{"id":402130,"date":"2026-07-17T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:23:23","slug":"emma-wilson-wins-gold-at-long-beach-olympic-classes-regatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402130\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Wilson wins Gold at Long Beach Olympic Classes Regatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Emma Wilson won the women\u2019s iQFOiL gold at the Long Beach Olympic Board Classes Regatta.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson finished with a win in the four-person final race, ahead of Aimee Bright of New Zealand with Marta Maggetti of Italy third.<\/p>\n<p>Islay Watson also made the final to finish 4th.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s iQFOiL Britain\u2019s Andy Brown made a great recovery to take Bronze in the four-person final.<\/p>\n<p>Kun Bi of China was the surprise winner, ousting Grae Morris of Australia who had dominated the qualification races.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s Formula Kite, Maximilian Maeder SGP was the winner ahead of Riccardo Pianosi ITA, with third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailing.org\/sailor?ref=CHNQH1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Qibin <\/a>Huang of China. Britain\u2019s Sam Dickson finished 11th.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s Formula Kite, Lauriane Nolot FRA came through the semifinal to take gold, with second Jessie Kampman NED and third Elena Lengwiler SUI.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Lily Young\u00a0 went out in the semifinal and placed sixth overall, Ella Geiger placed 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The other six Olympic classes will compete at the San Pedro Olympic Classes Regatta in the Port of Los Angeles, with the ILCA 6, ILCA 7 and 470 fleets racing from 20-24 July, then the 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 classes from 3-7 August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeachocr.org\/en\/default\/races\/race-resultsall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full results available here . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Emma Wilson won the women\u2019s iQFOiL gold at the Long Beach Olympic Board Classes Regatta. Wilson finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-402130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}