The 2022 World Championship began today with the dispute of three races for both the Melges 20 and Melges 32 classes.
 
The double racing courses of Puntaldia offered wind conditions with 12 knots of average intensity from 40 degrees of direction.
The first race brings with it a surprise and a confirmation: in the Melges 32 fleet the surprise is the first bullet that bears the signature of the Hungarians of Farfallina of the helmsman Arpad Schatz, while the confirmation in the Melges 20 fleet bears the name of Brontolo owned by Filippo Pacinotti (the American Taylor Canfield as tactician) is absolutely at ease on the same race course where he became European Champion last year.
 
The second race of the day goes to Enfant Terrible of Alberto Rossi (Vasco Vascotto tactician) who then photocopies the same result in the third and last race of the day.
In the Melges 20 fleet, the Monegasque Nika of Vladimir Prosikhin (with Manuel Weiller) wins the second and third races.
 
At the end of the first day, the provisional leadership in the Melges32 class is for Enfantt Terrible who with excellent partial  scores (4,1,1 pt.6) takes the lead with an important gap with the first of the pursuers, the Norwegian Pippa II by Lasse Petterson with Gabriele Benussi as tactician (6,2,2 pt. 10) on equal points with the German Corinthian Team Of Heat helmed by Max Augustin (2,4,4: pt. 10).
In the Melges 20 class there are currently two teams "on the run": Nika (2.1.1: pt. 4) closely followed by Brontolo (1,3,2: pt. 6) while in third place, 9 points behind the Monegasque Raya (5,5.3: pt. 13) of Matteo Marenghi Vaselli (with Giulio Desiderato).
 
For tomorrow, the second day of the Melges 20 & Melges 32 World Championship, the first warning signal is scheduled at 11.30.
 

The Melges World League 2022 counts on the support of: Helly Hansen, Quantum, North Sails, Garmin and Madonna di Campiglio as well as the technical partners Free Ride Cosmetics, Equilibra, Rigoni di Asiago, Revì, Acqua Cedea, Azienda Agricola il Ponte, Birrificio Petragnolo, Dai Dai, La Bellanotte, Sabatini Gin, Caffè Toscano, FoodNess and le Formiche di Fabio Vettori.
Melges Europe and the Melges World League support the One Ocean Foundation message by signing the Charta Smeralda.