Emotional Nacra gold for Argentina
The oldest man in the competition, recently recovered from cancer, won a gold medal. Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli (ARG) have won gold after a heart-stopping Medal Race in the Nacra 17 Mixed Multihull. Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin (AUS) took silver and bronze goes to Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank (AUT). The Argentineans […]
Fleet Squares Up Under Breezy Sunshine
Day 3 of the 2016 Nacra 17 Rio Olympic brought the fleet back together as the overnight leading duo of teams struggled while the French push for a comeback. Billy Besson and Marie Riou (FRA) dominated the day with a 2, 1, 1 to score only 4 points and move back from the teens into […]
‘Brutal conditions’ in a test of survival on Thursday in Rio
The previous word of the day was ‘tricky’. The word of the day for those that went out to sea on day four was ‘survival. The Olympic sailing competition again produced the extremes of flat water and shifty conditions on the inshore courses with the giant wind and size-of-a-house waves out on the seaward courses. […]
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves –
Bekatorou and Pateniotis (GRE) probably the shortest Olympic campaigners in history
Bekatorrou and Patentiotis are possibly the shortest Olympic campaigners in history. With one last chance to qualify your nation at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma de Mallorca in the Nacra17 fleet, Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou called an old friend she had known and had sailed with before, Michalis Pateniotis.
Big Breeze for the Mixed Multihull debut + How to follow race day #3
Find out what’s on the agenda at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition today and find out further information on how to follow the racing, watch the tracking, download imagery and follow World Sailing on social media. Big breeze up to 20 knots is set to greet the Olympic debut of the Mixed Multihulls – […]
Husband and wife Pablo Defazio and Mariana Foglia from Uruguay will race to RIO!
Pablo Defazio (35) and Mariana Foglia (34) Husband and wife are from Montevideo, Uruguay. They will represent Uruguay in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Since when have you been sailing together on de Nacra17? We started sailing together on the Nacra 17 on April 2013 when our boat arrive in Uruguay. It was […]
Meet the Danish Nacra 17 team Allan Norregaard and Anette Viborg
Allan Norregaard and Annette Viborg are representing Danmark at the summer Olympics in Rio 2016. Allan and Anette have been sailing together since March 2015 at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR regatta. In May 2015 they won the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik. And they continued…
Saxton and Groves win gold in Weymouth
Sixth in the Medal Race was enough for Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves (GBR) to win gold in the Nacra 17. The pair held the lead heading into the final day and even though their main rivals to gold, Paul Kohlhoff and Carolina Werner of Germany, finished well ahead of them, the three consecutive race […]
Team Introduction Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank
Thomas Zajac and Tanja Frank, both from Vienna, are representing Austria during the Olympics in Rio the Janeiro. They have been sailing together on the Nacra 17 since 2013. Before this Tanja sailed Optimist en 420, only youth classes. This is the first time for her she’s sailing an Olympic class. Thomas comes from sailing […]