{"id":69717,"date":"2021-08-03T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=69717"},"modified":"2023-05-06T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T03:00:05","slug":"final-day-of-olympic-sailing-to-mark-the-end-of-mens-and-womens-470","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/final-day-of-olympic-sailing-to-mark-the-end-of-mens-and-womens-470\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Day of Olympic Sailing To Mark the end of Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s 470"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\n Nacra 17 Olympians Riley Gibbs and Anna Weiss battle to a third-place finish in the Medal Race to finish ninth overall.<\/span>\n World Sailing\/Sailing Energy<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

World Sailing Results and Reports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

In the Nacra 17, Riley Gibbs (Long Beach, Calif.) and Anna Weis (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) submitted a strong 3rd place performance in the double-points medal race and ended their event in 9th overall. Team USA\u2019s Stu McNay (Providence, R.I.) and Dave Hughes (Miami, Fla.) will compete in the Men\u2019s 470 medal race tomorrow, while Nikole Barnes (St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.) and Lara Dallman-Weiss (Shoreview, Minn.) narrowly missed qualifying in the Women\u2019s 470 and finished 12th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

For Gibbs and Weis, who began their campaign three years ago in the high-performance foiling mixed multihull, an excellent showing in the medal race capped a rapid ascent through the international Nacra 17 ranks. The Pan American Games gold medalists executed one of the strongest starts in the fleet, and used that as a springboard to finish 3rd in the race and 9th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought we did a really good job with our [starting] line homework and our procedures going into it,\u201d said Gibbs, who medaled at the Youth World Sailing Championship in 2014. \u201cWe\u2019ve developed a process with starting and Anna was doing a really good job calling our distance from the line and where boats were behind us. It was really nice to have everyone else fighting each other out there, and that gave us a green light to have our own start. And it\u2019s nice that we were able to execute something that we\u2019ve been working on for the last three years or so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Gibbs and Weis earned single-digit scores in 8 of the 13 races they sailed this week, a few of which involved comebacks from deep in the highly-accomplished pack. \u201cI think our strength of the week was our ability to rally and reset after having a bad race or errors,\u201d said Weis, who along with Gibbs was coached by Beijing 2008 U.S. Olympian Sally Barkow (Nashotah, Wis.). \u201cHaving that in our back pocket, and being able to reset and really move forward and focus on one race at a time really helped us out and allowed us to compete in each moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Gibbs was quick to mention that a key part of their ability to become competitive in the international fleet was a strong group of teams back home in the U.S. \u201cWe had amazing training partners like Bora Gulari, Louisa Chafee, Helena Scutt, Sarah Newberry, David Liebenberg, Ravi Parent, and Caroline Atwood. Making the medal race here is an accomplishment, and to be able to say that they\u2019ve really helped us out I think is really special. They should feel connected to this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Weis also expressed hope that seeing the visually dynamic foiling multihulls on NBC back home would boost the sport in the U.S. \u201cI hope the coverage on TV inspires more young women to get involved and get into the class because it\u2019s mixed gender,\u201d said Weis, who in addition to her multihull credentials was the 2016 Women\u2019s Singlehanded National Champion in the Laser Radial. \u201cI think sometimes girls shy away from [mixed gender sailing]. But I think the mixed gender aspect creates a really fun and challenging dynamic. So hopefully that inspires more females to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Stu McNay and David Hughes squeaked into the Medal Race on the last day of qualification.<\/span>\n World Sailing\/Sailing Energy<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

In the Men\u2019s 470, Stu McNay (Providence, R.I.) and Dave Hughes (Miami, Fla.) faced a do-or-die battle to get into the medal race heading into the final two qualifying races today. With an 8,11, they moved up to 10th overall secured their spot in tomorrow\u2019s final. However, the 4th place finishers from Rio 2016 were mathematically eliminated from medal contention here in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the at the end of the day, we\u2019re happy to have made the medal race,\u201d said Hughes, who is competing at his second consecutive Games as an athlete after also coaching the Team USA 49er at London 2012. \u201cThis regatta has been a knife fight and the standard that this 470 fleet has shown is impressive. Our class has really grown during this five-year period since the last Olympics, and it is amazing to see what people have done to build their performance, ourselves included. It is just so inspiring to sail at this level against competitors who we\u2019ve known for years, and who we really respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

While a medal may be out of reach, McNay and Hughes have the opportunity to significantly advance up the standings tomorrow. The Americans will enter the race in 10th overall with 78 points, and could advance as high as 6th overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cTomorrow, the plan is absolutely to win the medal race,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cIf you\u2019re not willing to totally grab these opportunities, then you really shouldn\u2019t be in the medal race. It will also be bittersweet, because tomorrow represents the last two medal races of this era of Olympic 470 sailing [since the class will become a mixed-gender Olympic event moving forward]. It\u2019s absolutely an honor to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

In the Women\u2019s 470, first-time Olympians Nikole Barnes (St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.) and Lara Dallman-Weiss (Shoreview, Minn.) were called over the start line in Race 9, and earned a UFD penalty. In the final qualifying race, they came in contact with the pin end of the line during the start, and finished 19th. Unfortunately, despite battling in the top ten overall for much of the past five days of racing, Barnes and Dallman-Weiss dropped to 12th on Tuesday and narrowly missed medal race qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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\n Nikki Barnes and Laura Dallman-Weiss concluded their regatta with uncharacteristic mistakes: one black flag and catching the starting pin in the final race, eliminating them from the Medal Race.<\/span>\n World Sailing\/Sailing Energy<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n

Despite the pressure of a medal race berth being up for grabs today, the Americans sought to execute strong starts and control their destiny. \u201cWe\u2019re not a team that usually gets letter scores; I think that\u2019s usually one of our strengths,\u201d said Dallman-Weiss. \u201cThroughout the regatta we saw that the first beat was just so important, and on this last day we wanted to fight for a great spot [on the starting line] and it just didn\u2019t work out. Olympic sailing is all about fighting until the last race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

While the team expressed disappointment at missing the medal race, they also said that they were pleased with their progress since teaming up three years ago. \u201cIn our [pre-pandemic] World Championship before the most recent Worlds in Vilamoura [Portugal] this year, we finished 30th. Then in 2021 we finished seventh at the Worlds. The numbers [from Tokyo] don\u2019t show the full story of our team, and all the hard work that has gone into it,\u201d said Barnes, who is an active-duty officer in the United States Coast Guard. \u201cOf course, we wanted to make the medal race and to be in medal contention. But I guess this is the universe\u2019s way of saying \u2018not this time, nice job, but keep pushing.\u2019 So, it\u2019s heartbreaking, but we also learned a ton and we left it all out on the water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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