Valerian Lebrun leads the Finn Class inaugural WTF Grand Slam after four events

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France’s Valerian Lebrun is the half time leader in the inaugural World Tour for Finns Grand Slam Series after the first four legs have been completed. 206 sailors have so far taken part in at least one of the events, with a further five events to come. Bas de Waal, from The Netherlands is second with former World No.1 Laurent Hay, from France in third.

The inaugural WTF Grand Slam 2026 is a European-focused circuit launched by the International Finn Association, featuring nine events across eight nations from April to October. With the best four results counting toward the overall ranking, the series will ultimately lead into the Grand Final at the 2027 Finn Gold Cup in La Rochelle.
 
Points are scaled from 100 points for a win to 10 points for last, with two events counting at present to the total score. While only 16 sailors have competed at more than one event so far, though this is expected to increase as the series heads to northern Europe over the coming months.

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Leg 1: Grand Slam Palamos
The 2026 WTF Grand Slam opened in Palamos in Spain with the Mediterranean Finn Cup, from 17-19-April. It was not an easy start with no wind on day one. But sailing always finds a way to reward perseverance. By the final day, conditions delivered, three races sailed in a steady 15 knots, offering a spectacular close to the regatta and a proper test for the fleet. At the end of the series, it was Valerian Lebrun who claimed victory, followed by Laurent Hay in second and Paul McKenzie completing the podium.
 
1  FRA 111 Valerian Lebrun 7
2  FRA 75 Laurent Hay 13
3  AUS 22 Paul McKenzie 21
4  SUI 59 Simon Bovay 30
5  ESP 161 Miguel Fernandez Vasco 32
6  ESP 71 Xavier Penas 34
7  SUI 37 Ivan Zhukalin 36
8  ESP 7 David Terol 36
9  FRA 96 Florian Faucheux 38
10  ITA 30 Andrea Lino 40

Full results HERE.

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Leg 2: Grand Slam Cannigione
The second leg took the fleet to stunning venue of Cannigione, on Sardinia, for the Italian Championship. A fleet of 53 boats took part from 30 May – 1 June. With the new world champion Alessandro Marega winning seven of the eight races, it was another dominant performance, while the other race was won by Bas de Waal. Light to medium warm breezes gave the fleet some great competitive sailing in a beautiful location at what was undoubtedly one of the stand out venues of the series.
 
1 ITA 1103 Alessandro Marega 7
2 NED 29 Bas de Waal 27
3 SUI 7 Christoph Burger 27
4 ITA 115 Roberto Strappati 28
5 ITA 30 Andrea Lino 42
6 GER 323 Jonas Jung 56
7 ITA 45 Nicol Capriglione 62
8 ITA 872 Nicola Menoni 80
9 GER 60 Thilo Durach 81
10  BRA 11 Robert Rittscher 85
 
Full results HERE.

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Leg 3: Grand Slam Gdynia
Martijn van Muyden, from The Netherlands, was the very popular winner at the Open Finn European Championship in Gdynia, Poland. It turned into a high scoring series with a lot of light wind days and very challenging conditions. Even going into the final race, it was wide open, and no one really knew who had won. The new World No. 1, Peter Peet, had a chance to win, leading into the final race, but picked up too many points and ended third, while defending champion Valerian Lebrun, missed the title by one point.
 
1 NED 60 Martijn Van Muyden 37
2 FRA 111 Valerian Lebrun 38
3 NED 148 Peter Peet 42
4 POL 77 Michał Krasodomski 44
5 NED 29 Bas De Waal 56
6 CZE 54 Matouš Červenka 56
7 HUN 50 Akos Lukats 58
8 HUN 911 Elemer Haidekker 62
9 POL 13 Tadeusz Bartlewski 63
10 FRA 75 Laurent Hay 64
 
Full results HERE.

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Leg 4: Grand Slam Brixham
The fourth leg was the Vaikobi British National Championship at Brixham YC, held from 3-5 July with 35 entries. Former Olympic campaigner and coach to Giles Scott, Matt Howard was dominant, winning five of the eight races sailed in very hot and sunny tropical conditions and generally light and very shifty winds. Returning Peter McCoy was the next most consistent in the challenging conditions while the final race win for defending champion, Lawrence Crispin, moved him up to third overall.
 
1 GBR 550 Matt Howard 11
2 GBR 188 Peter McCoy 26
3 GBR 74 Lawrence Crispin 31
4 AUS 2 Rob McMillan 46
5 GBR 5 John Greenwood 49
6 GBR 64 Cameron Tweedle 51
7 GBR 799 Jack Acton 52
8 GBR 8 Tim Carver 55
9 GBR 24 Nick Craig 60
10 GBR 2 Allen Burrell 65

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Four legs are completed and five remain. The next event is Leg 5: Grand Slam Varberg, in Sweden, the combined Swedish and Danish National Championship being held from 21-23 August. After that the series moves to the beautiful Silvaplana in Switzerland, then to Berlin, Germany, on to Medemblik, The Netherlands and ends up at the Finn Cup in Malcesine, Italy, October.
 
The full list of events with entry links and dates is here: https://finnclass.org/news/1795-2026-wtf-grand-slam

Results from WTF Grand Slam after 4 events (2 counting)

Ranking Name Country Sail no. Points Events
           
1 Valerian Lebrun FRA 111 199.06 2
2 Bas De Waal NED 29 194.52 2
3 Laurent Hay FRA 75 189.52 2
4 Andrea Lino ITA 30 174.67 2
5 John Greenwood GBR 5 171.89 3
6 Cameron Tweedle GBR 64 160.43 2
7 Marco Buglielli ITA 2 156.42 2
8 Adrián Bedoya Mey ESP 22 153.38 2
9 Thilo Durach  GER  60 150.53 2
10 Andreas Gillwald GER 334 142.41 2
11 Rob McMillan AUS 2 135.19 2
12 Alejandro Cardona Riera ESP 76 123.64 2
13 Janne Handermann SUI 99 112.05 2
14 Arild Heidal NOR 55 112.01 2
15 Paul Carrington GBR 124 111.12 3
16 Laurent Chapuis SUI 99 107.64 3
17 Alessandro Marega ITA 1103 100.00 1
18 Martijn van Muyden NED 6 100.00 1
19 Matt Howard GBR 550 100.00 1
20 Peter Peet NED 148 98.13 1
21 Peter McKoy GBR 88 98.09 1
22 Michal Krasodomski POL 77 97.19 1
23 Christoph Burger SUI 7 96.54 1
24 Lawrence Crispin GBR 74 96.17 1
25 Paul Mckenzie AUS 22 95.91 1
26 Matouš Čevenka CZE 54 95.31 1
27 Roberto Strappati ITA 115 94.81 1
28 Akos Lukäts HUN 50 94.38 1
29 Simon Bovay SUI 59 93.86 1
30 Elemér Péter Haidekker HUN 911 93.44 1
31 Tadeusz Bartlewski POL 13 92.50 1
32 Miguel Fernandez Vasco ESP 161 91.82 1
33 Jonas Jung GER 323 91.35 1
34 Otto Strandvig DEN 21 90.63 1
35 Xavier Penas ESP 71 89.77 1
36 Kristóf Kaiser HUN 808 89.69 1
37 Nicola Capriglione ITA 45 89.62 1
38 Olof Lundqvist SWE 32 88.75 1
39 Jack Acton GBR 799 88.51 1
40 Tibor Pallay HUN 5 87.81 1
41 Ivan Zhukalin SUI 83 87.73 1
42 Eric Bakker NED 703 86.88 1
43 Tim Carver GBR 8 86.60 1
44 Kamil Ščerba CZE 63 85.94 1
45 David Terol ESP 7 85.68 1
46 Lars Habermacher FIN 235 85.00 1
47 Nick Craig GBR 24 84.68 1
48 Robert Rittscher BRA 11 84.42 1
49 Florian Faucheux FRA 96 83.13 1
50 Allen Burrell GBR 2 82.77 1
51 Carlo Varelli ITA 147 82.69 1
52 Miłosz Michalak POL 33 82.19 1
53 Rudolf Lidarík CZE 3 81.25 1
54 Simon Percival GBR 635 80.85 1
55 Fabian Lemmel GER 501 80.31 1
56 Filipe Silva POR 21 79.95 2
57 Stefan Sandahl SWE 12 79.38 1
58 Martin Hughes GBR 567 78.94 1
59 Jordi Tur Casadoi ESP 182 78.44 1
60 Michel Audoin FRA 38 77.50 1
61 Pasquale Orofino ITA 29 77.50 1
62 Andrzej Romanowski POL 73 76.56 1
63 Marco Eeman NED 116 75.77 1
64 Niclas Perband GER 13 75.63 1
65 John Heyes GBR 61 75.11 1
66 Mikko Tiilikka FIN 269 74.69 1
67 Sebastian Mazzarol ITA 706 74.04 1
68 Tomas Mihalik SVK 271 73.75 1
69 Guillermo Altadill Caudet ESP 2 73.41 1
70 Mark Spruce GBR 776 73.19 1
71 Harald Weichert GER 52 72.81 1
72 Alberto Romano ITA 920 72.31 1
73 Zsigmond Kantor HUN 30 71.88 1
74 Peter Sigetty Bøje DEN 117 71.36 1
75 Matthew Webb GBR 26 71.28 1
76 Joost Houweling NED 68 70.94 1
77 Cristiano Ruschmann BRA 108 70.58 1
78 Richard Sharp GBR 90 69.36 1
79 Patrik Ščerba CZE 98 69.06 1
80 Francesco Faggiani ITA 4 68.85 1
81 Arkadii Kistanov ITA 5 68.13 1
82 Mark Cooper GBR 738 67.45 1
83 Peder Nergaard NOR 77 67.27 1
84 Łukasz Sokołowski POL 123 67.19 1
85 Jacobo Labanti ITA 36 67.12 1
86 Jaroslaw Radzki POL 1 66.25 1
87 Mark Macdonald GBR 567 65.53 1
88 Germano Lucchetta ITA 168 65.38 1
89 Remko Boot NED 67 65.23 1
90 Goran Zepponi ITA 964 63.65 1
91 Piotr Żółtowski POL 49 63.44 1
92 Bastiaan Brouwer ITA 33 61.92 1
93 Steffen Emhjellen NOR 26 61.56 1
94 Michael Sandstrøm DEN 325 60.63 1
95 Juan Ignacio Cataneo ITA 44 60.19 1
96 David Kitchen GBR 51 59.79 1
97 Marek Jarocki  POL  100 59.69 1
98 Sebastian Grall FRA 28 59.09 1
99 R. Phillip Ramming USA 19 58.75 1
100 Paolo Cisbani ITA 11 58.46 1
101 Russell New GBR 40 57.87 1
102 Ewout Meijer NED 66 57.81 1
103 Lars Bergfeldt SWE 78 56.88 1
104 Peter Blick GBR 34 55.96 1
105 Jan Heinrich Meyer  GER 137 55.94 1
106 Francesco Marino ITA 971 55.00 1
107 Paco Castaner ESP 86 55.00 1
108 Olli Ovaskainen FIN 6 54.06 1
109 Nick Mason GBR 16 54.04 1
110 Marko Kolic ITA 40 53.36 2
111 Franz Buergi SUI 12 53.27 1
112 Marc van Eriks LEI 10 53.13 1
113 Mark Branagh IRL 77 52.95 1
114 Per Olav Bernhardsen NOR 5 52.19 1
115 Phillip Smith AUS 3 52.13 1
116 Marcus Löfgren SWE 82 51.25 1
117 Rob Fisher GBR 612 50.21 1
118 Emilio Garcia Canales ITA 75 49.81 1
119 Robert Kinney USA 47 49.38 1
120 Roman Khodykin GBR 13 48.86 1
121 Jonathan Pyke GBR 18 48.68 2
122 Karsten Eskelund NOR 73 48.44 1
123 Patrick Keen GBR 564 48.30 1
124 Gianluca Montella ITA 72 48.08 1
125 Evhenii Chibirev ESP 9 46.82 1
126 Boguslaw Nowakowski POL 26 46.56 1
127 Jeremy White GBR 5 46.38 1
128 Umberto Grumelli ITA 23 46.35 1
129 Bence Rácz HUN 18 45.63 1
130 Joan Grau Cases ESP 555 44.77 1
131 Jens Kristian Andersen DEN 246 44.69 1
132 Marco Marcelli ITA 87 44.62 1
133 Andy Denison GBR 20 44.47 1
134 Rafał Sielicki  POL 20 43.75 1
135 Mauro Fragiacomo ITA 22 42.88 1
136 Pëter Päi Haidekker HUN 11 42.81 1
137 Pierre Lallemand FRA 27 42.73 1
138 Ivan Burden GBR 33 42.55 1
139 Vladimir Skalicky CZE 75 41.88 1
140 Filippo Petella ITA 64 41.15 1
141 Herve Brillaud FRA 880 40.68 1
142 Alistair Higgns GBR 708 40.64 1
143 Rob Upton GBR 603 40.64 1
144 Sebastian Knasiecki POL 46 40.00 1
145 Igor Pietukhov UKR 90 39.42 1
146 Jacek Jadkowski POL 78 39.06 1
147 Niklas Toroi FIN 21 38.13 1
148 Emanuele Belgrano ITA 912 37.69 1
149 Ryszard Mrózek-Gliszczynski POL 80 37.19 1
150 Vincent Slevin ESP 17 36.59 1
151 Łukasz Kielnar POL 4 36.25 1
152 Rick Bomer NED 56 35.96 1
153 Nicholas Ramming USA 10 35.31 1
154 Garry Phare GBR 85 34.89 1
155 Jose Maria Pujadas ESP 39 34.55 1
156 Lucjan Bladowski POL 115 34.38 1
157 Roberto Girometti ITA 976 34.23 1
158 Włodzimierz Radwaniecki POL 19 33.44 1
159 Howard Sellars GBR 777 32.98 1
160 Charles Heimler USA 32 32.50 1
161 Marald Van Reijsen NED 746 32.50 1
162 Pawel Jachimowski POL 999 32.50 1
163 Tomasz Witek POL 47 31.56 1
164 Andrea Poli ITA 27 30.77 1
165 Dariusz Dazbłaż POL 15 30.63 1
166 Claude Got FRA 511 30.45 1
167 Mariusz Bułakowski POL 357 29.69 1
168 Bogdan Kalwasiński POL 51 27.81 1
169 Stefano Caruso ITA 177 27.31 1
170 Macjiej Karnacewicz POL 998 26.88 1
171 Frédérik Brousse FRA 6 26.36 1
172 Artur Siwik POL 70 25.94 1
173 Lorenzo Tesei ITA 62 25.58 1
174 Marcin Drużkowski POL 54 25.00 1
175 Lesław Gondek POL 674 24.06 1
176 Giulio Piccialli ITA 13 23.85 1
177 Kasper Sandstrøm DEN 322 23.13 1
178 Hernan Lopez Saavedra ARG 73 22.27 1
179 Grzegorz Stępkowski POL 807 22.19 1
180 Giuseppe Lino ITA 79 22.12 1
181 Filip Drużkowski POL 53 21.25 1
182 Paolo Sticcotti ITA 31 20.38 1
183 Arkadius Dobosz POL 24 20.31 1
184 Gerardo Seeliger ESP 99 20.23 1
185 Markus Sprick GER 990 19.38 1
186 Stefano Thermes ITA 25 18.65 1
187 Vittiorio Santerini ITA 43 18.65 1
188 Xavier Mayoral Jove ESP 118 18.18 1
189 Piotr Witkowski POL 842 17.50 1
190 Evgeny Dzhura POL 18 16.56 1
191 Carlos Cantín Mas ESP 97 16.14 1
192 Marcin Niemiec POL 800 15.63 1
193 Franco Dazzi ITA 9 15.19 1
194 Robert Gabrysiak POL 85 14.69 1
195 Ignacio Nieto Taramona ESP 737 14.09 1
196 Peter Mosny SVK 1 13.75 1
197 David Buhera ITA 8 13.46 1
198 Macjiej Filipiak POL 117 12.81 1
199 Josep Duran ESP 139 12.05 1
200 Edoardo Mossa ITA 26 11.73 1
201 Stanisław Kalwiński POL 36 10.94 1
202 Alberto Bellelli ITA 77 10.00 1
203 Balázs Szúcs HUN 64 10.00 1
204 Javier Scherk ESP 44 10.00 1
205 Macjiej Brosz POL 247 10.00 1
206 Xavier Lacombe FRA 307 10.00 1
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