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July 2021

Tokyo 2020: Matthew Wearn (AUS) is the Laser Olympic Champion

Matthew Wearn (AUS) is Laser Olympic Champion in Enoshima with a day to spare. The Aussie sailor had to have 8 boats between him and Pavlos Kontides (CYP) in the last race of the series before the Sunday medal race, and he did in a very nail biting light wind race.

The Laser Men took place at  Enoshima Course, Tokyo, Japan, and the weather is partly cloudy with a risk of showers and thunderstorms, the race area surface wind SSW-S 4-6kt, S-SSE 5-9kt from 9LT, S-SSE 9-11kt G 11-13kt from 11LT, SE 9-10kt from 17LT with gradient winds SSW 10kt, S-SSE 10kt from 10LT.

Here are the top 10 overall results for Laser Men Class  as of July 30, 2021

1st  Australia Matt Wearn

2nd Cyprus Pavlos Kontides

3rd   Croatia Tonci Stipanovic 

4th    Norway Hermann Tomasgaard 

5th    France Jean Baptiste Bernaz

6th    Brazil Robert Scheidt

7th    ROC Sergei Komissarov

8th    Great Britain Elliot Hanson

9th   Finland Kaarle Tapper

10th   Korea Jeemin Ha

Source:https://tokyo2020.sailing.org/results-centre/