Sailing: Greece is the second power in the world! – Newsbomb – News
Great moments for Greek sailing, which emerged as the second power in the world, after the results in the 420 World Championship.
The Jacobina Kerkezou and Danae Giannoulis put on an impressive performance and won the bronze medal in the U-17 girls category.
There were eight races and the Greek athletes finished 5th, 4th, 37th, 4th, 4th, black flag, 5th, 5th, respectively. So with 64 penalty points they climbed to the third step of the podium and if they didn’t have her black flag in the sixth race they could strike at least the silver medal. A total of 72 boats competed, of which 27 were girls.
The women did very well Dimitra Bartholomeou and Metaxia Gogoswhich finished fourth out of a total of 61 boats.
The same position was taken in the men’s mixed category by Lampis Evlabios Giannoulis-Eleni Giannoulis in a total of 111 vessels. The sailors of I.O. Piraeus collected 62 points, as did the third Spanish I.K. Walker-M.F. Dicken.