
Men’s RS:X
Yellow – Aichen Wang (CHN)
Blue – Nick Dempsey (GBR)
Red – Tom Squires (GBR)
 
Women’s RS:X
Yellow – Isobel Hamilton (GBR)
Blue – Peina Chen (CHN)
Red – Emma Wilson (GBR)
 
Racing kicks off on Wednesday 8 June and will conclude on Sunday 12 June with the Medal Races which will be broadcast live on the World Sailing TV YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/worldsailingtv

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