The first event of the ISAF Sailing World Cup 2009-2010 is Sail Melbourne, a grueling five days of championship sailing which took place last week. After varying conditions and intensely competitive racing, the regatta culminated in a very successful showing by the Australians. (results below). The Australian team of Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page remained on top throughout the whole regatta in the Men’s 470 class with an impressive performance of all first place finishes. They were followed by Americans Stuart Mcnay and Graham Biehl. Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie, also of Australia, swept the women’s division. In the 49er class, composed almost entirely of Australian teams, Iain Jensen and Nathan Outteridge took home the gold while in the 2.4 Metres, a win in the final race transferred the regatta from Australian Michael Leydon to Canadian Paul Tingley. Australian James Patterson solidly won the Finn class as did his countrymen Duncan and Peter Macgregor in the Skud 18. In the Laser classes, American Clayton Johnson dropped his disappointing last race to win in the full rig class while Paige Railey, also of the US, pulled ahead of Dutch Marit Bouwmeester to win the radials by just one point. And finally, Leonard Ong of Singapore and Jessica Crisp of Australia took home the RS:X classes. To see a full report, check out the Sail Melbourne site at http://www.sailmelbourne.com.au/home.html.

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