Saturday, 8 May 2021
New Zealand’s Andy Maloney, one of the victorious America’s Cup crew earlier this year in Auckland, took a first-day lead in the 65
th Finn Gold Cup at Porto - which double as the Finn World Championships - after placing third and second in the first two races.
Meanwhile his America’s Cup teammate and defending champion Josh Junior is in fifth position after placing tenth and fifth.
Junior, one of four previous world champions involved in this prestigious event, hasn’t raced a major Finn event since his victory in 2019.
Switzerland’s current world number one Nils Theuninck is four points adrift of Maloney on nine points, having finished second and seventh.
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Friday, 7 May 2021, 2:50 pm
A
lot has changed in the last 18 months but Josh Junior will
be hoping a fair bit stays the same when he starts the
defence of his Finn Gold Cup title on Saturday night (NZ
time).
The 31-year-old created history in December
2019 when he became the first Kiwi to win the prestigious
Finn Gold Cup (world championships) since it was first
contested in 1956. That regatta, however, happens to be the
last time Junior and fellow Kiwi Andy Maloney raced in the
Finn.
There are good reasons for that, most notably
the interruptions caused by Covid-19, but there was also the