The Bullet boat, skippered by Dimitris Deligiannis and Simos Kambouridis, claimed victory in the Performance category at the 61st Aegean Rally, securing the trophy with an impressive performance in the final race on Sunday.
SAILING
Brother and sister duo Odysseas Spanakis (front) and Ariadne Spanaki of Greece are shown during dinghy training at the Marseille Marina in the southern French port city, on Thursday
The wind speed in the area where a French woman competing in the Aegean 600 regatta died on Monday night after falling into the water reached 40-42 knots at times, according to a member of one of the other crews in the race.
A 40-year-old French woman who was competing in the Aegean 600 regatta died in a sailing accident on Monday night off the coast of the island of Kasos.
A touristic sailing boat was abandoned Thursday at noon off the island of Skopelos due to a problematic rudder.
The Posidonia Games will again be an essential part of the Posidonia experience this June and are already gaining traction.
Sailors from all over the world have been arriving in the coastal suburb of Kalamaki in Athens in recent days to compete for qualification for the Olympic Games sailing events in Marseille in the summer.
A Court of First Instance in Athens sided with Olympic gold medalist Nikos Kaklamanakis on Thursday in a lawsuit filed against him by the Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) for defamation.
More than 60 yachts from Greece and abroad are setting sail on a race that will take them to the islands of Ikaria, Fournoi, Agathonisi and Samos on Sunday, as this year’s Aegean Regatta gets under way.
A total of 40 boats from 16 countries set sail on Sunday as the adrenaline-filled Aegean 600 international sailing event gets under way.
17 years after winning Olympic Gold at the Athens Olympics, with her partner Sofia Bekatorou, Emilia Tsoulfa, now 47 and a mother of three, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, in the same sailing class, the 470 double-handed dinghy.
Deputy Minister of Sports Lefteris Avgenakis announced on Tuesday he was suspending all funding to the Greek Sailing Federation and ordering an audit of its board members’ assets, as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual assault, mismanagement and corruption by senior officials.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced on Μοnday it was suspending its funding to the Greek sailing federation noting its “shock and dissatisfaction” over the body’s handling of the rape allegations raised by former Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou.
Olympic Gold medalist Sofia Bekatorou was invited by a prosecutor in Athens to give her deposition on Wednesday morning after she revealed that she had been raped by a senior member of Greece’s sailing federation when she was preparing for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Greek President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou has invited retired Olympic sailing star Sofia Bekatorou at the Presidential Mansion on Monday, the Presidency announced on Sunday.
Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou of Greece has accused an unnamed sporting official of sexually assaulting her in 1998 during preparations for the Sydney Games.
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