The World Windsurfing Championship entered its third day today (Wednesday), marking the continuation of Israeli dominance, with Sharon Cantor flying eight places up the table after an excellent day of sailing.
Kantor started the day in tenth place, and today won three races and finished second in two more.
She now stands in second place overall with 14 points to her credit, six points above the leader of the competition, the British Emma Wilson, who continues to display almost perfect surfing abilities.
Tomorrow Kantor will wear the blue jersey, marking the second place in the competition and will try to continue to threaten Wilson in order to inherit the leader's yellow jersey.
The top ten in the championship is still dominated by the Israelis, with four other contestants.
Kati Spichkov rose from sixth to fifth place, after winning the first cruise of the day and then finishing in places 5,5,7,3, Tamar Steinberg right behind her in sixth place, with a drop of one place after cruises in places 5,4,2,3 and 32nd place In a weak last cruise.
In seventh place is Shahar Tibi, with an increase of two places from yesterday after finishing cruises in places 7,2,5,2 and 15th place in the last cruise.
Two other Israelis, Maya Morris and Daniela Peleg, weakened a little today and are placed in 19th and 22nd places respectively.
In the men's team, Tom Reuveni rises to seventh place overall, after four cruises in the top ten and another cruise in 22nd place. In the men's competition, Luke van Opseeland and Nicolas Goyer are leading, with eight other competitors following them with relatively small point differences.
Reuveni has 34 points, only 9 points more than third place in the competition.
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Today the qualifying phase of the championship ended, with all the Israeli competitors qualifying for the Golden House and will compete in the next two days in order to secure their place in the top ten, who will compete for a place on the podium in the medal races on Saturday.
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