Ireland's sole Paris 2024 campaigner Eve McMahon of Howth Yacht Club in the ILCA 6/Laser Radial, is lying 46th after scoring 24 in each of the races on the first day of the 2022 Women's & Men's World Championships at the Texas Corinthian Yacht Club in the USA.
On Tuesday, the first two races were completed in both women's fleets and the men's fleet. Hungary's two-time Olympian Mári Érdi is leading the women's division after the first day.
Rio Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy is coaching Eve during this event.
In this fleet full of repeat Olympians and world champions, 86 women from 40 countries are competing.
Some names to watch at this event: France’s Marie Barrué, who won the 2021 Hempel World Cup Series and the 2021 ILCA Europa Cup and won silver at the 2022 French Olympic Week; Poland’s Agata Barwińska, who won 2021 Kiel Week, 2021 EurILCA Senior World Championships, and 2022 French Olympic Week, and won second at the 2021 ILCA 6 World Championships; and Ireland’s Eve McMahon, who won the 2021 and the 2022 ILCA 6 Youth World Championships, won the 2022 Youth Sailing World Championships and won second at the 2022 ILCA 6 U21 World Championships.
Today brought steady 8-12 knots of breeze on Galveston Bay, and there were no recalls in any fleet. "Beautiful first day," said Canada's Tokyo Olympian Sarah Douglas, "great to be back racing with everyone... I hadn't done a world championship since 2020, so it's just great to get back with the top sailors around the world, competing and seeing how you line up within that." Douglas is tied with three-time Olympic medallist Marit Bouwmeester of the Netherlands for second overall behind Érdi.
In the first race of the day, both Douglas and Bouwmeester placed second in their respective fleets behind Belgian Tokyo Olympian Emma Plasschaert and two-time Olympian Lucía Falasca of Argentina. Érdi maintained her position in the top of the fleet and won the second race, as did American two-time Youth Sailing World Champion Charlotte Rose. Douglas and Bouwmeester both placed fourth in their fleets. At the top of the leaderboard, Érdi holds five points ahead of Douglas and Bouwmeester, each with six.
The men's fleet is sharing the women's course area but competing separately. Leading the division is American Peter Barnard, who finished with a second and first in today's races. Fellow countrymen Nicholas Mueller and Thomas Kraak are in second and third overall.
Two races are scheduled for tomorrow in each fleet.
Results after Day 1:
Women's
1. Mári Érdi (HUN) - 5 pts
2. Sarah Douglas (CAN) - 6 pts
3. Marit Bouwmeester (NED) - 6 pts
4. Silvia Zennaro (ITA) - 8 pts
5. Emma Plasschaert (BEL) - 9 pts
6. Erika Reineke (USA) - 9 pts
7. Maxime Jonker (NED) - 11 pts
8. Mirthe Akkerman (NED) - 11 pts
9. Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) - 12 pts
10. Line Flem Høst (NOR) - 12 pts
Men's
1. Peter Barnard (USA) - 3 pts
2. Nicholas Mueller (USA) - 5 pts
3. Thomas Kraak (USA) - 7 pts
4. Hamilton Barklay (USA) - 8 pts
5. William Baker (USA) - 8 pts