Promises in sight for the national sailing: someone who with his age is left in 6th Garda is that he has a lot of future

The Spanish expedition that has taken part in the Italian Lake of Garda, in its famous Meeting of Optimist, certainly regates the number of the class at European level... and if I am rushed at the world level. Well, the fleet that represented us was mostly Catalan, and of course when it competes against more than a thousand ships from a dozen countries, it can be done very well and it can be left for example of 87º... because behind there are several hundred good regatists... but here is that a very young Catalan in the category that in Garda called "cadet" was not exactly left in her group "gold" of 87º, but it was left sixth! being the second girl from 9 to 11 years with about 300 rivals. We refer to Ona García Pares of Club Nàutic Costa Brava-Vela Palamós... _

2017 / 04 / 16: Baker (USA) "O Rei" of the Optimist in Garda and Ona García (CAT) the best of Spain

Final in the Lake di Garda with new Guiness record of participation... no less than 1063 optimist, improving by eight ships the huge figure reached in 2016. In the water with a perfect organization, in the line to which we are used, the legendary Flaglia Vela Riva del Lake di Garda. In the final phase, the cadet optimists (9 to 11 years old) competed on the one hand and the juniors (12 to 15) who in turn subdivided into the gold, silver, bronze, emerald and pearl groups. The elders completed in the three days ten sleeves, while the younger made eight only, dismissing in both cases their worst score.

In the gold group of the junior class, the victory of one being from another galaxy... of the American Stephan Baker of the Laudedale Yacht Club with extraordinary records: 1 ° -2° -1° -8° -1° -1° -1° -1° -1° -1, total 17 points... a barbarity. After him, at twelve points the German Florian Krauss of the Nautivela Team Germany, being the one who won the bronze the Russian Dmitry Lazdin. Among the first ten Italians, four Germans, one American and one Russian. The best girl, the Russian girl at the Club de San Petesburg, Alexandra Lukyanova, who was twenty-first in the general.

In the gold group of the cadet class the best was the Italian Maria Vittoria Arseni of the Circulo de la Vela de Rome with 25 points, one less than the Italian Alex Demurtas del Fraglia della Vela Riva that was silver. With 39 points the bronze, for the Polish Patryk Chelkowski. Excellent is the Catalan Ona García Pares of Club Nàutic Costa Brava-Vela de Palamós, which was sixth. Very well in this category also Catalan Codinachs Izan de Sant Feliu de Guíxols which was 19th. The final classifications of the different categories were as follows:

2017-0 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL CADETE ORO
2017-1 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL JUNIOR ORO
2017-2 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL JUNIOR PLATA
2017-3 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL JUNIOR BRONCE
2017-4 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL JUNIOR ESMERALDA
2017-5 MEETING DE OPTIMIST GARDA-CLASIFFINAL JUNIOR PERLA

15 / 04 / 2017: Stephan Baker (USA) dominates with authority at the Garda Optimist Meeting

Excellent day at Lake Garda in Italy, with medium to strong stable winds, and quite good temperature conditions in what was a sunny day. In the "junior" category, seven sleeves have already been counted, while in the younger category, the "cadet" has been raised to a total of six... so both sleeves can be discards with a lower score, as foreseen in the "regatta instructions."

The American Stephan Baker continues his particular recital with five first and one second, dismissing his worst score that so far is an eighth. The optimist of the Lauderdale Yatch Club counts seven points, for fifteen of the second for the time being: the German of the Bayerischer Yacht Club Valentín Müller. The bronze is provisionally for the German also Jonathan Steidie. On the provisional top ten are three Germans, three Italians, two Swedes, one Russian and the American. To find the first Spanish, you have to go to 136th place where the Catalan Alex Martín of the Nàutic Club El Masnou is located with partials 35-13-42-33- (67) -50, and a total of 194 points. In this category they are competing no less than 785 optimistic from 30 countries.

Good day in Garda, with medium and strong winds on the Lake

In the category "Cadete," for the regatists from 9 to 11 years, with 278 in the water, the Italian leader Vittoria Arseni María has 13 points and partial of 1-3-3-3-3 and a ninth that at the moment despises as the worst point. The Turkish Mustafacan Öztuncel is now the second to a point of the transalpine, being the provisional bronze for the Polish Patryk Chelowski with 18 points. As far as the Spaniards are concerned, again One García Pares of the Club de Vela de Palamós is the best located, eighth with 41 points and partial 2-10-5-6-18 and a discarded with 20 points. Ek second Spanish representative by score, is another girl Mariona Ventura from Club Nàutic El Masnou which is the 14th and the third Codincahs Izan of Sant Feliu de Guixols.

2017- CLASIFMEETING LAGO DE GARDA- CADET GROUP
2017- CLASIFMEETING LAGO DE GARDA- GROUP B JUNIOR

14 / 07 / 2017: Spain best in Optimist A with Ona García (CN Costa Brava - Vela Palamós) seventh in Garda

The Meeting of Lake Garda can already boast of a new record of participants: 1063! product of 785 "juniors" (12 to 15 years) and 278 "cadets" (9 to 11 years). At the moment a lot of sun, acceptable wind, with three tests valid for the juniors and four for the younger ones.

Impressive show, with lead for American Stephan Baker of Yacht Club Lauderdale with a partial of two first and one second... intractable. For the moment in the second square another great regatist as is the Italian Tommaso Bocunni of the club organizing the Meeting, of Fraglia della Vela with a first, a second and a fifth, being the third place for another man the German Florian Keauss of the Nauivela Team Germany with second, third and fourth. The first Spanish in Group B Alex Martín of the Náutic Masnou Club is 87th in the general. In top ten Italy with four optimists; Germany has three; complete Sweden, United States, Russia with one each. The first girl in the general Russian Viktoria Liksanova of the Moscow CSKA who holds the 9th place.

35th meeting of the optimist Garda of 1063 registered for the final edition began with the sun and the moderate wind

Four sleeves were completed in Group A, so each pattern can discard its worst score. Many Italians in the top ten of this group, also four with the leadership of the Roman Vittoria Arseni del Círcolo della Vela di Roma with three third parties and one first (discard for the moment three points), being the silver and provisional bronzes for two Italian boys, both from Garda. A Turkish like Mustafacan Öztuncel is fourth, taking the best Spanish position, the regatist of the Nàutic Costa Brava Club - Vela Palamós Ona García Parés, which marches in seventh place with a second, a fifth and a tenth valid. Also Mariona Ventura of the Nàutic Club El Masnou and Izan Codinachs of San Feliu de Guixols march in good positions (12th and 13th respectively.

2017- CLASIFMEETING LAGO DE GARDA- CADET GROUP
2017- CLASIFMEETING LAGO DE GARDA- GROUP B JUNIOR

13 / 04 / 2017: The great show of the world optimist with 1071 ships starts in Garda

At one o'clock in the afternoon he has started the competition in Garda

Finally, 791 "juniors" optimists, for boys and girls born in the years 2002 to 2005, and 280 "cadets," born from 2006 to 2008, are the athletes who have managed to gather the legendary meeting of Optimist from Lake Garda... this means that they are 1071 optimist from 30 countries!, which means a new record of participation, as the current one is in 1055, although the Organization has not officially reported this data.

The Garda Lake Optimist Meeting Honour Painting

The competition has started at one in the afternoon with fresh wind and we will have no data until the last hour of today. The so-called Meeting of Nations, a kind of "curtain" of the great show of the world's children's candle, concluded yesterday. These documents we attach are the colour distribution of the respective groups, and they consist between both of 21 folios!, it is a chilling fact about what this great Italian event is.

2017-MEETING DE OPTIMIST DI GARDA-CLASS COLORES A-CADETES
2017- MEETING DE OPTIMIST DI GARDA-CLASS COLORES B-JUNIORS

11 / 04 / 2017: The best optimist race in the world begins in the Lake di Garda with 1072 participants

This Wednesday will be the opening ceremony of the thirty-fifth meeting of Optimist of Lake di Garda, the most important race in the world of the class, which on this occasion will have a park of 2000 meters the "Palavela," which is very close to the Fraglia Vela Riva, which has ceded the Palace of Congresses of the villa and will host the more than a thousand optimist, without the need to dismount the masts of the ships on each day. The competition will take place between 13 and 16 April. The pace of the race office is frenzy, only on Monday were 400 optimistic, which in many cases already took advantage of this weekend to train in the mythical Italian lake. The Meeting record is recorded in the Guinness World Records in the 2012 edition with 1055 participants, so there is a chance that it will be hit this year. The British record record will account for the "real" ships in competition and not the pre-inscriptions that are the figures that are being handled at this time.

1072 pre-registered divided into 731 men and 341 women. About 280 cadets (9-11 years) and 792 young people (12-15 years); 30 nations with Puerto Rico, Thailand new 2017. Brazil, Bermuda, the United States, Canada and other more remote countries

The number of ships that have confirmed their presence at the Meeting is: 1072 optimist from 30 nations, with the novelty of Puerto Rico and Tahiland. This is the list of participants with the greatest presence: Italy (281), Germany (220), Denmark (84), Sweden (82), Poland (55), Finland (47), Norway (41), Russia (39), Hungary (41), Spain (27) and the USA (23).

2017-MEETING LAGO DI GARDA-ANUNCY OF REGATA