Nacra 17 Worlds 2024 @La Grande Motte: Day 4 Results

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Photos from the past days by Didier Hillaire

Day 4 at La Grande Motte YC, for the 2024 Nacra 17 Worlds. Gold & Silver fleet split today, Tita & Banti continue to lead, Gimson & Burnett follow with the Italian youth team 3rd overall.

Swede was qualified by Emil Jarudd & Hannah Jonsson but now they are facing competition from Ida Svensson & Marcus Dackhammar who are currently 4th overall and scoring six top three scores in 12 races.

Official media release we received written by Andy Rice :

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“Nacra 17 Worlds: Not just a pretty face
 
If John Gimson and Anna Burnet continue to win races in the Nacra 17 World Championship, perhaps we’ll see a flurry of new face fluff appearing on other Nacra sailors’ faces. The British helmsman is sporting the start of a new moustache which he says is there for aesthetic purposes but could be proving helpful in sniffing out the light airs on a tricky day on the Mediterranean.
 
After notching up scores of 1,5,1 in the opening day of gold fleet finals the British team has closed the gap to 5 points behind week-long leaders Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti from Italy. They won the other race while the rest of the Nacra fleet struggled to match the consistency of the front two.
 
Best of the rest are the other strong Italians, Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubelei, in third place. Two good races and one bad one put Ida Svensson and Marcus Dackhammar in fourth overall, three places in front of their rivals for Swedish Olympic selection, Emil Järudd and Hanna Jonsson. However Svensson and Dackhammar have been behind their rivals at other key events this season, so they need to keep up the pressure and aim for a podium place to be able to make a strong case to the Swedish selectors.
 
With more light airs on the cards, the organisers will be hoping that the Mediterranean sunshine will bring more sea breeze to get races complete. Saturday is the last full day of gold fleet racing before a final gold fleet race on Sunday morning leading into the 10-boat medal races in La Grande Motte.
 
 
written by Andy Rice, event reporter”

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Top 14 below, complete results at Nacra 17 Class Assoc web here.