04/01/2026
Postcards from Palma 🇪🇸
Things are heating up at the Trofeo Princesa Sofía as we move into the second half of the season opener! After a team dinner bringing together nearly 60 athletes and support staff under the USA banner, sailors hit the ground running. They’ve faced a wide variety of conditions so far: a good test for the year to come 💪🏼
The ILCA 6, ILCA 7, Nacra 17, 49er, and 49erFX fleets advanced from the preliminary to the elimination stage today, part of a new scoring format being tested for Olympic classes. Each team or athlete will carry over their place in the preliminary stage as a non-discard score (so an athlete that finishes second overall in the preliminary stage will move to the elimination stage with two points, so on and so forth).
🇺🇸 Highlights so far:
– Nevin Snow / Ian MacDiarmid finish the 49er qualifying series in first, meaning they will carry only one point in to the elimination series, starting tomorrow.
– Also in the 49er fleet, Andrew Mollerus / Trevor Bornarth finish their preliminary series with a race win, setting the stage for tomorrow .
– Noah Runciman moves up to 5th in the Men’s Formula Kite, competing against the gold and silver medalists from Paris 2024.
– Daniela Moroz is knocking at the door of the Women’s Kite top three, sitting in fourth place against a strong field.
– Charlotte Rose bounds back to the top of the fleet, taking a second in her first elimination series race after coming in with 25 points from qualification stage.
– Noah Lyons remains in second in the iQFOiL Men.
Full scores: https://www.trofeoprincesasofia.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall