{"id":581965,"date":"2026-08-27T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581965\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:10","slug":"2026-ilca-7-world-championships-day-2-new-zealands-tom-saunders-george-gautrey-and-caleb-armit-qualify-for-gold-fleet-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581965\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 ILCA 7 World Championships, Day 2: New Zealand’s Tom Saunders, George Gautrey and Caleb Armit qualify for gold fleet in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three New Zealand sailors have booked their places in the gold fleet after a strong second day of qualifying at the 2026 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship in D\u00fan Laoghaire, Ireland.<\/p>\n

Tom Saunders backed up his Day 1 race win with a ninth and a sixth last night (NZ time), moving up three places to 16th overall and comfortably inside the gold-fleet cut-off.<\/p>\n

Tom Saunders leads the New Zealand charge at the ILCA 7 World Championships. Photos \/ Down Under Sail<\/p>\n

George Gautrey climbed 10 places to 21st after a fourth and an eighth put him firmly among the leading pack heading into the elimination series, while the day’s biggest mover was Caleb Armit, who more halved his overall ranking with a third and a fifth \u2014 jumping from 78th on Day 1 to 39th, and into the eliminations series.<\/p>\n

George Pilkington (92nd) and Zach Tibbe (104th) finished the qualifying series in the silver fleet and will continue racing there.<\/p>\n

George Gautrey climbed 10 spots on Day 2. Photo \/ Down Under Sail<\/p>\n

Two races were sailed on Day 2, in conditions that started around 11 knots with some swell before easing to 7\u20139 knots.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s Finn Lynch has retained the overall lead on nine points, ahead of Germany’s Ole Schweckendiek (12) and Hungary’s Jonat\u00e1n Vadnai (14).<\/p>\n

Racing continues tonight with the first two races of the elimination series, sailors split across gold, silver and bronze fleets. First warning signal is 11pm (NZ time).<\/p>\n

Latest results and standings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three New Zealand sailors have booked their places in the gold fleet after a strong second day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-581965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}