Fletcher and Bithell (GBR) take gold by the slimmest of margins from Burling and Tuke (NZL)
Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell become the first British team to win 49er gold, and in the process knock Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) from their perch atop the sailing world. The medal race was a tense and intense race from start to finish, with all of the protagonist teams sailing well and going […]
Will the Champions Repeat?
The 49er and 49erFX medal races each set the returning Rio Gold medalists against a cadre of worthy challengers. It will not be an easy task for either Peter Burling with Blair Tuke (NZL) nor Martine Grael with Kahena Kunze (BRA) to defend their titles. There will be no simple match races of a single […]
Burling with Tuke – Bekkering with Duetz Jump into Narrow Leads
A Totally Different Challenge Show Top Teams in Full Command of their Skiffs Fleet racing at its best is meant to challenge teams to race across a variety of conditions in order to discover who is best. A phrase uttered dozens of times at elite regattas, Burling and Tuke (NZL) win the day to move […]
Leading British Couple
In the Men’s and Women’s Skiff events, both halves of an engaged couple are sharing the limelight in their respective boats, Dylan Fletcher (GBR) taking the lead in the 49er and his fiancée Charlotte Dobson (GBR) maintaining top spot in the 49erFX. Alongside the big waves across Sagami Bay, the sailors thrived in 14-17 knots […]
Strong Winds, Strong Nerves make for Lively FX Start
Strong Winds and Strong Nerves – Dobson and Tidey Rise to the Occasion After a slow start in the first race, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey (GBR) put the hammer down, moved through the fleet and proved unstoppable. It was a sign of things to come. Behind them all kinds of unforced errors were striking […]
The Chase for Burling and Tuke – can anybody knock down the champs
Since winning Olympic gold in the Men’s Skiff – 49er at Rio 2016 five years ago, Pete Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) have packed a whole lifetime of sailing achievements into their busy careers. Click here for the 49er video preview. In 2017 Burling steered Emirates Team New Zealand’s foiling catamaran to victory at the […]
Germani – Bertuzzi (ITA) aim to get over Olympic disappointment with Junior Worlds Lead
Jan Germani and Giorgia Bertuzzi (ITA) burst onto the 49erFX scene with a sixth at the 2020 Kieler Woche. Italy has been in need of a leading replacement after the retirement of Conti – Clapchich and these two young women emerged at the top of the game just before the final Olympic qualifier. Unfortunately for […]
Dobson and Tidey (GBR) win in Cascais
After leading the championship since day one, Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey from GBR bid farewell to Cascais from the highest place on the podium. Dobson and Tidey, after a less successful first race of the day, regained the breakneck pace having been runner up and a bullet on the last two fleet races. The […]
Dobson (GBR) holds lead – Echegoyen (ESP) and Grael (BRA) close gap
British Charlotte Dobson and Sakia Tidey continue in the lead although they lost punctual distance to the competition having made 7-12-3 today. In second place is the Spanish team Tamara Echegoyen and Paula Barcelo who after a fairly regular day, 5-5-2, consolidated second place and were two points from the highest place on the podium. […]
United States and Germany win in Cascais
It looks like Tokyo in Cascais, On the last day of the 2021 Cascais 49er & 49er Fx Championship after a stormy morning, the sun shyly appeared and filled the bay of Cascais with light. The championship could not have ended in the best way with the Cascais Bay delivering the best for the Olympic […]