The final day of racing in the Laser World Open and Women’s Championships got underway at Buffalo Canoe Club in Ontario, Canada after a one hour delay to allow the wind to build.

In the Women’s championship Katarzyna Szotynski from Poland scored a third behind her closest rival, Miranda Powrie of New Zealand and race winner Abigail Devlin of the USA to take her third Laser Radial title with a race to spare.

In the Open Championship Karlo Krpeljevic from Croatia did not have it so easy, scoring an eighth place. His nearest rival Chris Ashley (USA) helped him by placing 17th, his worst result in the series. Race winner Ryan Minth (USA) started at the committee boat end of the line and was never headed.

Ashley still had a chance if he could score a top three placing in the last race but lost that chance after being disqualified for only completing seven-eighths of a penalty turn for a rule 42 infringement.

Open fleet overall results
(including two discards)
1CRO 165703Karlo Krpeljevic, 37pts
2USA 175233Chris Ashley, 51pts
3BRA 171250Tiago Rodrigues, 59pts
4CAN 167281David Wright, 60pts
5NZL 158879Jake Bartrom, 60pts
6TUR 151310Orkun Soyer, 72pts
7CRO 167973Tonko Kuzmanic, 77pts
8NZL 158892Craig Prentice, 83pts
9VEN 157892Eduardo Cordero, 99pts
10ARG 173891Luis Horacio Canuto, 103pts

Women’s fleet overall results(including two discards)
1POL 172735Katarzyna Szotynski, 19pts
2NZL 171103Miranda Powrie, 26pts
3IRL 164729Ciara Peelo, 36pts
4AUS 173437Nicky Souter, 59pts
5AUS 163919Alison Casey-Hall, 67pts
6CAN 159067Katelyn Thompson, 72pts
7IRL 173815Debbie Hanna, 73pts
8USA 166931Lindsay Buchan, 75pts
9USA 166919Abigail Devlin, 80pts
10CAN 159927Olivia Simpson, 82pts