Athletes were greeted with wild winds gusting to over 40 knots on arrival at the venue on day two of the iQFOiL European Championships in Patras, Greece.
With just fourteen months until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, European regattas are filling the calendar, and following rapidly on from key events in Palma and Hyeres, the iQFOiL Europeans will take place in Patras, Greece, with racing from the 9th-14th May.
Day 4, the first two days of Final’s racing at the 2023 Hyeres Regatta in France, was a test of light and shifty breeze skills and make or break time in a lot of respects, as Australian athletes worked hard to avoid big scores and move up the board, which the likes of Matt Wearn, Casey Imeneo and Mara Stransky did.
More wins and other top placings for Australian athletes competing on Day 3 of the 2023 Hyeres Regatta in France, this time in light and shifty airs that did not faze the athletes in the Australian Sailing Team (AST), Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) in the Nacra 17, 49erFX, 49er and ILCA 6 classes.
The iconic Sail Melbourne and Sail Sydney regattas are once again set to take place this summer, with competition heating up in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Australian Sailing Team (AST), Australian Sailing Squad (ASS) and Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) athletes again took advantage of a Mistral wind on Day 2 of the 2023 Hyeres Regatta in France, with wins and top three places aplenty in the ILCA 7 and 49erFX classes.
A 60-strong squad from Australia is in Hyeres, France preparing to take part in the 2023 Semaine Olympique Francais, colloquially known as the ‘Hyeres Regatta’, with a Practice race to kick off proceedings on Sunday and the first races to follow on Monday.
It was a breakthrough kind of day for Australian sailors in Palma today, with Zoe Thomson (ILCA 6) and Tom Burton OAM and Max Paul (49er) both claiming silver medals
Twenty-five young sailors from across the nation will form the inaugural 2023 Youth Squad which will meet to train and compete together for the first time this month.
After two days of waiting on good weather it was more than fitting that all got their just deserts for Wednesday’s racing in Palma at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia regatta.
As Australian Sailing continues to ‘supercharge’ coaching under our high performance strategy, we initiated the inaugural NEXTLEVEL coaching program in 2022 and are excited to announce the extension and expansion of this support for 2023 NEXTLEVEL coach program intake.