47 Team Australia members with family and friends competed in the 2018 Hansa World and International Championships 11^th -18^th October in Hiroshima, Japan. With light and variable winds on all five days of the regatta conditions for the 191 sailors from 24 countries called for very careful and tactical sailing to complete the trapezoid course in the time.

By the end of day 4 the 52 fleet 303 doubles had completed eight races now being able to drop two worst races, 19 fleet 2.3 singles had completed 5 races and 43 fleet 303 singles and 34 fleet Liberty had completed 7 races so just one drop.  So on the last day 303 doubles did not sail and were able to watch from the fully accessible tsunami wall, the three singles fleet got in two races in a fading wind.

The final medal results for Australia are;

2.3s

1^st Chris Ruston                 Gold Coast Sailing Club

3^rd Neil Rowsthorn          Sailability Gold Coast

303s

2^nd Chris Symonds           Wynyard Yacht Club

303w

2^nd Michael Darby and    Wynyard Yacht Club

      Chris Symonds

Liberty

1^st Bob Schahinger           Royal SA Yacht Squadron

The next World Championships will be in Newport Beach, California October 2020.

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