By Andy Rice via World Sailing; Photos by Sailing Energy Great weather returned to Enoshima for Sunday, with sunshine and moderate winds for the sailors to really stretch their legs and put some physicality back into their racing after the light-wind stress of the past two days. Although Matt Wearn had already secured the gold medal, the Men’s […]
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By Andy Rice via World Sailing; Photos by Sailing Energy The excitement kicked up a gear on the third day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic sailing competition. The wind was gusting and shifting wildly for the courses close to shore, and some pre-event favourites have made good comebacks in the Laser and Radial events. Women’s
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By Andy Rice via World Sailing; Photos by Sailing Energy There was more wind than expected for the second day of racing at the Olympic sailing competition, which was just as well as the lumpy, confused wave pattern made it hard to get into the groove. When the Pacific swell hits the shoreline of Enoshima
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Photos by João Ferreira It was an exciting final day of racing in Vilamoura, with tough conditions pushing the strength of the sailors chasing the Olympic qualifications and the podium. After all 12 races, Spain and the Netherlands locked in their slots for Tokyo in the ILCA 7 class, as the top two out of
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Photos by João Ferreira On a day marked by high winds, which reached 22 knots, the athletes were forced to their physical extremes and the experience and technical mastery of the veterans showed in the finals. Vilamoura Sailing offered live streaming of the racing again today for races 9 and 10 of the European Continental
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Photo by João Ferreira The men’s and women’s fleets were divided into gold and silver fleets today to complete two more races at the European Continental Qualification for Tokyo. Vilamoura Sailing launched live streaming of the event, available through the final two days of racing. In the men’s fleet, Great Britain’s Michael Beckett has been
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Photo by João Ferreira Two more races were completed today at the European Olympic qualifiers in Vilamoura, Portugal. In the women’s fleet, Israel’s Shay Kakon and Portuguese Carolina João are the top contenders for the two ILCA 6 slots for Tokyo, and Spanish Joel Rodriguez Perez and Belgian William De Smet are the top two
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Photo by João Ferreira Today the racing kicked off in Vilamoura, Portugal at the ILCA Vilamoura European Continental Qualification. Organized by Vilamoura Sailing, this qualifier event is held for European countries to claim their remaining four slots for the Tokyo Olympic Games: two in the women’s ILCA 6 fleet and two in the men’s ILCA
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Photo by Sailing Energy How old were you when you started sailing and how did you get involved? It feels like I started sailing way back when I was in my mother’s womb when she and my dad would go on the yacht. When I was born, we would spend many weekends on the yacht
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Trinidad and Tobago’s Andrew Lewis Qualifies for Third Olympic Games Sailors from around the globe convened in South Florida last week with North American Olympic qualification at stake with the Tokyo 2020 Games only six months away. Hempel World Cup Series Miami was the final opportunity for North American nations to qualify for the Tokyo
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How did you get involved with sailing? I first started in December 1996 when I asked my mom to sign me up for the sailing summer course at the club. My family had just joined the Regatas Lima Club and I saw the Optis at the beach. By then, I was almost 10 years old
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How old were you when you started sailing? Well I grew up living on a boat so I did my first yacht race at five months old (apparently), but didn’t really get into dinghy sailing until I was around 15 when my family arrived back in Australia. Tell us about the years of your childhood
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(Algiers, Algeria) After a long Day 4, including protest hearings that could change the final medal race day, the Olympic qualifications were becoming clear at the 2019 African Laser Championships. Although, it was still mathematically possible for the third-place athletes to qualify their countries in the medal race. The medal race day began with a
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(Algiers, Algeria) The third day of racing at the 2019 African Laser Standard & Radial Championships brought very different wind conditions than the previous days. Three races were completed in about 14–15 knots with gusts up to 24 knots. In the Standard fleet, some other players came into action on Day 3! While Angola’s Manuel Lelo
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(Algiers, Algeria) Light winds prevailed on the second day of racing at the 2019 African Laser Standard & Radial Championships. Two races were completed in each fleet and competition is high, chasing the Olympic qualification at the end of the event. In the Laser Standard fleet, there have been five different winners of the five races
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How did you get involved with sailing? The first time I started sailing was during a summer vacation in Bodrum. Nobody sails in my family. I found out that a frıend of mine had gone and just started by wondering about the ‘Optimist’ name. I didn’t know it was sailboat. Where did you learn to
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