Along with the Spanish team, Australia continues to impress and also hold four top-three positions in the World Rankings.

The leading sailors and top nations all consolidate their positions in the latest release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings on 15 April 2009.

Following on from the European debut of the ISAF Sailing World Cup at the Trofeo SAR Princess Sofia MAPFRE in Palma, the latest release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings puts Spain on top of the national standings. The Spanish team put in a strong performance on their home waters, winning four ISAF Sailing World Cup medals including a gold for Blanca Manchon in the Women's RS:X. With no changes amongst any of the top-three crews in this Ranking release, Spain maintain their position at the top of the national standings with two crews ranked at #1 and two at #2 across the nine Olympic fleet racing events.

Along with the Spanish team, Australia continues to impress and also hold four top-three positions in the World Rankings. Poland and Great Britain also look strong with three top-three ranked crews apiece.

After topping the sailing medal table at the 2008 Olympic Games, Skandia Team GBR have continued where they left off in Beijing, winning 16 medals across the three ISAF Sailing World Cup events held to date. The USA have also a very strong start to the ISAF Sailing World Cup season with 15 medals won, although 12 of those came at their home event, US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR.

The next release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings will be on 29 April 2009 following on the Semaine Olympique Francaise, event four of the ISAF Sailing World Cup.

Visit the ISAF World Sailing Rankings homepage at www.sailing.org/rankings for more on the latest Ranking release and dates for all 2009 Ranking releases.

World Ranking Leaders - 15 April 2009

Heavyweight Dinghy - Finn  Gasper Vincec (SLO)
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial Anna Tunnicliffe (USA)
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser Tom Slingsby (AUS)
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470 Sven Coster and Kalle Coster (NED)
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470  Ai Kondo and Naoko Kamata (ITA)
Skiff - 49er Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez (ESP)
Men's Keelboat - Star  Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada (BRA)
Men's Windsurfer - RS:X Julien Bontemps (FRA)
Women's Windsurfer - RS:X Marina Alabau (ESP)

Windsurfing - Women - RS:X - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Marina Alabau  ESP
2 Bryony Shaw GBR
3 Olgo Maslivets UKR

Fleet racing - Women - Laser Radial - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Anna Tunnicliffe USA
2 Gintare Volungeviciute  LTU
3 Sarah Blanck AUS

Fleet racing - Women - 470 - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Ai Kondo JPN    Crew  Naoko Kamata
2 Ingrid Petitjean FRA Crew Nadage Douroux & Gwendolyn Lemaitre
3 Elise Rechichi AUS  Crew Tessa Parkinson

Fleet racing - Women - Yngling - Wednesday 4 February 2009

1 Sarah Ayton GBR  Crew  Sarah Webb & Pippa Wilson
2 Ekaterina Skudina RUS Crew Diana Krutskikh & Natalia Ivanova
3 Ulrike Schuemann GER Crew Ute Hoeofner & Julia Bleck

Windsurfing - Men - RS:X - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Julien Bontemps FRA
2 Ivan Paster Lafuente SPA
3 Przemyslaw Miarczynski POL

Fleet racing - Men - Laser - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Tom Slingsby AUS
2 Paul Goodison GBR
3 Michael Leigh CAN

Fleet racing - Men - 470 - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Sven Coster NED Crew Kalle Coster
2 Nathan Wilmot AYS Crew Malcolm Page
3 Nick Rogers GBR Crew Joe Glanfield

Fleet racing - Men - Star - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Robert Scheidt Robert BRA Crew Bruno Prada
2 Mateusz Kusznierewicz POL Crew Dominik Zycki
3 Flavio Marazzi SUI Crew Enrico De Maria, Christoph Christen & Petter Morland Pedersen

Fleet racing - Open - Tornado - Wednesday 4 February 2009

1 Darren Bundock AUS Crew Glenn Ashby
2 Fernando Echavarri ESP Crew Anton Paz Blanco
3 Leigh McMillan GBR Crew Will Howden

Fleet racing - Open - 49er - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Iker Martinez de Lizarduy ESP Crew Xabier Fernandez Gaztañaga
2 Pietro Sibello ITA Crew Gianfranco Sibello
3 Jonas Warrer DEN Martin Kirketerp Ibsen

Fleet racing - Open - Finn - Wednesday 15 April 2009

1 Gasper Vincec SLO
2 Rafa  Trujillo Villar ESP
3 Pieter-Jan Postma NED