IOM Class 2024 Year in Review
The International One Metre (IOM) class experienced a dynamic year in 2024, marked by significant events and developments:
- Rule Amendments: In February, the IOMICA implemented Amendment 2024-1, standardizing the kicking strap dimension to fit a 20 mm ring gauge, enhancing competitive fairness.
- World Championship: The 2024 IOM World Championship was held in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, from October 20th to 28th. The Australian Radio Yachting Association (ARYA) released the official Notice of Race in February, detailing event specifics.
- Annual General Meeting (AGM): The AGM took place on December 4th, with key dates and resolution submission timelines announced in September. This facilitated structured discussions and decision-making within the IOM community.
- Global Expansion: China officially joined the IOMICA in May, strengthening global representation in RC sailing. This inclusion enriches the association’s diversity and collective expertise.
- Future World Championship in 2026 announced: The GBR NCA was selected to host the 2026 IOM World Championship at Datchet Sailing Club, scheduled for May 15th to 23rd. This decision, announced in August, followed a thorough bid evaluation process and we are looking forward to seeing many of you in Great Britain on this brilliant event.
To continue on the biggest events of this year, here we have them in chronological order:
- European Continental Championship 2025: 📍 Rogoznica, Croatia| 📅 4.-12. April, 2025. – In July 2024, IOMICA awarded the 2025 European Championship to Croatia, with the event set to take place in Rogoznica. This selection underscores Croatia’s growing prominence in the IOM sailing community and it will be first next big event in the 2025.
- Asian Continental Championship 2025:📍 Qingdao, China | 📅 25.-30. April, 2025. – Witness the thrill of RC sailing at the first Continental Asian Championship in vibrant Qingdao in China! Sailors from across Asia will compete in a display of skill, precision, and passion on the this stage. Don’t miss this spectacular event which could set firm grounds for a long tradition to come in all the future years.
- Oceania Continental Championship 2025:📍 Lake Pegasus, New Zealand | 📅 29. September – 5. October, 2025. – Join us in stunning New Zealand for the first-ever Oceania Continental Championship! Featuring highly focused sailors battling it out in lovely sailing venue on Lake Pegasus, this event will highlight the dynamic spirit of IOM racing for sure.
- South American Continental Championship 2025:📍 Porto Alegre, Brazil| 📅 27. October – 1. November, 2025. – Set sail for South America’s iconic waters as Porto Alegre welcomes the 2025 Continental South American Championship. With a perfect mix of fierce competition and well-known hospitality, this event promises an unforgettable RC sailing experience in South America.
- North American Continental Championship 2025:📍 Punta del Este, Uruguay | 📅 16. – 21. November, 2025. – Get ready for world-class RC sailing in Texas! The second edition of North American Continental Championship will bring together some great sailors and thrilling races in one unforgettable event. Don’t miss the action!
These milestones underscore the IOM class’s commitment to fair competition, global growth, and organizational excellence throughout 2024.
Another thing we wanted to share is a full summary of results from IOM Hall of Fame we are tracking. Detailed leaderboard was taken from TOP 10 list we have on our website, but some parts of list are incomplete so we would kindly ask for updates if some of you have more info about older events from past that are incomplete on Hall of Fame. Considering reviews are usually taken at the end of year, let’s dive into this one right away. Below you will find the list of best ranked sailors when looking at total number of medals (Gold being most important of course as first place, then Silver, followed by Bronze…). If you have same number of points, ranking was done to put up the ladder the sailor who was better in the latest event.
Starting with World Championship titles, this would be current TOP 3 in IOM class:
- Zvonko Jelačić (CRO)🥇
- Craig Smith (AUS) 🥈
- Brad Gibson (GBR) 🥉
Here is Hall of Fame extended fully for World Championships in IOM class when looking TOP 10 places won in all of the track record so far:
| IOM Sailor: | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | TOTAL: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Zvonko Jelačić | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 2. Craig Smith | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 3. Brad Gibson | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 4. Graham Bantock | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 5. Peter Stollery | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| 6. Martin Roberts | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 7. Rob Walsh | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 8. Olivier Cohen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| 9. Trevor Binks | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 10. Guillermo Beltri | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 11. Ian Vickers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||
| 12. Alexis Carre | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 13. Ante Kovačević | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| 14. Marko Matić | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 15. Geoffrey Smale | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 16. Chris Dicks | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 17. Paul Jones | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 18. Mario Škrlj | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 19. Gary Cameron | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 20. Graham Elliot | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 21. Soren Andresen | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 22. Trevor Bamforth | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 23. Mark Dicks | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 24. Romain Dubreuil | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| 25. Xavier Liger | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 26. Pierluigi Puthod | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 27. Alan Hayes | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 28. Thomas Dreyer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 29. Peter Feldman | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 30. John Cleave | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 31. Rèmi Brês | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 32. Chris Harris | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 33. Ken Binks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 34. Mirko Ukas | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 35. Robert Matulja | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 36. Juan Egea | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 37. Brad Johnston | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 38. Simon Kellet | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 39. Sean Fidler | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 40. Scott Condie | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 41. Guillaume Florent | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 42. Peter Rossem | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 32. Martin Firebrace | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 44. Jeffrey Byerley | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 45. Richar Rowan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 46. Patrice Montero | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 47. Laurent Chapelot | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 48. John Gratton | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 49. Rob Vice | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Continuing with most awarded IOM sailors from IOM Hall of Fame, here is list of most successful IOM sailors so far when looking at Continental Championships only:
-
- Zvonko Jelačić (CRO)🥇
- Brad Gibson (GBR) 🥈
- Martin Roberts (GBR) 🥉
Here is Hall of Fame extended fully for Continental Championships in IOM class when looking TOP 10 in all of the track record so far as well:
| IOM Sailor: | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Zvonko Jelačić | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 2. Brad Gibson | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| 3. Martin Roberts | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||||||
| 4. Graham Bantock | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 5. Guillermo Beltri | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| 6. Marko Matić | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 7. Ante Kovačević | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | ||||
| 8. Rob Walsh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 9. Peter Stollery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 10. Alexis Carré | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
| 11. Graham Elliot | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| 12. Pierluigi Puthod | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 13. Juan Egea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 14. Chris Dicks | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 15. Ian Vickers | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 16. Olivier Cohen | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| 17. Paul Jones | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 18. Franco Borin | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 19. Ken Read | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 20. Pablo Walper | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 21. Trevor Bamforth | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 22. José Valverde | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 23. Barr Batzer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 24. Michael Scharmer | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 25. Peter Feldman | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 26. Pablo Alvarez | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 27. Craig Mackey | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 28. Torvald Klem | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 29. Spence GBR | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 30. David Priestly | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 31. Mario Škrlj | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 32. Robert Matulja | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 33. Laurent Chapelot | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 34. Sean Fidler | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 35. Vedran Vesanović | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 36. Boris Bakotic | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 37. Pedro Ambrosio | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 38. Roberto Valle | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 39. Mark Dicks | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 40. Mirko Ukas | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 41. Mark Golison | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 42. Ricardo Pollono | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 43. Carlos Beltrí | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 44. Juan Marcos | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 45. Mark Denis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 46. Chris Harris | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 47. Gary Boell | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 48. Andres Bozzo | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 49. Xavier Liger | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 50. Tony Edwards | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 51. Trevor Binks | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 52. Soren Andresen | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 53. Steve Landeau | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 54. Feliciano Ballestin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 55. Cedric Carre | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 56. Carlos Beltri | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 57. Garcia Armando | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 58. Remi Bres | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 59. Sean Wallis | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 60. Diego Louyer | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 61. Miguel Salvador | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 62. Jeffrey Byerley | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| 63. John Cleave | 1 | 1 | 2 |
As we conclude a remarkable 2024 and leave it behind us, we extend our heartfelt wishes to all IOM sailors worldwide for a Happy New Year filled with success and fair winds. The next chapter awaits us with the European Championship 2025 in Rogoznica, Croatia —a historic event first on our IOM Events schedule that promises to bring us together once again with record 100 sailors on IOM regatta. See you on the water!
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