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Oct 2011
Singapore’s girls and boys take the only 420 races on Friday
Event News
It seems that it was very light winds at Shanwei on Friday, with 3 – 7 knots being reported on SINsailing’s Games microsite. With one race 9 each, the Official Games Website records wins for both of Singapore’s 420 teams. Unfortunately, the cumulative results showing on the Sailing Asian website are only up to race 6, so the day before the lay day - does anyone know the standings?
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20
Oct 2011
Competition is hot in Shanwei, while we get some more photos
Event News
We are still awaiting cumulative results, so it is hard to be sure what the line-up is into the last two days of the Asian Games. To be sure, it must be exciting, and it looks as though the competition in the men’s 420 may be going to the end!
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20
Oct 2011
Malaysia breaks Singapore’s run of bullets in the women’s
Event News
Khairunni Mohd Afendi & Nora Mohd Sayed (Malaysia) won race 7 to break the clean run of wins by Singapore’s women’s team of Qing Rachel Lee & Rui Qi Cecilia Low (had they just had tool much of Uncle Edwin’s pasta, we wonder).
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20
Oct 2011
Lee & Low romp in Guangdong, while Thais and Japanese add to the challenge in the men’s fleet
Event News
Qing Rachel Lee & Rui Qi Cecilia Low continue to fire bullets in every race in the Women’s 420 competition at the Asian Games.
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20
Oct 2011
Korean men win R3 & 4; SIN women now four up
Event News
Hoyeob Yang & Sangmin Lee of Korea won races 3 and 4, sailed on Monday in Shanwei, according to the Games Website. And Qing Rachel Lee & Rui Qi Cecilia Low again won both races for the women.
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20
Oct 2011
Two good races on first day....
Event News
Nino Shmueli writes from the waters of Shanwei: “First day with two good races, the first start with an East wind of about 10 kn., during the race the wind increased to 14 kn. "O" displayed at the top marks for both men and women, The second start was with "O" - no change of the wind direction but the wind increased to 17 kn. In the men’s fleet two boats were OSC. Tomorrow, we expect a cold front passing the area with 25 to 30 kn. of wind –let’s see what will happen?!”
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20
Oct 2011
Thais take first race, but SINers the rest
Event News
We await provisional (cumulative) Results, but the Official Asian Games site shows that the first race of the Games was won by the Thailand team, reigning Junior World Champions, Atiwat Chomtongdee & Navee Thamsoontorn, but the second race was taken by Xiaman Justin Liu & Feng Yaun Sherman Cheng of Singapore. The women of Singapore, Qing Rachel Lee & Rui Qi Cecilia Low were the leading women in both races.
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20
Oct 2011
SingaporeSailing communicates!
Event News
As so often, we are gaining a good, if informal, insight into what is happening from the excellent communications services of SingaporeSailing.
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20
Oct 2011
Sailing at 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 2010 starts midday Sunday!
Event News
The Asian Games are underway!! First start is at midday local time on Sunday. Nino Shmueli reports from the Shanwei in China that the practice race was in 12-15 kn.
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20
Oct 2011
‘sunshine’ Jim Saltonstall & his Japanese ‘ferrets’ work with 25 coaches
Event News
The International 420 Class, with the Japanese Sailing Federation, organised a second Asian Coaches’ Seminar at the Wakayama Sailing Centre in Japan, led by Jim Saltonstall.
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