Koukoudis and Pascali winners of the 2023 ILCA Youth Easter Meeting

From the 5th to the 8th of April 2023, 348 athletes were lined up on the starting line of the Ilca Youth Easter Meeting

15 April 2023

After the great success of the 2022 Edition, the traditional Easter regatta dedicated to the Ilca 4 and Ilca 6 classes returns to Malcesine. From the 5^th to the 8^th of April 2023, 348 athletes were lined up on the starting line of the Ilca Youth Easter Meeting. Vassilis Koukoudis and Antonio Pascali are the winners respectively in the ILCA 4 and ILCA 6 class.

For this 10th edition, every record of participants was broken, with 28 countries from all over the world represented. The most represented countries were Denmark, Germany, the Scandinavian countries and of course Italy. In addition to several non-European athletes from Australia, the United States, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.

The entire program was completed in the 4 days of regatta with 10 races to crown the Ilca youth champion of the Easter Meeting!

THE RACE

The Ora wind was the undisputed protagonist of all 4 days of the event, blowing constantly every afternoon with an average of 10-15 knots.

The Italian sailor Antonio Pascali (Fraglia Vela Riva), took the first position of the ILCA 6 fleet from the first day and never left it again, with an excellent consistency in the qualifying races and a 5th and 4th place on the last day. Erik Norlen (Royal Swedish Yacht Club) won the hard-fought fight for second place. Massimiliano Antoniazzi (Yacht Club Adriaco) closes the podium. Isabella Mendoza Cabezas (Key Biscayne Yacht Club) 1^st female U19.

The last day of races was concluded in the best possible way by making a regular start at 12 o’clock with 2 races for the fleets divided into gold and silver, which crowned the Greek sailor Vassilis Koukoudis (ANOG) overall winner in the ILCA 4 fleet. Second step of the podium for the Ukrainian Dmytro Karabadzhak tying the same points with the 3^rd classified Lorenzo Ghirotti (Fraglia Vela Riva). Nika Fornazar from Croatia took the 1^st place for women U16.