Laser Class News Highlights
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2021 Laser European Championship’s venues has been decided this weekend at ’18 EAGM – 2018 EurILCA’s Annual General Meeting–. Places will be the following: 2021 Laser 4.7 Youth European Championships > Vilamoura, Portugal (changed to Travemünde, Germany, and Vilamoura moves to 2020 instead). 2021 Laser Radial Youth European Championships > Kastela, Croatia 2021 Laser U21 […]
The first 18 Laser Women’s places for Tokyo 2020 were awarded yesterday at the 2018 Laser World championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Fifteen of them were for our European representatives! In addition to Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark’s Olympic spots achieved by Gold medalist Emma Plasschaert, Silver medalist Marit Bouwmeester and Bronze medalist Anne-Marie Rindom, twelve other
The first 14 Laser Men’s places for Tokyo 2020 were awarded yesterday at the 2018 Laser World championships in Aarhus, Denmark. In addition to Cyprus and Germany’s Olympic spots achieved by Gold medalist Pavlos Kontides and Bronze medalist Philipp Buhl, six other great European sailors had also qualified their countries to the next Olympic Games.
Five times Olympic medalist (three of them in the Laser class) Robert Scheidt BRA has finally announced his farewell of Olympic sailing, but fortunately not of the Laser class! The eleven times Laser World champion faced press on a conference at the Yacht Club Santo Amaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, explaining this hard decision and
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dutch sailor Marit Bouwmeester arrives to this 2017 Laser European Championships in Barcelona in a particular context, owing all current major Laser Women’s titles: the last European championship in Canarias in 2016, the last World Sailing championship in Santander in 2014, the Gold Olympic medal in Rio and recently her 3rd World championship in Medemblik.
