{"id":857933,"date":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/857933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:33:19","slug":"2026-waszp-games-victory-for-usa-and-norway-in-pensacola-sailweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/857933\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WASZP Games \u2013 Victory for USA and Norway in Pensacola \u2013 Sailweb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \tGavin Ball USA secured the 8.2 overall title and Norway\u2019s Martinius Melleby Hoppstock the 7.5 fleet WASZP Games overall victory.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl Lattanzi, second overall in the 7.5, delivered the USA\u2019s first-ever Games double taking the women\u2019s senior 7.5 title with Annie Sitzman USA third overall. Henry Krieble taking the U17 title.<\/p>\n<p>In the 8.2 fleet, second overall was Spain\u2019s Antonio Gasperini and third Pablo Astiazaran, reversing their 2025 result and underlining the intensity of the rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland\u2019s Micha de Weck led the juniors, Australia\u2019s Louis Tilly topped the youth division. Declan Reilly (AUS) claimed the Masters, with Andrew McDougall (AUS) taking out the Super Masters.<\/p>\n<p>In the 6.9 class, Italy\u2019s Francesco De Santis claimed the title after an intense five-day duel with Hawaii\u2019s Bodhi Rushin.<\/p>\n<p>The WASZP Games comprised eighteen races across five days at Pensacola, Florida, USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingrulesofsailing.org\/documents\/14016\/event?name=2026-waszp-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full results available here . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Ball USA secured the 8.2 overall title and Norway\u2019s Martinius Melleby Hoppstock the 7.5 fleet WASZP Games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-857933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116311779280420561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}