RELIVE THE RACING ACTION FROM THE 420 OPEN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Enjoy the best moments of racing action from the 12 race series over six days at the 2017 Open 420 European Championships, Athens, Greece from 22-30 July with our highlights documentary.
Featuring 358 athletes from 22 nations and 6 continents across the 420 Open, Ladies and U17 fleets, victory came after a long, hard assault on the race track on the Saronic Gulf against some of the best 420 talent from around the world.
The changing weather conditions rewarded the best all-round teams with gold medals as multiple teams chased down podium finishes. Ultimately victory went to Greece’s Telis Athanasopoulos Yogo/Dimitris Tassios in the Open Fleet, Maria Caba/Pilar Caba (ESP) in the Ladies and in the U17 Open Demetrio Sposato/Gabriele Centrone (ITA) wore the leader’s yellow bibs from day one, keeping their rhythmn from start to finish. Ariadni-Papaskevi Spanaki/Myrto Papadopoulou (GRE) picked up the U17 Ladies title.
You can also read our daily reports, check out the overall results and enjoy the daily photos and facebook photo galleries and much more at 2017europeans.420sailing.org
And if you missed the daily highlights videos from the 2017 420 Open European Championship or just want to watch them again, you can take a look here: www.facebook.com/International420ClassAssociation/videos
All six continents were represented amongst the 22 nations competing at the 2017 420 Open European Championships: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, USA.