On the third day of Radial Youth, New Zealander, Blair McLay, guaranteed his absolute leadership of the competition. He is undefeated after winning all six races in the last three days. Between the Brazilians, Daniel Jakobsson is on top in 6th place. His compatriot André Ribeiro is in 18th. Between women, who are competing together with men at the same regattas, the leadership is kept by Cushla Hume-Merry, from New Zealand. She´s got the 38th position at the general classification.

After getting even the first place two days in a row with the portuguese Frederico Melo, Blair McLay could celebrate his absolute leadership, since Frederico finished in 3rd position at the second race. “I am happy. My strategy is to go on sailing the same way until the end”, says Blair. Frederico moaned the loss of the first position. “I made some wrong movements that make me drop a few places at the general classification. The conditions of the line were more difficult today. The ones that were at the endings had better performances”, he explained. Jakobsson´s day was better than yesterday, but he admits he can still get improvement. “I liked the last races although I couldn´t put right some movements”, he declared.

New Zealander Cushla Hume-Merry had problems at the first race with a part of her boat, but even so she´s still the best between female athletes. “Tomorrow I got to take a trick out of my sleeve, because today british Sara Williams almost overcame my position”. The best brazilian sailor is still Fernanda Decnop, who finished the day in 66th place.

On this Wednesday, after 6 races, the worst performance of each athlete was discarded. Tomorrow after two more races (total of eight), the qualifying phase will be ended. So the final phase begins Friday, when the 103 sailors will be divided in 2 fleets: gold – for the ones that reach until the 51st place – and silver, for the rest of them. The competition goes on until Saturday between 103 athletes from 26 countries. Radial Youth reunites youngsters until the age of 18 considered the next generation of Laser.

The Laser Worlds 2005 includes four world championships: Senior (September 19th to 28th), Master (September 30th to October 8th), Radial Open & Women (December 3rd to 9th) and Radial Youth (December 10th to 17th). The events are organized by the International Laser Class Association, Brazilian Laser Class Association, Ceara State Sailing Federation, Brazilian Sailing Federation and Yacht Club of Fortaleza. The sponsors are: Ceara State Government, thru the Sports and Youth Bureau, Marina Park Hotel and Hamburg Süd. The event also has the support of the brazilian navy, Banco do Nordeste do Brasil, Mayor of Fortaleza, Unilink, Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club and Pirata Bar.