The 43rd Garda Lake Opti Meeting is on!!!
Riva del Garda – The 43rd Garda Optimist Meeting got off to a good start: despite the unstable weather conditions, the Race Committee, chaired by Giancarlo Crevatin, managed the situation with extreme professionalism, closing an uncertain day with two valid trials for all the Junior fleets – for a total of seven hundred and twenty-two registered – and one for the youngest Cadets, just under seventy.
The regattas, although characterized by gusty conditions, enjoyed a fresh breeze that made them exciting and competitive. With only two results in the score line it is certainly not time to take stock, but it can be said that the 43rd Garda Optimist Meeting opened with the right motivation: the British James Bentley, first among the Cadets ahead of the Portuguese Vasco Moreira and the Puerto Rican Lucas Christiansen with Viola Vittoria Covi fifth and best of the girls. Among the Juniors there is a tie between the Swede Isak Kaplan and the Fragliotto Jesper Karlsen, both winners of all the races held by their respective batteries. In the general ranking they are followed by the Maltese Andrej Zhakov, by Alexender Massetti and by the Swede Ernst Akesson. The best girl is the Danish Freja Vintergaard, currently eighth.
After today’s regattas, the party moved to the Blue Garden Shopping Center, where the awards ceremony of the 11th Country Cup Blue Garden took place, won yesterday afternoon by Andrea Demurtas who was awarded together with the coach Marco Giangrande. The occasion was also used to assign the prizes of the Memorial Angelini, a drawing competition promoted by the Associazione Manifestazioni Rivane Notte di Fiaba and by Fraglia Vela Riva: the president of the Riva association Andrea Camin and Amelia Lutero Angelini awarded the Angelini Prize to the winner Edoardo Mura and celebrated the second and third place of Ida Braconi and Matilde Pellegrini.
Tomorrow we return to racing for the 43rd Garda Optimist Meeting: the Race Committee has set the preparatory for 12; the fleets will always be divided into batteries to define the composition of the Gold, Silver, Bronze and Emerald groups that will compete for the places that count during the decisive tests.
For info and rankings: https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/documents/11298/event
