Riva del Garda, Italy -
The O'pen Bic World Championships gave us three memorable days here on
GardaTrentino as the ultimate in championships for this young and
dynamic juvenile class took place at Riva del Garda, organised by
Fraglia Vela Riva and with 12 nations taking part. Sun and wind provided
the right conditions to complete 10 races in the under 16 category and
seven in the under 13's. Fun, spectacle, capsizing, penalties,
high-speed, starts, false starts with black flags for general recalls
practically at every start, great competition with lots of young people
were all the winning ingredients for this thrilling, fast,
high-performing, O'pen Bic class.
Fraglia Vela Riva brought to a close
this latest event in a summer of sizzling international competition with
the satisfaction of having been able to experience together with the
competitors and the officials of the international sailing class, the
down- wind slalom, a course never attempted before.
The
greatest satisfaction, however, was to see so many Italians in the
final standings which crowned Federico Zampiccoli (Circolo Vela Arco),
World Champion after a heated battle that was decided in the final race
with fellow Italian Guido Gallinaro (Fraglia Vela Riva). Zampiccoli was
overtaken in today's first race by Gallinaro, but managed to keep his
cool and gave it his best in the remaining two races coming in first to
win in front of Gallinaro with a 5 point lead, (a first and a partial
second gave him the edge over Gallinaro who had a 4-3 with the second
discard applied after the ninth race.)
In
the under 16 category, Paula Igual Garcia took third place after
beating another Italian to the podium. Unfortunately Alberto Tezza
(Fraglia Vela Riva) was penalized in the penultimate race for a false
start which he made up for with a win in the final race, but it wasn't
enough to give him the points for the bronze medal. A well deserved
medal for Igual Garcia, however, who was able to show consistent form
beating many boys in the process!
The
satisfaction for Fraglia Vela Riva was doubled at the World O'pen Cup
for both the organisational success and for the success of its own
athletes. As well as the silver for Guido Gallinaro in the under 16's,
Andrea Spagnolli took the silver in the under 13's. He had tried so hard
to overtake Australian Kirsten Wadley but she remained the undisputed
winner with six partial firsts and a discarded second leaving no doubt
that she would take home the gold medal. Another medal for Italy came
from Ludovico Journo, bronze medallist in the under 13 category.
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