Cecilia Wollmann endured a frustrating day at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, yesterday, as a lack of wind forced a cancellation of racing on Jinniu Lake.

With the scheduled three races effectively wiped from the 11-race programme, the pressure will be on Wollmann with less time to make up ground because there is only the one race remaining in the early hours of today, although it counts as double.

Carolina Albano, of Italy, holds the bronze-medal position on 44 points, but in between her and Wollmann, who is on 59, are sailors from Peru, Ukraine, Norway, Malaysia and Dominican Republic.

“It was a bad break for Ceci,” Katura Horton-Perinchief, the Bermuda chief de mission, said last night at 7am China time. “There is only one race today, but it’s worth double the points. Fingers crossed for her, but the lead is difficult to chip away at with only one race left.”

Wollmann’s misfortune means Bermuda’s greatest prospects for a medal rest with high jumper Jah-Nhai Perinchief, who contests the final this morning starting at 9.00. After his impressive qualifying clearance of 2.10 metres, a personal best that was accomplished at the first attempt after three earlier misses at 2.03 and 2.07, the 16-year-old would be justified in believing that he could mix it with the best young jumpers in the world.

However, he will do well to overcome Danil Lysenko, of Russia, who enters the final as a clear favourite, having been the only jumper not to record a miss in qualifying on Wednesday.

Horton-Perinchief concurs but has great expectations of the CedarBridge Academy student having a medal of some colour draped around his neck before most Bermuda residents have digested their breakfasts — and definitely before the Friday night hangovers have cleared.

“Jah-Nhai is right in the thick of things,” she said. “Only five jumpers cleared 2.10 and he was one of three to clear it on the first try. The Russian will be tough. He looks virtually unbeatable, but the other two medals are up for grabs.

“It is anybody’s game. Coach Rohaan Simons is confident that Jah-Nhai will rise to the occasion and so are the rest of us. He needs to stay focused and make clean jumps on the first attempt.”

Kionje Somner was Bermuda’s final athlete to see action at the Games, but he suffered disappointment in his 200 metres heat yesterday morning when he could finish only sixth.

Somner’s time of 22.39sec placed him eighteenth out of the 23 qualifiers, almost a full second slower than what was required to reach tomorrow’s final. Instead, the Bermudian, whose reaction time was the second-quickest in his heat, will be in the C final.

With the spotlight focused on Wollmann and, now, Perinchief, Horton-Perinchief has been effusive in her praise of the entire team. “This team has been an absolute dream,” the former Olympic diver said. “We’ve had personal bests galore. The kids get along very well and encourage each other constantly. I am very pleased with the attitudes and the performances.”

Kyrah Scraders runs in the B final of the women’s 800 metres at 10.32am but after a stellar year in which she has impressed at home and abroad, the Berkeley Institute student will be desperately disappointed that she is not in the medal event a few minutes later.