Young Turk breaks Argentinian winning streak

Youth Crusing World Championships Day 3: Younger Turk breaks Argentinian profitable streak

by World Crusing 17 Jul 12:49 PDT
13-20 July 2024

Reigning kite champion Derin Atakan rocketed to her first bullet of the Youth Crusing World Championships to interrupt Maria Catalina Turienzo’s excellent profitable streak as races throughout Lake Garda had been postponed resulting from low winds.

Turienzo completed second however saved up an eight-point lead on the prime, due to as many prior bullets, forward of closest competitor Meijing Xiao of China who completed third.

Afternoon winds of 8-10 knots meant a lot of Wednesday’s racing befell later than anticipated – all postponed races can be contested later this week.

Italy’s Lisa Vucetti and Vittorio Bonifacio maintained prime spot within the 420 as Nice Britain’s Finian Morris and Charlie Gran closed in on 29er leaders Ewa Lewandowska and Krzysztof Królik.

Components Kite

Atakan of Türkiye broke fellow Paris 2024 Olympian Maria Catalina Turienzo’s eight-race profitable streak on the hunt for one more youth world title forward of the Video games in Marseille.

Turienzo maintained her lead as Atakan stays in third on 17 factors, 10 factors behind the Argentinian.

France’s Nell De Jaham flew to his first win of the Championships forward of Brazilian chief Lucas Pes Fonseca within the males’s race.

Jiayi Tian of China saved up with the fleet for third with three remaining races postponed.

Blended Multihull – Nacra 15

Two out of three Nacra 15 races had been postponed however Italy’s Lorenzo Sirena and Alice Dessy made no mistake with a bullet of their race to open a slim lead on Come Vic-Molinero and Fatima Tia of France.

Brother and sister duo Hannelien and Sander Borghijs of Belgium sit in third on 16 factors, six factors behind the Italian leaders.

Dinghy – 420

Vucetti and Bonifacio stay on prime after two fourth-placed finishes within the males’s/combined two individual dinghy.

They shrugged off any menace from France’s Colin Postel and Theo Henry, who raced 10,13 and prolonged their hole as leaders to 16 factors.

The USA’s Freddie Parkin and Estella Morris recorded their first bullet of the Championships within the closing race of the day and climbed as much as eighth.

In the one girls’s race of the day, Danai Giannoili and Iakovina Kerkezou saved up their main efforts with a bullet as Italy and Spain’s crews each completed outdoors of the highest 10.

Skiff – 29er

Morris and Gran completed scorching on the heels of males’s/combined 29er leaders Lewandowska and Królik after the Polish pair raced 3, 15, 8 on day three.

The British duo claimed a vital bullet within the closing race of the day and are actually perched simply six factors behind the pacemakers on 33 factors total.

France’s Jocelyn Le Goff and Jules Vidor loved an encouraging day of racing and claimed simply 10 factors to take a seat in third.

Hong Kong’s Emily Polson and Tiffany Mak bolted to a bullet in the one feminine skiff race of the day as constant pair Alicja Dampc and Alicja Tutkowska of Poland took second.

Dinghy – ILCA 6

Hermionie Ghicas soared again up the standings with an announcement opening bullet within the girls’s dinghy as she bounced again from 8, 10 on Tuesday.

Regardless of coming seventeenth within the closing race of the day, she climbed as much as prime spot after Italy’s Maria Vittoria Arseni and Ukraine’s Alina Shapovalova, in second and third total, did not make it inside the highest 10.

Eire’s Lucy Ives clinched her first bullet within the second race as Nice Britain’s Amelie Hacker was one other standout on day three.

Within the males’s ILCA 6, Spain’s Tim Lubat leapfrogged the fleet to imagine prime spot.

Regardless of Antonio Pascali’s bullet within the closing race of the day, he couldn’t preserve his place as chief after the Italian’s thirty sixth end within the day’s opener.

Windsurfing – Youth iQFOiL

Nice Britain’s Darcey Shaw grabbed a bullet in considered one of two girls’s windsurfing races however nonetheless sits behind Italy’s Carola Colasanto in second as all males’s iQFOiL racing was postponed.

You possibly can observe the Youth Crusing World Championships by way of the livestream on World Sailing TV and by way of the dedicated event website.