The 2024 ILCA 6 Youth European Championships & Open European Trophy continued today in Bangor, Northern Ireland, with the second day of competition. Insufficient wind in the early morning forced the Race Committee to postpone activities for three hours. Finally, at 12:30, the first fleets were allowed to launch their boats. The day proved challenging, […]
The 2024 ILCA 6 Youth European Championships & Open European Trophy kicked off today in Bangor, Northern Ireland, marking the first day of competition. Light to medium winds from South kept Bangor’s bay flat along the day. The first set of races began at 11:00 as per scheduled in both courses. After two races per
The 2024 ILCA 6 Youth European Championships & Open European Trophy are officially underway in Bangor, Northern Ireland, following a vibrant opening ceremony today. Between 29 July and 3 August, Ballyholme Yacht Club is playing host to the event which sees 358 of the world’s best youth sailors battling it out over six days. Sunday’s
The Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony marked a historic moment for sailing as an Olympic sport, with 13 nautical athletes chosen as flag bearers. This breaks the previous record of 12 set at Rio 2016, making sailing the fifth most represented sport among flag bearers in Paris. Notably, nine of these 13 athletes are ILCA sailors,
The 2024 ILCA 6 Youth European Championships & Open European Trophy will start tomorrow in Bangor, Northern Ireland, with the first day of registration and equipment inspection. A total of 368 young sailors from 38 nations around the globe will come together to participate in this competition. The Men’s fleet will be the largest, with
Both ILCA 6 Gold medals were ultimately won by the Italian representatives Maria Vittoria Arseni and Antonio Pascali, crowning them as the new 2024 Youth Sailing World Champions in the Female and Male Dinghy championships, respectively. After 9 races over 5 days of competition on Lake Garda, the Silver medals were also secured by European
Northern Ireland’s youth sailors compete with the best as the 2024 ILCA 6 Youth European Championships come to Bangor. Eleven aspiring sailors from Northern Ireland have been confirmed to compete in this summer’s ILCA 6 Youth European Championships to be held at Ballyholme Yacht Club in Bangor, County Down. This prestigious sailing competition, taking place
Source: Warnemünde Week. Consistency is the key to success in the tightly packed field of ILCA sailors. The conclusion of the 2024 EurILCA Europa Cup GER on Warnemünder Woche is the compelling evidence. In the overall ranking of the ILCA 7, the Dane Andreas Krabbe-Christensen DEN triumphed without having won a single race. In the
The 2024 ILCA Under 21 World Championships concluded yesterday in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, after six days of competition with all 12 scheduled races completed. ILCA 6 results Irish sailor Eve McMahon IRL retained the crown she won last year in Morocco, securing her second consecutive ILCA Under 21 world title in ILCA 6. In
The six scheduled regattas were run in Grandson, Switzerland for the 2024 EurILCA Master SUI, ninth step of the 2024 EurILCA Master Series. Seventeen ILCA 6 and ten ILCA 7 had a great time ashore and on the water, racing two races on Friday in a light easterly wind, three races on Saturday in a
