February was as well a month of joyful moments for the GYC and the reason for this and for many Club News, is the results of its members or the successes of the GYC Racing Team.
On February 13, 2021, the Swiss Sailing Association together with Skippers Magazine celebrated the 7th edition of the Swiss Sailing Awards. Several GYC members were among the winners and nominees.
Anja von Allmen took every opportunity and managed to turn 2020 into a golden year. European Champion 2020, World Champion 2019 - Anja von Allmen has more than earned the title of Junior Sailor of the year 2019/2020. The laser sailor from Spiez, a member of the GYC Racing Team in addition to RCO, YCSp and DRCS, was nevertheless completely surprised at the award ceremony and after she had regained her speech again, she said: “This is a great honor for me and a great source of motivation. Many thanks to Swiss Sailing and my trainer Damir Nakrst, with whom I have been working for many years and to whom I owe these successes. "
Three other members were represented in teams that were nominated as Sailing Team of the Year: Nils Theuninck in the Tilt team and Simon Koster in the Rösti-Sailing team.
The Sailing Team of the Year title for 2019/2020 went to Alinghi. Team Alinghi with Arnaud Psarofaghis, Bryan Mettraux, Pierre-Yves Jorand, Nils Frey, Coraline Jonet and Ernesto Bertarelli is still on the road to success. It won the GC32 World Championship title in 2019 and won the GC32 Tour with three victories. Ernesto Bertarelli wants to continue with the successes in 2021: «We hope that we will soon be able to experience GC32 regattas again. Our RTF35 project got off to a good start last year, and of course we have as well the Bol d'Or in our sights”.
The Gstaad Yacht Club extends its congratulations to all the winners as well in the following categories:
- Female Sailor of the Year 2019/2020: Maud Jayet SNG
- Male Sailor of the Year 2019/2020: Eric Monnin SCStä
- Sailing Project of the Year 2019/2020: Swiss Foiling Academy
- Public Award: Alan Roura CNLy