49erFX: Norway snatch gold from Spain
Norwegian crew Pia Dahl Andersen and Nora Edland won the final race to claim their first 49erFX world title by one point over Spain’s Paula Barceló and Maria Cantero. Both teams finished level on points, but the Norwegians’ race win gave them the tiebreaker on their national day.
Spain’s 2025 world champions Barceló and Cantero took silver, while Poland’s Aleksandra Melzacka and Sandra Jankowiak climbed from eighth place at the day’s start to secure bronze, edging out defending bronze medalists, Canada’s Lewin-LaFrance sisters.
49er: New Zealand hang on to gold by skin of their teeth
New Zealand’s Seb Menzies and George Lee Rush won the first medal race to strengthen their overnight lead, but a poor start in the second race left them trailing the fleet and fighting for the title.
Australia’s Harry Price and Max Paul entered the day second and posed the closest threat, but European crews emerged as contenders in the light-to-medium conditions. Austria’s Keanu Prettner and Jakob Flachberger, defending three-time world champions Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken from the Netherlands, and Germany’s Jakob Meggendorfer and Andreas Spranger all mounted challenges.
At the final windward mark, the New Zealanders sat near the back of the fleet. They gybed into fresh breeze and carried the pressure down the final run, passing enough boats to retain gold by the narrowest margin.
Prettner and Flachberger claimed their first world medal with silver. Lambriex and van de Werken took bronze.
Nacra 17: Gigi and Maria win a world title 12 years in the making
Italy’s Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei entered the medal race with an eight-point buffer over local sailors Tim Mourniac and Aloise Retornaz from Quiberon.
The Italians believed they had crossed the start line early and returned with two Swedish crews for a restart. They worked through the fleet using full foiling mode while others struggled with the shifting conditions that demanded constant gear changes between low riding, one hull flying, and full foiling.
After 12 years of campaigning together, Ugolini and Giubilei secured their first world title. France’s Mourniac and Retornaz took silver on home waters ahead of defending world champions John Gimson and Anna Burnet from Great Britain, who settled for bronze.
Australia’s Archie Gargett and Sarah Hoffman posted scores of first and second to jump from ninth to fourth overall.
