Rain of medals in winter races for Sopraventus HP Team

After an intense winter of preparation with the Sopraventus High Performance Team, led by Simone Ricci, we achieved outstanding results in the winter regattas held in Hong Kong, Naples, Torrevieja, Lanzarote, and Valencia.

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP –  HONG KONG

Margaux Nguyen Minh 3rd Overall and 1st in Girls Division! This is an historical double medal that sum up with her Bronze Medal at Europeans 2024!

NAPOLI – Trofeo M. Campobasso

3rd place overall for Nicholas  Koekkoek 

4th for Carl Birgersson  after a fresh 25th overall at World Championship at only 12 years of age and windy and wavy conditions!

Elena Lopez  1st in Girls Division

TORREVIEJA – International Optimist Trophy

A win everything performance  by our sailors at Torrevieja with 430 boats from 30 Countries! 

Erkut Budak WINNER OVERALL 

 Lilou Backes  WINNER OVERALL GIRLS& First U13 Overall

 The young Alix Nguyen Minh  THIRD U13 GIRLS 

 Some amazing highlights by Margaux Nguyen Minh showing up an incredible improvement in full hiking conditions that few months ago was kind of possible to imagine  Nice to see that @ernst_akesson close 6th overall!Congrats to yoir Coach in Torrevieja but i’m proud of the sailor you are becoming! 

LANZAROTE – Trofeo Presidente 2025

After 3 days of Atlantis Academy Clinic in Champagne Conditions we managed to do 12 races in 3 days with fantastic wind and weather conditions! Best event of the Winter with no doubt with sailors from 19 countries! Amazing location and management by Real Club Nautico Arrecife. Next year again!

Erkut Budak, our star of the Team, managed to have a solid   win and put his name on the beautiful perpetual trophy made of real Lava!

2nd place for Carl Birgersson 

3rd place local sailor Unai Ugarte

1st Girl Margaux Nguyen Minh that show up amazing improvements in windy boat handling!

1st u11 for our young gun Alix Nguyen Minh

VALENCIA – Optiorange

Only 4 races but our Lilou Backes keeps performing at top with a :

3rd overall and first again in Girls Division and  1st U13 Category!

Lilou had an impressive progression in the lasts months and she showed up 2 bullets on a 25 knots day with big waves! She s only 12 and we really like to see how calm and at same time motivated she is!

Nice single races and bullets from rest of Team but some bfd ruined us the overall results!

The preparation have been a mix of small trainings, home trainings, Atlantis Academy Clinics with participation of top Coaches led by Simone with also the special clinic with legend Marco Gradoni in Lanzarote for  Christmas!

The season doesn’t stop and our International Team will have soon other trainings and clinics planned using also our Rome base before heading to Garda !