Two races were completed today at the ILCA 6 Masters World Championships in Riviera Nayarit, Nueveo Vallarta, Mexico. A perfect day of sailing developed after a marginal forecast for the third day.
Monday, June 13, the whole Sailing community gathered at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne to celebrate the official inauguration, of the first edition of the SSL Gold Cup, the first Football World Cup… in Sailing.
The ILCA 6 Masters World Championships kicked off today in Riviera Nayarit, Nueveo Vallarta, Mexico, and the two scheduled races were successfully completed.
Since the call in 2018 to scrap the Finn Class from the 2024 Olympics, this question has been asked over and over again… So what is out there for the Big Boys?
Two races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA 7 Masters World Championship in Riviera Nayarit, Nueveo Vallarta, Mexico.
Two Australian teams have come away with medals at the Hempel World Cup Allianz Regatta, with the Mixed 470 team of Chris Charlwood and Amelia Catt securing a dramatic Silver whilst Oliva Price and Evie Haseldine held on to Bronze in the 49erFX.
The next generation of Australian Olympic sailing stars are emerging, with a wave of new Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) teams dominating top five positions at the Hempel World Cup Allianz Regatta.
The racing in Almere at the Hempel World Cup Allianz Regatta has been described as diabolical as big wind shifts and pressure changes meant sailors needed to have their head on a swivel to spot the next opportunity on the racecourse.
Thirty Australian sailors across seven Olympic classes threw themselves back into action overnight as the Hempel World Cup Allianz Regatta got underway in Almere, The Netherlands.
It’s a time of transit for the New Zealand sailors after a very busy three months or so, and a full 2022 regatta calendar is still ongoing. With the borders finally opening up and Kiwi’s able to travel in and out of New Zealand quarantine free, many sailors have flown the coop to test themselves out on the world stage.
Saunders has easily made the cut, heading into tomorrow’s first day of gold fleet racing in 14th overall, but knows he needs to find his groove if he is to be in contention on the final day.
Crowd favourite and all round good guy George Gautrey has been forced to exit the ILCA 7 World Championships early after dealing with post-Covid fatigue. This is a massive blow for the entire NZL Sailing Team.
Building consistency is the greatest challenge for the Australian ILCA 7 squad, as they battle it out with the world’s best on Banderas Bay at the 2022 World Championships.
With Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Wearn (AUS) out of the competition, this leaves things wide open for other Australian sailors to leave their mark on the international stage at the ILCA 7 Worlds in Mexico.
A scan of the results would suggest George Gautrey enjoyed an excellent opening day of the ILCA 7 (Laser) world championships in Mexico but there wasn’t a lot of enjoyment on the water for the Wellingtonian.
Tom Saunders is heading into his ninth ILCA 7 world championships but knows this one will be a bit different to the rest. That’s because the 29-year-old goes in as defending champion after winning last year’s world title in Barcelona.
After 5 days or racing the top 10 male and female competitors battled it out in the medal race knockout rounds.
For 240 of the 250 competitors, todays racing concluded the 2022 IQFoil Europeans here in Lake Garda.
The wind decided to show up on time for day 4 of the 2022 IQFoil European Championships.
To keep with the tradition of the last two days, once again wind was scarce for the scheduled start time of Day 3 of the 2022 IQFoil European Championships.
Day two of the IQFoil Europeans was scheduled to start at 0830 hours.
Racing on day one of the 2022 IQFoil Europeans was scheduled to start at 1200. I could have told you from the get go that that wasn’t going to happen, due to the all too predictable breeze pattern on Lake Garda.
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