2024-08-06 09:33:19
¡Juan Ignacio Megli continues in the fight for the medals! He Guatemalan sailor He went out to sea again from Marseille to look for his best result of regattas 7 and 8 of competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
In the room competition day in the Olympic jousts The boats faced the weather and regulatory conditions to take part in the races that continue to be very competitive. Below we will tell you how the Guatemalan fared. What a joke!
Paris 2024: Juan Ignacio Maegli’s races 7 and 8 results
In the Marseille and Frioul Navy, las boats They went out again to face the sea and the wind, which would undoubtedly be their main rivals, because by bad means weather conditions They had to wait more than two hours to be able to leave to browse.
The sailors had to face many conditions, with a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 53 percent. In addition, a wind speed from 12 to 14 knots, which allowed the sailboats to compete.
This is how Juan Ignacio fared in the regattas in Marseille
In it fourth day of competition of Dinghy masculinethe start was not the best for the Guatemalan sailorwho in the regatta 7 She could no longer compete with 8 others boats for having violated the regulation and leave with a black flag.
This meant that they placed him in the position 44, so that result would be the one that would remove that score from your general ranking and being in the place 10 as it started went to 15, with a total of 140 points y 96 grandchildren.
By race 8, Juan Ignacio sought to recover a bit by finishing in the 15th place and end the day in the position 16 with 155 total points and 111 net pointswhich put him out of the fight for the medals.
The general ranking The standings are led by Australian Matt Wearn with a net total of 38 points, followed by Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus with 52 net points and Stefano Peschiera of Peru in third place with 62.
The last day of sailing qualification
He fifth day of competition It will be on Monday, August 5, 2024, where races 9 and 10 will be held, in which the vessel by Juan Ignacio to seek the best positions and it must be his best day of competition to be able to place himself again in the top 10 of the competition.
The classification will have 10 regattas in five days of competence. Although everything will depend on the wind and the weather conditions. So the top 10 ranked in the serie inaugural They move on to the medal regatta, which will be held on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, where Juan Ignacio hopes to be involved.
Guatemala traveled with a delegation of 16 athletes to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games which will be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024, of which five selected are still in the competition. How cool!
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