Alessandro Marega is the new Finn World No. 1
by Robert Deaves 12 Nov 2024 03:54 PST
Alessandro Marega, ITA © Robert Deaves
Alessandro Marega, from Italy, has become the new Finn World No. 1. After a very successful year, he is also only the second World No.1 since the Finn Class World Ranking List was introduced two years ago.
Long time World No. 1, Laurent Hay, from France, drops to second, less than three points back, while Valerian Lebrun, also from France, moves up 10 places to third, another five points back. It is incredibly close at the top.
Issue 007 of the Finn World Ranking includes another 24 events, accounting for 935 individual race results. The list now includes 1,334 sailors from 40 nations.
Marega's successful run of events includes bronze at the 2023 Open Europeans and the 2024 Finn Gold Cup, which he followed with wins at the 2024 Open Europeans, Italian Nationals, and the Malcesine Finn Cup.
For the first time, Laurent Hay, the World No.1 for the last two years, did not win a single ranking event for this new list, finishing behind Lebrun in both major events and the French Nationals.
Other movements in the top 10 include Bas de Waal, from The Netherlands, moving up one place to fourth and Peter Peet, up three to fifth. Probably the highest climber is Britain's Nick Craig moving up 49 places to enter the top 10 for the first time in eighth, while Spain's David Terol re-enters the top 10, moving up 17 places to tenth.
The 24 events included are:
- Brazilian Nationals, won by Antonio Moreira
- Belgian Nationals, won by Sebastien Godefroid
- CORK, won by Stephen Smueudlers
- Danish Nationals, won by Domonkos Nemeth
- French Nationals, won by Valerian Lebrun
- British Nationals, won by Cameron Tweedle
- Travemunde Woche 24 won by Andre Budzien
- German Nationals won by Andre Budzien
- Polish Nationals won by Stefan Waack
- Austrian Rofi Pokal Michael Gubi
- Swiss Nationals won by Peter Theurer
- Czech Nationals, won by Ondrej Teply
- Swedish Nationals won by Anthony Nossiter
- Finn Gold Cup, won by Oskari Muhonen
- Italian Nationals, won by Alessandro Marega
- Finnish Nationals, won by Ville Aalto-Septala
- Danish Dragør, won by Otto Strandvig
- Finn Cup, Malcesine, won by Alessandro Marega
- Serbian Nationals, won by David Evetovic
- Sweden Sola Cup won by Svante Collvin
- Dutch Nationals, won by David Terol
- Hungarian Nationals won by Marton Beliczay
- USA Masters, won by Erik Lidecis
- Open Europeans, won by Alessandro Marega
The next World Ranking List will be released in March 2025. The Finn World Ranking list uses the events on the World Tour for Finns which includes each sailor's best five events from around 60 events worldwide. Points are given based on type of event, competitive weighting and number of boats attending.
The full list can be found here