World Sailing’s World Cup Final at the proposed 2024 Olympic venue off Marseille (FRA) showcased especially the host French and visiting Italian sailors who won three events each on the 11-event program.
Seven of the events were not especially close, but three were incredibly tight and decided on the final day of sailing. In men’s RS:X, Italy’s Daniele Benedetti led countryman Mattia Camboni, 32-27 going into the medal race, but Camboni won it while Benedetti finished fifth. Result: Camboni 34.0, Benedetti, 37.0, both ahead of France’s 2018 Worlds bronze medalist Louis Giard.
The men’s Laser class was even closer. Italy’s Giovanni Cocculuto and Singapore’s Ryan Lo went into the ninth race even with 21.0 points each. Cocculuto won it and with Lo third, it was a 22.0-24.0 final.
The women’s 470 was another cliffhanger. Britain’s Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre, the 2018 Worlds bronze medalists, had a 36.0-37.0 lead over France’s Camille Lecointre and Aloise Retornaz (Lecointre was an Olympic bronze medalist from 2016) going into the medal race. They were in sight of each other the entire time, but the French finished second and the British third and that decided the class for the hosts: 41.0 to 42.0.
The outstanding performance of the regatta had to be Lithuania’s Viktorija Andrulyte in the Laser Radial class. After starting off with a fifth-place finish in the first race, she then logged a sensational race series of 1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1 to finish with just 10.0 total points (the worst finish is dropped), to 28.0 for Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR).
Familiar faces on the winner’s step included four-time men’s 470 champs Mat Belcher and Will Ryan (AUS) and 2018 World RS:X champ Lilian de Geus (NED). Summaries:
World Sailing World Cup Final
Marseille (FRA) ~ 2-9 June 2019
(Full results here)
Men
RS:X: 1. Mattia Camboni (ITA), 34.0 net points; 2. Daniele Benedetti (ITA), 37.0; 3. Louis Giard (FRA), 39.0; 4. Piotr Myszka (POL), 40.0; 5. Pierre Le Coq (FRA), 47.0.
Laser: 1. Giovanni Coccoluto (ITA), 22.0; 2. Ryan Lo (SGP), 24.0; 3. Zan Luka Zelko (SLO), 25.0; 4. Agustin Vidal Incatasciato (ARG), 28.0; 5. Tomas Pires de Lima (POR), 29.0.
470: 1. Mat Belcher/Will Ryan (NZL), 21.0; 2. Jordi Hammar Hernandez/Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz (ESP), 47.0; 3. Hippolyte Machetti/Sidoine Dantes (FRA), 66.0; 4. Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom (SWE), 67.0; 5. Kevin Peponnet/Jeremie Mion (FRA), 73.0.
Finn: 1. Andy Maloney (NZL), 19.0; 2. Josh Junior (NZL), 27.0; 3. Max Salminen (SWE), 35.0; 4. Alican Kaynar (TUR), 46.0; 5. Anders Pedersen (NOR), 47.0.
49er: 1. Federico Alonso Tellechea/Arturo Alonso Tellechea (ESP), 20.0; 2. Benjamin Bildstein/David Hussl (AUT), 55.0; 3. Sebastien Schneiter/Lucien Cujean (SUI), 63.0; 4. Kevin Fischer/Yann Jauvin (FRA), 69.0; 5. Sime Fantela/Mihovil Fantela (CRO), 71.0
Women
RS:X: 1. Lilian de Geus (NED), 33.0; 2. Saskia Sills (GBR), 56.0; 3. Flavia Tartaglini (ITA), 58.0; 4. Katy Spychakov (ISR), 60.0; 5. Noy Drihan (ISR), 74.0.
Laser Radial: 1. Viktorija Andrulyte (LTU), 10.0; 2. Tatiana Drozdovskaya (BLR), 28.0; 3. Elena Vorobeva (CRO), 30.0; 4. Yumiko Tombe (JPN), 32.0; 5. Silvia Zennaro (ITA), 34.0.
470: 1. Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz (FRA), 41.0; 2. Hannah Mills/Elidih McIntyre (GBR), 42.0; 3. Silvia Mas Depares/Patricia Cantero Reina (ESP), 70.0; 4. Noya Bar-Am/Shahar Tibi (ISR), 80.0; 5. Fernanda Oliveira/Ana Luiza Barbachan (BRA), 80.0.
49erFX: 1. Julie Bossard/Aude Compan (FRA), 22.0; 2. Aleksandra Melzacka/Kinga Loboda (POL), 33.0; 3. Laura Schofegger/Anna Boustani (AUT), 44.0; 4. Carlotta Omari/Matilda Distefano (ITA), 44.0; 5. Lili Sebesi/Albane Dubois (FRA), 56.0.
Open
Kiteboarding: 1. Nicolas Parlier (FRA), 20.0; 2. Theo de Ramecourt (FRA), 37.0; 3. Axel Mazella (FRA), 37.0; 4. Toni Vodisek (CRO), 50.0; 5. Martin Dolenc (CRO), 70.0.
Mixed
Nacra 17: 1. Vittorio Bissaro/Maelle Frascari (ITA), 32.0; 2. John Gimson/Anna Burnet (GBR), 50.0; 3. Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti (ITA), 51.0; 4. Billy Besson/Marie Riou (FRA), 65.0; 5. Santiago Lange/Cecilia Carranza Saroli (ARG), 73.0.
