2020 Nacra 17 Europeans: Day 4 Results

Nacra 17 Europeans 2020 Day 4. No racing yesterday and the Regatta has 2 out of 4 days of sailing but today the PRO managed to complete four races. Santi Lange & Ceci Carranza lead with a good gap already ahead of Gimson-Burnet and Tita-Banti 1pt ahead of their team mates Bissaro & Frascari.

Highlight of the day was Danny Paschalidis & Myrto Papadopoulou scoring a bullet and a second. Great results for the Greek crew with so little time on the Nacra 17. They are giving themselves a chance to Tokyo. The Finnish Team is leading that race at the moment.

Complete official report sent by Icarus Sports / Nacra 17 & 49er Class Assocs below results.

Top 12 , complete results at nacra17.org/events/2020-european-championship/#results

Official report , complete text atnacra17.org/greeks-shine-argentina-moves-to-the-top/ …

NACRA 17: Greeks enjoy their moments in the sun while Olympic Champions move to the top
Day 4 of the Nacra 17 competition was all about keeping your wits about you as the wind blew from the south, then the west, then somewhere in between. Thursday’s conditions were much more straightforward, at least in the sense that it was a very one-sided track. What is much less straightforward is how to get to the favoured spot when all 30 boats want to be going the same way. In the 6 to 8 knot breeze, Greece’s Iordanis Paschalidis and Myrto Papadopoulou found their way into 2nd place in the second race of the afternoon. A 26th position in the next race showed that the 2nd might have been a lucky one-off.

In the final race of the afternoon, they scored their first bullet of the championship. Clearly, the 2nd had been no fluke. “We really enjoyed sailing in those conditions,” grinned Paschalidis, multiple Tornado and Formula 18 World Champion. “The Nacra is not so different to other catamarans when you are not foiling. We had some good training here in the days before the competition and we had a good reading of the wind from this direction. We are going to enjoy this moment, we know we have a lot of work to do to match the others in all conditions, but it’s important to remember days like these when they happen.”

Up until the last race of the afternoon, Argentina’s Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli had been the only team to keep all their scores inside the top 10. A 15th place was not the Olympic Champions’ dream finish to the day, but their consistency across seven races gives them 23 points compared with Great Britain’s reigning World Champions on 34 points. John Gimson and Anna Burnet had the most solid day of all, with scores of 2,8,2,5. Another 4 points back are Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti in third overall, just a point in front of arch-rivals in their bid for the Italian Olympic selection, Vittorio Bissaro and Maelle Frascari. Sweden’s young team, Emil Järudd and Cecilia Jonsson, were not as comfortable in today’s very different conditions and slipped from the lead down to 6th overall. But they’re still just 11 points back from 2nd place, so there’s still time to make amends and continue their battle for a first-ever podium finish at a major Nacra 17 championship.

Text Credits: 2020 Forward WIP 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championships
Photo Credits: Tobias Störkle