Good results of Clube Naval de Cascais Team on ILCA 4 Worlds
Carlos Charabati Clube Naval de Cascais Sailor from Montreal, QC, won the gold medal at the 2024 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships which ended today, Sunday, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Carlos Charabati’s gold medal is a first in Cascais Race Teams sailing at the annual ILCA 4 Youth World Championships. The first edition was held in 2002.
His performance is Clube Naval de Cascais best-ever in the history of the competition. The previous top Clube Naval de Cascais Race Teams performance dated back to 2005, when Frederico Pinheiro de Melo won a silver medal at the Laser Radial Youth World Championships that were held in the Brasil and on the 420 Class Tomás Silva and Francisco Gomes made gold in the same year in France.
Throughout the six days of the event, Carlos Charabati recorded seven top 10 results during the nine races that were held, including two wins. After day 1 was cancelled because of a lack of wind, Charabati took the third spot in the overall ranking on day 2, then took the lead after days 3 and 4. On Saturday, he fell back one position to slip into second place, but was able to take the first spot again on the last day of the event.
“It’s incredible! I haven’t even come to grips with what has happened yet. It doesn’t even feel real,” said Carlos Charabati, who represents the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club and the Clube Naval de Cascais.
“Today was a bit stressful. With light winds, anything can happen in the gold fleet, but I knew what we had to do, and we did a really good pre-start to get there. We had some delay during the day but in the end, we got racing and then I had a line and we took it from there.”
A total of 4 Clube Naval de Cascais sailors took part in the competition, all in man fleet. The Club team was coached by Bernardo Loureiro.
Here are the final results for the Clube Naval de Cascais sailors who competed at the 2024 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships:
Men (/276)
GOLD. Carlos Charabati
57. Kuzey Karis
178. Manuel Matos de Pinho
207. Francisco Taborda
