Youth World Championships: No happy ending for Hannah and the German team

Hannah Anderssohn, the German youth national team, coaches and fans had imagined things differently. After a strong series at the Youth World Championships off Auckland, the 17-year-old from Rostock suffered her worst result in the final race of all races. The Laser Radial helmswoman from the Warnemünde Sailing Club, who started the final race as the front runner, slipped back from first place to fifth with 19th place and had to return home without a medal.

However, the 17-year-old 2015 runner-up and reigning European Youth Champion remained the best German athlete at the Youth World Championships Down Under, even without the medal she had hoped for, and continues to be one of the German national team's greatest sailing hopefuls. The DSV fleet was one of the youngest teams at the Youth World Championships because many of the top teams from the youth disciplines had already switched to the Olympic classes at an early stage.

As a team, the German sailors achieved twelfth place in the official national ranking in a field of 380 young men and women from 65 nations, which was won by Italy's junior aces. If the individual results are assessed according to Olympic medal table criteria, the German team came in 20th place. The most successful medallists at this 46th edition of the Youth World Championships came from the traditionally strong sailing nations of Australia (2 x gold, 1 x silver) and Great Britain (2 x gold). Israel also made a strong impression with one gold and two silver medals, as did France and the USA (one gold, silver and bronze each) and Poland (one gold and one silver).

Here to see the results.