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Olympic racing
World Cup Series France : France’s Charline Picon takes gold in Hyères
France’s Charline Picon, the Rio 2016 Olympic Champion, made sure it was a golden finish for the hosts, winning the women’s RS:X windsurfing to close the 51st edition of the Semaine Olympique Française. There could not have been a better concluding day as the Medal Races played out in perfect Côte d’Azur conditions with a (...) -
#GoldenGlobeRace
2018 Golden Globe Race: Jean-Luc Van Den Heede crowned winner of the 2018 race
Exactly 50 years to the day that Sir Robin Knox-Johnston returned to Falmouth UJK after 312 days at sea to become the first man to sail solo non-stop around the Globe, 73-year old Frenchman Jean-Luc Van Den Heede was crowned winner of the second Golden Globe Race Golden Globe Race Golden Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne, (...) -
#OffshoreSailing
Offshore World Championship : L30 adopted BY World Sailing
World Sailing announceD that the L30, a 30-foot one design keelboat, has been selected as the supplied equipment for World Sailing’s Offshore World Championship from 2020. -
#FlyingPhantom
Flying Phantom Elite, Essentiel, and Ultimate to compete in same events but in 3 separate leagues
Phantom International, the world’s foiling beach catamaran pionneer, announces 2019 Phantom class events calendar for all Flying Phantom owners. 2019 is going to be the first season fully dedicated to Flying Phantom owners, with three boats, Elite, Essentiel and Ultimate, gathered in the same events, but competing in three separate (...) -
#WorldDiamTour #Diam24
EFG Sailing Arabia - The Tour : Valentin Bellet, Valentin Sipan, Guillaume Pirouelle et Arnaud Jarleguan champions for a second year in succession
Beijaflore have been crowned champions of EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour, repeating their success of last year to take back-to-back victories in the Middle East’s premier yacht racing event. -
#GGR2018
Golden Globe Race 2018 : Van Den Heede receives huge welcome back in Les Sables d’Olonne
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede wrote his name into the record Record #sailingrecord books by not only winning the 2018 Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world race today, but becoming the oldest in history to complete such a race. The 73-year old French veteran of six solo circumnavigations takes over both titles from Britain’s Sir Robin (...) -
#2019TornadoWorlds
2019 Tornado World Championships: Australian duo Brett Burvill and Max Puttman claimed the overall title
The final day of racing for the 2019 Tornado World Championships Powered by Candida Stationery ended on a high with Olympic Gold and Silver medalist Rex Sellars, sailing with his son Brett, took the win for race 10, a great way to end the regatta. But it wasn’t enough to get them on the podium, missing out on third place by just one (...) -
#RolexSydneyHobart
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race : The crew of Alive with owner Philip Turner and skipper Duncan Hine received the Tattersall Cup
For Phillip Turner the dream of winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race began “five or six years ago” when he was watching the finish and suddenly thought: “I’d like to win that one day.” -
#AC36 #AC75
36th America’s Cup : Stars & Stripes Team USA confirm acceptance as 5th Challenger
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is pleased to confirm that the identity of the 5th accepted challenger for the 36th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup is the Long Beach Yacht Club, another historic and internationally respected yacht club. -
#GC32 #extremesailing
2018 Extreme Sailing Series: Psarofaghis, Charbonnier, Lapauw, Mettraux & Detrey win the championship for Alinghi
For the fourth time in their eight-year history of competing in the Extreme Sailing Series Extreme Sailing Series #extremesailing ™, Swiss team Alinghi took the coveted championship title after a remarkable final in Los Cabos, Mexico. This phenomenal feat makes them the joint most successful team ever to participate in the world-class, (...)