Windsurfing, after having become world champion in the category, the young man from Cagliari thinks of the most ambitious goals
CAGLIARI. Federico dreams of the Olympics, Freddy for his friends, Alan Pilloni, 15 years old (he will turn 16 in June 2022), from Cagliari, 2nd scientific high school, who last Friday won the “license plate” windsurfing world championship one day early Isaf (the most important international sailing organization) reserved for the Techno 293 youth board, which had the Arabian Sea of Oman as its backdrop.
A prestigious title that takes on a double value because the blue was the youngest of the world championship competition and faced opponents older than his own, including the Englishman Boris Shaw, who tried to stand up to him from the beginning. . Freddy is happy, who a few months ago won another Techno 293 Under 17 world title on Lake Garda and in Tallinn, Estonia, a European, and has now been promoted by right to the Olympic class iQ Foil, the sailboard that will make the debut at the next Olympics.
«Now I turn the page – he comments -, for me a new chapter opens up about my“ mini career ”because I dedicate myself one hundred percent to Foil: change all the preparation, change the equipment, the nutrition. I arrive at the new Olympic table after a few years with the Techno 293. The Foil is a tool that I already know but also considering my young age Paris 2024 represents a difficult step. The Olympics are every athlete’s dream but my goal is Los Angeles 2028 ». A new world, the iQ Foil Olympic board, with which the talented athlete of the Windsurfing Club Cagliari has already shown that he knows how to do it by winning the silver at the world championship held in July in Campione del Garda.
He is used to getting on the podium Freddy Pilloni, who in Oman won the world title surprising for his determination and maturity. The same members of the blue team wanted to share moments of great happiness with him. When in the penultimate round he gained the mathematical certainty of having won the World Cup, they brought him in triumph by lifting him on his table. Only regret remains for Italy’s missed podium in the Trophy Nations, the team world title. «Unfortunately, in the other disciplines things did not go well in the last test – he explains -. Italy slipped to fourth place and the dream of making the en plein vanished. My teammates from the whole blue team were splendid with whom a great feeling was established from the first day ». An incredible score, that of Pilloni in the waters of Al Mussanah, where he lined up everyone, winning ten out of thirteen tests. An exploit enriched also by two first and a fourth place, discarded as the worst performance in the general classification. In his wake, nine points behind, the British Boris Shaw, pursued in third place by the Turkish Ozan Turker.