Nacra 17 Worlds 2025: Day 1

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Day 1 Report by Andy Rice, sent by the Nacra 17 / 49er Class Assoc media

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2025 Worlds: Great start for Great Britain in the Nacra 17

–John Gimson and Anna Burnet have been fast out of the blocks on day one of the Nacra 17 Worlds in Cagliari, the British team taking a five-point lead at the head of the 40-boat fleet. Just seven months together as a team, but both experienced Olympians in their own right, Sinem Kurtbay and Alican Kaynar won race two and put together a solid day to sit in second place overall, six points clear of the Olympic silver medallists from Argentina, Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco. Local favourites Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei sit in fifth place ahead of fellow Italians Federico Figlia di Granara and Caterina Sedmak.

Quotes from the day

Anna Burnet: “It was a good day but for us it’s just about surviving the qualifying. Obviously that went well for us today but we don’t want to use all our luck up in the qualifying. We got two good starts and one bad start and with the bad start we managed to get our way back into this race well.”

Sinem Kurtbay, on the ‘new’ pairing with former helm and now crew, Alican Kaynar: “I think it’s been going super well, I think we’ve improved a lot faster than I expected. The fact that Alican has been a helm, that’s probably the explanation for how fast we improved to the level that we’re at now. I mean it’s just been one day, we can’t claim anything obviously, but I think the training has been going really well.”–

written by event reporter Andy Rice

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