470 World Championship - Perfect start for Belcher and Page

11:29 PM Tue 13 Jul 2010 GMT

'Belcher and Page racing in Holland - 470 World Championship 2010' Thom Touw &copy

The Australian Sailing Team's 470 men's crew of Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page have got their 2010 470 World Championship campaign off to the perfect start winning the opening three races of the regatta in The Netherlands. The Australian pair was the class of the fleet in The Hague with their three wins in light, tricky conditions giving them a four point lead over French crew Nicolas Charbonnier and Baptiste Meyer Dieu with Great Britain's Nic Asher and Elliot Willis a further six points behind. 'We couldn't have hoped for a better start to the regatta,' said Belcher. 'The conditions ...

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