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Final results for the NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team at the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championship:
420 Boys
13th Josh Berry and Henry Haslett: 13,13,14,6, (16),13,15,10,5
420 Girls
8th Courtney Reynolds-Smith and Brianna Reynolds-Smith: 6,4, (16),12,3,13,5,6,9
29er Boys
10th Francesco Kayrouz and Oscar Gunn: 11,11,11,1,4,8, 13,12,2,10,(18),15,17
29er Girls
3nd Greta Stewart and Kate Stewart: (13),4,7,7,6,4,5,3,2,7,6,7,6
Nacra 15
6th Jackson Keon and Tom Fyfe: 3, (21DSQ), 2,10,7,10,6,11,13,8,15,8,4
Laser Radial Boys
7th George Gautrey: 5,2, 5DPI1,8DPI1,13, 26, 19, (49),21
Laser Radial Girls
18th Olivia Christie: 7,18,30,7, (48[UFD],17, 30, 19,11
RS:X Boys:
9th Patrick Haybittle: 4,6,10,11,8,7, (28UFD), 18,11,8,3,8,20
Photos: Sailing Energy/World Sailing
Full results see here:
http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/results/index.php
ABOUT THE YOUTH WORLDS
The Youth Worlds was first held in Sweden in 1971. The 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand will be the 46th edition of the championship. More than 380 sailors from 66 nations sailing in more than 260 boats across nine disciplines will compete in New Zealand.
Past notable winners include American's Cup skippers, Chris Dickson (NZL), Russell Coutts (NZL), Dean Barker (NZL); Olympic medalists, Nathan Outteridge (AUS), Iain Jensen (AUS), Robert Scheidt (BRA), Amelie Lux (GER), Ben Ainslie (GBR), Iain Percy (GBR), Alessandra Sensini (ITA), Elise Rechichi (AUS), Dan Slater (NZL) and Tessa Parkinson (AUS); Volvo Ocean Race sailors like Stuart Bannatyne (NZL) and Richard Clarke (CAN). The most successful Youth World Champions are Great Britain's Sally Cuthbert and Poland's Zofia Klepacka having won four successive titles in the Laser II and Mistral respectively.
Australia is the current holder of the Nations Trophy, awarded annually to the top performing nation at the Youth Worlds. France is the most success nation through the history of the Championship, winning the Nations Trophy on a record eleven occasions and holding a record 76 medals: 28 gold, 30 silver and 18 bronze.
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