Olympic Champion Santiago Lange Retires at 61
August 15, 2023 Santiago Lange (ARG) to retire following the 2023 Sailing World Championship after a 43 year career including three Olympic medals. The sailing hero won medals in three events, including a Gold at Rio 2016 at 54 years old. More incredibly, his Rio gold came after winning a fight against cancer that claimed […]
Competitive Day in Gold Fleet Mixes Up the Fleet
The first day of Gold fleet for the Nacra 17 brought all 25 top teams together. The racing became another notch more intense, and the conditions multiplied the up-and-down nature of the scores with a lighter offshore wind being hard for the teams to predict. Only Emil Jarrud with Hannah Johnson (SWE) managed three races […]
Tita and Banti inevitable – like Verstappen
Max Verstappen, the Formula 1 driver making racing ‘boring’ wishes he was as inevitable in victory as Tita and Banti (ITA). The Italian Gold medalists ran another picket fence today with three straight victories in the nacra 17 racing. If they hold on to win the 2023 World Championship, that would make four World titles […]
Elite group of teams remains close to Tita and Banti despite an impressive start
Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti (ITA) have won five of their six qualifying races thus far, leaving the fleet no doubt as to who they are gunning for. The Tokyo gold medalists came second in the only race they didn’t win, yet they remain only two points ahead of second place and there are five […]
Tita and Banti keep charging
Three bullets to start the 2023 World Championship for Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti (ITA 26) sees the pair start this worlds in the same dominant form they won the last worlds with. The defending gold medalists were the last team to launch this morning, cool and calm as ever, and then went out to […]
The qualifying form guide for Nacra 17 at the Sailing World Championship
As the excitement builds for the 2023 Nacra 17 World Championship, sailors and fans alike are eagerly anticipating the intense competition that lies ahead. With only nine nations set to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, the stakes are high for all participating teams. There are fleets within fleets, and we’ll review what that means for […]
Booths Lionise the Junior Worlds
Ruben and Rita Booth (AUS) hung on all week, surviving a late challenge, to win the 2023 Junior World Championships by three points. In the final race they found themselves outside of the top ten while Archie Gargett with Sarah Hoffman (AUS) charged forward into the race lead. With a five-point gap separating the two […]
Booth siblings grab pair of wins on opening day of the 2023 Junior World Championship
Ruben and Rita Booth, children of legendary multihull sailor Mitch Booth, grab a pair of victories after a second-place start to open the 2023 Junior Worlds with a bang. The Booths find themselves in an interesting position only 12 months out from the Paris 2024 Olympics as Australian standout helm Jason Waterhouse recently announced his […]
2024 Europeans be Hosted in La Grande Motte, France in May 2024
The nacra17 and Nacra 17 classes are pleased to announce the 2024 European Championship of nacra17, nacra17FX, and Nacra 17 will be held in La Grande Motte, France just before the Paris Olympics. The race days are May 7-12 and will surely be a final selection regatta for some nations selecting teams for the 2024 […]
Pure Domination for Champions Tita & Banti
The story of the 2022 World Championships in Halifax was easily that Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti won 14 of 16 fleet races winning the title before the medal race. It can’t be denied that, as Australian coach Darren Bundock put it, the pairing is a “class above” the rest of the world. “Today there […]
