Australia take Womens, NZ the Mens in Nations Cup
'2008 Nations Cup Qualifer - Australia and New Zealand - Final day'
Richard Gladwell
The Australian Womens crew staged a come from behind string of wins to take the Nations Cup Qualifier, sailed off Westhavem under the burgee of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
In the Mens event the young New Zealand crew won comfortably.
With the promise of more wind in the forecast today, New Zealand's Jessica Smyth and her crew left the dock this morning determined to claw back the 4-0 lead that Katie Spithill's Australian Women's crew had scored yesterday.
Things went well and they won the first two races of the day before the Australians refound their form and then bounced back and won the next three races wi clinch the Women's place in the Nations Cup Final in Brazil next year.
The Austrailian and New Zealand mens teams continued their close battle from yesterday, trading wins before young Adrian Short and his Kiwi crew put three wins together to give them a buffer and then went on to be the eventual winners by 7 - 4.
NEW ZEALAND
Women's Team:
Jessica Smyth
Raynor Smeal
Anna de Fluiter
Amy Mulcahy
Open Division
Adrian Short
Scott Burling
Peter Burling
AUSTRALIA
Women's Team
Katie Spithall
Nina Curtis
Jessica Eastwell
Amanda Scrivenor
Open Division
Evan Walker
Will Ryan
Edward Hackney
by RNZYS Media and Sail-World
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