The new Optimist World Champion Jia Yi Loh (SIN) confidently secured the title for himself with just 13 points in a total of 10 races. The runner-up, Nils Sternbeck (GER), eked out second place with 40 points. Nils displayed a very good performance in the first days, constantly sitting in second place on the results table. However, on the last day, he caused the German team to tremble. On the morning before the begin of the last race, 17 points separated him from his third placed counterpart, Edward Tan (SIN). Throughout the day, this gap shrank to one point. In the end, Edward Tan reached the winner's podium in third place.

The Singapore and German teams and their coaches Fernando Alegre (SIN) and Geeske Genrich (GER) met for a friendly photo shoot with Tactical Sailing. Along with the numerous fans from Europe, we now have new friends and contacts in Asia with Coach Fernando and his team.

Nils Sternbeck (GER 13205) constantly on the 2nd Place overall - behind the leading LOH JIA YI (SIN 115) from Singapore. The GER team achieve Top Ten results, see final results at Fraglia del Riva.

A record number of 58 nations have competed at Opti World Championship 2013 at Lake Garda (ITA) with 259 sailors. Delegations from e.g. Brazil, Singapore, USA, Sweden, Russia, Ukraina, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Olanda, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand came to Riva del Garda. Italy has lined up a team after a long selection process which lasted for 21 trials. Eyes will be on countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Israel. They have been making giant steps forward in their technical level and results achieved over the past few years.

The Tactical Sailing Team was in Riva for the XXIX LAKE GARDA MEETING OPTIMIST CLASS 21 on 24 April 2011.Opti kids played on the computer and could also sail a Tactical Sailing Regatta: Lake Garda - Vento (Northwind). They achieved best times!
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