Chloe Turner is third at the ILCA 6 Youth World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and closing fast on the sailors ahead of her.
The 17-year-old Aucklander carried her qualifying form into the gold fleet with scores of six and two on Aarhus Bay, holding the red bib as New Zealand's leading sailor. Greece's Hermionie Ghicas leads after winning six races in a row, a run finally ended by Ireland's Sienna Wright in the second gold fleet race. Turner sits on 30 points, 16 behind Ghicas, with Wright on 14 and the Czech Republic's Beata Dokoupilova fourth on 32.
Two races are scheduled each day over the final two days. Turner is well placed.
Tom Pilkington leads the Kiwi charge in the men's fleet, sitting 15th in a field of more than 300 sailors and within striking distance of the top 10. Arran Begic (43rd) and Toby Dunn (61st) are alongside him in the gold fleet, while Thomas Linklater (114th) and Isaac Gaites (118th) are in the silver fleet. The Aarhus Bay conditions are notoriously shifty in a sou'westerly, though the regatta schedule has not elaborated on what the fleet encountered today.
In the bronze fleet, Lukas Johnson had one of the better Kiwi days on the water. A second in the opening race, then a win in the second. That lifted him to seventh in bronze and 163rd overall, with teammates Thomas Jurczyluk and George Turner 174th and 177th respectively.
