Nearing the end zone + How to follow the Paralympic Sailing Competition

After days of beating Brazilian sunshine, sailors arose at the Paralympic Village to a Rio de Janeiro covered in cloud with a bit of light drizzle in the air.

The scheduled cold front has arrived in Rio and the grey skies are set to remain throughout the day. In terms of breeze, a south easterly will increase to around 9 knots for the start of racing increasing slightly before dropping at the end of the day.
 
All three Paralympic fleets are on schedule and a 13:00 start is on the cards across two racing areas.
 
The SKUD18 and 2.4 Norlin OD will start racing at 13:00 local time on the Pao de Acucar (Sugarloaf Mountain) course area. Meanwhile, on Escola Naval, the Sonar will commence at 13:00 local time.
 
Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) have an opportunity to wrap up gold on the penultimate day. Sitting 15 points clear of the chasing pack, two top results will ensure they defend the crown they won convincingly at London 2012.
 
In the Sonar, Australia’s Colin Harrison, Russell Boaden and Jonathan Harris are ten points clear and could also wrap up gold with a day to spare.
 
Competition in the 2.4 Norlin OD is much closer and just one point separates Australia’s Matt Bugg and Great Britain’s Helena Lucas.  
 
Throughout the day World Sailing will be updating you via our Live Blog, through the 2D and 3D tracking as well as via our social media channels. Find out how to follow below.

RIO 2016 PARALYMPIC SAILING COMPETITION

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Sailing Competition will take place at the Marina da Glória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will feature 80 athletes from 23 nations competing across three events. Racing is scheduled to take place from 12-17 September 2016 and the competition format for all events is fleet racing.

RESULTS / ENTRIES
A full list of sailors racing at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games is available to view here – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/qualification/sailors.php.
Results will be available on World Sailing’s Paralympic Website when racing starts on Monday 12 September – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/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/paralympics/rio2016/multimedia/live-tracking.php#.V9G2ulfwykg

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/paralympics/rio2016/multimedia/live-tracking.php#.V9G2ulfwykg

LIVE BLOGGING
The World Sailing media team will be following the racing LIVE on World Sailing’s Paralympic Blog throughout Rio 2016. Follow LIVE here – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/multimedia/live-blog.php#.V9G2j1fwykg

PRESS RELEASES
World Sailing will be releasing international press releases after racing throughout the duration of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. All the latest news and reports will be available to read here – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/news/index.php

TELEVISION
To find out who your Paralympic broadcaster is, click here – https://www.paralympic.org/watch-rio-2016
 
For a simple guide to sailing the IPC have released a short ‘A to Z’ video which you can find here – https://www.facebook.com/paralympics/videos/10154068921356281/

SOCIAL MEDIA
Follow the event on World Sailing’s social networks:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ISAFWorldSailing
Instagram – https://instagram.com/isafworldsailing/
Twitter – @worldsailing
Snapchat – Follow our Story on Snapchat, search for worldsailing

USEFUL LINKS
World Sailing Paralympic Website – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/home.php
Competition Schedule – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/about/schedule.php
Latest Paralympic Sailing news – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/news/index.php
Online Notice Board – http://www.sailing.org/paralympics/rio2016/onb.php