ISAF Sailing World Championships - 470 Class Men & Women
4-13 July 2007- Cascais, Portugal

World Championship Titles to be decided in tomorrow's final Medal Race

Cascais, 12 July 2007 - The last two races deciding on Medal Race challengers in both the 470 Men and Women took place today at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cascais, Portugal. Nathan WILMOT and Malcolm PAGE from Australia enter the Medal Race tomorrow leading in the 470 Men and Marcelien DE KONING and Lobke BERKHOUT from the Netherlands in the 470 Women.

Marcelien DE KONING and Lobke BERKOUT proved that they rule the World in the Two Person 470 class dinghy by scoring two bullets leading the fleet with over 20 boat lengths in both races today.

Ingrid PETITJEAN and Nadege DOUROUX were the only 470 Women who managed to remain between the leaders and the rest of the fleet, and ended both races as second.

The Ladies from the Netherlands now have a fix lead of 11 points on the French 470 Women, which means that the Dutch Women may allow five boats between them and their French opponents to secure their Golden position in tomorrow’s Medal Race.

There are no other 470 Women who have chances for the World Champion Title, so in terms of tactics, for DE KONING and BERKHOUT it will mean that they will only have to focus on the French and stay out of trouble like capsizing and penalties.

Racing got very close in the 470 Men when overnight leaders and Australian heroes Nathan WILMOT and Malcolm PAGE sailed a secure first race ending up fourth, and local heroes Alvaro MARINHO and Miguel NUNES scored the bullet with Sven and Kalle COSTER from The Netherlands right on their tail.

Nick ROGERS and Joe GLANFIED from Great Britain shared the same amount of points overnight with the Dutch Men on top of the leaderboard. In today’s first race they rip their spinnaker and see their chances for Silver dying with it.

Race nine and last race for today was to be the decision making race to set up the order of Medal Race challengers in the 470 Men.

WILMOT and PAGE see the COSTER brothers going into a wind hole at the start and start a ‘match race’ to completely control their rivals during the race. The Australians could easily afford a very bad result, and so they lead the Dutch and themselves to a resp. 33^rd and 30^th position.

With this action, the Australians have maneuvered themselves into a positions that they can almost swim tomorrow’s Medal Race.

“It is a way of how you can do things to win, but we would never do it that way”, Sven COSTER said.

The last fleet race will take place in all 470 Men’s and 470 Women’s fleets tomorrow, except for the Gold Fleets who end fleet racing in a group without the elite top 10, who will act in the final Medal Race later in the afternoon.

470 MEN - MEDAL RACE
			311	WILMOT, Nathan MALCOLM, Page	1	6	2	2	1	6	2	4	30	-	-	24
2			1	COSTER, Sven KALLE, Coster	6	14	2	1	6	3	8	2	33	-	-	42
3			22	MARINHO, Alvaro MIGUEL, Nunes	2	8	14	1	15	12	3	1	2	-	-	43
4			7	KLIGER, Gideon UDI, Gal	4	5	26	39	1	1	4	7	4	-	-	52
5			11	BONNAUD, Benjamin ROMAIN, Bonnaud	7	13	5	1	4	18	5	19	1	-	-	54
6			361	BELCHER, Mathew NICK, Behrens	21	5	6	4	4	4	7.3	7.3	39	-	-	58.6
7			9	BARREIROS, Onan AAARON, Sarmiento	14	7	10	3	7	14	6	5	10	-	-	62
8			817	ROGERS, Nick JOE, Glanfield	7	1	1	39	3	7	7	33	6	-	-	65
9			83	FANTELA, Sime IGOR, Marenic	8	16	5	21	2	15	1	10	8	-	-	65
10			1713	MCNAY, Stuart GRAHAM, Biehl	3	7	5	6	14	11	17	14	13	-	-	73
470 WOMEN - MEDAL RACE
1			11	DE KONING, Marcelien LOBKE, Berkhout	4	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	-	-	11
2			4	PETITJEAN, Ingrid NADèGE, Douroux	5	25	2	1	6	3	1	2	2	-	-	22
3			4151	KONDO, Ai NAOKO, Kamata	1	6	10	4	5	2	5	6	9	-	-	38
4			833	BASSADONE, Christina SASKIA, Clark	13	1	1	8	3	13	4	7	3	-	-	40
5			323	TORGERSSON, Therese VENDELA, Zachreisson	3	5	3	2	1	33	11	10	6	-	-	41
6			23	CONTI, Giulia GIOVANNA, Micol	5	3	5	33	8	16	8	5	7	-	-	57
7			177	OLIVEIRA, Fernanda ISABEL, Swan	17	11	6	6	4	11	17	3	4	-	-	62
8			9	LECOINTRE, Camille GWENDOLYN, Lemaitre	3	9	8	5	11	7	19	14	12	-	-	69
9			10	KORNECKI, Nike VERED, Bouskila	6	10	3	9	10	6	9	27	29	-	-	80
10			1757	MAXWELL, Erin ISABELLE, Kinsolving	26	19	4	3	13	10	3	19	11	-	-	82

Event Information
For more information about the ISAF Sailing World Championships and the 470 World Championships, visit the web site http://www.cascaisworlds2007.com/

The 470 Class
For more information about 470 Internationale, visit the web site www.470.org

ISAF World Rankings
The official ISAF World Rankings of 470 sailing sportsmen, go to www.sailing.org/rankings/

Photography
High Resolution pictures will be made available to the media during the event.
Please contact David Bell at location in Cascais: bellyvision@mac.com