Day two of the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres brought much lighter winds and race wins for Dan Slater (NZL), Pieter-Jan Postma (NED) and Giles Scott (GBR). After four races Scott holds a one point lead over Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Postma.
With winds of 3-10 knots and 30 degree shifts, day two in Hyeres was a tricky day, though in general most of the same names appeared at the front. In the third race Dan Slater (NZL) and Pieter Jan Postma (NED) picked up race wins in their fleets, while Tapio Nirkko (FIN) and Ioanis Mitakis (GRE) got second places and Matt Coutts (NZL) and Deniss Karpak (EST) got thirds.
Meanwhile both the joint leaders Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Giles Scott (GBR) received a yellow flag in race three and both finished seventh. Ainsie had actually rounded the first mark in the mid 20s but recovered to seventh by the finish, depsite the penalty.
For race four, Slater won his second race of the day while Giles Scott (GBR) won his third of the week to take the overall lead. Second place getters were Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Michele Paoletti (ITA) while the third places went to Thomas Le Breton (FRAO and Zach Railey (USA).
There is one more day of the blue/yellow fleet split before the all important gold and silver split on Wednesday and Thursday. The medal race for the top 10 is on Friday 29th April.
Results after 4 races:
1 GBR 41 Giles SCOTT 10
2 GBR 3 Ben AINSLIE 11
3 NED 842 Pieter-Jan POSTMA 11
4 NZL 1 Dan SLATER 18
5 SLO 5 Gasper VINCEC 23
6 SWE 11 Daniel BIRGMARK 31
7 FRA 112 Jonathan LOBERT 32
8 SLO 573 Vasilij ZBOGAR 34
9 ITA 123 Filippo BALDASSARI 37
10 CRO 524 Ivan KLJAKOVIC GASPIC 37
Event website and full results: http://sof.ffvoile.net
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