BY SAILORS FOR SAILORS
© SSL / Marc Rouiller D DIEGO NEGRI (ITA)
iego Negri is an Italian sailor who’s been to three Olympic Games, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 in the Laser class and Beijing 2008 in the
Star class. Since then he’s never stepped off a Star boat continuing his improvement curve with different crews. He’s gone so close to winning the World Championship for so many times in the recent years.
In Miami in 2016 he was second for just two points after local Augie Diaz (USA) and Bruno Prada (BRA); a few months before he was leading the World Championship in Buenos Aires, when Lars Grael and Samuel Goncalves (BRA) won it after a very consistent week. Similar story happened at the Bacardi Cup 2016. Diego and Sergio Lambertenghi had a fantastic week winning three races and closing at 15 points, but Robert Stanjek and Frithjof Kleen (GER) had a better week by just one point and took home the trophy.
2018 was the year that Diego and Sergio could write his- tory and become the first Italian team to win the Bacardi Cup, one of the oldest trophies in sport. “It’s such an honor and a joy to be the first Italian to win the Bacardi Cup, it is almost unbelievable… only when I look at the price giving pictures I realize it’s true!” Then the success in 2018 went on by winning the Star Eastern Hemisphere in Trieste in May and finally conque- ring the podium at the Star Sailors League Finals in Nas- sau, after 6 years of tries “With Frida (aka Frithjof Kleen
GER) we had immediate feeling, he won the event last year with Paul Goodison GBR who had never raced at a Star regatta proving he knows this game quite well, and in fact we made our way through the elimination round until the third step of the podium”. At the end of the year Diego then flew to Perth, Australia, for the Dragon Worlds, and by the beginning of 2019 he could step again on the podium with a bronze medal around his neck. He started the new year with a third spot in a very competitive World Championship, no bet- ter way to start with.
STAR SAILORS RANKING
© SSL / Gilles Morelle
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