50^th WMC Sailing – Helsinki (FIN) – Day 2, 3 & 4

HELSINKI (FIN) – After the Opening Ceremony of the 50^th WMC Sailing Championship that was held on June 15, the competition is now running since Saturday with 15 nations that chained 105 racing matches on J80, duel, on circuits of 2 laps over 20 minutes. The weather conditions were very variable for the 102 participants (90 male athletes and 12 female athletes) from 15 countries: no wind Saturday, then Monday degraded conditions forcing the organizers to postpone some rounds but the round-robin phase finally ended today, June 19.

We already know the names of the countries qualified for the semi-finals that will take place tomorrow: Brazil, Finland, Poland and Russia!

Since the beginning of the event, Finland, Russia and Brazil showed some impressive sailing skills. With only one defeat against the Finnish host country and a 93% average victories, Russia took the lead of the round-robin phase just ahead of Brazil, who only lost one duel against the Russian team. The host country also achieved an excellent performance during the round-robin phase as only Brazi managed to defeat the Finnish sailors.

With eleven duels won, the Polish team took the fourth place (79% victories rate) just ahead Bahrain and Pakistan