Hungary won gold at the World Sailing Championships in The Hague

Mária Érdi won a gold medal at the Olympic Sailing World Championships in The Hague in the former Laser, now ILCA, category.

The Hungarian sailor already collected the Paris quota on Saturday, when he entered the double medal race in third place. The MVM SE competitor finished in third place on Sunday, and with this result jumped to the top, ahead of Maud Jayet of Switzerland, also a silver medalist at last year's World Cup, and Olympic champion Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark.

Mária Érdi had a great start to the WC, leading after two races, and then after races four and six. Then he slipped back to second place, and before the medal race to third place.

Two-time Olympian Mária Érdi, bronze medalist at the European Championships in March, is the first Hungarian female sailor to win a World Cup title in the Olympic boat class.

At the World Cup, Jonatán Vandai also collected the Olympic quota, as he finished 17th in the ILCA 7 class, and 14th in the ranking of countries. In this boat class, 16 quotas for the Paris Games are available per gender, so that one per country could be obtained.

More than 1,200 competitors take part in the World Cup, which takes place every four years and includes ten boat classes - plus categories for sailors with reduced mobility - and most of the places in Paris are sold out.

MTI

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