Going into the final day the US sonar team of Alphonsus Doerr/Bradley Kendell/Hugh Freund looked a good bet to medal and even had a chance to win gold. Unfortunately it wasn’t their strongest day and seventh and eighth place finishes gave them a big hit in the standings. The 15 points from those two finishes were more than their last five races combined and they ended up third, a point behind second place. Thankfully their strong finishes earlier in the week were enough to keep them in third with a four point margin and they took home a third place finish.

In the 2.4m races Dee Smith continued to be the best among the four Americans competing and ended the competition on a high note by winning the final race after being fifth in the first race of the day. Smith finished sixth overall, same as in Miami. Daniel Evans was the second best American finishing 13th in his first competition of the year.

In the men’s RS:X Pedro Pascual finished 28th, 35th, and 34th and settled for 38th for the event. He surpassed his 24th place overall finish from Miami only once in the ten races in Hyeres.

Caleb Paine rebounded in the Finn class with an 11th place finish good enough to secure him a place in Sunday’s final. In the men’s 470 Stuart Mcnay/David Hughes were 19th in the opener, really damaging any medal hopes, but rebounded with two second place finishes to ensure they were in the final. They may not be able to win as they did in Miami but hopefully they can finish strong in the final.

In the Nacra 17 races the team of Bora Gulari/Louisa Chafee would have needed an extremely strong day to contend for a spot in the final race and did have two good results finishing seventh and sixth after a 21st place finish to start the day. They wound up 15th overall. It wasn’t a good start to the day for the women’s 470 team of Anne Haeger/Briana Provancha who took a penalty and finished 26th in race one. That result ended up taking them out of final race contention despite finishing 10th and 14th in their final two races. They finished 13th overall.

Christopher Barnard finished 36th and 30th in his two Laser races on Saturday, his seventh place finish in race four the only time he got into the top 23 in Hyeres. Overall his 36th place finish was a move up from 51st in Miami. Things did not end well for Thomas Barrows II/Joseph Morris (US Virgin Islands) in the 49er as their two worst results of the event (outside of a DNF in race three) came on Saturday when they were 36th and 35th.

Finally in the women’s RS:X Marion Lepert finished 24th-25th-16th and had to settle for 19th place overall, the same place she finished in Miami.

The final races on Sunday will see the US athletes compete in the final of the Finn and men’s 470 events.

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