Third time Finn World No.1 for Alessandro Marega
by Robert Deaves 18 Jul 2025 14:18 BST
Alessandro Marega, ITA © Robert Deaves
Italy's Alessandro Marega maintains the top spot in the Finn World Ranking List for the third consecutive release. He remains World No. 1 with an 80-point lead over France's Laurent Hay, who moves up two places, while Peter Peet, from The Netherlands, drops one place to third.
The new release includes 22 events across 12 countries. Germany's Fabian Lemmel enters the top 20 in 19th after a string of good results, as does Switzerland's Simon Bovay who enters at 17th and Sweden's Olof Lundqvist in at 18th. However, the highest new entry is Sweden's Peter Overup who jumps up to 13th.
Other than a few minor ranking changes, the rest of the top 20 is largely unchanged. There have also been some minor adjustments this year to ranking points and weighting to fine tune the points system to better reflect a true world ranking. However, the next cycle of events has already started and with the 2025 Finn Gold Cup in Cascais, Portugal, looming over the horizon in August, closely followed by the 2026 Finn Gold Cup in Brisbane, less than five months later, some big change is likely early next year.
The latest, and ninth, release is again up on numbers and includes 1,426 sailors from 45 nations. It is based on the best five events over a two-year period taken from the World Tour for Finns, which takes in around 60 events each year across the world.
The main event in the new list was the European Championship in Naples, won by fourth ranked Valerian Lebrun, from France.
Other events in this release include:
- Copper Cup in Oostend, Belgium, won by Tony Delava
- Brazilian Nationals in Armacoa won by Antonio Moreira
- Italian Nationals won by Enrico Passoni
- USA Masters in Fairhaven won by Rodion Mazin
- Nove Mlyny, Czech Republic won by Rudolf Lidarik
- Dutch Masters in Muiden won by Martijn van Muyden
- British Masters at Thorpe Bay won by Nick Craig
- Palamos Cup won by David Terol
- Mandelli Trophy in Torbole won by Arkadii Krisanov
- Swiss Nationals in Arbon won by Simon Bovay
- Swiss Mammern regatta won by Jürg Wittich
- Nesselblat in Steinhude won by Fabian Lemmel
- Nordics and KDY Spring Cup at Rungsted won by Joonas Harju|
- Suedtirol Cup in Italy won by Alessandro Marega
- Finn World Masters in Medemblik won by Pieter-Jan Postma
- St Jacut Regatta in France won by David Huet
- Slovakian Nationals won by Ladislav Hyrs
- British Nationals at Weymouth won by Lawrence Crispin
- Polish Nord Cup in Gdansk won by Bartosz Szydlowski
- French Nationals in Douarnenez won by Valerian Lebrun
- Warnemünder Woche in Germany won by Fabian Lemmel
The next Finn World Ranking List will be released in October 2025.
Top 20 Finn World Ranking List 009 July 2025 (the full ranking list here)
| Rank | Name | Country | Number | Points | No. of Events |
|---|
| 1 | Alessandro Marega | ITA | 1103 | 1144.94 | 8 |
| 2 | Laurent Hay | FRA | 75 | 1063.27 | 17 |
| 3 | Peter Peet | NED | 148 | 1056.05 | 17 |
| 4 | Valerian Lebrun | FRA | 111 | 1034.76 | 9 |
| 5 | Lawrence Crispin | GBR | 74 | 1029.04 | 14 |
| 6 | David Terol | ESP | 7 | 1025.51 | 15 |
| 7 | Nick Craig | GBR | 18 | 1012.96 | 8 |
| 8 | Kristóf Kaiserffer Spone | HUN | 808 | 995.28 | 5 |
| 9 | Otto Strandvig | DEN | 21 | 960.16 | 13 |
| 10 | Bas De Waal | NED | 29 | 944.37 | 17 |
| 11 | Thomas Schmid | GER | 193 | 929.08 | 11 |
| 12 | Kristian Sjoberg | FIN | 201 | 914.13 | 10 |
| 13 | Peter Overup | SWE | 72 | 906.22 | 9 |
| 14 | Andrè Budzien | GER | 711 | 882.01 | 5 |
| 15 | Domonkos Németh | HUN | 80 | 870.66 | 6 |
| 16 | Christoph Burger | SUI | 7 | 846.99 | 7 |
| 17 | Simon Bovay | SUI | 59 | 846.44 | 8 |
| 18 | Olof Lundqvist | SWE | 32 | 841.53 | 9 |
| 19 | Fabian Lemmel | GER | 501 | 836.43 | 12 |