The New Zealand sailing team at Hyeres has eight within the top seven places in their fleet including three boats within the top three, following day two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres Regatta.

The crews in the top three in their respective fleets are Aleh and Polly Powrie, second in the Women's 470, Tauranga sailor Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, second in the 49er, and Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski, third in the 49er.

Tauranga sailor Sam Meech. Photo: Franck Socha/isafSailingWorldCupHyeres.

In the 49er class Burling and Tuke lost their day one lead to Great Britain's Dylan Fletcher and Alain Sign.

Burling and Tuke are three points behind them after a 4th, a 5th and a win on the water today.

Kiwi team-mates Marcus Hansen and Josh Porebski lifted their overall standing from 11th into the top three, now lying third and four points back from Burling and Tuke.

Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie retain 2nd overall in the Women's 470 after a third and a second on day two.

In the 49erFX Alexandra Maloney and Molly Meech will start the finals series lying 4th overall and relatively close on points to the leading trio from Britain, Brazil and Denmark. The kiwis were 6th, 8th and 3rd in racing today.

Alexandra and Molly's brothers in the Laser event are leading the charge for New Zealand with Andy Maloney moving up the leader-board by two places into sixth overall and Sam Meech just behind him in seventh.

There are more than 120 sailors competing in the Laser event at Hyeres and points are extremely close at the top of the table.

After holding the overnight lead in the Women's RS:X Natalia Kosinska slipped to sixth place after placing seventh, 17th and eighth.

In the Finn class Josh Junior climbed into the top seven adding a 9th and discarding a black flag result from the opening race of the regatta. Team-mate Andrew Murdoch is lying 27th.

In the other fleets Sara Winther is lying 18th in the Laser Radial, Jon-Paul Tobin is 17th in the Men's RS:X, Gemma Jones and Jason Saunders are 19th in the Nacra 17, while Paul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox are lying 33rd in the Men's 470.

Day two provided consistent easterly winds of 10-12 knots with all fleets wrapping up two days of qualifying. From here they progress to three days of finals racing ahead of Saturday's medal races. There are more than 1100 Olympic class sailors from 59 nations competing.

The schedule: ISAF Sailing World Cup – Hyères

21 - 22 April: Qualifying Rounds

23 - 25 April: Finals

26 April: Medal Race and Award Ceremony at 5 pm

ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyeres; New Zealand's provisional standings after day two

Full results here

Women's 470 (51 boats)

2ndJo Aleh and Polly Powrie - NZL Sailing Team (1, 8, 3, 2)

Men's 470 (81 boats)

33rdPaul Snow-Hansen and Daniel Willcox – NZL Sailing Team (4, 21, 16, 25, 13)

49er (79 boats)

2ndPeter Burling and Blair Tuke – NZL Sailing Team (16, 1, 1, 4, 5, 1)

3rdMarcus Hansen and Josh Porebski – NZL Sailing Team (5, 4, 16, 4, 1, 2)

55th Ben Goodwin and Sam Bullock (14, 16, 30, 33, 30, 30)

49erFX (42 boats)

4thAlexandra Maloney and Molly Meech – NZL Sailing Team (2, 19, 3, 6, 8, 3)

Finn (59 boats)

7thJosh Junior – NZL Sailing Team (BFD, 4, 9, 7)

27thAndrew Murdoch – NZL Sailing Team (BFD, 27, 24, 15)

Laser (123 boats)

6thAndy Maloney – NZL Sailing Team (8, 7, 1, 6, 3)

7thSam Meech – NZL Sailing Team (6, 2, 15, 5, 6)

31stThomas Saunders – NZL Sailing Team (14, 9, 32, 27, 10)

101st Andrew McKenzie (57, 51, 48, 33, 43)

Women's RS:X (58 windsurfers)

6thNatalia Kosinska – NZL Sailing Team (12, 1, 2, 7, 17, 8)

Men's RS:X (91 windsurfers)

17th Jon-Paul Tobin (8, 9, 6, 12, 12, 6)

Nacra 17 (77 boats)

19thGemma Jones and Jason Saunders – NZL Sailing Team (14, 8, 5, 13, 14, 7)

57th Rachel Basevi and Tomer Simhony (28, 30, 26, 26, 29, 25)

62nd Vicky Francis and Geoff Woolley (32, 28, 24, 25, 34, 31)

Laser Radial (79 boats)

18th Sara Winther (6, 15, 13, 8, 8)

64th Ali Nightingale – NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team (28, 22, 36, 29, 27)