The 2024 RS21 World Championship in L’Escala awards its winners!

28/September/2024
Category: Regattas

Today, Saturday 28th September, the RS21 2024 World Championship held its last day at the Club Nàutic L’Escala. The prize-giving ceremony brought the competition to a close.

The event took place in the regatta’s Village and featured speeches from the president of Club Nàutic l’Escala Narcís Carreras, the commercial director of RS Sailing Michiel Geerling, the president of the Catalan Sailing Federation Josep Maria Isern and Josep Bofill, mayor of L’Escala.

With the lowering of the class flag, the RS21 World Championship, which has brought together 164 sailors from ten countries and two continents, came to an end. The conditions have been tough and variable, and the sailors have experienced first hand the thermal winds typical of the area during the first day, as well as the westerly and northly winds the last few days. The Bay of Roses and the Sea of Empúries thus became the venue for an international sailing event.

The regatta was hotly disputed, with several changes at the head of the fleet and tight point differences. This undoubtedly demonstrates the competitiveness and high level of the class.

With a total of nine races sailed, the RS21 2024 Class World Champion in the absolute category was the Italian team Stenghele, made up of Pietro Negri, Niccolo Bianchi, Giovanni Meloni and Camilla Cordero di Montezemolo. Despite a 63-point tie with the third placed crew, the runner-up spot went to Fremito D’Arja of Dario Levi, Jas Farneti, Stefano Cherin and Fausto Surini. Caipirinha with Martin Reintjes, Francesco Rubagotti, Daniele Cassinari and Giulio Desiderato completes an all-Italian podium, the nationality that dominated the regatta.

In the Corinthian category, for non-professional sailors, the World Champion in the RS21 2024 Class it’s the Lithuanian team Storm with Raimondas Siugzdinis, Klaudio Kliucinskas, Egle Kivisikk and Andrius Ramonaitis. The runner-up it’s the Italian team of Riccardo Benvenuto, Riccardo Vincenzi, Duccio Abolaffio and Diego Larcher. Third place went to the Italian Nox Oceani 285 owned by Andrea Nocella, who sailed with a crew made up of Andrea de Matteis at the helm, Riccardo Serra, Matteo Paulon, Tito Morbiducci and Giorgio Nocella.

Thanks to their good results, the young Italian sailors of Nox 285 won the Under 23 category and won the World Championship. The runner-up was Camilla Michelini’s Italian Nordés, crewed by Alessandro Bossi, Sara Rolle, Giorgia Caropreso, Tommaso Comelli and Federico Bossi. Andrea Nocella’s Italian Nox Oceani 231, crewed by Francesco Columbano, Luca De Matteis, Salvatore Garippa, Claudio Sechi and Riccardo-Hai Gessa, won bronze.

The crew representing Spain and L’Escala in the championship, made up of Walter Brandesky, Toni Castells, Vicenç Batlle and Valentín Baraibar finished 33rd overall.

Rankings Photos