The Crimean athlete Maxim Oberemko yesterday managed to move from 21st place in the overall standings to 15th, coming third in two races and tenth in the third.
Today he faced three final races of the preliminary stage. The Russian athlete needs to finish in the top ten to get into the medal race. So far, Dorian van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands is in first place in the men's RS:X, with Nick Dempsey of Great Britain coming in second.
In women's RS:X Stefania Jelfutina has consistently strong results. The Russian finished seventh, eighth and ninth races in 8th, 4th and 6th position.
Both Stephanie and Charlene are only one point behind the Italian leader Flavia Tartalini.
The women's crew of the 470 class also showed good results yesterday: Alisa Kirilyuk and Ludmila Dmitrieva started the regatta with false starts and disqualifications, but managed to collect themselves and come sixth and ninth in the third and fourth races. Today the girls have two more races ahead of them in the preliminary stage.
In the overall standings Sozykin and Gribanov slipped from 12th to 13th place. As acting head coach of the sailing team Natalia Fedorova said the athletes did not have time to explore all the local waters before the start of the Olympics: Pavel Sozykin had not trained for the last five days, waiting for the IOC decision. Recall that the Russian was not allowed to compete because his name was mentioned in the report of the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA, and only a few hours before the Olympics opening a positive decision on his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport was taken.
