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 […]
Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland
Sailing World Cup Weymouth & Portland 2016 – The 25-boat Nacra 17 fleet will be one of the most competitive in Weymouth and Portland with no fewer than nine of the world’s top ten set to compete.
Cousins Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin sailing in Rio
Cousins Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin are set to make their Olympic debut at Rio 2016 in the Nacra 17 mixed multi-hull. The pair have been sailing together for eight years, having claimed their first overseas medal together in 2009 winning the ISAF Youth Worlds in Buzios, Brazil. They both grew up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches and currently train at Middle Harbour Sailing Club.
Team Switzerland: Matìas Bühler and Nathalie Brugger
Swiss sailors Nathalie Brugger (30) and Matias Bühler (33) will represent Switzerland in Rio this summer. They met three years ago, when they started their Olympic campaign in the Nacra 17. They finished third at the Miami World Cup in January 2016 and finished their olympic qualification in February, at the Nacra 17 Worlds in Clearwater (USA). They head to Rio with high ambitions, having shown in the past few years very good results at the highest level.
Meet Luke Ramsay and Nikola Girke from Canada
Both Olympic veterans, Nikola Girke and Luke Ramsay have a wealth of experience across several Olympic sailing classes. Nikola has been to 3 Olympics; 2004 in the 470 and 2008 & 2012 in the RS:X Class. Her skills are suited perfectly to the fast boat racing and the intense physical fitness needed to crew the Nacra17.
The Netherlands: Mandy Mulder & Coen de Koning
Mandy Mulder (28) and Coen de Koning (32) are representing the Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Rio the Janeiro 2016. Olympic Silver medalist Mulder ((Ynling – Bejing 2008) and De Koning (World Champion F18 in 2008 en 2009) both started sailing in the Nacra17 in December 2012.
