Nacra 17 Worlds 2022: Day 2 Results
Milder conditions today at Nova Scotia, CAN. But no matter the winds strength or sea state, Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti own this Class, as Billy Besson & Marie Riou did in the 2016 Olympics 4 previous years.
See last shot above with the entire fleet flying upwind, a sight which we think is possible on the new winglet and rudder rake system upgrades done by Nacra.
Tracking was available today, review races here
Photo: Sailing Energy. More when available later.
Top ten, complete results here
| Pos | Sail Number | Team | Net | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Tot |
| 1 | ITA 26 | Ruggero TITA Caterina BANTI | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | ITA 98 | Gianluigi UGOLINI Maria GIUBILEI | 14 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
| 3 | FIN 13 | Sinem KURTBAY Akseli KESKINEN | 23 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 37 |
| 4 | AUS 5 | Jason WATERHOUSE Lisa DARMANIN | 27 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 41 |
| 5 | GBR 21 | John GIMSON Anna BURNET | 29 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 43 |
| 6 | ITA 71 | Vittorio BISSARO Maelle FRASCARI | 29 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 45 |
| 7 | SWE 14 | Emil JÄRUDD Hanna JONSSON | 33 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 50 |
| 8 | NZL 96 | Micah WILKINSON Erica DAWSON | 34 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 45 |
| 9 | NED 505 | Laila van der MEER Bjarne BOUWER | 45 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 58 |
| 10 | FRA 51 | Tim MOURNIAC Lou BERTHOMIEU | 48 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 5 | (dns) | 7 | 83 |
| 11 | ARG 29 | Mateo MAJDALANI Eugenia BOSCO | 51 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 76 |
Class report:
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Nacra 17 Day 2
After Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti (ITA) scored three more bullets in the Nacra 17 fleet today, their rivals continue to scratch their heads about how to close the performance gap. Sinem Kurtbay (FIN) thought she and her crew Akseli Keskinen had sailed a pretty bad day so was pleasantly surprised to find out she had emerged from the three races in third place overall. “It didn’t feel like that,” said Kurtbay. “When we came off the start line in the second row of the first race, the Italians were back with us. The difference is that we couldn’t find a way through to the front. They [Tita & Banti] are so fast it didn’t matter even when they had a slow start.”
Six wins from six races is unheard of in Olympic class competition, yet that is the standard being set by Tita & Banti a year after winning Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020. The Italian team have embraced the new era of full foiling and the young crew Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei (ITA) were easily the second best team of the day with scores of 4,2,2 lifting them to second overall and nine points ahead of the Finnish crew.
Last year at the Worlds in Oman, Ugolini & Giubilei finished runner-up to John Gimson & Anna Burnet (GBR) who won back-to-back world titles in 2020 and 2021 as well as Olympic silver in Tokyo. The British crew had an ever-improving day of 6,5,3 to lift them to fifth overall behind the Rio 2016 silver medallists from Australia, Jason Waterhouse & Lisa Darmanin in fourth overall. Behind the front two Italian teams, all the points are very close.
Yeah, that upwind foiling pic is pretty nuts!