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July 2021

Tokyo 2020: Giles Scott (GBR) Defends His Lead Against Joan Cardona (ESP) on Day 7 of Finn Class

Giles Scott (GBR) is looking to defend the lead ahead of the Spaniard ten years his junior, the ambitious and tenacious Joan Cardona. Plenty of others in the hunt including third-placed Zsombor Berecz from Hungary.

The Finn Men took place at Sagami Course, Tokyo, Japan, and the weather is mostly sunny with no chance of a thunderstorm, the race area surface wind less than 6kt, SSE-SSW 6kt from 11LT,  S-SSW 7-8kt from 12LT, SSW-SW 7-8kt from 14LT, SSW-SW 6-7kt from 16LT, Less than 5kt from 18LT with gradient winds of NE 5kt → SE 5kt.

Here are the top 10 overall results for Finn Men Class  as of July 31, 2021

1st   GBR Giles Scott

2nd  ESP Joan Cardona Mendez

3rd   HUN Zsombor Berecz 

4th    NED Nicholas Heiner

5th    NZL Josh Junior

6th   ARG Facundo Mario Olezza Bazan

7th   SWE Max Salminen 

8th    TUR Alican Kaynar

9th   AUS Jake Lilley

10th    NOR Anders Oestre Pedersen

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