Lin Ea Cenholt and Christian Peter Lübeck advanced to the overall third place in the Nacra 17 at the WORLD championships in sailing.

It pulls up to a Danish medal at the WORLD championships in sailing, to be settled out of Auckland in New Zealand this week.

In the Nacra 17 advanced Lin Ea Cenholt and Christian Peter Lübeck thus to an overall podium finish at Saturday's races.

They delivered a stable series in the three races where they placed as number eight, five, and seven, and it reached to advance from fourth to third place.

The Danish duo is seven points from the italians in the first place, but are only one point after the australians in second place. At the same time, there are six points down to the brits, which is number four.

Natacha Violet Saouma-Pedersen and Mathias Bruun Borreskov is number 32.

Sunday ends the WORLD cup with two fleetsejladser in guldfeltet and a Medal Race with double points for the top-10, informs Sejlerlandsholdet on Facebook.

In the 49erFX put Ida Marie Baad and Marie Thusgaard out with a win and followed that up with a fifth place, and drew near to the podium.

But medaljehåbet suffered a crack, as it then was to a 23.-place in the last voyage. It sent the pair down as number six with 23 points up to the podium.

Anne-Julie Foght Schütt and Iben Nielsby is the total number 17.

In the men's 49er are Jonas Warrer and Jacob Precht Jensen on a total of 11.-after a Saturday with the rankings as number 24, 7 and 13.

The other Danish 49er is Mads Emil Lübeck and Nikolaj Buhl on a 23.-space.

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