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Sailing update

Oct 9- Hopes of silver vanish but Singapore has netted in four bronzes from its team of sailing men and women.

The skies looked overcast for the men earlier in the day as contenders in the 420 and laser drop out of the top three in their overall results.

However, The 470 men and 420 women made a shot at the bronze, while optimist sailor Teo Wee Chin maintained his third spot.

On the women's side, Xu Lijia from China is clearly in the lead for the optitmist girls 9 race. No.2 Sarah Tan's position is not so rock hard however, and she was overtaken by Japan's Kiuchi Yoko. She ends up third as well.

10 of Singapore's sailors are participating in the Optimist Boys/Girls, OK Dinghy (Open), Mistral Lightweight, Laser, Laser Radial (Open), 420 and 470 races at the Busan Yachting Centre. Check back for the concluding action tomorrow! previous entry >> 

03-09 Oct (Thu-Sun) Men's races Athlete Result Total / Net Rank as of race 3
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11
  420 Men 2 Race •OU Dahui
•TAY Junhao Roy 		5. 2. 3. 8. 5. 4 1. 6. 4. 7.   45/30 5 out of 8
470 Men 2 Race •TAN Wearn Haw
•CHUNG Pei Ming
4. 3. 3. 2. 3. 3. 4. 2 3. 3.   30/22 3 out of 8; bronze medallist
Laser 2 Race KOH Seng Leong 7. 6. 5. 2. 7. 6. 6. 6. 4. 2.   49/35 5 out of 8
Mistral Light Men 2 Race FOO Toon Moh Andrew 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 7. 6. 67/54 6 out of 7
Optimist Boys 1 Race TEO Wee Chin 3. 5. 8. 1. 3. 1. 4. 3. 7. 6. 2. 43/28 3 out of 11; bronze medallist
Laser Radial Open 2 Race TAN Kheng Siong Stanley 3. 4. 4. 4. 3. 3. 4. 2. 2. 2.   31/23 4 out of 6
OK Dinghy Open 2 Race CHAN Hian Gee, Stanley 4 4 4. 4. 4. 4. 3. 3. 4. 4.   38/30 4 out of 4
Women's races Athlete Result Total / Net Rank as of race 2
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11
420 Women 2 Race •TOH Liying
•HUANG Shiqi Joan
3. 3. 5. 3. 4. 3. 5. 4. 3.     32/27 3 out of 7; bronze medallist
Optimist Girls 2 Race TAN Wei Lin Sarah
6. 2. 1. 1. 3. 3. 3. 3. 5. 4. 5. 36/25 3 out of 9; bronze medallist

Previous entry

Oct 8 - The winds are out of favour for Teo Wee Chin who placed seventh out of 11 in his ninth race. He drops out of the top three to fourth overall.

Meanwhile, the 420, 470 and laser guys are staying in the third spot, while Sarah Tan is sticking to her second place overall.

Oct 7 - Previously placing second in overall performance, the men's 420 and men's optimist participants have slipped a notch to the third spot, while the 470 leds redeemed themselves by placing No.2 in the eigth race.

Meanwhile, Sarah Tan's consistent performance today has let her stayed at the overall no.2 spot, right behind China's Xu Lijia.

Oct 6 - There are no sailing events today.

The 470 men two boys have sailed all the way to the overall second spot by race six with their consistent performance.

And it looks like the wind is favouring Teo Wee Chin who comes right after top performer Chew Xian Jian in the overall ratings. Though Teo did pip Chew to the top spot in the 6th race.

Sarah Tan also climbs one notch up to third overall in the optimist girls 2 race. The thirteen-year-old, the youngest in the Singapore contingent this year, promises to be someone to look out for.
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