{"id":152981,"date":"2024-08-05T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/?p=152981"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T08:40:40","slug":"italys-magetti-secures-gold-but-its-heartbreak-for-british-olympic-windsurfing-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/events-2\/italys-magetti-secures-gold-but-its-heartbreak-for-british-olympic-windsurfing-star-152981","title":{"rendered":"Italy’s Magetti secures gold but it’s heartbreak for British Olympic windsurfing star"},"content":"Britain\u2019s iQFOiL windsurfer Emma Wilson<\/a> failed to beat Olympic sailing\u2019s<\/a> cruellest, toughest made-for- TV medal format again as she landed the bronze medal finishing behind Italy\u2019s Martta Magetti and Israel\u2019s Sharon Kantor in the first ever Olympic Medal Race for the new foiling windsurfing class.\r\n\r\nAfter building a huge lead - counting seven firsts, two seconds and two thirds \u2013 over the 14 initial series races Wilson qualified directly \u2013 as the new format dictates - for the three board Medal Race. But after leading on the first circuit Italy\u2019s 2022 world champion Magetti tacked early on the second upwind, achieving a better, higher angle and was able to close down Wilson and current world champion Kantor.\r\n\r\nInitially Wilson was inconsolable. At consecutive world championships in The Hague and this year in Lanzarote, despite dominating the preliminary series, coming in \u2018cold\u2019 to the sudden death both times she has not been able to convert to gold.\r\n\r\nBut today after realising the depth of her achievements and meeting the legions of family, friends and British supporters on the beach in Marseille she said, \u201cI'm not sure how much longer I'm going to carry on with this. It's so hard. As a person, I love it so much, that's why I do it, but I\u2019m not sure I can carry on with the format like this.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_152983\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Marta Maggetti wrapped up a memorable gold medal for Italy. Photo: World Sailing \/ Lloyd Images[\/caption]\r\n\r\n\u201cI'm really proud of my performance this week. I did it at the Worlds the same, like a 60 point lead, just dominated that. Maybe a medal doesn't mean anything, maybe it's just how you go about the sport. How you approach it in life.\u201d\r\n\r\nShe added, \u201cAs a kid, if you\u2019d told me [I\u2019d be a double Olympic medallist] I\u2019d be really happy. In a while I'll be really proud, but it's so hard, and I think I've made some mistakes today. \u201c\r\n\r\nOf the supportive crowds she said, \u201cIt's so nice to have support. In Tokyo we didn't have anything, so it's so cool to have my family and friends here. I turned off my phone all week but I think it might blow up when I turn it back on. I\u2019m so grateful for everyone supporting me.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor Magetti who grew up in Cagliari, Sardinia and finished fourth in the RS:X behind Wilson in Tokyo it is Italy\u2019s first Olympic windsurfing gold since the legendary Alessandra Sensini who collected four medals between 1996 and 2008, winning gold in Sydney in 2000, silver in 2008 in Qingdao and bronzes in Atlanta and Athens.\r\n\r\nWhilst Kantor who only secured her selection to the Olympics by winning the 2024 worlds \u2013 ahead of her third and eighth placed compatriots, Israel highlighted the continued depth of their windsurfing talent as Tom Reuveny took gold ahead of Australia\u2019s Grae Morris in silver and the Netherland\u2019s Luc van Opzeeland. After a tough start to his Olympics in the light winds GBR\u2019s Sam Sills took a creditable fifth overall.\r\n\r\nKeep up to date with all our\u00a0Olympic Sailing 2024<\/a>\u00a0coverage.\r\nYou can find all the Olympic sailing results at the\u00a0World Sailing Olympic results<\/a>\u00a0page<\/em>\r\n\r\n
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Britain\u2019s iQFOiL windsurfer Emma Wilson failed to beat Olympic sailing\u2019s cruellest, toughest made-for- TV medal format again as she landed the bronze medal finishing behind Italy\u2019s Martta Magetti and Israel\u2019s Sharon Kantor in the first ever Olympic Medal Race for the new foiling windsurfing class. After building a huge lead – counting seven firsts, two seconds and two thirds \u2013 over the 14 initial series races Wilson qualified directly \u2013 as the new format dictates – for the three board Medal Race. But after leading on the first circuit Italy\u2019s 2022 world champion Magetti tacked early on the second upwind, achieving a better, higher angle and was able to close down Wilson and current world champion Kantor. Initially Wilson was inconsolable. At consecutive world championships in The Hague and this year in Lanzarote, despite dominating the preliminary series, coming in \u2018cold\u2019 to the sudden death both times she has not been able to convert to gold. But today after realising the depth of her achievements and meeting the legions of family, friends and British supporters on the beach in Marseille she said, \u201cI’m not sure how much longer I’m going to carry on with this. It’s so hard. As a person, I love it so much, that’s why I do it, but I\u2019m not sure I can carry on with the format like this. \u201cI’m really proud of my performance this week. I did it at the Worlds the same, like a 60 point lead, just dominated that. Maybe a medal doesn’t mean anything, maybe it’s just how you go about the sport. How you approach it in life.\u201d She added, \u201cAs a kid, if you\u2019d told me [I\u2019d be a double Olympic medallist] I\u2019d be really happy. In a while I’ll be really proud, but it’s so hard, and I think I’ve made some mistakes today. \u201c Of the supportive crowds she said, \u201cIt’s so nice to have support. In Tokyo we didn’t have anything, so it’s so cool to have my family and friends here. I turned off my phone all week but I think it might blow up when I turn it back on. I\u2019m so grateful for everyone supporting me.\u201d For Magetti who grew up in Cagliari, Sardinia and finished fourth in the RS:X behind Wilson in Tokyo it is Italy\u2019s first Olympic windsurfing gold since the legendary Alessandra Sensini who collected four medals between 1996 and 2008, winning gold in Sydney in 2000, silver in 2008 in Qingdao and bronzes in Atlanta and Athens. Whilst Kantor who only secured her selection to the Olympics by winning the 2024 worlds \u2013 ahead of her third and eighth placed compatriots, Israel highlighted the continued depth of their windsurfing talent as Tom Reuveny took gold ahead of Australia\u2019s Grae Morris in silver and the Netherland\u2019s Luc van Opzeeland. After a tough start to his Olympics in the light winds GBR\u2019s Sam Sills took a creditable fifth overall. Keep up to date with all our\u00a0Olympic Sailing 2024\u00a0coverage. You can …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":152982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1540],"tags":[754,1633],"review_manufacturer":[],"acf":[],"introduction":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152984,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152981\/revisions\/152984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152981"},{"taxonomy":"review_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_manufacturer?post=152981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}