Race 4 win for Ben Ainslie in the Finns
by Mark Jardine & Gael Pawson 10 Aug 2008 10:22 BST
9-21 August 2008
An awesome win for Ben
Race 4 - In the Finns it was a solid start for Ben Ainslie who rounded the first mark in fourth place, Brazil's Eduardo Couto leading the way. As the fleet turned upside down behind the leaders, Ben managed to cling on dropping to sixth, while many of those around him were pushed right down. At the penultimate mark he was seventh, with the overall leader Zach Railey in the front. However Ben put in an awesome final leg to take the race win ahead of Railey, leaving him second overall five points behind the American and 12 points ahead of third-placed Canadian.
Finn Results: (4 races, no discard)
| Pos | Nat | Helm | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | USA | Zach Railey | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 2 | GBR | Charles Benedict Ainslie | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| 3 | CAN | Christopher Cook | 8 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 28 |
| 4 | SLO | Gasper Vincec | 9 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 31 |
| 5 | ESP | Rafa Trujillo Villar | 12 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 33 |
| 6 | CRO | Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic | 7 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 35 |
| 7 | POL | Rafal Szukiel | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 36 |
| 8 | FRA | Guillaume Florent | 5 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 36 |
| 9 | SWE | Daniel Birgmark | 14 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 38 |
| 10 | FIN | Tapio Nirkko | 18 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 45 |
| 11 | DEN | Jonas Hoegh-Christensen | 16 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 50 |
| 12 | BRA | Eduardo Couto | 6 | 16 | 27 | 7 | 56 |
| 13 | AUS | Anthony Nossiter | 11 | 22 | 8 | 17 | 58 |
| 14 | ITA | Giorgio Poggi | 17 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 59 |
| 15 | GRE | Emilios Papathanasiou | 1 | 27 | 5 | 27 | 60 |
| 16 | NZL | Dan Slater | 21 | 19 | 18 | 4 | 62 |
| 17 | CYP | Haris Papadopoulos | 13 | 18 | 21 | 11 | 63 |
| 18 | IRL | Timothy Goodbody | 22 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 65 |
| 19 | TUR | Ali Kemal Tufekci | 20 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 72 |
| 20 | NED | Pieter-Jan Postma | 19 | 15 | 16 | 22 | 72 |
| 21 | RUS | Eduard Skornyakov | 24 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 74 |
| 22 | IND | Nachhatar Singh Johal | 4 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 75 |
| 23 | CZE | Michael Maier | 15 | 14 | 22 | 25 | 76 |
| 24 | NOR | Peer Moberg | 23 | 27 | 11 | 19 | 80 |
| 25 | VEN | Johnny Bilbao | 26 | 12 | 25 | 23 | 86 |
| 26 | CHN | Peng Zhang | 25 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 92 |
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