Youth Match Racing Worlds – Locals shine on Day 1 in Noumea + Video
by Matthias Balagny on 14 Jun 2016
Fleet in action on day one - 2016 Youth Match Racing World Championship Balagny Matthias
The Youth Match Racing World Championship started this morning in New Caledonia. 27 matches were sailed in windy conditions (20-25 knots gusting to 30 knots ).
To everyone's surprise, the best performance of the day was shown by the local crew skippered by Cyril Fortin.
The Caledonians, Cyril Fortin, Kim Goetz, Jéremy Picot won five races out of five.
Seeded number six of the Youth Match Racing World Championships, they beat the Australian crew of Harrison Price (seeded number two and 30th worldwide, CYCA members ) and the American crew of Christopher Killian (seeded number three, 33th World, members of Balboa Yacht Club in California).
In the next two days, all the crews will meet two twice (90 games).
At the end of the 90 matches , the eight will qualify for the 1/4 finals.
The three favorites are:
- The French crew of Robin Follin , French University Champion in early June, and SB20 World Champion in 2015. Robin is currently 28th in Word Sailing Match Racing ranking.
- Harrisson Price and his Australian team, the skipper, member of the CYCA is 30th in international Match Racing ranking
- The US team lead by Christopher Killian from Balbao Yacht Club is 33th in Word Sailing Match Racing ranking.
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