Nearly 1,000 optimists for big youth sailing festival
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Nearly 1,000 helmsmen for what is the biggest celebration of youth sailing: the 33rd Garda Meeting, which starts today.
ALSO ARGENTINA AND SOUTH AFRICA
The Optimist invasion on Garda Trentino has been underway for a few days now: the beautiful sunny days of these days have welcomed in the best possible way the hundreds of kids who from Thursday to Sunday will be engaged in Riva del Garda in the thirty-third edition of the Garda Optimist Meeting. At Fraglia Vela Riva, a Riva club already awarded Guinness World Records in 2012 for organizing the world’s largest single-class regatta, registration finalization operations began Tuesday morning for the 912 competitors registered online (206 cadets and 713 juniors). As many as 31 nations are present with the addition of Argentina among the more distant nations, as well as the USA and South Africa (returning after 25 years with the presence of Alex Falcon).
THE COUNTRY CUP.
Meanwhile, the first Country Cup was held yesterday. Exciting regatta for nations – the Meeting Country Cup – held today in the stretch of water in front of the Fraglia Vela Riva marina: Some have already dubbed the event’s formula a mini-Olympics, as it traces the Olympic sailing mode of participation, which involves only one representative per nation with very small fleets. Thus 23 helmsmen from as many countries competed today in three short, but very technical races due to the gusty and therefore erratic northerly wind. Twist in the first race in which three-fourths of the fleet turned the stern buoy backwards, thus suffering disqualification. The regatta therefore for some was compromised by this glaring mistake, which few were able to avoid. Since no discard was expected, the most regular ones prevailed: the first edition of the Meeting Country Cup goes to Christian Spodsberg (DENMARK), who with a first a second and an eighth won ahead of Eskil Jonasson (SWEDEN), third place for Romanian Petru Neagu, a member of Fraglia Vela Riva. Eighth place for Italy with Alessandro Caldari running into disqualification in the first race, then redeemed with a second and finally tenth in the third and final race and thus with no chance to recover.
Ranking:
1. DENMARK
2. SWEDEN
3. ROMANIA
4. CZECH REPUBLIC
5. TURKEY
6. GERMANY
7. RUSSIA
8. ITALY
9. POLAND
10. LATVIA
Followed by 13 nations
(photo Elena Giolai)
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