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Emma Plasschaert dropped from third to fifth place on the second day of the ILCA 6 world championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Because one regatta was postponed on Friday due to stormy weather, three were sailed on Saturday. The Ostend native finished eighth, ninth and third.
With 13 points, Plasschaert follows Anne-Marie Rondom with eight points. The Danish, reigning Olympic champion and three-time world champion, finished third on Friday, following Plasschaert, but won two of three regattas on Saturday. With 5 points she is two points ahead of the Swedish Josefin Olsson. The American Charlotte Rose is third with 9 points.
The Dutch Marit Bouwmeester, number one in the world and four-time world champion, climbed to twelfth place after a bad start (45th), but with 20 points she still has a lot of ground to make up. The Hungarian title defender Maria Erdi also did better than on Friday (31st). She is now tenth with 18 points.
Thirty-year-old Plasschaert is chasing a third world title in the ILCA 6 class. In 2018 she won gold in Aarhus, in 2021 in Al Mussanah. In 2022 she stood on the podium in Kemah with bronze. Last year she had to settle for sixth place in Scheveningen. With this she already provided Belgium with a starting ticket for the Games in Paris.