Veterans school the Newbies on a swell day in Cagliari
Experience takes control as the waves rise and the medal contenders emerge in Cagliari on day five of the 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 World Championships… 49er: Warrer on the war path, Lambriex lurks Jonas Warrer and Mathias Lehm Sletten (DEN 79): 2-2-1 day vaults them into third overall. Bart Lambriex van Aanholt and Floris […]
SailGP stars do a “Max Verstappen” to take control of the 49er Worlds
Olympic and SailGP champions Diego Botin and Florian Trittel return to the skiff circuit and are proving dominant in Cagliari… From SailGP to skiff supremacy: Spain’s Diego Botín and Florian Trittel jumped to the top of the leaderboard at the 2025 49er World Championship in Cagliari after a commanding day on the water. The reigning […]
Sweden, Australia and Italy all move to the top on day three
Some great breeze for foiling in the catamarans and full-on planing in the skiffs, with some surprise leaders in the 49er and 49erFX and a not-so-surprising new leader in the Nacra 17 fleet… 49erFX: Swedes shocked by their slender lead It’s not like it’s anything new for Vilma Bobeck to be leading a 49erFX World […]
Spain top of the pack in 49er & 49erFX, GBR leads Nacra 17
A really good opening day to the Worlds, with light to medium sea breeze and dusk-to-dawn sunshine across the bay of Cagliari. Spain is ahead in both the men’s and women’s skiffs and Great Britain takes the early lead in the Nacra 17 fleet… 49er Men: Olympic Champions back in at the top Fresh off […]
Championship glory for Belgium, Uruguay and Great Britain
Sunday was the conclusion of the 49er and 49erFX European Championships as well as the Nacra 17 World Championship in La Grande Motte, France. 49erFX Europeans: Belgium win first major title Isaura Maenhaut and Anouk Geurts didn’t sail a great medal race but the Belgians had built up a sufficient buffer that it didn’t matter. […]
Belgian 49erFX in the Box Seat
Steph Roble and Maggie Shea sailed a stellar day in the 49erFX Europeans, the USA team winning three of the four races in gold fleet. This lifts them just inside the top 10 and gives them a place in Sunday’s medal race. Further up the field, Freya Black and Saskia Tidey also performed well, the […]
Uruguay surges to top of the 49ers
Uruguay has never qualified a 49er to the Olympic Games. In fact across the whole history of the modern Olympics the South American nation has just won 10 medals, none yet in sailing. So when Uruguay’s Hernan Umpierre and Fernando Diz go out and score 1,1,4 from the first three races of gold fleet competition […]
Big switch-around in FX fortunes
A drop in wind strength brought huge changes to the 49erFX leaderboard on day three of the European Championship in La Grande Motte in the South of France. Two of the front runners struggled to maintain such strong form from the windy weather, with the teams from Finland and Italy falling out of the top […]
A change of leader but GBR still on top in 49er
Day two of the European Championships was another wild and windy outing for the skiff fleets in La Grande Motte, France. Three more races in wildly shifty conditions of up to 40 degrees variation have done nothing to dislodge Great Britain from the top two spots in the men’s 49er. It’s just the order of […]
British seize early lead in Europeans
British teams took the lead on both sides of the qualifying draw at the 49er European Championship on day one of the competition. With three Olympic class championships taking place alongside each other in La Grande Motte in the South of France, day one on the Mediterranean Sea hurled some difficult but exhilarating conditions at […]