St. Petersburg has won the right to host the 2019 RS:X Olympic Youth World Championship.

A meeting of the International Olympic RS:X Class Association was held in Aarhus , where the venue for the RS:X Youth World Championship - 2019 was determined. As a result of voting it was decided that next year the Northern capital of Russia represented by
Apart from our country Spain, Croatia and Portugal claimed the right to host this prestigious regatta.
«During the last years we organized a lot of international regattas and big sailing projects such as European Dragon class championship, World SB20 championship, catamaran races Extreme, WMRT and Red Bull Foiling Generation, Champions Euroleague, regattas in children, youth and Olympic classes of All-Russian scale. We are very pleased that now we are going to the international level and in Olympic classes», - says Vladimir Lubomirov,Saint-Petersburg Yacht Club Commander.

The meeting of association was held during the days
Recall that next year Russia will also host the Youth World Cup in the RS:X class, which will be held in Sochi.