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U21 World ChampionshipIrresistible - Ole Schweckendiek is U19 World Champion!

Tatjana Pokorny

 · 23.10.2023

Ole Schweckendiek on his way to U19 gold
Photo: OSGA_PHOTO 2023
Ole Schweckendiek has won his next title: at the U21 World Championships in Tangier, the 18-year-old Ilca 7 helmsman from the Kiel Yacht Club stormed to the top spot on the podium in the U19 classification. The gold will spur him on further on his Olympic course

Where Ole Schweckendiek attacks, he is usually in front. This was also the case at the U21 World Championships in Tangier, Morocco. The Kiel-based athlete finished the world championships in the largest Olympic class in tenth place. In the U19 classification, however, the performance of the 18-year-old talent from the north of Germany was worth its weight in gold. The US21 victory went to Finley Dickinson from Great Britain ahead of Oskar Madonich from Ukraine and Caleb Armit from New Zealand.

Across all sports: Ole Schweckendiek is one of Germany's best young talents

Ole Schweckendiek was able to emphasise his huge potential once again with this latest success at the end of the year. Last year, he even achieved a double coup in Portugal when he won gold in both the U21 and U19 categories at the World Championships. Ole Schweckendiek was nominated as one of only five candidates from all sports in the recently decided election for Junior Sportsman of the Year organised by Deutsche Sporthilfe. Two days ago, on 21 October, the 15-year-old gymnast Helen Kevric was honoured. Ole Schweckendiek was already Schleswig-Holstein's Sportsman of the Year in 2022.

Schweckendiek's World Championship success this year is also remarkable because the likeable top performer broke his left forearm during a holiday cruise in Sweden in the summer. As a result, he missed this year's European Championships and had to fight for his comeback for months. This has now been achieved in golden fashion in the Moroccan harbour city of Tangier just over twelve weeks after the operation.

Pia Conradi sails to 13th place in the World Championships

Till Wanser and Gunnar Kroplin finished 25th and 32nd respectively in Morocco. In the women's Ilca 6 World Championship field, Pia Conradi from Duisburger Yacht-Club was the most successful member of the German Sailing Team. The 19-year-old sailed to 13th place in the field of 66 starters, with a total of eight young German sailors taking part in the annual highlight of the Ilca up-and-comers.

Click here for the results of the U21 World Championship. Column six clearly shows who the youngest riders were who are still categorised in the U19 category.

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Tatjana Pokorny

Tatjana Pokorny

Sports reporter

Tatjana “tati” Pokorny is the author of nine books. As a reporter for Europe's leading sailing magazine YACHT, she also works as a correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA), the Hamburger Abendblatt and other national and international media. In summer 2024, Tatjana will be reporting from Marseille on her ninth consecutive Olympic Games. Other core topics have been the America's Cup since 1992, the Ocean Race since 1993, the Vendée Globe and other national and international regattas and their protagonists. Favorite discipline: Portraits of and interviews with sailing personalities. When she started out in sports journalism, she was still intensively involved with basketball and other sports, but sailing quickly became her main focus. The reason? The declared optimist says: “There is no other sport like it, no other sport with such interesting and intelligent personalities, no other sport so diverse, no other sport so full of energy, strength and ideas. Sailing is like a constantly refreshing declaration of love for life."

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