Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti, the Italian sailing duo, secured their second Nacra 17 World Championship title before the medal race even started in Nova Scotia, Canada and were backed up in second place by fellow Italians Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Guibilei.
Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz have secured the 2022 World Championship. The pair outdueled the Swedish challenge from Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler who took the silver.
Bart Lambriex and Floris van der Werken (NED) have secured their second straight world title in the Olympic 49er discipline. The pair had a strong scoreline heading into the final race before the medal race which is still to sail, and have secured a lead that is mathematically insurmountable.
New Zealand’s top two 49er crews will be on the hunt for medals in tomorrow’s final day of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships in Canada.
The Southerly prevailed again on St Margarets Bay in Nova Scotia for the penultimate day of the 2022 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships, helping Australian skiff teams climb back up a few places in the overall standings.
It all comes down to the medal races at the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Nova Scotia, Canada. Who will be the new World Champions?!
Rewatch all the live action from the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Watch all the live action from the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The sea breeze returned on the fourth day of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Canada, with the Aussie teams doing their best to move up before tomorrow’s penultimate day.
New Zealand’s sailors remain in the hunt in Nova Scotia as the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships come towards a conclusion.
Watch all the live action from the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Watch all the live action from the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Day 3 replay of the 49er, 49erFX & Nacra 17 Worlds in Canada
Youngsters Jack Ferguson and Max Paul have continued their rich form at the 49er, 49erFX And Nacra 17 World Championships by adding another race win today to the one they bagged yesterday.
The wind changed direction in Nova Scotia, mixing up the leaderboards with it, and it now means five New Zealand crews are in the top 10 halfway through the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships.
?There were encouraging signs from New Zealand’s top 49erFX combinations at the world championships in Nova Scotia today, with both crews firmly entrenched in the top 10 after the second day of action.
A perfect ‘Bay Day’ with 8 to 14 knots of sea breeze in sunny St Margaret’s Bay
After the tempest comes the calm. Nice wind and sunny skies greeted the crews on St Margarets Bay for the second day’s racing at the 2022 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships.
Sometimes getting away early can spell trouble for sailors, but for seven of the 12 Australian crews taking part in the 2022 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championships, competing in the first session of the day meant they were able to race their full schedule of three races.
Most of the New Zealand crews competing escaped relatively unscathed. Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson were the best placed of the Kiwis in fifth in the Nacra 17, Jo Aleh and Molly Meech are seventh and Alex Maloney and Olivia Hobbs 16th in the 49erFX, and Logan Dunning Beck and Oscar Gunn were the leading New Zealand boat in the 49er in 17th overall.
All the pent-up pre-regatta tension was set free on a wild and wavy race track on day one of the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada.
For athletes pursuing the Olympics, World Championships are a critical piece of the journey: it’s the annual opportunity to qualify for the US Sailing Team, an important check-in with the international fleets on the way to Paris 2024, and the time for a fresh reset of world rankings.
A bag piper rang in the crowd Tuesday evening for the opening ceremonies of the 2022 World Championships as the waining seabreeze and sun filled the Hubbards waterfront.
Dejected wasn’t the right word for the look on Odile van Aanholt’s face after she missed the Gold Fleet cut at the 2020 Melbourne Worlds. But it was certainly something a little angrier than that.
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