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USA and Australia hold lead at Youth Worlds as breeze eases on day 3

31
Dec 2015
Day three of the 45th Youth Sailing World Championships saw the wind ease off just a little to 16 knots on the waters off Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Still on top of the boy's 420 is USA's Will Logue and Bram Brakman despite a discarded sixth and a second place which gives them 11 points to date.

Challenging the Americans is Australia's Alec Brodie and Xavier Winston Smith. They mimicked their rivals scores of a sixth and second, but with a ninth place finish on day two they carry their sixth place. Brodie and Smith have 16 points.

Climbing up to third with a perfect day was Leonardo Lombardi and Rodrigo Luz (BRA) who took two bullets and finished the day on 19 points. With their closes rivals having consistently higher finishes so far, the Brazilians needed the bullets to stay in touch at the top.

Australian's Nia Jerwood and Lisa Smith still lead the way in the girl's 420 as they took a bullet in the first race of the day. They could only follow that up with a 12th place though, but lucky for the duo they can discard the lower placement.

Jerwood and Smith's Trans-Tasman neighbours, New Zealand's Kerensa Jennings and Chelsea Rees took the other bullet of the day, but 15th place followed and they sit sixth overall on 35 points.

Second on the leaderboard is Poland's Julia Szmit and Hanna Dzik who scored a second and third to put them on 14 points. Third place is held by Austria's Angelika Kohlendorfer and Viktoria Puxkandl on 26 points.

As the Championship reaches the halfway stage, 420 Class Coach, Nikos Drougkas, who has been appointed by the International 420 Class to support all 420 teams, today put a focus on minimising mistakes in his team briefing. Find out more.

Information on how to follow the Youth Worlds from 29 December through to its conclusion on 3 January is available below.

RESULTS / ENTRIES
Entries for the Youth Worlds are available to view here http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/entries/malysia_entries.php and results will be available to view here when racing starts on 29 December http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/results/index.php

PHOTOGRAPHY
Imagery throughout the Youth Worlds is available to view on the website gallery - www.isafyouthworlds.com/multimedia/photo_gallery.php

VIDEO
Beau Outteridge will be providing daily online highlights throughout the duration of the Youth Worlds. Videos will be available to view on the World Sailing TV YouTube playlist - click here for the playlist.

PRESS RELEASES
World Sailing will be releasing international press releases after racing throughout the duration of the Youth Worlds. All the latest news and reports will be available to read here - http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/news/index.php

FOLLOW RACING
The Youth Worlds live blog will be following the racing from 29 December through to the conclusion of the event on 3 January 2016. Follow the blog here - http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/multimedia/live_blog.php

SOCIAL MEDIA
The hashtags of the Youth Worlds are #YouthSailing #2015YouthWorlds

Follow the event on World Sailing's social networks:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ISAFYouthWorlds
Instagram - https://instagram.com/isafworldsailing/
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/youthworlds
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/WorldSailingTV
Periscope - https://www.periscope.tv/isafupdates

Source: World Sailing

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