# 2023 Sailing World Championships – Nacra 17

The Nacra 17 competition at the 2023 Sailing World Championships was the mixed multihull event and was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, 11–17 August 2023. The entries were limited to 70 boats. The competitors participated in an opening series that was planned to 15 races, followed by a medal race. The medal race was planned for 17 August.
The competition served as a qualifying event for the 2024 Olympic sailing competition with 9 out of 19 national quota being distributed at the event.

## Summary

Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti of Italy were the reigning world champions, having won the 2022 Nacra 17 World Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei of Italy had won the Paris 2024 Test Event the month before. In the Sailing World Cup, John Gimson and Anna Burnet of Great Britain had won the Trofeo Princesa Sofía and the Semaine Olympique Française, while Margherita Porro and Stefano Dezulian of Italy had won the Kiel Week.
Tita and Banti took the lead by winning all three races on the first day, on the same points as German duo Paul Kohlhoff and Alica Stuhlemmer, having won two in the other fleet. On the second day, Tita and Banti recorded three more race wins. Tita and Banti took ten out of 15 race wins in the opening series. In the medal race, they claimed their championship title by winning the medal race with a 300-metre distance to the next boat. Gimson and Burnett finished second, while Emil Järudd and Hanna Jonsson of Sweden took the bronze medal.
With the final results, national quotas were awarded Italy, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Argentina, Finland, and Spain.

## Results

Results of individual races :
| Pos | Crew | Country | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | XI | XII | XIII | XIV | XV | MR | Tot | Pts |
| | Ruggero Tita Caterina Banti | Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12$^†$ | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 43 | 31 |
| | John Gimson Anna Burnet | Great Britain | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20$^†$ | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 77 | 57 |
| | Emil Järudd Hanna Jonsson | Sweden | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 17$^†$ | 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 83 | 66 |
| 4 | Laila van der Meer Bjarne Bouwer | Netherlands | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 1 | DSQ 26$^†$ | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 97 | 71 |
| 5 | Vittorio Bissaro Maellle Frascari | Italy | STP 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | UFD 26$^†$ | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 102 | 76 |
| 6 | Gianluigi Ugolini Maria Giubilei | Italy | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11$^†$ | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 92 | 81 |
| 7 | Paul Kohlhoff Alica Stuhlemmer | Germany | STP 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 17$^†$ | 10 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 102 | 85 |
| 8 | Micah Wilkinson Erica Dawson | New Zealand | 5 | UFD 26$^†$ | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 119 | 93 |
| 9 | Mateo Majdalani Eugenia Bosco | Argentina | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 19$^†$ | 12 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 112 | 93 |
| 10 | Sinem Kurtbay Akseli Keskinen | Finland | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 17$^†$ | 14 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 116 | 99 |
| 11 | Tara Pacheco Andrés Barrio | Spain | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 23$^†$ | 15 | 19 | 9 | 15 | 12 | – | 131 | 108 |
| 12 | Laura Farese Matthäus Zöchling | Austria | 7 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 16$^†$ | 7 | 12 | 13 | 13 | – | 146 | 130 |
| 13 | Natacha Saouma-Pedersen Mathias Bruun Borreskov | Denmark | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 24$^†$ | 21 | 16 | 14 | 11 | – | 156 | 132 |
| 14 | Lukas Haberl Tanja Frank | Austria | 9 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 24$^†$ | 14 | 16 | 14 | – | 158 | 134 |
| 15 | Billy Besson Noa Ancian | France | 9 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 20$^†$ | 20 | – | 162 | 142 |
| 16 | Ida Svensson Marcus Dackhammar | Sweden | 13 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 21 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 12 | RET 26$^†$ | – | 168 | 142 |
| 17 | Santiago Lange Victoria Travascio | Argentina | 8 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 7 | UFD 26$^†$ | 3 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 18 | – | 184 | 158 |
| 18 | Sarah Newberry Moore David Liebenberg | United States | 15 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 19$^†$ | 19 | – | 178 | 159 |
| 19 | Brin Liddell Rhiannan Brown | Australia | 17 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 21 | RET 26$^†$ | – | 202 | 176 |
| 20 | Ruben Booth Rita Booth Ferrando | Australia | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 22 | 25 | 18 | UFD 26$^†$ | 11 | RDG 17 | – | 211 | 185 |
| 21 | Mai Huicong Chen Linlin | China | 10 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 15 | UFD 26$^†$ | 10 | 16 | RET 26 | 22 | 17 | – | 215 | 189 |
| 22 | Yang Xuezhe Hu Xiaoxiao | China | STP 13 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 8 | DSQ 26$^†$ | 11 | 9 | 18 | 22 | 23 | UFD 26 | 17 | 15 | – | 220 | 194 |
| 23 | Margherita Porro Stefano Dezulian | Italy | 6 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 13 | RET 26$^†$ | 11 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 24 | RET 26 | – | 222 | 196 |
| 24 | Archie Gargett Sarah Hoffman | Australia | 8 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 21 | 14 | 20 | 23$^†$ | 21 | – | 224 | 201 |
| 25 | Jake Liddell Lucy Copeland | Australia | 11 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 12 | RET 26$^†$ | 7 | 20 | 23 | 22 | UFD 26 | RET 26 | 16 | – | 238 | 212 |
| 26 | Zhao Huancheng Wang Saibo | China | 12 | 16 | 19$^†$ | 9 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | – | 147 | 128 |
| 27 | Darren Bundock Lisa Darmanin | Australia | 11 | 15 | 16 | 17$^†$ | 15 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 3 | – | 151 | 134 |
| 28 | Ding Mingcheng Sha Su | China | 16 | UFD 26$^†$ | 8 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | – | 161 | 135 |
| 29 | Samuel Albrecht Gabriela Nicolino | Brazil | 16 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 21 | UFD 26$^†$ | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 170 | 144 |
| 30 | Margaux Billy Noah Chauvin | France | 14 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 17$^†$ | 12 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 6 | – | 162 | 145 |
| 31 | João Siemsen Marina Arndt | Brazil | 13 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 17$^†$ | 13 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | – | 173 | 156 |
| 32 | Shibuki Iituka Capiglia Oura Nishida | Japan | 15 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 19$^†$ | 5 | – | 192 | 173 |
| 33 | Willemijn Offerman Scipio Houtman | Netherlands | 19 | 17 | 20$^†$ | 14 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 13 | – | 193 | 173 |
| 34 | Alican Kaynar Beste Kaynakçı | Turkey | 14 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 16 | UFD 25$^†$ | 3 | 2 | 8 | – | 201 | 176 |
| 35 | Iordanis Paschalidis Myrto Papadopoulou | Greece | STP 21 | 19 | 18 | 19 | UFD 26$^†$ | 21 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | – | 210 | 184 |
| 36 | Justin Liu Denise Lim | Singapore | 18 | 22 | 17 | UFD 26$^†$ | 15 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | – | 224 | 198 |
| 37 | Lucas Claeyssens Mira Vanroose | Belgium | 17 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 18 | 19 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 24$^†$ | – | 229 | 205 |
| 38 | Bart Kooijman Jella Rike Spijkervet | Netherlands | 23 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 24 | RET 26$^†$ | 18 | 20 | 23 | 16 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 14 | – | 268 | 242 |
| 39 | Puck van der Veen Wouter van Rooijen | Netherlands | 23$^†$ | 20 | 22 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 19 | – | 268 | 245 |
| 40 | Manolo Geslin Grimaud Marion Declef | France | 21 | 21 | 23 | UFD 26$^†$ | 20 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 11 | – | 282 | 256 |
| 41 | Theo Williams Jasmine Williams | Great Britain | 22 | 23$^†$ | 21 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 17 | – | 280 | 257 |
| 42 | Carson Crain Lindsay Gimple | United States | 20 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 22 | 24$^†$ | 23 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 15 | – | 284 | 260 |
| 43 | Doiphode Siddheshwar Ramya Saravanan | India | 18 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 22 | UFD 25$^†$ | 22 | – | 293 | 268 |
| 44 | Matteo Chaboud Capucine Raguet | France | 19 | 19 | 25$^†$ | 19 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | BFD 25 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 18 | – | 299 | 274 |
| 45 | Andrea Aschieri Anja Camusso | Switzerland | DNF 26$^†$ | 22 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 22 | BFD 25 | 18 | 21 | UFD 25 | 10 | 12 | – | 301 | 275 |
| 46 | Clément Martineau Elena Benhayoun | France | 24 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 22 | NSC 26$^†$ | 13 | 24 | 14 | 21 | UFD 25 | 20 | – | 318 | 292 |
| 47 | Arthur De Jonghe Janne Ravelingien | Belgium | 22 | 20 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 | UFD 25$^†$ | 20 | 16 | – | 319 | 294 |
| 48 | Yuki Watanabe Minori Ueda | Japan | 21 | DNF 26$^†$ | 23 | 22 | DNF 26 | 23 | 19 | 24 | 23 | DNC 25 | 17 | 18 | 13 | UFD 25 | 23 | – | 328 | 302 |
| 49 | Axel Grandjean Noemie Fehlmann | Switzerland | 24 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 22 | DNF 26$^†$ | 25 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 21 | 20 | 20 | UFD 25 | 21 | – | 343 | 317 |
Scoring system: low-point system; Source: Legend: – Qualified for medal race(s); BFD – Black flag disqualification; DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; DSQ – Disqualified; NSC – Did not sail the course; RDG – Redress given; RET – Retired; STP – Standard penalty imposed; UFD – "U" flag disqualification; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result;