BY SAILORS FOR SAILORS
© SSL / Gilles Morelle B JORGE ZARIF (BRA)
y winning the Star Sailors League Finals and the Star World Championship in the last two months, young Brazilian Finn sailor Jorge Zarif makes it to
the SSL Ranking Top10 for the first time. With 2500 points for winning one of the oldest and most prestigious sailing trophy in October, and 4000 points for the sixth edition of the thrilling and exciting SSL Finals in December, he is now number 6 among legends like Lars Grael (BRA) #5 and Xavier Rohart (FRA) #7. He also proved to be very versatile winning both the very traditional format of the Worlds, with only one long race per day, to the innova- tive short, four races per day with free pumping with the knock-out stage on the last day, at the SSL Finals. Jorge Zarif attended his first Olympic Games in London, when he was 20 years old and four years later, in his home water Rio de Janeiro, he was once again represen- ting Brazil in the Finn class, where he nearly missed the medal and finished fourth. His successes in the legendary heavyweight one handed Olympic dinghy include at only 17 year-old the Junior World Championship title (known as Finn Silver Cup) in 2009 and in 2013 the victory in both the Silver and Gold Cup (the actual World Cham- pionship) in the Finn. These granted him an invitation to the second edition of the SSL Finals in 2014 where he finished fourth. He then was in Nassau for other three editions, 2015, 2016 and the last one in 2018, that he won.
The 26 year-old Jorge Zarif will now work hard on his campaign for the Games in Japan in 2020 in the Finn class and also keep on training in the Star and trying to attend as many regattas as possible, starting with the first ever Star Class Junior World Championship in February in Miami, USA.
STAR SAILORS RANKING
© SSL / Marc Rouiller
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