Jan Linge Memorial at the KNS - The Olympic flame alive

written by Matias Collins  on  August 21  of  2022 and read by 546

NOR 1 Herman Horn-Johannessen, Espen Stokkeland and Paul Davis rounding the mark
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The Olympic spirit still intact, after this past weekend, NOR 1 sailed by the bronze medalists on the last Olympic event for the Soling class at Sydney 2000 became Norwegian Champions at the Jan Linge Memorial (100 years) and Scandinavian Open cup, organized by the Kongelig Norsk Seilforening (KNS) in Oslo at the Inner Oslofjord.
A great return for Herman Horn-Johannessen, Espen Stokkeland and Paul Davis the Norwegians that made history and crowned the Olympic cycle for the Soling class where the one was born by the hands of the talented boat designer Jan Linge.
Jan Linge's legacy only at the Soling class leaves more than 2555 boats built and certified by WS/ISAF/IYRU, an amount that can easily reach 3000 Solings counting the very early ones, since the certification only started in 1972, but boat production started around 1967/68.

The memorial a fabulous celebration who had as first practice race, reaching close to the Opera House of Oslo on Friday, then the 17-boat fleet including visitors from Sweden, the biggest in many years in Norway completed 6 races, discarding their worst result after the 5th race. Together with the Soling, the baby brother the Yngling also joined massively with 20 boats, a real tribute to Jan Linge .

The winners NOR 1 started easy but solid, finishing the first day at the second place overall after obtaining a bullet, two seconds and a third. NOR 131 sailed by Kristoffer Spone, Kristian Nergaard and Christen Horn-Johannessen marked the rhythm this first day, with a second, a third a first then a second again, finishing ahead of the champions. NOR 124 with a Legend in the class Dag Usterud, Terje Sorterberg and Borre Skui were third before going to the Gala dinner and Linge's celebration, they had a third, a nineth, a seventh and a bullet.

The two races on the last day reordered the podium where NOR 1 achieving two bullets and NOR 131 in need to retire on the first race of the day despite their second place on the last day... it was enough for them one won the event and the other finished second, and with a slow start including an OCS on the last race of Saturday NOR 146 sailed by another class legend Terje Wang, Christian Rieder and Pai Proitz made the comeback finishing third at the podium with a second and a third, enough to leave behind NOR 124.

The whole revival of the Soling class in Norway is a direct consequence of the hard work from a group of few amongst them Christian Rieder, Jens Pran, Harald Hilde, Rune Johansen and Lars Ingeberg working each other in the different fjords rebuilding the fleet into competition, a Bravo Zulu to all them.

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Women also welcomed at the Soling class
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After the start
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