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Morris Returns to Action at iQFOiL U23 Worlds

by Australian Sailing Team / Lisa Darmanin 7 Sep 22:35 PDT 8-13 September 2025
Grae Morris at Sail Melbourne 2024 © Beau Outteridge

Grae Morris returns to competition this week in Portimão, Portugal, for the iQFOiL Under 23 World Championships. The regatta runs from 8-13 September and is set to feature a mammoth 20 races over six days on the Atlantic Ocean.

The 21-year-old has been back in training since the open World Championships in July and is treating this event as an important stepping stone toward the Australian summer training and the 2026 season.

"It's been a while since Worlds in Aarhus," said Grae, who narrowly missed the medal rounds there. "I'm pretty excited to just to get back on the start line and try out a few different things, see where I've gotten since then and see what I need to work on for the next couple months lead up to Palma 2026."

After a recent training camp in Townsville, Queensland, a potential venue for Brisbane 2032, Grae arrives in Portimão with clear objectives.

"I'm trying to be more accurate and work on managing pressure at different times of an event and just manage the regatta better than I did in Aarhus," he explained. "It's everything I know, and I've done before but just obviously needs a lot of work and repetition."

As for conditions for the week, Grae is keeping an open mind. "Honesty, I haven't checked the forecast - I don't like false hope," he laughed. "I just kind of go with what we see on the day and what the race committee tells us."

"What I do hope is that there's going to be plenty of wind and plenty of racing for such a nice place like Portimão."

The U23 World Championships will bring together 143 athletes from 30 nations, with men's and women's fleets set to battle it out in the rolling swells and tactical breezes of southern Europe.

The full list of entries can be found here.

Australian Sailing Team (AST), Australian Sailing Futures (ASF) and other Australian (AUS) results at the U23 iQFOiL World Championship:

iQFOiL Men - 95 Entries

Grae Morris (AST)
Joseph Folley (ASF)
Benjamin Robinson (AUS)

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