Racing at the Italian National Championship © Marco Massetti
Edoardo Ferraro/Francesco Orlando (ITA) © Andrea Lelli
Overall Podium Line-Up © Event Media
Racing at the Italian National Championship © Event Media
Racing at the Italian National Championship © Event Media
Alexandra Stalder/Silvia Speri (ITA) © Andrea Lelli
Tomasso Cilli/Bruno Mantero (ITA) © Andrea Lelli
Storm Waiting © Marco Massetti
82 420 TEAMS LINE-UP AT ITALIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
The Italian National Championship marked the culmination of a packed racing season in Italy.
As the closing event of the Italian 420 circuit for this season, the Championship attracted 164 sailors. 420 racing continues through the winter, but such large gatherings of fleets will resume in 2017.
Racing took place at Yacht Club Termoli from 8-11 September, with the 420 fleet, the largest fleet of the Championship, joined by teams racing in the 29er, Equipe, Feva, Hobie 16, Hobie Dragon and 555 fleets.
Storm clouds rolled in overnight on Saturday, forcing the Race Committee to abandon racing on Sunday's final day
Andrea Spagnolli/Kevin Rio crushed the opposition with a confident 1,1,6,5 scorecard, having discarded their 18th place in race 4. The pair were also the winners of the U17 division. Second and top placed U19 team were Andrea Abbruzzese/Favio Boldrini, who bounced back from a UFD penalty in race 1 to score a string of top ten results. The pair finished just 1 point ahead of Edoardo Ferraro/Francesco Orlando in third.
A great outcome for Ferraro/Orlando who have been selected for the second time to represent Italy at the Youth Sailing World Championships in New Zealand in December 2016. The Ferraro/Orlando partnership has pedigree on the international scene. They stole the show at the 2015 420 Worlds, seizing the U17 420 World Championship title by a 21 point winning margin. The pair followed up this year with a 15th place in the 420 World Championship on their homewaters of Sanremo.
Final Results by Division
Overall
1. Andrea Spagnolli/Kevin Rio
2. Andrea Abbruzzese/Fabio Boldrini
3. Edoardo Ferraro/Orlando Francesco
Under 19
1. Andrea Spagnolli/Kevin Rio
2. Andrea Abbruzzese/Fabio Boldrini
3. Edoardo Ferraro/Orlando Francesco
Under 17
1. Andrea Spagnolli/Kevin Rio
2. Carlotta Scodnik/Camilla Scodnik
3. Alessandro Venini/Bernardo Alessandro
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