Japan came to the 470 World Championship in Llucmajor, Mallorca, as defending champions. Lying in fifth place after three tricky, light-wind races is not at all a bad start for the 2023 World Champions Keiju Okada and Miho Yoshioka.
Three Olympic classes will hold their World Championships on Spanish waters in the coming weeks, with the Mixed 470, 49er and 49erFX events likely to shape the prospects of Australia’s Paris 2024 hopefuls.
The final day of U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing brought both elation and frustration as the winners were decided in the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 fleets. Erika Reineke (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) punched her ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympics in the ILCA 6
After yesterday’s rest day, 62 athletes returned to the water for the penultimate day of racing at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing for the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 disciplines. Southerly winds built throughout the day from 10 knots to the upper teens and the sea state followed suit.
Competitors, coaches, and race management enjoyed a much-needed day off on February 22nd at the marathon U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing. The final two days of racing will take place February 23-24 where the winner of the Women’s ILCA 6 fleet will be confirmed to represent the United States at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Miami delivered 10-15 knots for a second day of a cool North-Northwest breeze, and two more races hit the scoreboard for each fleet. Erika Reineke now leads in the ILCA 6 after some strategy play in the last race of the day, and Ford McCann continues to lead in the ILCA 7 for the fifth day in a row.
It’s a game of Texas Hold ‘Em as Texas natives Charlotte Rose and Ford McCann hold down their leads for a fourth day in a row in challenging conditions at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing.
Dark and stormy gave way to bright and shifty for day three of U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing. Gale force winds held competitors ashore in the morning, but race committee fired the horn for the first start at 1300.
Whenever Greta Pilkington pushes off the beach these days, she glances at the letter P scribbled on the back of her hand.
The Singaporean and the Briton reach the top of the podium in the Canary Islands
Day two was not for the faint of heart out on the Atlantic Ocean for the ILCA 6s and 7s at U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing. First a waiting game required athletes to stay mentally engaged as the wind threw some heavy shifts and caused a number of postponements and abandonments, then it was go time for one race in each fleet.
The first day of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Sailing opened with two races in each class in moderate 8 to 12 knot breeze. Race committee from Coconut Grove Sailing Club and PRO Tom Duggan got races off on time and efficiently and competitors headed to shore around 1430 for an early end to day one in a marathon event.
The world champions of the discipline, Maximilian Maeder (Singapore) and Lauriane Nolot (France), lead the standings during the first day of competition where more than 60 riders from 21 countries, including 14 Olympians, are participating.
Reigning ILCA 7 Olympic gold medallist Matt Wearn and 20-year-old iQFOiL sailor Grae Morris are both off to Paris, having been selected to the Australian Olympic Team for this year’s Games.
More than 40 participants from 15 countries are already training on the beaches of Corralejo to compete from February 15 to 18 in the Fuerteventura KiteFoil International Open Cup, featuring Gisela Pulido, who will represent Spain in the Olympic Games.
Greta Pilkington from Auckland could redirect sailing history this year as she campaigns hard for a spot in the 2024 New Zealand Olympic Team in the ILCA 6 class
Top Chinese and Thai sailors were greeted with cheers on their return to shore after the medal races at the 2023 Asian Sailing Championships being held at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya, Thailand.
Two kiwi kitefoilers, Justina Kitchen and Lukas Walton-Keim have qualified the Kitefoiling class for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Greta Pilkington from Auckland is on her way! After finishing 4th in the ILCA 6 medal race at Sail Sydney, Greta has now qualified the ILCA 6 for New Zealand ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. But there’s still one more step to complete…
With only four races to sail before the medal race, a palpable sense of opportunities yet to be grabbed hung in the air as results rolled in at the end of racing on Day Three of the 2023 Asian Sailing Championships being held at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya, Thailand.
Townsville’s Breiana Whitehead has made history today, becoming the first Kitefoil sailor to be selected for an Australian Olympic Team.
It’s a lot easier to wait around when you’re in the lead,” said Anna Burnet on shore as she watched the 49ers in their medal race sitting motionless in the sunset. Moments later, the horn blew, the Nacra medal race was canceled and her and John Gimson became the European champions.
Five years after winning their first 49erFX European title, Norwegians Helene Næss and Marie Ronningen have done it again. Silver goes to Jana Germani and Georgia Bertuzzi, with the added bonus of securing a nation’s place for Italy at next year’s Olympic Games.
The story of the week at the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships was the unseasonably light winds, so it almost seemed fitting that the final day of racing was cancelled as the winds died right out at Vilamoura in Portugal.
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