Olympic contenders descend on Marseille for sailing test event

A year out from Paris 2024, the world's best sailors will be in action at the Marseille Marina at the Paris 2024 Test Event. Between Olympic and world champions, as well as rising stars, most of the contenders for Olympic glory next year will be testing the waters on the French south coast.

Ad And with just a month to go until the Allianz Sailing World Championships 2023 in Scheveningen, The Hague, it will also be the perfect gauge of form for the main contenders. The Ocean RaceHighlights: 11th Hour Racing wrap up The Ocean Race in style with IMOCA In-Port victory01/07/2023 AT 15:39 Here's a rundown of the ten events set to be contested over the coming week: ILCA 7 At a regatta which is packed full of the sport's biggest stars, the sheer scale of talent on show in the ILCA 7 will take some beating.

Olympic champion Matt Wearn (AUS), will face off against the two men who joined him on the podium in Tokyo in the Laser, Tonci Stipanovic (CRO) and Hermann Tomasgaard (NOR). And if that was not enough, reigning world champion Jean-Baptiste Bernaz (FRA) and the man he beat in Mexico, Pavlos Kontides (CYP) are also competing.

Add in Duko Bos (NED), who won the The Netherlands World Cup at the Allianz Regatta and Michael Beckett (GBR), victorious at the Spain World Cup at the 52 Trofeo Princesa Sofia Mallorca by Iberostar, and the event will feature all the main contenders in the class. ILCA 6 Trailing not far behind the ILCA 7 in terms of pedigree is the field in the ILCA 6, where reigning world and Olympic champion Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark will be the one to beat.