2024 29er World Championship

2024 29er World Championship

Event title
Name	2024 29er World Championship
Edition	24th
Host	Aarhus International Sailing Center, Aarhus, Denmark
Event details
Venue	Aarhus International Sailing Center
Dates	1 August - 9 August 2024
Classes	29er
Competitors
Competitors	516
Competing nations	27
Results
Gold	Alex Demurtas & Giovanni Santi
Silver	Ewa Lewandowska & Krzysztof Królik
Bronze	Jocelyn Le Goff & Jules Vidor

The 2024 29er World Championship was a world championship of sailing that was held at Aarhus International Sailing Center in Aarhus, Denmark. The event took place between 1 August and 9 August 2024.

The event was won by Alex Demurtas and Giovanni Santi^[1] of Italy, who has previously finished 2nd in the 2022 29er World Championship,^[2] and 3rd at the 2023 World Championship.^[3] This was the 24th 29er World Championship.

Reigning world champion Clementine Van Steenberge^[3] of Ireland finished 2nd in silver fleet^[4] after switching crews from her brother, Nathan Van Steenberge, to Jessica Riordan for the event. They finished as the 6th female team overall.

There were 5 different winners of the first race of the day due to separate fleets. These winners included eventual event winners Alex Demurtas and Giovanni Santi, as well as female team Emily Polson and Tiffany Mak of Hong Kong, and Swedish mixed duo Selma Hård and Lukas Wolfgang. Alex Demurtas and Giovanni Santi went on to win the first 4 races in their fleet creating a dominant lead from the start of the championship. The top 3 in the qualifying series would be Alex Demurtas and Giovanni Santi, Ewa Lewandowska and Krzysztof Królik of Poland, with French duo Nolann Huet Des Aunay and Titouan Gresset finishing 3rd.

Results from qualifying series not represented. Top 15 finishers in gold fleet are shown:

Results of individual races

Pos	Crew	Country	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX	Tot	Pts
	Alex Demurtas Giovanni Santi	Italy	2	6	2	4	12	31†	7	2	1	78	47
	Ewa Lewandowska Krzysztof Królik	Poland	SCP 19†	2	3	41†	3	3	18	4	13	120	79
	Jocelyn Le Goff Jules Vidor	France	12	3	1	7	14	11	4	DNC 48†	9	134	88
4	Nolann Huet Des Aunay Titouan Gresset	France	11	5	27	15	36	1	38†	10	16	183	145
5	James Crossley Sam Webb	Great Britain	38†	34	30	5	13	20	10	5	7	186	148
6	Giuseppe Montesano Enrico Coslovich	Italy	17	21	40†	17	10	26	1	7	2	200	160
7	Santiago Sesto-Cosby Ben Bradley	Great Britain	25	10	43†	24	33	4	2	8	8	206	163
8	Felix Llauro Marcos Pruden	Argentina	19	18	4	19	8	15	13	29†	3	193	164
9	Logan Mraz Juan Albamonte	United States	6	30	12	34	38†	13	8	1	5	203	165
10	Lucas Patrick Luke Rogers	Australia	26	28†	8	1	15	23	5	16	26	150	125
11	Finian Morris Charlie Gran	Great Britain	8	12	23	42†	35	32	3	3	14	215	273
12	Soma Kis-Szölgyémi András Juhász	Hungary	27†	9	11	3	6	14	22	25	10	200	173
13	Benjamin Rodriguez Moron Ronan Curnyn	Argentina	16	20	9	2	4	34†	25	15	17	212	178
14	Lukas Kraus Ondrej Baštár	Czech Republic	14	31†	18	14	21	9	12	9	9	214	183
15	Moritz Wagner Leo Gradel	Germany	10	13	41	8	5	38†	29	13	36	222	184

Scoring system: low-point system; Source:

Legend: BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start; DNE – Disqualification (other then DGM) not excludable under rule 90.3(b); DNF – Started but did not finish; DNS – Came to the start area but did not start; DSQ – Disqualified; RDG – Redress given; RET – Retired; SCP –Scoring penalty under rule 44.3; UFD – "U" flag disqualification; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;