Ireland’s Annalise Murphy seventh overall at Miami Olympic classes regatta

A second in today's medal race has given Ireland's Annalise Murphy seventh overall at Miami Olympic classes regatta, the first International Sailing Federation (ISAF) World Cup regatta of 2015.

The Laser radial class was won by Denmark’s Anne Marie Rindom. Second was Belgian Evi Van Acker with World number one Marit Boumeester of Holland third.

In spite of a 12-crew team in Florida, Murphy was the only Irish interest in today's ten medal race finale. Although two of three Irish Laser men made the gold fleet neither Belfast's James Espey or Dublin's Finn Lynch made the top ten medal race cut.

In fast form in 15-knots, Murphy led the race for most of the Biscayne bay course only to lose out on a rare medal race victory to local helms woman Paige Railey, a former world champion, on the short leg to the finish.

A medal race second - counting double points - was nevertheless a significant comeback for Murphy who had put together a string of top three results earlier this week to place second overall after six races on Wednesday. A change of fortune, however, saw her counting three results in the 30s in the second half of the series, dropping her to tenth overall in the 79-boat fleet on Friday.