Argentina and Greece lead Optimist World Championship

San Isidro, Argentina (October 22, 2014) – Dante Citadini, from Argentina and Dimitris Papadimitriou from Greece are the provisional leaders after the opening day of the Optimist World Championship, as they both won their two races. Today was a fantastic day of racing with sun and 7-9 knots from the North and two races were sailed for the three fleets.

The fleet has been divided into three fleets that will change everyday according to their ranking. They will sail 6 races for the qualifying series, where the sailors will then be divided again into gold, silver and bronze fleets. Sailors in gold fleet will sail for the World Champion title.

Tomorrow two more races are scheduled but very light winds are expected according to the weather forecast.

Racing is on October 22-30.

Event website: http://www.optiworlds2014.org

Results: http://optiworlds2014.org/resultados.php?numero=resultados2310