Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – Two races were sailed today in each fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships, which completed all 12 races of the championship. Denmark’s Tokyo Olympic gold medallist and Rio Olympic bronze medallist, Anne-Marie Rindom, was named world champion in the women’s fleet. American Peter Barnard
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Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – Three races were completed today in the women’s fleet and two races were completed in the men’s fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships. With challenging conditions, every day at this event has brought a new leader, and today was no exception. A familiar name
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Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – Three races were completed today in the final series at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships. With such tight competition, there is yet again a new leader of this event – Belgium’s Tokyo Olympian Emma Plasschaert. The sailors set out onto Galveston Bay on time for
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Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – One race was completed today in each of the women’s fleets, and two were completed in the men’s fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships. A new day brings a new leader, and Norway’s Tokyo Olympian Line Flem Høst is winning the event. It was
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Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – One race was completed today at the 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships, and three-time Olympic medallist Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands is now leading the event. The morning brought glassy water and light wind, so the AP flag was hoisted around 11:00 in about 3–6 knots.
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Photos by Helen Galli Photography Kemah, Texas, USA – The 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships are underway, and the first two races were completed today in both women’s fleets and the men’s fleet. Hungary’s two-time Olympian Mári Érdi is leading the women’s division after the first day. Yesterday concluded the equipment inspection and registration, totalling
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Kemah, Texas, USA – The 2022 ILCA 6 Women’s & Men’s World Championships are kicking off this week on Galveston Bay, hosted by the Texas Corinthian Yacht Club. This world championship marks the first time that all three Tokyo Olympic medalists will be competing together since the Games: Denmark’s Anne-Marie Rindom, Sweden’s Josefin Olsson, and Marit Bouwmeester of The
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Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were completed today on the final day of the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind again. The scores remain unchanged from yesterday, so Germany’s U19 sailor Ole Schweckendiek and Belgium’s Eline Verstraelen were named 2022 ILCA U21 World Champions. The day started with 2–3 knots of very shifty
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Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. It was another morning without wind, so the race committee displayed the AP flag to start the day. The wind finally filled in around 16:00 with about 6–7 knots, which was enough to get off two races. During the second race,
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Vilamoura, Portugal – Three races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. The day started with about 6–7 knots of wind, however it died soon after, so the race committee abandoned the first race. The breeze then picked back up to 6–7 knots and continued to build to 11 knots, which was enough
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Vilamoura, Portugal – Another day of no racing at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind. The race committee sent the sailors out for the scheduled 14:00 warning signal, but like yesterday, once they were on the water the wind died and racing was abandoned. The sailors were sent back ashore under
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Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were completed today at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships, due to lack of wind. The race committee waited until 15:00 to send the sailors out, but once on the water, the wind picked up to about 7 knots and was too shifty to hold a steady successful race. AP over
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Vilamoura, Portugal – Two races were completed today in all three fleets at the 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships. With a beautiful southeast breeze of 10–13 knots, Vilamoura provided its reliable champagne sailing conditions for the first day of the championships. In the ILCA 7 division, Dutch Willem Wiersema scored two bullets in the yellow fleet
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Vilamoura, Portugal – The 2022 ILCA U21 World Championships have kicked off in Vilamoura, right on the heels of the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships, which took place last week. Equipment inspection and registration were completed today, a practice race was held in extremely light wind (3–5 knots), and celebratory opening ceremonies formally launched the event
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Vilamoura, Portugal – No races were sailed on the final day of the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships, due to lack of wind, which means double gold for Italy. Nicoló Cassita, U16 sailor, and Ginevra Caracciolo were leading both divisions headed into today, and without any additional races to sail, they were named world champions.
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Vilamoura, Portugal – Three races were completed today in each fleet at the 2022 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships. Vilamoura provided a nice southeast breeze of 7–13 knots, and with pent-up energy from no racing yesterday, the sailors were very eager to get their races off today. This resulted in multiple general recalls at the starts,
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