FIRST WINDY DAY IN BUENOS AIRES FOR THE 2022 STAR SOUTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP

It was finally a windy day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the Yacht Club Argentino at the Dársena Norte is organizing the 2022 Star South American Championship with 25 teams fighting to win the silver star continental event of the year. The day started out with a joyful spirit, after the win of Argentina yesterday at the quarter final of the Football World Cup in Qatar, not so for the three Brazilians teams and the Dutch one there. Nevertheless, everyone was on the starting line at 1 pm, with a nice 15 knots Southeasterly breeze, a happy change to the light wind of the previous two days. The only tricky bit was the strong current against the wind, that complicated the starting procedures, with a couple of general recalls.

LIGHT WIND IN BUENOS AIRES ALLOWS ONE RACE ONLY AT THE 2022 STAR SOUTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Only one race could be sailed today in Buenos Aires at the Yacht Club Argentino, Dársena Norte, for the 2022 Star South American Championship, with the start brought one hour forward due to a very light wind forecast. It was a very complicated day, extreme heat and a light breeze from the North, against the current, that stayed just under six knots.
 
Race three of the Championship started around 11am, and the best to interpret the very tricky conditions were Marcelo Fuchs and Arthur Lopes (BRA), with this bullet, they close the day in second place overall. Second in the only race of the day another Brazilian team, Mario Sergio de Jesus Jr and Pedro Trouche, fourth in the general ranking. Leandro and Lucas Altolaguirre, from Buenos Aires, confirmed yesterday’s leading position with a third place in today’s regatta. Third overall now are Fabian Mac Gowan and Mauricio Bueno (ARG), who had a bad day (14) after two very good races yesterday.

TWO PERFECT RACES ON DAY ONE OF 2022 STAR SOUTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP

The 2022 Star South American Championship has started today and it will end on Sunday December 11^th in Buenos Aires, Argentina, organized by the Yacht Club Argentino at the Dársena Norte with the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association.
The South American Star Championship has been held since 1952. In Buenos Aires, the South Americans were held in 2019, before the pandemic and the title went to the duo Tomas Hornos (USA) and Pedro Trouche (BRA). There is no shortage of big names of the sailing world also this year, like the two Star World Champion crews Frithjof Kleen (GER) and Samuel Gonçalves (BRA), and the Brazilians Marcelo Fuchs runner-up World Champion in 2015 and Arthur Lopes, South American champion.
 

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Robert Scheidt and Ubiratan Matos win the 2021 Star South American Championship in Ilhabela, Brazil

After a fierce duel against Jorge Zarif and Arthur Lopes, the two-time Olympic champion keeps his leading position

The Star South American Championship was decided today, Monday 15th, a Brazilian national holiday, at the Yacht Club de Ilhabela, on the northern coast of São Paulo. After eight balanced races, the win came in the last race for the duo Robert Scheidt and Ubiratan Matos. They have been faster than their main opponents, Jorge Zarif and Arthur Lopes, since the beginning of the competition, and beat them by only two points. The bronze medal went to Juninho de Jesus and Guilherme de Almeida.
 
The two-time Olympic champion Robert Scheidt raced with Ubiratan Matos for the first time, and the championship marked his return to the class after more than two years away. The partnership showed regularity from the beginning to the end of the Star South American Championship. Of the eight races, the duo won three, came in second four times, and only in the last race took one sixth, which was discarded.

Two Star World Champions dueling for Star South American Championship on Monday

Jorge Zarif and Arthur Lopes react and go for the Star South American Championship title against Robert Scheidt and Ubiratan Matos

The final battle for the Star South American Championship is set for the last day of racing, tomorrow, Monday (15), in Ilhabela, Brazil. The world champion Jorge Zarif and the pro Arthur Lopes got back in the game today and will go on the water tomorrow with just one point behind the multi-Olympic gold medalist Robert Scheidt and Ubiratan Matos.
 
The discard coming in place today, put Zarif and Lopes back in the games. The boat had problems the day before, leaving the two more distant from the leaders. In the races of the day, they won one and came second in the other. The races were practically a match race against Robert Scheidt and Ubiratan Matos, who had the same result as their opponents.