A day before the end of the 470 World Sailing Championship in Sdot Yam, the sailings were held today (Friday) that decided the last ten who will fight for a place on the podium.
Those who can already start celebrating are the German team Louise Wanzer and Philipp Ottenreit, who practically guaranteed the gold and the title of world champions, after they finished the two races in first and 12th place and owed only 51 negative points.
The guaranteed victory comes after the German team is 22 points ahead of the French team in second place, Cammy Lacroix and Jeremy Mignon, and since in the medal race the scoring is double and the maximum that can be absorbed is 20 points.
The German duo.
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Within the ten are three German teams, two French, a Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Austrian and British team, most of which will try to fight for the silver and bronze medals.
For the Israelis, Nitai Hasson and Noa Lesri finished the championship in 18th place, when they finished in 4th and 18th place in the day's sailing.
Gil Cohen and Noam Maari, finished in 24th place overall (17th and 27th).
"It was a very difficult competition," said Cohen and Khamari at the end, "we did our best, not everything came together as it should, not the result we wanted - but this is sport. There is no doubt that it is a great pride to host the competition here, we will have to make drastic changes to get back to where we want ".
Nitai Hason and Noa Lesri, photo: Oren Aharoni
Gil Cohen and Noam Matari, photo: Oren Aharoni
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