Tauranga's Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have once again secured 49er gold before starting the medal race, this time at 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres in France.

Another six New Zealand crews will sail in tomorrow's medal races on the final day of the regatta.

Tauranga's Peter Burling and Blair Tuke secure another gold. Photo/File.

Donning the yellow leaders' bibs again for today's penultimate day of racing, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke come off the water with an unassailable 48 point leading margin.

Today they sailed three races, which didn't go all their way.

Burling says they were pretty happy with how the day started.

'We managed to get ourselves back to a pretty solid one in the first, win the second one and then a couple of swims in the last one (chuckling) and managed to get ourselves black flagged.”

Tuke says he didn't let the black flag incident interfere with their racing.

'A black flag is a black flag and anyone can get them if they are pushing the start.”

They are required to sail tomorrow's medal race, but are assured of the gold medal. The victory extends their winning run to 26 consecutive regatta victories in the class.

Tuke says they were a bit disappointed how they finished.

'But at the same time we sailed really well this week and it's been great fun to have some pretty strong winds.”

With the Olympic Games now less than 100 days away from starting the pair see this victory as another stepping stone towards Rio 2016.

'Obviously we are really happy with how we have been going at the moment but still like we have been saying, we have a lot of hard work to do over the next three or four months just to finish it off and finish off the final detailing,” Burling says.

'If Rio was tomorrow I don't feel like I think we are ready yet, so we've still got plenty in the tank to go and we are looking forward to the challenge.”

The second New Zealand 49er crew of Logan Dunning Beck and Jack Simpson have ended the regatta in 32^nd place.

470 – Men and Women

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie have dropped in the women's 470 standings to 6^th overall after a 17^th, a 6^th and a BFD result from the final race of the day, which they led from start to finish.

They are disappointed. 'Rough day to finish off three races today,” says Jo Aleh.

'We thought we actually sailed well, but just nothing seemed to be willing to go our way! If we were left the right paid, if we were on the left the right paid.”

'Then we finally smashed out the last race of the day, led the whole way around nice and easy. But we were black flagged. So that ruined that bit of fun… Bugger!”

'So with today that puts us rather out of contention for tomorrow's medal race… We are in 6th place and no chance of a medal. But still, it's a good chance to practice another medal race.”

Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox take 6^th place overall into the men's 470 medal race. Mixed results from today, including a 32^nd, a 19^th and a 9^th sees them slip one place overall in the standings. The pair will be aiming for a good medal race tomorrow which could see them claim a top five finish in Hyeres.

Finn

The Finn fleet sailed just one race today and a 3^rd place from Josh Junior sees him advance to tomorrow's medal race lying 4^th overall and within easy reach of the podium.

Leader Jake Lilley from Australia has a seven point lead, holding 28 points. Behind him, the battle for the minor medals will be intense with Anders Pedersen (NOR) on 35 points, Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic (CRO) on 36 points and New Zealand's Josh Junior on 37 points.

With double points up for grabs in the medal race, this live screened race is set to be a nail biter.

Andrew Murdoch returned an 8^th in today's race, which sees him climb from 14^th to 12^th overall. Outside of the top ten at the close of business today means Murdoch misses a medal race spot.

Laser and Laser Radial

Both Sam Meech and Andy Maloney had excellent days today, and both will sail in the Laser medal race with Meech the best placed to secure a podium finish.

Lying 2^nd going into today Meech is now in 4^th, but a closer look at the points shows that just one point separates him from the silver medal position. Germany's Philipp Buhl and Australia's Mathew Wearn are locked on 49 points with New Zealand's Sam Meech just one adrift on 50 points – it's all on for tomorrow!

Talking immediately after coming ashore Meech talked about today's races; 'The first didn't feel it went that great and the second felt like it was going alright but I'm not exactly sure how I ended up.”

'It was a reasonable day. I didn't get any discards so that's all good,” he added, laughing.

Meech describes the conditions, 'It was pretty windy out there, a little more than I was expecting as it was light when we launched, so that was a bit of a surprise.”

The leader, Tom Burton (AUS) is five points clear, so not out of reach.

Maloney improved from 8^th to 6^th with his results today. He has 58 points and a good medal race from him could see him improve further.

Maloney said, 'I had two good races and managed to get away with two top 10, top 5 races. It was a solid day. It is a top, top fleet so to come away with two good results was definitely a solid day for me.”

In the Laser Radial Sara Winther finished strongly with a good day on the water in today's strong winds, but it wasn't enough to secure a place in the medal race and she ends the regatta in 11^th place.

49erFX

Another busy schedule of four races for the 49erFX fleet was completed today with New Zealand's Alex Maloney and Molly Meech edging up one position into 8^th overall.

They scored a couple of 15^th places to open today, then fought back with a 2^nd and a 4^th and will join the top ten crews to sail the 49erFX medal race tomorrow.

Erica Dawson and Ellie Copeland had a mixed day today and close the regatta in 17^th overall.

Nacra 17

Lying 13^th going into today Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders have edged themselves back into the top ten and earned a spot in the Nacra medal race.

A pair of 7ths and a 15^th was enough to lift them up the leader board and scrape into the top ten, by just one point.

Olivia Mackay and Micah Wilkinson wrap up 2016 Sailing World Cup Hyeres with a 23^rd place finish.

Women's RS:X

Natalia Kosinska has placed 24^th overall in the women's RS:X windsurfing.