Group of Seven emerges at front of Nacra 17s
Local favourites Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei continued to impress at the 2025 Nacra 17 World Championship, extending their lead early with a win in the first race of the day, making it three-in-a-row for the top-20 Gold Fleet phase of the six-day competition. But even the dominant Italians couldn’t escape the volatility of […]
New format means almost back to Square One for Nacra 17 fleet
How gutting must it be to put together a strong series of scores from six qualifying races, and then for your reward to be folded into just one single race result? Effectively that’s what has happened to John Gimson and Anna Burnet. Despite a wobbly 9th place in the last heat of the afternoon, the […]
Veterans and Rookies Each Demolish Their Fleets to Win with Two Races to Spare
Both the 49er and Nacra 17 European Championships were secured with one fleet race and one medal race remaining to be sailed. John Gimson with Anna Burnet (GBR) might have been picked to win here in Thessaloniki with their long history of light wind excellence, and they delivered. They were 32 points ahead with a […]
Keeping Calm and Clear – Or Else
Olympic veterans in the 49erFX Marla Bergmann with Hanna Wille (GER) kept their nerve and used their speed to move into the lead, scoring the fewest points on day 4. The whole racecourse was available for good lanes on the day, making decision-making less of a focus and execution more important. Bergmann with Wille got […]
Nacra 17 Medal Race at 2023 Worlds
Jarudd and Jonsson (SWE) Snatch Bronze and Italians and Brits hold for gold and silver The Gold and Silver were all but decided heading into her medal race, but the fight for bronze was among five boats. Laila van de Meer with Bjarne Bouwer (NED) were fourth overnight and won the pin end of the […]
Sailing World Salutes Lange in Farewell
The Olympic sailing world came together to salute Santiago Lange upon completing his final Olympic class racing. The Coast Guard ship did a 360 with horns blaring as the fleet lined up the ramp to welcome the legend back to shore. Lange, the three-time medalist, won gold in Rio in 2016 months after recovering from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
