Laser Radial - ISAF Youth World Championships - Istanbul TUR - Glimpse future stars

After the practice race day yesterday, the Laser Radial course was swapped with the 420 and SL16 catamarans, so that the single-handed sailors did not have sail as far from the venue. The first day saw the young Italian sailor in the Laser Radial boys fleet Giovanni Coccoluto and the host nation’s competitor, Turkish Levent Ahiskali go head to head. Both snatched a first and second place with Kiwi Thomas Saunders in third. World Cup Final fever hit the dinghy park today and in the Laser Radial girls class the Spanish sailor Patricia Coro and the Dutch Michelle Broekhuizen battled it out in the first race. Broekhuizen led for the majority of the race, but Coro eventually pipped her to the post by winning the race. The report and a video that introduces some Laser sailors.