Day 6 of the Long Beach Olympic Classes Regatta ramps up the pressure

Sweden’s FX team of Vilma Bobeck and Ebba Berntsson burned up the course again today, maintaining their lead, but racing was tight with bullets for USA’s Paris Henken & Helena Scott and Canada’s Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance. And the FX Mixed team of young guns, Will Stratton and Matei Meglic from USA took advantage of the course and port tacked the fleet 3 out of 6 races.

On the 49er course in first place and now wearing the Gold is Austria’s Keanu Prettner and Jakob Flachberger narrowly leading USA Nevin Snow and Ian Macdiarmid who will exchange their Gold bibs for Silver.

Austria’s Nacra 17 teams exchanged places today, still having “Super Death Reaching” courses, screaming across the finish line. GBR keeps their Gold bib tomorrow.

The iQFOil’s had slalom courses today almost a mile in distance and wind @ 12kts.

FX

• 1st SWE Vilma Bobeck/Ebba Berntsson 8
• 2nd USA Paris Henken/Helena Scutt 17
• 3rd CAN Georgia Lewin-LaFrance/Antonia Lewin-LaFrance 17

49er

• 1st AUT Keanu Prettner/Jakob Flachberger 10
• 2nd USA Nevin Snow/Ian Macdiarmid 13
• 3rd CHN Xin Wang/Tianyu Qi 21.4

Nacra 17

• 1st GBR John Gimson/Anna Burnet 9
• 2nd AUT Laura Farese/Matthaus Zochling 4
• 3rd AUT Lukas Haberl/Clara Stamminger 17

Women’s iQFOiL

• 1st CHN Wenqi Li 9
• 2nd USA Bryn Muller 20
• 3rd CHN Zheng Yan 20

Men’s iQFOiL

• 1st CHN Jingye Huang 5
• 2nd CHN Kun Bi 8
• 3rd CHN Zhen Huang 9

49er, FX, iQFOiL Men, iQFOiL Women, NACRA 17 Mixed continue racing through Sunday, 20th July.

Text and images courtesy of the Long Beach Yacht Club.