The Olympic 49er silver medalists Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have captured gold at the latest Sailing World Cup event in France with a day to spare.
The New Zealand pair recorded a win and a second place finish on the penultimate day's racing to take an unassailable 45 point lead into Monday morning's medal races.
Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech will go into the 49erFX medal race in 9th place.
They sailed four races on Sunday going 18-15-5-11 to inch one place up the leader board and lie equal on points with the Norwegian crew in 8th.
In the 470 class, two excellent results from Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie has put them back within closer reach of the podium.
They opened the day with a win, followed by a 3rd and now hold 4th overall.
Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie Photo: PHOTOSPORT
In the men's 470, Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox sailed to 26th and 2nd in their two races on day four and retain 5th overall.
1st Peter Burling and Blair Tuke - 49er (2, 9, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 20, 2, 1, 21)
13th Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski - 49er (9, 12, 19, 29, 16, 35, 9, 15, 1, 23, 17, 30)
9th Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech - 49erFX (12, 16, 18, 14, 4, 9, 15, 28, 18, 15, 5, 11)
4th Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie - Women's 470 (3, 25, 6, 5, 17, 12, 1, 3)
5th Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox - Men's 470 (24, 7, 18, 5, 9, 1, 26, 2)
8th Josh Junior - Finn (33, 27, 7, 10, 11, 15, 2, 11)
12th Andrew Murdoch - Finn (5, 5, DNF, 28, 31, 9, 6, 8)
8th Andy Maloney - Laser (12, 9, 18, 7, 10, 3, 21, 25)
12th Thomas Saunders - Laser (16, 30, 14, 30, 17, 12, 13, 1)
14th Sam Meech - Laser (11, 2, DSQ, 39,7, 6, 5, UFD )
19th Mike Bullot - Laser (21, 18, 12, 22, 34, 20, 11, 24)
21st Sara Winther - Laser Radial (26, 11, 19, 32, 30, 6, 12, 34)
16th Natalia Kosinska - Women's RS:X (27, 13, 28, 11, 3, 21, 12, 10, 29, 15.8 RDG, 4)
14th Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders - Nacra 17 (5, 18, 29, 10, 14,14, 19, 24, 13, 3, 8)
