Almost 3,000 sailors from 23 nations came with more than 900 dinghies and keelboats, sea-going yachts and windsurfing boards to 21 competitions of the nine-day Kieler Woche 2021. As the other J/70 positions were still being fought out on the course, the Hamburg winner Claas Lehmann was already “marching into the shower.” Lukas Feuerherdt from Team Hamburg West could no longer catch up with him. And Carsten Kemmling (also Hamburg) suffered from fluctuating performances. Two, 17, two was only enough for bronze after the bullets at the beginning due to further slips. “Satisfaction already, after we had failed so narrowly,” Lehmann remembered the missed victory in the previous year. For full events details, visit https://www.kieler-woche.de/en/index.php.