TAG Heuer Sailor of the Year, stop voting! Here’s who made it through the round

With an avalanche of votes on the velistadellanno.giornaledellavela.com website (30,000!), the first phase of the TAG Heuer Velista of the Year has concluded. Among the 100 nominees, the 30 highest vote-getters passed the round, which you can vote for again on the website from 1 p.m. March 18 until April 15-the top 10 will enter the final round. Please note that you can express a maximum of three preferences, either to be given to a single candidate or to be distributed among several candidates of your choice.

THE MOST VOTED FOR NOW IS HIM

Who was the most voted in the first phase? Andrea Barbera, with 2,801 votes. So many, which were followed by hundreds of comments and certificates of appreciation. They did not expect such an uproar around the 40-year-old from Agrigento, Italy, who made the solo tour of Sicily aboard a 5-meter uninhabitable Class A catamaran. He grinded out the 500-mile route (clockwise from the port of San Leone, Agrigento) in 18 days and 12 stages. Perhaps the Sicilian skipper’s secret lies in his own words, “After years and years of following the exploits of great sailors around the oceans such as Vittorio Malingri and Matteo Miceli, I decided to test myself as well. But there is no sporting feat here. I did it primarily for myself.”

Below you will find the rankings of the 30 top-rated candidates from the first phase.

HOW THE FIRST PHASE WENT

1. Andrea Barbera, 2801 votes
2. Caterina Degli Uberti / Giulia Ancillotti, 2517 votes
3. Nicola Abimbola / Ludovica Festino, 2273 votes
4. Elio Somaschini, 1536 votes
5. Alice Ruggiu, 1403 votes
6. Polito Sailing Team, 966 votes
7. Marta Monge, 900 votes
8. Davide Zerbinati, 828 votes
9. Fabrizio Olmi / Davide Di Maria, 803 votes
10. Sofia Renna, 720 votes
11. Sergio Caramel, 697 votes
12. A. Cortese / F. Contardi / L.Pezzilli / L.Vucetti, 676 votes
13. Giulia Grilli / Pietro Jan Bellot, 653 votes
14. Ambrose Beccaria, 642 votes
15. Federico Pilloni, 635 votes
16. CN Bardolino / ASD Gulliver, 631 votes
17. Chiara Benini Floriani, 609 votes
18. Vittorio Bissaro / Maelle Frascari, 580 votes
19. Niccolo Nordera, 577 votes
20. Patrizio Bertelli, 566 votes
21. Flavio Ferrone, 529 votes
22. Massimiliano Fonzo, 493 votes
23. Marco Gradoni, 480 votes
24. Alessandro Ciofani, 474 votes
25. Lorenzo Boschetti, 462 votes
26. Giulio Desiderato, 437 votes
27. D. Papapicco / D. Ricci / A. Brioschi, 436 votes
28. Lucio Micheletti, 431 votes
29. Luca Rosetti, 427 votes
30. Gaia Bergonzini / Leonardo Toscano, 425 votes

HERE THE COMPLETE RANKING

HOW TO VOTE.

The challenge is still long, very long, the second round of voting will start on Wednesday, March 18 at 1 p.m. and close on April 15, 2020 at 12 noon. As a reminder, the 10 candidates with the most votes advance to the next round in the second phase: you can cast a maximum of three votes per phase in support of your favorite candidates. For security and authentication purposes, you will be asked to enter your e-mail inbox before voting: you will then have to enter a simple “captcha” (the security code to distinguish between humans and bots). At the beginning of each new phase, the votes received by candidates will not accumulate but will be reset. The principle of “cumulability” will only apply to the awarding of the “Most Voted” prize. Those who vote can immediately take advantage of a code to subscribe to the Sailing Newspaper at a 20% discount! For clarification and info on voting, email speciali@panamaeditore.it

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