The big championship season opens for the Blues of the French sailing team

After a start to the season full of beautiful promises, during the first two stages of Sailing Grand Slam at Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma and the French Olympic week in Hyères, the French Olympic sailing team advances with ambition for the first salvo of international championships in May. THE
470 And the kitefoilers will stay in the south to compete in their European championships, the first in Split in Croatia, from 12 to 17, and the latter near Izmir in Turkey, from 14 to 19, with each time of medals for the Habs. For the Ilca 6 and Ilca 7 is already the big meeting of the season, from May 12 to 17, with the world championship which will take place on the lake of the 2008 Olympic Games in China, in Qingdao. The Blues, who take advantage of the week before the competition to appropriate a body of reputedly difficult water, arrived in China with a rejuvenated and ambitious team.

It is a very intense start to the season for some Olympic athletes! Barely out of a SOF in Hyères who will have been particularly physically trying, disputed in very diverse conditions with in particular a very muscular mistral day, here are the ILCA, the
470 And the kitefoil already on the bridge for their first international championships!

Franck Citeau’s gaze (performance manager) : “The world championships in each series will be essential in more than one way this season because it is the results on these competitions that will determine the composition of the next France team in 2026. To be part of it, you will have to make a top 6 on its major meeting of the season. In this post-Olympic year we have a very young team overall but with strong potential. It is up to us to help them to allow them to show the extent of their talents in this season! »»

World championship Ila 6 and he aged 7 in China, from May 12 to 17

The Blues arrived on Thursday 1^is May in Qingdao in China after a few days of rest only after the French Olympic week in Hyères. This will offer a little more than 10 days of training before the start of the world championship which will start on May 12 and which will take place until Saturday 17. A good preparation for a rejuvenated French delegation which will discover the 2008 Olympic Games Water. At the time he had smiled rather well for young tricolor selected, Jean-Baptiste Bernaz, 21 years old and 8^e of her first Olympic Games, and Sarah Steyaert, 22 and 5^e In the end. What inspire the new generation of solitary, especially among men for the first world without Jean-Baptiste Bernaz rightly, who left for new horizons in
49er. Now catapulted spearhead in Ilca 7, Alexandre Kowalski is the tricolor who impressed the most at the start of the season, with a 14^e Place in Hyères. Marseillais Théo Peyre also sparked during the SOF with in particular a 2^e Place as general after 1^era daytime. In women, Louise Cerrera and Marie Barrué took advantage of their Hyéroise week to work specific aspects before the big meeting of their season. The French have arrived in China with the ambition to seek the most beautiful of possible results!

Franck Citeau’s gaze (performance manager) : “This is now several major meetings where Louise (Cervera) plays the leading roles in Ilca 6, with this bronze medal in the last European championship and its 10^e Make way for the Olympic Games. We feel that she can still have a milestone and she did what it was necessary to prepare for the best for this world championship. The form and the state of mind look at the top, we can’t wait to see what it will give. In boys, it feels like the departure of “JB” (Bernaz) has pierced their “glass ceiling”. They feel capable of playing with the best and showed very beautiful things in Hyères. We follow their progress with attention and I feel that they could return to Medal Race faster than you think. Why not on this World Cup! ».

The World Championship program ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 in Qingdao:

From May 12 to 14: qualifying races
From May 15 to 17: final races

All info: https://2025ilcaolympic.ilca-worlds.org/

The main French people present in China:

ILCA 6 – supervised by Nicolas Le Berre

Louise Cervera (CN Mandelieu / BP Med)
Marie Barrué (Coych / Champions Army / BP Med)

ILCA 7 – Supervised by Christophe Espagnon

Thomas Flachon (SR Antibes)
Alexandre Kowalski (Brest Bretagne Nautisme)
Martin Kowalski (Brest Bretagne Nautisme)
Lorenzo Mayer (Saint Barth YC)
Théo Peyre (La Pelle-Marseille)

European Championship
470 In Croatia, from May 12 to 17

Young and talented French crews in
470 meet in Croatia for their European championship, which will take place in the clear waters of the Adriatic Sea, off Split. Propelled to the front of the international scene for a few months, the Blues will have already left favorites for the podium race after a very solid start to the season. Matisse Pacaud and Lucie de Gennes, the young world champions in title, have already shined since last year among the “big”, with in particular a 4^e Make way for the European championship last year in Cannes, and started their season with two 7^e Places in Palma and Hyères. Manon Pennaneac’h and Pierre Williot competed for their first medal race with seniors during the SOF, with an 8^e final place in the general classification. 3^e Chance of a medal for the Habs, Lomane Valade and Julien Bunel also impressed SOF with in particular a perfect day and two racing victories on 2^e day. Finally we will also follow the “new” bands, Sarah Jannin and Iban Cornic, 20^e to Hyères for their first competition together in
470 !

Franck Citeau’s gaze (performance manager) : “With the departure of Camille (Lecointre) and Jérémie (Mion) to other horizons after the Olympics, the duets of the French French team had to take over from seniors in
470. Matisse (Pacaud) and Lucie (de Gennes) are the first to have taken over with already some very good performances among seniors but behind them we have other crews which seem to have also crossed a course on the first competitions this year. With Manon (Pennaneac’h) and Pierre (Williot) France was able to put two boats in Medal Race and Loman (Valade) and Julien (Bunel) also had very solid days on SOF. The group lives well and the work done with their coach Philippe Boudgourd is already bearing fruit “among the big”. We are waiting for this European championship with great impatience to see them continue to progress to the best world crews and prepare for their best before their world championship in June. »»

The European Championship Program of
470 to split:

From May 12 to 13: Qualifying races
From May 14 to 16: final races
May 17: Medal Races and awards ceremony

All info: https: // 2025europeans.
470.org/en/default/races/race

The main French people present in Croatia:

Supervised by Philippe Boudgourd

Matisse Pacaud and Lucie de Gennes (YC de Cannes / BP Med)
Manon Pennaneac’h (Sno Nantes) and Pierre Williot (CVSAE)
Lomane Valley (SNO Nantes) and Julien Bunel (BN Mother and Candle)
Sarah Jannin and Iban Cornic (ASN Perros-Guirec)

European Formula Kite, Turkey Championship from May 14 to 19

For his comeback to competition after her silver medal at the Olympic Games in Marseille this summer Lauriane Nolot reassured himself on the French Olympic week with a 3^e place, acquired at
bout one week disputed in a wide variety of conditions. A good rise in power over the days and no pain in his injured foot after the games, enough to project with serenity to the future and a European championship in Türkiye in a few days. The Hyéroise will put its title back in play off Urla at the Aveeus Sea, just like Axel Mazella among men, who will sign his return to the circuit on this occasion. The new three -color generation will also be very observed in this European championship, after the great promises seen at the start of the season with Lysa Caval, Zoé Boutang and Benoit Gomez.

Franck Citeau’s gaze (performance manager) : “We were very happy to find Lauriane in Hyères. She returned without too much training and managed to play with the best, which is very positive. We have the feeling that his experience at the Olympic Games helped him pass a new course. She returned to the circuit knowing what she wanted: an Olympic gold medal. She knew how to develop her way of doing and thinking to get even more performance without denying her freshness and her spontaneity which was also part of her great forces. It is only the second Olympiad for the kite and it is a world and codes that we still learn to grasp. As with Lauriane it is up to us to accompany them as best as possible without trying to bring them into boxes, at the risk of blocking them, but to take the best of both worlds to bring them to the summits. We saw it at the start of the season the level on the water still mounted a notch and there is a high density at the top of the rankings. We are looking forward to seeing where our Blues will be on the occasion of this European championship and especially for the youngest, who showed great things in Palma and Hyères. »»

The European Kite European Championship program in Urla:

From May 14 to 16: qualifying races
From May 17 to 18: final races
May 19: Medal Series and awards ceremony

All info: https://www.kiteclasses.org/2025europeans

The main French people present in Türkiye:

Supervised by Pascal Chaullet and Antoine Weiss

Women

Zoe Boutang (HKA)
Lysa Caval (HKA)
Jessie Kampman (SR Antibes)
Lauriane Nolot (HKA / Champions Army / BP MED)

Men

Matheo Coguiec (New Kite)
Benoit Gomez (CV Arcachon)
Axel Mazella (HKA / Armée de Champions)

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