Argentina – Worlds 2016 Two wins to New Zealand’s Paul Snow-Hansen/Daniel Wilcox gave them a day you can normally only dream about. The pair sit well ahead of the rest of the pack as the race track was not looking so blessed for others though, including defending 470 World Champions Mat Belcher/Will Ryan (AUS). The defending World Champions took a UFD penalty, to mark a day they would most probably rather forget.

Result M Two races
1 NZL2 1+1 = 2
2 CRO83 2+6 = 8
3 ITA2 10+3 =13
4 ESP9 8+5 = 13
5 SWE349 11+4 =15

Clean start for the 470 Women at midday, but around twenty minutes in to the race, a significant change in wind direction forced the Race Committee to abandon the race. A couple of hours later and racing resumed.
Two races down and Annie Haegar/Briana Provancha seize the day 1 leaderboard with a 3,2 scoresheet. China’s Xiaoli Wang/Lizhu Huang in second and Sydney Bolger/Carly Shevitz (USA) in third.
World ranked number 1 pair Hannah Mills/Saskia Clark (GBR) will have wanted to turn the clock back to the first race attempt, where they took a clean start. A tough day for the pair as they scored a UFD penalty for being over the start line in the last minute. Surviving a double-digit score is possible, but they scored another in race 2, scoring a 21st, so have set themselves a very high points mountain to climb to stay in podium potential.
Result Woman

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