17–year–old Eve McMahon of Howth Yacht Club lies 15 points off the podium going into the final day of racing at the 2021 EurILCA Under 21 European Championships and Open European Trophy in Tivat, Montenegro.
The Dublin Paris 2024 campaigner had a brilliant day scoring a 1-2-2 yesterday and moving to fourth overall with 56 points.
A sunny day with a nice 12-16 knots started the Final series. All three races scheduled were sailed under wonderful sea breeze conditions yesterday.
The ILCA 6 (radial) girl’s championship is a single fleet of 47 and counts 9 races sailed to date.
Sailors on top of the fleet are showing consistency and performing across different sailing conditions.
Marilena Makri CYP and Chiara Benini ITA have been swapping the first and second positions every day. The Cyprus next Olympic representative holding the top place with 27 points. Chiara is only five points behind with 32. It’s not only that five points gap but their current discards (5th vs 48th DSQ) that makes Marilena the favourite to win the championship today.
Alessia Palanti CZE is only 9 points behind the Italian with 41 and a 17 pt discard with Eve in fourth. Download results below.
As regular Afloat readers will know, Eve is a former Irish youth national Radial Champion winning at Royal Cork in May 2019 before going on to take the Under-17 World title in Kingston, Ontario that August, also impressively finishing third in the overall competition.
