PORTLAND-BASED Hannah Mills and Weymouth-based Saskia Clark will have to wait 24 hours to confirm their status as Rio 2016 470 Women’s gold medallists after no racing was possible on Guanabara Bay today.
A lack of breeze and an unfavourable wind direction put pay to any chance of getting a fair medal race on the Pão de Açucar and the race committee made the decision to abandon racing for the day for the women at 8.15pm with the cut off time to start racing at 8.30pm.
They will now return to try again from 5pm tomorrow. The Men’s 470 medal race, featuring Luke Patience and Chris Grube, had been scheduled to start an hour after the women’s race but had also been abandoned for the day at 7.45pm.
With a 20-point advantage over their nearest challengers, Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie, (NZL), Mills and Clark just have to successfully complete the double points medal race without disqualification or retiring.
If no racing is possible tomorrow, medals will be awarded on current standings, confirming the Brits as champions.
The order and times of each of tomorrow’s medal races is yet to be confirmed.
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