St. Petersburg to host RS:X Youth Worlds 2019
by Alexey Zhirov 31 Jul 2019 11:01 PDT
4-10 August 2019
From 4 to 10 August in the Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg will host the world championship in Windsurfing Class RS:X among junior sportsmen.
For the first time the yacht club of St. Petersburg hosts world-class competitions in the Olympic sailing class. Regattas for young men and ladies will be held in two age categories - up to 19 years old and up to 17 years old.
"For us, the Yacht club of St. Petersburg, it is a great honor to host the strongest athletes of our country, Europe and the world, - says the commander of the Yacht club of St. Petersburg Vladimir Lubomirov. - St. Petersburg is a city that is made for sailors. One of our main tasks is to promote St. Petersburg as a unique place for sailing competitions of the highest level. The RS:X Junior world championship is the main sailing event of this summer."
World Junior Championship RS:X Class
In the World Junior Championship 103 sportsmen from 19 countries will take part. Athletes from Russia, Israel, Turkey, Hong Kong, Holland, Greece, Spain, USA, Italy, France, Thailand, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, Philippines, Belarus, Cyprus, Estonia and Oman arel coming to St. Petersburg.
The greatest presence at competitions will hold Russia (18 athletes), Israel (17) and France (12).
From 4 to 10 August, the best young windsurfers of the world will compete in the water area near the Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. The Frenchman Fabien Pianasa will arrive in the Northern capital of Russia to defend his title that he had won last year. He is the main favorite of the world championship. Already this season Fabien won the European championship in the class RS:X among juniors and Youth Sailing World Championships.
The main rival of Fabien Pianasa is Italian athlete Nicolo Renna. Last year, he took third place in the world championship in the RS:X class among juniors, and also won the silver medal of the Youth Olympic games. A few weeks ago at Youth Sailing World Championships Renna lost Pianese 10 points and again finished in the second place. In St. Petersburg, Italian sportsman will try to take the revenge. Another confrontation between the two major talents of world-Windsurfing - Pianasa and Renno - the main intrigue of the championship of the world.
All hopes of the Russian fans will be connected with the Moscow sportswoman Yana Reznikova. At the last Youth Sailing World Championships, she won silver, losing only to Israeli Lina Gheva. In St. Petersburg, both of these young athletes will fight for gold again. We hope that the home water area will help Reznikova to take the first place.
The competition program:
August 5 - 18:00 Opening ceremony of the regatta
August 6 - 11:00 Start of the first race on the competition day
August 7 - 11:00 Start of the first race on the competition day
August 8 - 11:00 Start of the first race on the competition day
August 9 - 11:00 Start of the first race on the competition day
August 10 - 11:00 Start of the first race on the day of the competition,
18:30 the awarding ceremony of the regatta, the closing ceremony of the regatta
Accreditation: yacht-club-spb.ru/proektyi/chempionat-mira-rsx
Official website: rsx.spbyc.ru/ru
Olga Sidorovskaya, the head of the Press Office of the Yacht club of St. Petersburg
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Charity regatta "Sails of Hope"
On August 9-10, the Yacht club of St. Petersburg will hold a charity regatta "Sails of hope". The competition will be held in the framework of the world championship RS:X Championships. All the money that will be collected from entry fees will be sent to Advita Fund.
Our goal is to collect at least 1 million rubles during the charity event. We will transfer this amount to the AdVita charity fund, which has been helping people with cancer for many years.
The upcoming charity regatta will be the first in the history of the Yacht club of St. Petersburg. Its main task is to attract the attention of the sailing community to charity.
The races will be held in five classes - Windsurfing class "Techno" and "DNK", kitesurfing, "Optimist" and "Laser".
Anyone can take part in the charity regatta. You need just register on the website: rsx.spbyc.ru/ru/charity.
For adults, the entry fee is 1000 rubles, for children under 18 years - 500 rubles.
"Our projects attract the attention of thousands of people around the world - of different ages, nationalities, social groups, - says the project Manager of the Yacht club of St. Petersburg Elena Solovieva. - The purpose of the charity regatta is to draw the attention of the sailing community to the problems of other people. In addition, charity was an integral part of the work of Russian yacht clubs in the period from XIX to early XX century. We have not forgotten this tradition and will continue to develop it."
Competition program:
August 9 - 10:00 - 12:00 - registration for participants (information Desk of the World championship in RS:X Class on the beach of the Park 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg)
12:00 - opening ceremony (scene on the beach of the Park 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg)
13:00 - 18:00 - races in the classes "Optimist", "Beam" and "Laser" of all modifications (water area near the beach of the Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg)
August 10 - 10:00 - 12:00 - registration for participants (information Desk of the world championship in class RS:X on the beach of the Park 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg)
12:30 - 17:30 - races at the ticket office "Techno" and "DNK", kiteboarding (water area near the beach of the Park 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg)
Official website: rsx.spbyc.ru/ru/charity
Family festival "Under Sail"
During the world championship in RS:X class among juniors Yacht club of St. Petersburg is preparing an extensive coastal program. Together with the rope park "The High-Rise City" we are going to conduct the family festival "Under Sail"
Time: August 9-10 from 12.00 to 20.00.
Location: the beach of th? Park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg
Admission is free by registration on the website: rsx.spbyc.ru/ru/family-festival
Among the activities of the festival - classes in the rope cube and on the climbing wall, archery, tank battle, game workshops in English and the relay on SUP-surfing. Visitors will be able to learn Windsurfing on a special simulator, play beach tennis and try to feel like a sailor of Peter's The Great time, learning the basics of rigging.
Both days on the stage of the Park guests of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg cheerleading, taekwondo, fashion show, vocal, dance and theater numbers, chemical show and bubble show are expected.
The organizing team has also prepared 20 quest quests, which are designed for checking your speed, strength, endurance and ingenuity. To participate you will need a charged smartphone with Internet access. All participants who overcome all the tests will receive a gift. The quest is suitable for adults and children from three years old.