2018 Optimist World Championship at Famagusta Nautical Club - Overall
by Stelios Charalambous 6 Sep 2018 09:05 PDT
27 August - 6 September 2018
Day 8 - 2018 Optimist World Championship © Famagusta Nautical Club
The closing day arrived at the 2018 Optimist World Championship, in Limassol, Cyprus. With wind up to 16 knots, Italian Marco Gradoni wrapped up an impressive victory with nine bullets in 11 races, followed in second place by American Stephan Baker and Thailand's Panwa Boonnak.
Maria Perello from Spain finished 14th overall and first in the Girls, followed by Faith Hailey Toh from Singapore and Anjan Von Allmen from Switzerland.
Team Thailand won both the Team Racing Competition, followed by Italy and Spain, as well as the Nations Cup with Italy again in second and Brazil in third.
The closing ceremony that followed included very short and informal speeches from the President of IODA, Kevin Whitcraft and the Chairman of the Event and President of Famagusta Nautical Club, Stelios Charalambous who thanked all volunteers, people and sponsors who worked to organize the Worlds and apologized for any miscues and inconveniences that might have occured during the event. He emphasized the necessity for these kind of events to be kids oriented and praised the reunion of the family of the biggest sailing class of the world.
A beach party followed the award ceremony as well as festivities with sailors enjoying night swimming and finger food.
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