With a great performance, the Hungarian team led by Zsombor Berecz won the Star Sailors League Gold Cup competition, which can also be considered the team world championship of sailors, with a great performance, practically controlling the final.
The final positions were decided in Sunday's final, in which the Hungarian boat led almost all the way and - according to the competition's website - finished ahead of the Italians, the Dutch and the Spanish. With this, he achieved one of the greatest successes of Hungarian sailing.
Among the top eight, the Hungarian was the only unit that came from a landlocked country. In Saturday's semi-final, ahead of the New Zealanders and the French, they advanced to the final in second place behind the Spaniards.
At the event organized in the Canary Islands, the group called Shamans joined the fight among the best 32, which started with teams from 56 nations. All participants set sail with the same SSL 47 boat.
The captain of the Hungarian team was Berecz Zsombor, silver medalist in Finnding at the Tokyo Olympics.
The team's full roster:
Csaba Adorján, Róbert Bakóczy, Zsombor Berecz, Marcell Goszleth, Zsombor Gyapjas, Lél Huber, Ákos Lillik, Szabolcs Majthényi, Áron Németh, Domonkos Németh, Levente Takácsy, Balázs Tomai, Sándor Varjas
MTI
Featured image: MTI/Zsolt Czeglédi
