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Maor Abu and Yoav Rose (João Costa Ferreira)
Five Israeli sailing teams began their journey today (Monday) at the 470 World Championship, which is being held in Wilmora, Portugal. The mixed team of Gil Cohen and Noam Materiali started the competition well, with first place at the end of the first day, after winning two out of three cruises.
The team started the competition well, in the first cruise they managed to return to the top after a bad start, and in the other two cruises they were already ahead in the jumps and managed to overtake the opponents who were near them. The two other mixed teams, of Noa Lasri and Tal Sadeh and Saar Tamir and Nitai Hasson, finished the first day in sixth and tenth places, respectively. Earn Rock, “Coaching the 470 mixed in the competition:” This is a great way to open the first competition in 470 mixed. All the Israeli teams showed high ability and screwed in the top ten places. Gil and Noam showed their dominance from the first moment and we are already looking forward to the championship. ” This is the first international competition for the mixed 470 model (woman and man), which will become Olympic in Paris 2024.
Noya Baram and Shachar Tibi’s women’s team also started the first day of cruises with a strong cruise in which they finished in third place, in the second and third cruises they finished in seventh place. These results placed them in fifth place overall at the end of the day. Israel already has the guaranteed ticket to the Olympics in the 470 model for women, and Noya and Shachar are expected to be the team that represented us in Tokyo.
The men’s team, Maor Abu and Yoav Rose, who struggled in this championship on the Olympic criterion for Tokyo started the cruising day not well, but ended up in eighth place, with a strong third cruising, in which they finished in fourth place. In this championship, a single ticket will be awarded to Tokyo, one of the countries that have not yet won it, and the Israeli team will have to beat teams from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine, who also do not yet have representation in the Olympics. In parallel with the World Championship in 470, the European Championship cruises on RSX surfboards will begin tomorrow at the same place.
