The national sailing team of New Zealand have successfully rounded up the current season of the ISAF Sailing World Cup bagging 4 medals at the last regatta in Hyeres. Polly Powrie and Jo Aleh, who were gold medalists in Olympics picked up the gold medals in the 470 fleet for women, while the throughout consistent champion pairing of Blair Tuke and Peter Burling, post quite a great week bagged the gold. These wins got gold back to back for the crews. In the previous year’s World Cup in Palma these two fleets also aced their respective fleets.
Andy Maloney, the young Laser sailor picked up the silver in Hyeres, battling it out quite closely with the Aussie ace, Tom Burton. Alexandra, Maloney’s sister matched her brother with a silver medal in 49erFX class along with Molly Meech, her partner. These results have put the Kiwis in one of the top position in the regatta, at par as Poland and Australia. Talking about their performance, Powrie commented that Aleh and she, the present world champs and ISAF female sailors of the year are quite pleased to draw such a glorious end to the season. Together they had put in a great performance and are really glad to head back home next.
Tuke and Burling were quite excellent weeklong, while the rounded off the regatta in a spectacular way with 3 great races on the last day. Taking about the win Burling commented that he is quite excited to win the race, while they had a substantial lead, it was however mathematically possible to not win. So they made it certain that they do the job right in the first race which they had their share of fun later in the final two.