Youth Sailing World Championships, talking about results
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Riva del Garda – Grand finale on Garda Trentino for the most awaited event of the season in Italy, the Youth Sailing World Championships: Youth Sailing World Championships of the international sailing federation, which saw over 400 Under 19 athletes from 70 nations of all ages arrive on the lake continents. An event week, five days of regattas, the Garda wind, impeccable organization and a territory that confirmed its warm hospitality. Youth Sailing World Championships Garda 2024 will long be remembered and has created a new standard for this annual youth sailing event.
The final day provided favorable weather conditions, allowing racing from morning to early afternoon, first with wind from the north, the Peler, and then from the south, the Ora. In addition to the functioning of the organizational machine in water and on land, the closure of this World Championship gives Italian sailing an unprecedented success: six medals came from the Italian sailors, and the team success with the possibility for the second year consecutive time to lift the prestigious Nations Trophy, beating in order France, Great Britain and the other 67 nations present.
THE MEDALS OF THE AZZURRINA SAILING
During the day, the first triumph was that of the mixed catamaran Nacra 15 with Lorenzo Sirena and Alice Dessy (Yacht Club Cagliari), who started from second in the standings but beat everyone with three firsts in the final heats to win the world title.
It was then the turn, in order, of the men’s iQFOiL windsurfing with the Sardinian Federico Pilloni (athlete of the Young Azzurra sports project of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda) and the women’s one with the Roman Carola Colasanto (Tognazzi Marine Village), both in top of the rankings since the first day of the world championship.
After the afternoon trials, with the boats called out at the first rising of the Hour, the other Italian medals arrived: the fourth gold medal and the related world title came from the men’s/mixed 420 class with the Triestines Lisa Vucetti and Vittorio Bonifacio (Sailing Society of Barcola and Grignano).
In the men’s single ILCA 6 the Garda native Antonio Pascali (Fraglia Vela Riva) came from behind to win another gold in the last race, while in the same class in the women’s field the Roman Maria Vittoria Arseni (Tognazzi Marine Village) completed the work with the sixth medal and the related Youth world title.
In the women’s 420 Margherita Pillan and Giulia Massari (Società Nautica Pietas Julia) finished in 9th place after being in the podium area for a long time, certainly within their reach.
In FormulaKite Giuseppe Paolillo (Club Nautico Rimini) confirms 6th place.
In the men’s/mixed 29er double acrobatic dinghy, the Triestines Giuseppe Montesano (Sirena Club Nautico Triestino) and Enrico Coslovich (Circolo della Vela Muggia) finished in 14th place, and in the women’s 29er the Gardesans Victoria Demurtas and Caroline Karlsen (Fraglia Vela Riva del Garda), with an excellent finish and some regrets they climbed up to 9th place.
THE CLOSING CEREMONY AND THE AWARDS
A celebration of smiles, colors, flags, national anthems. The global youth sailing community bid farewell to Italy and Lake Garda on the FVillage stage amidst images, music and many authorities present who presented the prizes and sent short greetings to the audience with the national teams from all over the world.
Present among others: Claudio Barbaro, undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, one of the four Ministries that supported the event (the others are the Ministry for Sport and Youth, the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry for Civil Protection and Sea policies, to which must be added the Veneto Region, CONI and Sport and Health); Silvio Rigatti, president of Garda Dolomiti APT of which Garda Trentino is part, main sponsor of the World Championship; Francesca Gerosa, vice president of the Autonomous Province of Trento; the mayors of the municipalities involved, the Trentino CONI.
On the sporting side, the World Sailing federation was represented at the highest level with president Quanhai Li (CHN) and vice-presidents Cory Sertl (USA) and Duriye Özlem Akdurak (TUR).
The closing ceremony was opened by FIV president Francesco Ettorre and the Italian Council member of World Sailing Walter Cavallucci, president of the Organizing Committee. Jon Emmett (World Sailing) and Fabio Colivicchi (FIV) conducted the ceremony, which began with the presentation by Quanhai Li of the Bengt Julin Trophy awarded, by vote of the sailors, to the competitor or nation distinguished for sportsmanship and fair play.
Then the podiums took place, with their national anthems of the gold medals, and the presentation of some special trophies offered by national authorities or named after personalities. Then on stage the great celebration of the Italian team for the Nations Trophy, awarded to the DT Alessandra Sensini team by president Ettorre.
At the end of the ceremony, the lowered World Sailing flag was handed over by the FIV president to his counterpart from the Portuguese Federvela José Manuel Reis Nunes Leandro, because Portugal will host the Youth Sailing World Championship 2025. The dazzling smiles of everyone, without exception, they are the seal on the success of the event.
THE 11 PODIUMS AND 33 MEDALS OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
iQFOiL (men’s windsurfing) (after 13 tests)
Gold: Federico Pilloni (ITA – Yacht Club Costa Smeralda)
Silver: Igor Lewinski (POL)
Bronze: Makani Andrews (USA)
iQFOiL (women’s windsurfing)
Gold: Carola Colasanto (ITA – Tognazzi Marine Village)
Silver: Darcey Shaw (GBR)
Bronze: Sofia Hamalainen (FIN)
Nacra 15 (mixed catamaran)
Gold: Lorenzo Sirena and Alice Dessy (Yacht Club Cagliari)
Silver: Vic Molinaro and Fatima Tia (FRA)
Bronze: Hannelien and Sander Borghijs (BEL)
420 (men’s/mixed doubles)
Gold: Lisa Vucetti and Vittorio Bonifacio (ITA – Società Velica Barcola e Grignano)
Silver: Colin Postel and Theo Henry (FRA)
Bronze: Miguel Padron Ferrer and Luisa Mesa Oliver (ESP)
420 (women’s doubles)
Gold: Danai Giannouli and Iakovina Kerkezou (GRE)
Silver: Nicola Sadler Keen and Sofia Cavaco Torres (ESP)
Bronze: Zeynep Cacur and Zeynep Koy (TUR)
9th Margherita Pillan and Giulia Massari (ITA – Società Nautica Pietas Julia)
29er (men’s doubles/mix)
Gold: Ewa Lewandowska and Krzysztof Krolik (POL)
Silver: Finian Morris and Charlie Gran (GBR)
Bronze: Jocelyn Le Goff and Jules Vidor (FRA)
14th Giuseppe Montesano (ITA – Sirena Club Nautico Triestino) and Enrico Coslovich (ITA – Circolo della Vela Muggia)
29er (women’s doubles)
Gold: Alicja Dampc and Alicja Tutkowska (POL)
Silver: Una Heinila and Silja-Sophie Laukkanen (FIN)
Bronze: Annie Sitzmann and Molly Bonham (USA)
9th Victoria Demurtas and Caroline Karlsen (ITA – Fraglia Vela Riva del Garda)
ILCA 6 (women’s singles)
Gold: Maria Vittoria Arseni (ITA – Tognazzi Marine Village)
Silver: Hermione Ghicas (GRE)
Bronze: Alina Shapovalova (UKR)
ILCA 6 (men’s singles)
Gold: Antonio Pascali (ITA – Fraglia Vela Riva)
Silver: Hidde Schraffordt (NED)
Bronze: Weka Bhanubandh (THA)
Men’s FormulaKite
Gold: Lucas Fonseca (BRA)
Silver: Gian Andrea Stragiotti (SUI)
Bronze: Neil De Jaham (FRA)
6th Giuseppe Paolillo (ITA – Club Nautico Rimini)
Female FormulaKite
Gold: Maria Catalina Turienzo (ARG)
Silver: Meijing Xiao (CHN)
Bronze: Derin Atakan (TUR)
(Italy absent in this specialty)
NATIONS TROPHY
The ranking of the top five nations:
1) ITALY, 2) France; 3) Great Britain; 4) USA; 5) Poland (followed by 64 nations)
THE COMMENT OF FRANCESCO ETTORRE, PRESIDENT OF FIV
“Today we are happy, Italy and Garda have provided the world of sailing with an event that will remain in the memories of those who participated. We wanted to leave our mark, give prestige to one of the most important events in our sport. I share this organizational and sporting success with the entire national sailing movement, it is the sign of common growth.
“From the beginning we thought about showing the event to the world, setting up a broadcast video production of the highest quality, with an international team for the coordination of which I want to give credit to Mirco Babini, we wanted to promote sailing in one year very rich which includes the Olympics and America’s Cup, and give a boost to our clubs throughout the peninsula during the sailing school period. The broadcasts of Rai Italia, Rai Sport, Rai News confirm the level of relationships that FIV has built over the years.
“Casa Italia, for which I thank CONI, has always been at the center of the world championship, another result we are happy about. I also want to underline that we wanted to complete the event by hosting and giving visibility to the FIV formats: Para Sailing, in collaboration with IBSA and the Foiling Academy. They are ideas that the world compliments and tries to follow. Sustainability, according to the World Sailing agenda and with the collaboration of One Ocean Foundation, has guided every single action in these days.
“I can say that the results, even in sports, have proved us right: many medals in different disciplines, the quality of the youth world rewards the work done in these eight years, with the technical direction of Alessandra Sensini and the connection with the Olympic team: it is no coincidence that in Marseille there will be many young people who left here.
“Thanks to Walter Cavallucci and the Clubs, the entire organization ran perfectly and with a great sense of team. Thanks to the federal staff present, from the team technicians to those who collaborated on land and in the water, the secretariat, communication and marketing. My personal pride and as a federation is to have managed to bring such a challenging event to a conclusion and above all with the recognition from all the participants and from the World Sailing board, a hug for everyone to president Quanhai Li.”
THE COMMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE WALTER CAVALLUCCI
“Today we are at the conclusion of an event that lived up to expectations and was a great success. It is thanks to the organization of these events that the role and weight of the Italian Federation can increase on an international level.
“The things we are proud of, which made this event unique: the letter of greeting and blessing from Pope Francis, the medal from the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the active involvement of four Ministries, the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Region Veneto with their respective sailing clubs.
“The hospitality of the participants was widespread in the various locations involved, thanks to the role of Garda Dolomiti, the tourism promotion body of Garda Trentino, which masterfully managed the secretariat and logistics of the event. Thanks also to the six clubs who teamed up and were the sporting references for the various disciplines, putting all their experience and ability and the facilities at their disposal. And applause to the young companies from a particularly generous area, who believed in the event by providing their quality products, protagonists at Casa Italia.
“The idea of this event in Italy was born three years ago by FIV President Francesco Ettorre, with the aim of transforming a championship that was only organized on the water, into an event that would also involve participants and guests on land. Two years ago the World Sailing Assembly awarded the Youth Sailing World Championships to Italy, with the proposal of Lake Garda. From that moment Federvela started the organization, starting from the involvement of the Italian Government, obtained thanks to the constant activity of President Ettorre. An ad-hoc committee has been set up between the clubs and the APT Garda Trentino, a cohesive and very strong team, made up of professionalism and passion.”
THE COMMENT OF FIV YOUTH TEACHER ALESSANDRA SENSINI
“I am happy and proud of this incredible World Championship, winning six titles and gold medals out of a total of ten classes represented is really a lot, and if we add the confirmation of the Nations Trophy, this is a historic result for Italian sailing.
We knew we had the potential to win in different classes, with greater or lesser percentages, but winning six times and climbing the top step of the podium has something magical!
I believe that this team has given a lot to itself, experiencing this championship together, with the difficulties that always exist. We had a difficult third day, yet the boys knew how to manage it and deal with it in the right way. It is a group that has been able to work as a team, that has drawn strength and energy from within itself.
I am proud of all the FIV youth technical staff who were able to guide these kids through a preparation process and on the championship trip. I thank UDR Tito Morosetti who, as always, assisted us from home in managing the protests, and of course congratulations also to all the coaches of the children’s clubs for the work they do every day. Thanks and well done everyone: let it be the beginning of a great journey!”
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