She posted a net score of 128 points to achieve a creditable twenty-second position in a fleet of twenty-eight sailors, edging out Belarus' Tatiana Drozdovskaya by a mere, thirteen-point gap on the tenth leg. Tenkanen qualified for the Finnish squad in the newly introduced Laser Radial class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by placing twelfth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. As of September 2014, Tenkanen was ranked sixth in the world for the one-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation, following her successes at the European and ISAF World Championships. She trained at Espoo Sailing Club ( Finnish: Esbo Segelförening) throughout most of her sporting career under her longtime coach and mentor Minna Aalto. She represented her nation Finland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Jorge outclassed amongst other his fellow countrymen (BRA) Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael, both 5 Olympic medal sailors with a huge experience in Star.Tuula Tenkanen (born 11 August 1990 in Espoo) is a Finnish sailor, who specialized in one-person dinghy ( Laser Radial) class. He is a WB Finn sailor who already surprised everyone by winning the Finn Gold Cup in Tallinn 2013. In London 2012 Freddy sailed for Gold with the young Max Salminen, who is now campaigning for Rio in Finn.Īnother great performer in the Bahamas was by the 22 years old Jorge Zarif, who finished 4th in his first Star regatta. It is almost a must, Freddy says laughing.įreddy sailed with Anders in the Beijing Olympics (Qingdao) in 2008 – they finished on bronze then, loosing the gold with only half a boat length in a photo finish of the breezy medal race.
If I have time and can fit it in I will do the SSL final next year too. We will do most likely five races in total so it is quite a program.
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– Next season we will be busy sailing the AC45 and doing the World Cup Series with one leg in Sweden. We now know that the Cup will be in Bermuda and we are all looking forward to it.įreddy is flying back home for Christmas but sailing continues again in warm waters after New Year. So it is a lot of work ahead but Artemis is pushing hard and its looking very promising for the future. – But at the moment I have one major goal and that is to win the Americas cup. Next year there will be two races with the final in Bahamas again. – I think the Star class and Star Sailors League do really have a future. Freddy has always a soft spot for the class that he was so succesful in. Star Class was part of the Olympics since the beginning of the modern time games but has now dropped off. – For example when we rigged the boat it was like we where going around with a remote control: not really talking to each other and everything was working really smoothly. It was really great as we have not been sailing together for 6,5 years and to get together was truly a great feeling.įreddy says that almost no words where needed between him and Anders.
He is a natural star sailor and is one of the best crews in the world. Freddy is happy to have had two great crews – and also great friends. It was awesome!Īnders quit sailing after 2008 and Freddy won Olympic Gold in Weymouth with Max Salminen.
It is interesting that we had eight years together and then a long break and then we got back together really really close. Iina Airio talked with Freddy after the regatta:įreddy, how did it feel to sail with Anders again? They won Olympic Bronze together in Qingdao in 2008. He finished second in Star Sailors League in Bahamas with his good old crew Anders Ekström. Olympic Champion Fredrik Lööf did a great comeback in Star Class after a two years break. In the qualifier, they were 20 boats, the final was between 4 top boats from semi-finals only. They finished second in the final, winner-take-all race, after convincingly winning the 9 races qualifier. “This is like an old marriage” Freddy Lööf and Anders Ekström re-united in Star Sailors League after 6,5 years.