VIDEO – Review the interview with Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro, Sailor of the Year 2025
THE PERFECT GIFT!
Give or treat yourself to a subscription to the print + digital Journal of Sailing and for only 69 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
A special installment of the interviews dedicated to the Sailor of the Year 2025 of Il Giornale della Vela, powered by Raymarine: we were visited by the winners, Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro, who in 2024 won the Women America’s Cup with their crewmates on the AC 40.
We talked with them about many topics: from the world of youth sailing to Olympic sailing, through the process of including women in the America’s Cup system. A well-rounded interview not to be missed.
Sailor of the Year, Conti – Porro, the interview
Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro – who they are
Giulia Conti, from Rome in 1985, has in fact taken part in four Olympics. Perhaps few remember her as a 19-year-old in the Yngling in Athens 2004. Instead, many followed her on the 470 in Beijing and London, and then on the 49er in Rio. While in her career, between 49er and 470, she collected six medals between European and World Championships, including two golds, the Olympic podium eluded her. That is why there was probably left in her the desire to put that cherry on top of her career that came with the Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona. The right recognition for an athlete who has shown she can work in a team with younger female sailors.
Female sailors like Margherita Porro, from Brescia in 1999, who has added freshness to Giulia’s experience, a different background more accustomed to foil boats. Margherita has sailed in Waszp and Moth, she has also done Nacra 17 and 49er, a profile formed with flying boats. In many people’s ears that “Giulia trust me” still rings in a crowded crossroads. And Giulia did, indeed, trust Margherita and the rest of the girls in the crew consisting of Maria Giubilei and Giulia Fava. Good girls, for a historic first Women America’s Cup.
Share:
Check out the latest issue
Are you already a subscriber?
Ultimi annunci
Our social
Sign up for our Newsletter
We give you a gift
Sailing, its stories, all boats, accessories. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the Sailing Newspaper editorial staff each week. Plus we give you one month of GdV digitally on PC, Tablet, Smartphone. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button. You will receive a code to activate your month of GdV for free!
You may also be interested in.
Trial of the Sailor of the Year: live with Riccardo De Michele, winner of the Owner’s Award
Il Giornale della Vela’s Sailor of the Year concluded Saturday, May 24, at Marina Cala de Medici, with a big sailing party that crowned this edition’s winners, Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro, and all the winners of the other
Trial of the Sailor of the Year: live with Vaurien lions, Francesco Graziani and Marta Delli
Il Giornale della Vela’s Sailor of the Year concluded Saturday, May 24, at Marina Cala de Medici, with a big sailing party that crowned this edition’s winners, Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro, and all the winners of the other categories
Giulia Conti and Margherita Porro are Il Giornale della Vela’s Sailors of the Year 2025
It was a great day of celebration at Marina Cala de Medici, a great celebration of sailing that saw hundreds of sailors in Tuscan waters, between the Vela Cup regatta at sea with more than 80 boats, and the 50th
Sailor of the Year 2025 Special Edition 50 years GdV: – 1 to the great celebration of Italian sailing
We are now a few hours away from a special day, tomorrow at Marina Cala de Medici we have in fact 3 good reasons to celebrate: the VELA Cup Toscana with over 80 boats registered, 50 years of The Journal
