Documentary: Tornado World Championship 2018
by International Tornado Class Association 18 Aug 2018 14:35 UTC
Podium - Tornado World Championship 2018 © Nikos Pantis
Saturday, 14th of July was the end of the 2018 Tornado Worlds and titles were decided.
Iordanis Paschalidis and Petros Konstantinidis, GRE 1, are the Open Tornado Champions for the second consecutive year! Another impressive performance from Iordanis Paschalidis who, alongside Konstantinos Trigonis, was winning this title since 2011. He is now a Tornado World Champion for the eighth time in a row, since nobody has managed to beat him.
Mixed Tornado Champions are the youths Estela Jentsch, the 16-year-old but also the 2016 Mixed World Champion and Daniel Brown, 18 years old Nacra 15 and F18 promising and winning sailor. They also finished third in the overall ranking.
Jurgen Jentsch, the Tornado Class President ended the prize giving ceremony organized at the "Yacht Club de La Grande Motte" by inviting all participants to join him at the 2019 World Championship, to be organized in New Zealand the coming January.