Norway's Pia Dahl Andersen and Nora Edland won the final race to claim their first 49erFX world title by one point over Spain's Paula Barceló and Maria Cantero. Both teams finished level on points, with the Norwegians' race win providing the decisive tiebreaker. The victory came on their national day.
Barceló and Cantero, Spain's 2025 world champions, took silver. Poland's Aleksandra Melzacka and Sandra Jankowiak climbed from eighth place at the start of the final session to secure bronze, edging out the defending bronze medallists, Canada's Lewin-LaFrance sisters.
The 49er fleet produced an equally gripping conclusion. New Zealand's Seb Menzies and George Lee Rush carried an overnight lead into medal race day and strengthened it by winning the opening race. A poor start in the second race left them trailing the fleet, and suddenly the title was under serious threat.
Australia's Harry Price and Max Paul had entered the day in second place and posed the closest danger. As racing played out in light-to-medium conditions, European crews pushed into contention. Austria's Keanu Prettner and Jakob Flachberger mounted a challenge, as did defending three-time world champions Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken from the Netherlands, and Germany's Jakob Meggendorfer and Andreas Spranger.
At the final windward mark, Menzies and Lee Rush sat near the back of the fleet. They gybed into fresh breeze and carried the pressure down the final run, passing enough boats to retain gold by the narrowest margin. Prettner and Flachberger claimed their first world medal with silver, while Lambriex and van de Werken took bronze.
Italy's Gianluigi Ugolini and Maria Giubilei arrived at their Nacra 17 medal race carrying an eight-point buffer over local sailors Tim Mourniac and Aloise Retornaz from Quiberon. After 12 years of campaigning together, the pair were racing for their first world title. The Italians believed they had crossed the start line early and returned with two Swedish crews for a restart, then worked through the fleet using full foiling mode while others struggled with shifting conditions that demanded constant gear changes between low riding, one hull flying, and full foiling.
Ugolini and Giubilei secured their first world title at the finish. France's Mourniac and Retornaz took silver on home waters ahead of defending world champions John Gimson and Anna Burnet from Great Britain, who settled for bronze. Australia's Archie Gargett and Sarah Hoffman posted scores of first and second to jump from ninth to fourth overall.
