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Confluence of excellence
Some of the greatest race management in the world and this year something (very) special to apply it to...
Two major events in Kiel this summer will vault the city forward into being once again a centre stage for high-level international sailing: the more than 140 years young and unique Kiel Week from 17-25 June and the 2023 edition of the ORC World Championship being held over 4-12 August. The first will focus on competition among a huge variety of classes, from dinghies and Olympic aspirants to big boats, and the latter will bring together on the Kiel Fjord the best of the best in big boat inshore and offshore racing in search of World Champion titles. Being one year before the 2024
Olympic Games, Kiel Week 2023 promises to be at the top level of the sport and as such is being recognised by World Sailing as a World Cup regatta. If this was not sufficient itself to draw hundreds of entries to the event, organisers from the Kieler Yacht-Club (KYC) made a decision to fight inflation for 4,000 expected participants by reducing this year’s registration fees for early bookers by up to 20 per cent. Sustainability in the sport is also
an important theme, especially for events of this size and scale, so Kiel Week this year is doing more to support this claim of sustainability by enacting policies and practices to minimise the CO2 64 SEAHORSE
footprint of the
sailing competitions. This was confirmed at the world’s largest water sports exhibition, Kiel Week’s premium partner Duesseldorf boot. Dirk Ramhorst is the head of organisation for the event and speaks about the battle against inflation. ‘Of course, the enormous price increases in many areas do not leave Kiel Week unscathed,’ he acknowledges, ‘but we do not want to pass them on one-to-one to our most important asset, the participants. On the contrary. With this year’s reduction of the entry fee, which applies to all competitions, the regatta should remain attractive and affordable for everyone.’ This year Kiel Week will once
again demonstrate this is one of the world’s largest sailing events: race organisers expect more than 1,500 entries from about 50 nations sailing on nine racecourses. After around a month since the open of registration the strongest fleets so far are the 29er Euro Cup followed by ILCA 6 Open and the Olympic ILCA 7, and the fleet is very international: 33 nations are already being represented, ranging from Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Ukraine to the USA, the UK and more than a dozen European nations. Among the earliest teams to register were five current World
Above: five current world champion crews have already signed up for Kiel Week including the 470 sailors Luise Wanser and Philipp Autenrieth. In total the organisers expect more than 1,500 entries this year
Champions led by Dane Anne-Marie Rindom (ILCA 6) and Germans Luise Wanser/Philipp Autenrieth (470). An ongoing push is expected until the end of the early entry deadline in late April, a change from years past when the trend was typically to enter in the very last moment possible. After KielWeek begins with the
Aalregatta where over 100 big boats race to Eckernfoerde, this year all 10 Olympic disciplines will also compete in the first part of the event. For themit’s also about earning decisive points at the final event of the Sailing World Cup 2023, which celebrates its climax onWednesday with the medal races. In addition to these classes, 11 other international classes are scheduled to race, including the offshore races for the Kiel Cup, Silbernes Band and Senatspreis trophies. With the development of a digital
platform (cloud computing) for recording the carbon footprint, in Duesseldorf Ramhorst presented the next step of the sustainability strategy for Kiel Week. An ESG module from ServiceNow will be adapted to the needs of Kiel Week for the areas of environment, social and corporate responsibility with the consulting firm Accenture as partner and sponsor. ‘Active participants can then record their individual
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