WASZP EuroCup Final in Barcelona

WASZP EuroCup Final in Barcelona © WASZP Class

Astiazaran wins the men's as Bergamasco rounds off a glittering season

The line-up for the EuroCup Final in Barcelona promised an electric finish to the season! Back in July, Pablo Astiazaran of Spain and Italy's Federico Bergamasco took it down to the wire for the 2025 WASZP Games title, with Bergamasco coming out on top. As soon as the starting gun sounded in Barcelona, the pair picked up right where they left off. The rivals traded bullets and podium places in the opening races, but as the series developed, this time it was Astiazaran who found the form needed to clinch victory. Bergamasco took second and Frenchman Hippolyte Gruet took third with a very consistent string of results. 2025 WASZP Games bronze medallist Antonio Gasperini finished just off the podium in fourth.

Whilst Bergamasco would be disappointed to fall short of the top spot in the final event of the year, his disappointment would soon fade on realising he had sealed the 2025 WASZP EuroCup title, coming top of the European fleet across a series of eight international competitions over the season. Hippolyte Gruet took a very deserving second place, with Danish athlete Victor Melchoir finishing third.

The next time this group go to battle will be at the WASZP All-Stars in Pensacola in March 2026!

Lopez Navarro wins the women's as Gebhard wins the series

Sol Lopez Navarro repeated last year's result by topping the women's division in Barcelona. Navarro, who is a product of the SailGP Foiling Base in Cadiz, got off to a shaky start with a black flag disqualification in the opening race but kept her cool to put together a strong series among a field of world-class WASZP women. Louise Metenier of France, who is never far from the front of the women's fleet, finished up in second place, with Julia Gebhard of Germany hot on her heels in third.

Gebhard's podium finish in Barcelona was enough to take the women's EuroCup title by a single point from Sweden's Liv Hägström, whose very strong performance in the early part of the year also landed her on top of the global women's rankings. Louise Metenier rounded off the podium in third place for the overall EuroCup Series. It is all to play for at the All-Stars between these hot shots!

Andrian wins again...and again!

Hot Italian talent Jacopo Andrian can't escape the top spot in the 6.9 rig. Andrian has won everything he has touched this year, other than the WASZP Games where he came an agonising second to fellow Italian Olivia Castaldi. Andrian's performance in Barcelona was perfectly on brand - comfortably leading the 6.9s and regularly challenging the bigger rigs in head-to-head combat.

If Andrian won everything he touched in 2025, who else could win the overall EuroCup title but him?

One of the biggest winners of the weekend was Baptiste Courtias of France. Baptiste scored an impressive sixth place overall, but even more compelling was the Frenchman's luck. From the 2025 EuroCup, every sailor that did at least four events went into a raffle for a brand new sail, and this year it was Courtias that found himself with the early Christmas present!