Greeks Win Gold At Ibiza Tornado World Champions for 3rd Consecutive Year!

The 2013 Tornado Open and Mixed World Championships finished on a high in Ibiza, Spain and this year's sailing race was both exciting and fantastic for all our Greek teams. In the first race the Greek Red Bull team of Iordanis Paschalidis and Konstantinos Trigonis stormed out in front and took the victory ahead of the Mixed duo of Roland and Nahid Gaebler.

The second race took a different turn with the competitors splitting across the course and taking different sides, Brett Burvill and Faris Aznan were first over the line but were protested due to a minor crash on the race course which left the Greek team of Nikolaos Mauros and Alexandros Tagaropoulos with a broken rudder meaning they couldn't continue with the remaining races of the day.

After the second race many of the competitors thought that was the end of the championships and started heading for home only to be pulled back by the safety boats for another race. Although the wind was a little lighter the race started and Roland and Nahid Gabler took the victory with Paschalidis and Trigonis behind them in second place.

After 10 races with one discard counting the Greek team had a 13 point lead meaning they are 2013 Tornado World Champions for the third year in a row. In the mixed category Roland and Nahid Gaebler took the title.