"The wind is not strong enough, so the competition (of the windsurfing races in the Mistral classes) was canceled," China's Yao Xinhao, who has a three-point lead over his major rival Ho ChiHo from Hong Kong of China in the men's Mistral heavy class, told Xinhua Sunday afternoon at the Doha Sailing Club after returning from the sea.

Waiting all day for the races to start on the open sea, Ho Chi Ho said, "Waiting all day without lunch is hard. But sailing is like this."

On his chance to win the Mistral races, Ho said, "I have to catch up. China's (Yao Xinhao) is very consistent."

Without any races on Sunday in all the three Mistral classes, namely men's heavy, light and women's Mistral, windsurfers form China and Hong Kong of China are expected to compete tensely Monday if weather permits.

If there is still no strong wind for the Mistral races Monday, the scheduled day for the finals of the windsurfing at the Asiad, the winners will be decided according to the results achieved up to now.

China's Chen Lina and Chan Wai Kei from Honk Kong of China are on equal points in the first place in the women's Mistral class before the final races.

China's Yao Xinhao leads in the men's heavy class, but Chan King Yin from Hong Kong of China has a seven-point lead in the men's Mistral light over Zeng Xiaohong from China.

Chan King Yin said that he was very happy with his overall performance because this was his first time he would be winning the gold medal at an Asian Games.

Meanwhile, except the Hobie 16 class, the open match racing of Beneteau First Class 7.5 finished a series of preliminary round and all the other nine sailing events completed two or three raceson Sunday.

Xu Lijia from China still has a one-point edge over her Malaysian rival Muhamad Mohd Romzi after Sunday's only one race inthe Laser Radial open.

In addition, China's Ni Wei finished the competition of the men's Optimist on Sunday with two firsts, with a solid 11-point lead at the event over the second athlete, Thailand's Navee Thamsoontorn, who won two seconds in the day's competition.

Singapore had another strong day and is placed first overall inthe match racing, the men's and the women's 420, the men's Laser and the Laser 4.7 open, while South Korea leads the men's 470 and Japan is first in the women's 470.

Tan Rufina Hong Mui from Malaysia performed well at the women'sOptimist class, with one first and one second on Sunday, and has an eight-point lead over her major rival Khng Griselda from Singapore.