November 10, 2021 - Croatian sailor Tonči Stipanović won the bronze medal at the ILCA 7 World Championships (formerly Laser), which ended in Barcelona on Wednesday with a lot of difficulties.
Wednesday was meant to be the deciding day with three final races, but three of the total six competition days were unable to go ahead due to unfavorable weather conditions in Barcelona! After towering waves in the morning prevented the fleet from entering the regatta, the rain then began which forced the regatta committee to declare that no one would sail today.
In such conditions, 35-year-old Tonči Stipanović kept the bronze medal, which is the third world medal for the 2x Olympic silver medalist and member of the Split sailing club Mornar. In 2010 he won the silver, and last year he took bronze in Australia.
This is his tenth big medal in Laser in total, and the world bronze came in the same year as the Olympic silver from Tokyo, so Tonči can be proud of his achievements in 2021.
Stipanović's club colleague and current European runner-up Filip Jurišić took 21st place with 126 negative points, and the third Croatian representative Bruno Gaspić finished 48th with 194 negative points.
New Zealander Thomas Saunders is the new world champion, and the silver went to Irishman Finn Lynch.
Source: HRT
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