Michal Krasodomski, from Poland, is the early leader after the opening day of the 2026 Open and U29 European Championship in Gdynia, Poland.
Krasodomski has a 1 – 5 scoreline for 6 pts. Britain’s John Greenwood is second with 5 – 8 on 13 pts.
Bas de Waal, from The Netherlands is third with a 10 – 9 on 19 pts.
Despite the 90+ fleet. single fleet starts were the order of the day. Winner of race 2 was Valerian Lebrun of France, who was black flagged in the first race, and thus sits down in 48th with 100 pts.
Another one to join the black flag squad was Arcadia Kistanov of Italy in race 1, but a second in race 2 put him 49th overall.
Kristóf Kaiser of Hungary had a 3rd place in race 1, and then a black flag in race 2, finishing the day in 51st. And Laurent Hay of France had a BFD in race 1 and a 6th in race 2 to place 54th.
All will be looking to the discard to get back onto the podium.
The weather remained beautiful all day, with hot and sunny skies, just more breeze and a bit earlier in the day is required for day 2.
Finn Europen Leaders after 2 races (98 e4tries)
1st POL 77 Michael Krasodomski 1 5 – – 6 pts
2nd GBR 5 John Greenwood 5 8 – – 13 pts
3rd NED 29 Bass De Waal 10 9 – – 19 pts
4th NED 60 Martin Van Muyden 8 14 – – 22 pts
5th SWE 32 Olof Lundqvist 17 7 – – 24 pts
6th FRA 96 Florian Faucheux 9 15 – – 24 pts
7th POL 13 Tadeusz Bartlewski 13 11 – – 24 pts
8th DEN 21 Otto Strandvig 6 23 – – 29 pts
9th GER 501 Fabian Lemmel 4 26 – – 30 pts
10th HUN 5 Tibor Pallay 2 31 – – 33 pts
Other GBR
16th GBR Cameron Tweedle 28 12 – – 40 pts