The US sonar team of Alphonsus Doerr/Bradley Kendell/Hugh Freund had a fantastic Thursday as they finished second in both of their races and jumped up to second overall. Their ninth place finish from Wednesday had been holding them back but with some strong finishes from here in the final five races they could be real contenders to medal. Caleb Paine also continued to have success in the Finn class races in Hyeres on Thursday where he finished seventh and fifth and stayed in the top five overall in fourth place. With five races remaining and no awful results so far Paine has some potential margin for error and is right in the thick of the battle for second and third.

In the 2.4m category Dee Smith remained the top American after two races on Thursday where he finished seventh and ninth and is now in seventh place overall. Daniel Evans had a 17th and 11th place finish but stayed in the top ten at ninth. In the Nacra 17 race the team of Bora Gulari/Louisa Chafee had four races to complete and went 12th-19th-20th-16th and moved up to 18th.

In the men’s 470 Stuart Mcnay/David Hughes finished eighth in both of their races making in three straight eighth place finishes and placing them, you guessed it, eight overall. The women’s team of Anne Haeger/Briana Provancha bounced back from a DNF in their second race on Wednesday with a 14th place finish and a second place finish on Thursday. They are now 11th overall with five races left. Christopher Barnard had struggled to two 38th place finishes on Wednesday and Thursday didn’t start off any better with a DSQ in his first race before he finally broke through with a seventh place finish in the final race of the day.

Over in the 49er there were three more races where Thomas Barrows II/Joseph Morris (US Virgin Islands) went 24th-33rd-26th but fell from 30th to 34th while in the men’s RS:X Pedro Pascual is up one spot to 38th after finishing 21st-35th-35th. Finally in the women’s RS:X Marion Lepert fell from fifth place to 12th after starting the second day roughly with 28th and 27th place finishes before a fourth place finish to wrap things up.

The 2.4m, Sonar, 49er, and RS:X men’s and women’s categories will have three races on Thursday while the men’s and women’s 470, Finn, and Laser categories have two races. Finally the Nacra 17 has four races again on Thursday.

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