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France, Italy and Israel, what a start at the Worlds!
A strong start for the 2015 Techno293 World Championships in Cagliari, with three races completed for all fleets in less than 4 hours. And an even stronger start for France, Italy and Israel: these three big teams confirmed their medal ambitions from the first day of race. With the help of a 10-12 knots breeze from South-East, the Race Committee started on schedule and did a good job at running the show, managing 334 competitors on two courses and bringing everybody ashore before 2 p.m. - not too late for a good plate of pasta.
In the Youth girls fleet, we are once again ready to watch a fight between two great rivals - Katy Spychakov from Israel and Italian Giorgia Speciale. Katy is leading after the first day, but she must remember her opponent's late comeback at the European Championships in Liepaja, not many weeks ago. Giorgia had the final say in Latvia, winning the gold by two points. This is a different event though, and today Katy closed first in all three races. “I was hoping fot a stronger wind”, she said at the end, “the kind we had at times during the two weeks of training I spent in Cagliari before the Worlds. It was a good start, anyway. Today I managed to keep Georgia behind me but I know that it will be a long and difficult race”. Also because another Italian could step in: Enrica Schirru is from Cagliari, she knows these waters very well and she confirmed it with a solid 3-3-3 today.
A strong start for the 2015 Techno293 World Championships in Cagliari, with three races completed for all fleets in less than 4 hours. And an even stronger start for France, Italy and Israel: these three big teams confirmed their medal ambitions from the first day of race. With the help of a 10-12 knots breeze from South-East, the Race Committee started on schedule and did a good job at running the show, managing 334 competitors on two courses and bringing everybody ashore before 2 p.m. - not too late for a good plate of pasta.
In the Youth girls fleet, we are once again ready to watch a fight between two great rivals - Katy Spychakov from Israel and Italian Giorgia Speciale. Katy is leading after the first day, but she must remember her opponent's late comeback at the European Championships in Liepaja, not many weeks ago. Giorgia had the final say in Latvia, winning the gold by two points. This is a different event though, and today Katy closed first in all three races. “I was hoping fot a stronger wind”, she said at the end, “the kind we had at times during the two weeks of training I spent in Cagliari before the Worlds. It was a good start, anyway. Today I managed to keep Georgia behind me but I know that it will be a long and difficult race”. Also because another Italian could step in: Enrica Schirru is from Cagliari, she knows these waters very well and she confirmed it with a solid 3-3-3 today.