Despite some strong late challenges from British crews, Sweden and Germany held on to become the winners of the Delta Lloyd Junior 470 World Championships after two great Medal Races today in Medemblik, Holland. It has been a week of first too much wind, and then too little, but finally the breeze came good for the Medal Races that would decide the winners of the 60-boat Men's/Mixed fleet and the 32 Women's teams. With 10-12 knots of wind blowing, flag ‘Oscar’ was flying, allowing the crews to put in every kinetic effort and extra propulsion into the boat that they could muster.
Neither the Men's nor Women's series leaders made easy work of it, but Nicklas Dackhammar and Fredrik Bergstrom held on for Men's gold, and last year’s Junior silver medallists Annika Bochmann and Anika Lorenz went one better to clinch this year’s Women's Championship.
