Nacra 17 SOF / Hyeres 2023: Gimson & Burnet Champs

Semaine Olympique Francaise has come to an end yesterday with the completion of the Nacra 17 Medal Race. First place was already defined to John Gimson & Anna Burnet, the British team grabbed 50% of the 12 series racing scoring 6 bullets, impressive display from the Tokyo Silver medalists.

With the top podium place defined still high stakes were on place with the Argies Majdalani & Bosco trying to get their best result ever within major events and the entire top fleet present. With Lange-Travascio out of the medal race, their only worry was to defend their second overall, and they did it finishing 5th in the MR. All here cheering for them and happy for them, two more regattas pending to define Arg Team for next Olympics.

Third place overall for the youngest Italian crew, Ugolini & Giubilei, who managed to leave two Nacra 17 World Champs countrymen crews in the dust. What a future for those two.

Tim Mourniac & Lou Berthomeu won Medal Race, the French young team looking forward to prevail in the race for the French spot for Paris next year.

The Nacra 17 Class getting super competitive and the Tita-Banti full dominance has ease a bit at Hyeres. Lets see coming events.

Photos: Sailing Energy / SOF

Top ten , complete results here

Pos	SAIL #	CREW	Net	T	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	5Q	6F	7F	8F	9F	10F	11F	12F	MR
1	GBR 21	John GIMSON Anna BURNET	32	39	3	3	1	5	(7)	1	1	1	6	5	1	1	4
2	ARG 29	Mateo MAJDALANI Eugenia BOSCO	70	83	2	1	11	11	5	3	4	11	4	1	(13)	7	10
3	ITA 98	Gianlugi UGOLINI Maria GIUBILEI	77	97	7	5	2	(20)	1	15	5	4	10	3	11	2	12
4	FIN 13	Sinem KURTBAY Akseli KESKINEN	81	102	6	15	4	9	12	6	3	2	2	4	10	(21)	8
5	ITA 71	Vittorio BISSARO Maelle FRASCARI DIOTALLEVI	86	110	2	4	5	18	2	13	UFD (24)	8	7	9	8	4	6
6	FRA 51	Mourniac TIM Lou BERTHOMIEU	93	115	3	3	1	21	5	5	15	(22)	15	15	2	6	2
7	USA 50	Sarah NEWBERRY MOORE David LIEBENBERG	93	108	8	10	(15)	8	7	2	9	7	5	2	9	10	16
8	AUS 5	Jason WATERHOUSE Lisa DARMANIN	95	114	1	1	4	12	6	8	13	6	13	10	7	(19)	14
9	NED 505	Laila VAN DER MEER Bjarne BOUWER	104	118	9	5	5	1	8	10	6	(14)	11	7	12	12	18
10	NZL 96	Micah WILKINSON Erica DAWSON	117	134	6	15	14	1	11	7	8	16	1	14	4	(17)	20

Media Release French Fed / SOF:

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Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – Toulon Provence Méditerranée

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Nacra 17 (mixed double-handed hydrofoil catamaran)

1st – GBR – John Gimson & Anna Burnett – 32 points
2nd – ARG – Mateo Majdalini & Eugenia Bosco – 70 points
3rd – ITA – Gianlugi Ugolini & Maria Giubilei – 77 points

Britain’s John Gimson & Anna Burnett had already guaranteed gold on Friday (finishing the day 32 points ahead), so all the focus was on the race for silver and bronze. There was no change in the overnight positions as Argentina’s Mateo Majdalini & Eugenia Bosco held on to second place with relative comfort finishing just ahead of Italian’s Gianlugi Ugolini & Maria Giubilei in fifth.

Gimson & Burnett, Olympic silver medalists in Tokyo, who were second here last year, have had a very good April after also winning Palma and enjoyed their own medal race lap of honour finishing second.

John Gimson & Anna Burnett: “A very relaxed, enjoyable medal race. We’ve not been in this position before (guaranteed gold before the medal race). Normally we’re in quite a tight fight in a hard position. The pressure was off so it was easy for us today.

It’s been a light winds week and we had good pace. There were some things from Palma that we didn’t feel we’d done that well and we kind of rectified that this week and having Iain (Percy, Britain’s Olympic champion and America’s Cup sailor) was very helpful. He’s our coach, but he’s a very busy man so we get him in for the important ones.

The result is a with a pinch of salt because the conditions were quite one dimensional this week in terms of the wind speed. I know as soon we get above 11 knots and we’re up and foiling it’s wide open again and we won’t be the quickest boat in that so there’s still a lot of work to do.