International Genoa Winter Contest (Optimist)
Genoa (Lido di Albaro) · Italy
2026 · Optimist Divisione A
- 2Gabriele Burlando
- 1Roman Vyevyenko
- 3Alessandro Menghini
- Type
- Inshore
- Scoring
- One-design
- Boats
- Dinghies
- Classes
- Optimist
- Usually
- January
- Next
- Jan 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Italiano
- Waters
- Ligurian
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in January
Race days 2026
Wind and waves at the venue: monthly climate 2021–2025 and the last edition's race days (ERA5 and marine reanalysis, Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0).
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202630 Jan 2026 – 1 Feb 2026 | Roman VyevyenkoOptimist Divisione A | Not published | 134 | N 8.2 kn, gusts 30.1waves up to 1.3 m | 30 | Official |
| 202531 Jan 2025 – 2 Feb 2025 | Not published | — | 108 | N 7.4 kn, gusts 26.8waves up to 0.92 m | 26 | Official |
| 2024Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Line honours go to the first boat home, on elapsed time. Overall winner is the best on handicap (IRC or ORC corrected time), so they are often different boats. Wind is the daily mean at the start venue over the racing days; gusts and waves are the highest of those days. Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5) and marine APIs, CC BY 4.0; venue point only, not the full course.
Podiums and class winners
2026 · 6 results
FinalSource: racingrulesofsailing.orgAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 9.4/307.8 kn mean
- Gusts 9.5/1528.5 kn
- Sea 5.5/201.1 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 3.3/103 days
How the score works
Our own index, not an official rating. Five inputs, each scaled to its share of 100: mean wind (up to 25 kn → 30 points), strongest gust (45 kn → 15), highest waves (4 m → 20), course length on a log scale (700 nm → 25) and days of racing (7 days → 10). Wind and waves are ERA5 reanalysis at Genoa (Lido di Albaro) (Open-Meteo) on the race days, so an offshore course can see more than the venue does. A missing input counts as zero and is marked. Roughest edition we hold: 2026 (30).
Weather calendar · Genoa (Lido di Albaro)
Month by month at the venue, 2021–2026 (ERA5 and marine reanalysis). Race months in orange.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean windkn | 7.3 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 7.6 | 7.5 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| From | N | NE | NE | NE | NE | SE | SE | NE | NE | NE | N | N |
Typical wind at Genoa (Lido di Albaro)
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Jan.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- International Genoa Winter Contest (Optimist)
- Kind
- inshore sailing race from Genoa (Lido di Albaro), Italy
- Editions on record
- 2 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 121 boats (134 in the latest edition)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Italiano
- Next edition
- usually Jan 2027
- Official site
- https://www.yachtclubitaliano.it
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- yachtclubitaliano.it — YCI event page: Optimist, off Lido di Albaro, 29–31 Jan (page titled 2027)