2020 Nacra 17 Europeans: Tita & Banti prevail.
Ruggero Tita & Catherina Banti showed great resilience today winning the 2020 Nacra 17 Europeans coming from behind. Lange & Carranza were leading yesterday and today’s first races, but three 8ths plus a 17th & a 13th were too much to even keep podium position.Yesterday only one race was completed, which was won by Tita & Banti. The Argentineans finished 15th.
Bissaro & Frascari also kept pushing against their fellow Italian team, but it was not enough. Third overall for them and an excellent measure for the rest of the future internal qualifiers that defining who will go to the Olympics it just elevates the level of all involved crews. Bissaro & Frascari are the reigning World Champs while Tita & Banti won the previous one.
Second overall for Delapierre & Audinet, the French team who left Besson-Riou out of the next games showed they are up to the challenge.
The Finnish team grabs the ast European slot for Tokyo, the Greek crew had a good run, scoring yet another bullet. They should be more than happy on their late campaign effort.
And Danny Paschalidis left proof he can still race at Olympic level.
Read official report below results.
Top ten, complete list https://nacra17.org/events/2020-european-championship/#results
| Pos | Sail | Team | Net | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | T |
| 1 | ITA 26 | Tita-Banti | 55 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 74 |
| 2 | FRA 56 | Delapierre-Audinet | 59 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 72 |
| 3 | ITA 5 | Bissaro-Frascari | 62 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 77 |
| 4 | GBR 21 | Gimson – Burnet | 63 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 79 |
| 5 | SWE 44 | Jarudo-Jonsson | 73 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 97 |
| 6 | ARG 1 | Lange – Carranza | 75 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 92 |
| 7 | ESP 28 | Pacheco-Trittel | 82 | 4 | 14 | (UFD) | 3 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 113 |
| 8 | FIN 27 | Kurtbay – Jarvinen | 99 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 124 |
| 9 | FRA 51 | Mourniac-Ancian | 104 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 119 |
| 10 | GER 77 | Kohllof-Stuhlemer | 106 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 126 |
Official report sent by Icarus Sports / Nacra 17 Class Assoc. Full report here
Nacra 17: Tita and Banti back to their best
As dawn broke and the Nacra 17 fleet launched, just six points separated the top six teams on the leaderboard. Once again the new Greek team, Iordanis Paschalidis and Myrto Papadopoulou, stole the thunder of the more fancied crews and rode their luck in the patch breeze to take the first race of the morning.
Leaders for most of the regatta, Argentina’s Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli, could not find their mojo today, the reigning Olympic Champions slipping down the rankings to sixth overall. The three most consistent performers on the final day ended up occupying the podium, with Italy taking gold and bronze. Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti finished on top, four points ahead of France’s Quentin Delapierre and Manon Audinet, and Vittorio Bissaro/ Maelle Frascari three points further back in third.
The reigning World Champions, John Gimson and Anna Burnet, looked dead and buried half way through the final race but somehow weaved their way through to second across the finish. The fast-finishing British team fell short of the podium by a single point.
The Regatta is complete
Union-Yacht-Club Attersee deserve all the credit for taking on the organisation of a major European Championship in just three months. Usually these events are years in the making. The conditions were as challenging as expected, but no one can say that the wrong sailors won. Late Attersee really turned on some great breeze for the final afternoon of competition and we saw drama until the very end.
