Optimist – World Championship level
World Championship level XIII Trofeo Euromarina Optimist – Torrevieja – Spain – 23-26 January 2020 Sunday 26th January 2020. The meeting was shaping up to be top-level before the start as 400 contestants from 26 nations descended on Torrevieja for the 13th Trofeo Euromarina, including the 2018 and 2019 European Champions and the world’s top […]
Great start to new year for Monaco Sport Academy
The Monaco Sport Academy is back for 2020 after the Christmas break, an opportunity for this year’s class of athletes to celebrate some excellent results. Let’s start with the 3rd place for Leonardo Bonelli sailing alongside Mathis Duplomb, Matteo Asscher and Noah Garcia at the recent 11th Monaco Optimist Team Race held 9-12 January. […]
Ground work pays off
More than 60 contestants and 50 boats were out on the Monegasque race area last weekend for a back to (sailing) school event for the Yacht Club de Monaco’s Competition Cell. Monaco Sport Academy members were also out there. A year since its launch and early conclusions can be drawn of this developing young structure. […]
Monaco Sport Academy: on route to Excellence
Over 200 people including personalities from sport, business, politics, local authorities and education accepted an invitation to attend the Monaco Sport Academy’s first event Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body held 14th June at the Yacht Club de Monaco. Twenty centuries on and the Roman poet Juvenal’s expression has never seemed more apt. At a […]
Monaco Sport Academy launched
he Yacht Club de Monaco has much to celebrate as it enters 2019. Be they in Optimist, Laser, Nacra or kiteboarding, 95 young sailors fly the YCM burgee on race areas across Europe supervised by four coaches. Last night, they were joined by dozens of adult members who sail all year round on one-designs (J/70, […]