Two new races were held today to complete the first half of the 2022 EurILCA 6 Youth European Championships & Open European Trophy in Thessaloniki, Greece. This way the Qualifying series concluded with 6 races on scores as per scheduled.
The day started at 11:30 with the coaches meeting. The first races started around 13:30 on both courses, with 5-6 knots and flat water, finally increasing to 9-12 for the last races. All sailors returned to shore around 17:30.
Race day 3 results – Girls
Dutch sailor Roos Wind NED (1-1-4-3-13-1) consolidated her leadership today with one more win, heading the 106 sailors fleet with 10 points. Eve McMahon IRL (13-2-2-4-13-1) and Emma Mattivi ITA (3-16-1-6-7-6) also secured their 2nd and 3rd positions from yesterday, counting now 22 and 23 points respectively.
Evangelia Karageorgou GRE and Klara Sobczak POL are 4th and 5th overall with 28 and 30 units.
Adriana Castro Nuñez ESP continues to lead the girl’s Under 17 championship, now ranked 6th overall with 30 points. Maria Vittoria Arseni ITA and Line-Annellek Pahler GER complete the provisional U17 podium on places 17th and 31st respectively.
Race day 3 results – Boys
The 284 boy’s overall championship has a new leader, and that’s Ole Schweckendiek GER (2-2-1-2-4-5) with 11 points. He’s followed just 1 point behind by the Under 17 leader Alexandros Eleftheriadis GRE (1-1-2-2-12-6) with 12. Third place overall and second U17 for the overnight first Rem Pulci Magen ISR (1-1-1-8-7-13) with 18.
Marios Stathas GRE is third U17 on place 13th overall with 37 units.
The Final series will start tomorrow and for the last three days, finally deciding our new EurILCA 6 Youth European champions. From now on the fleets will be split in Gold, Silver, Bronze and Emerald for the boys, and Gold and Silver for the girls.
390 youth sailors from 34 nations of all around the World are being part of this competition, organised by Nautical Club of Thessaloniki, Hellenic ILCA Class Association EurILCA, City of Kalamaria and Region of Central Macedonia. The event is kindly sponsored by EPT 3, Superfast Ferries, Grohe, Yamaha, Live Media, Interlife and Coral.
Racing will goes from July 1st to 6th, with 2 scheduled races per day. The first warning signal tomorrow will be at 15:00, with the coaches meeting at 13:00.
How to follow the 2022 EurILCA 6 Youth Europeans in Thessaloniki
Live streaming
We’re daily streaming all the action and races live on our Instagram stories https://www.instagram.com/eurilca/ and YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/eurilcachannel – We suggest you to subscribe and follow us in order to receive instant notifications when we’re live!
News and reports
A daily report with news and results, photos and videos is being published at https://eurilca.org/news-2022-eurilca-6-youth-europeans/
Instant notifications
We have created a Telegram group that everyone can join to receive instant communications about the event, scanning the following QR code;
Photo galleries
Photos albums are being daily uploaded on our Smugmug account: https://eurilca.smugmug.com/2022-European-Championships/2022-EurILCA-6-Youth-Europeans – They are all free to be downloaded and used for editorial purposes or social media specifically related with this event. For any other purpose or commercial uses please contact the photographer at thomtouw@me.com
Video galleries
Video highlights and interviews will be published on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/eurilcachannel – We suggest you to subscribe to it to receive instant notifications when we upload them.
GPS tracking
For the Final Series racing, the Gold fleets will be provided with GPS tracking for you to follow their races live in the following link: https://www.metasail.it/incoming/307/
Much more live news and contents are being spread through our Instagram account mentioned before plus the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/eurilca so stay tuned!
Race documents
For further information about the event you can download the Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions and other documents here: https://eurilca.eu/event/244/documents
Event website
All the information and links to the different contents mentioned before you can also find them at the official event website: https://2022-ilca6youth.eurilca-europeans.org/
Let’s go sailing!
The EurILCA Team
