Nacra 17 Kiel Week 2022: Tita & Banti dominate
Six bullets out of 9 total races for current Olympic Nacra 17 Champs. Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti dominate once more over a pretty competitive fleet at Kiel Week 2022. So much talent that Kolhoff-Stulehmer (Bronze Olympic) and Waterhouse-Darmanin (Silver Rio) finished 8th and 11th respectively.
Lange keeps struggling back with current upwind foiling pace and the young Arg crew of Majdalani & Bosco are right there close to the leading top ten pack, last regatta they even won the MR.
Italy having a strong team, Bissaro-Frascari always pushing and the youngsters Ugolini-Giubilei already in the top 5 and I have reports of them being super fast too. More regattas will bring them more consistency.
Live Stream replay of races 3 & 4 available here. Photos Sascha Klan / Kiel Week 2022
Complete results available here, Nacra 17 tab. Top ten below.
| Nr | Sail | Team | T | N | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | MR |
| 1 | ITA 26 | Ruggero TITA Caterina BANTI | 41 | 27 | -14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | GBR 21 | John GIMSON Anna BURNET | 44 | 36 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | -8 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | ITA 71 | Vittorio BISSARO Maelle FRASCARI | 67 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 7 | -21 | 2 |
| 4 | NZL 96 | Micah WILKINSON Erica DAWSON | 58 | 48 | 4 | 4 | -10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 12 |
| 5 | ITA 98 | Gianluigi UGOLINI Maria GIUBILEI | 68 | 52 | -16 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | NED 505 | Laila van der MEER Bjarne BOUWER | 82 | 60 | -22 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| 7 | FIN 13 | Sinem KURTBAY Akseli KESKINEN | 74 | 60 | 6 | 6 | 3 | -14 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| 8 | GER 3 | Paul KOHLHOFF Alica STUHLEMMER | 82 | 66 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 8 | -16 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 6 |
| 9 | SWE 61 | Ida SVENSSON Marcus DACKHAMMAR | 85 | 66 | 10 | 13 | -19 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 14 |
| 10 | DEN 31 | Natacha Violet SAOUMA-PEDERSEN Mathias BRUUN BORRESKOV | 80 | 69 | 8 | -11 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 18 |
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16