Bobeck is glad over the medal.
"I would still say that we are incredibly pleased with the World Championship. It's clear that we became greedy today and really wanted to take home the gold. But considering the conditions and our preparations for this championship, we are very pleased. It's easy to think that we are disappointed about the last race, but we have to remember that we have won a World Championship silver so early in our Olympic campaign. Think about what we can do when we have trained more", she says in a statement from the Swedish Sailing Federation.
Decisive start
Already before Sunday's two final races in Italy, it was clear that the Swedish duo would take a World Championship medal. The question was which value it would be.
In the second-to-last race, Vilma Bobeck and Ebba Berntsson came in second behind Poland. This meant that Sweden, before the final race, would at worst become silver medalists.
In the final race, only the four best teams from the previous races participated.
The Spanish women Paula Barceló and María Cantero took the lead directly at the start. Sweden ended up behind along with Great Britain and Canada. Spain then held the lead throughout the final race and won ahead of Bobeck and Berntsson. The Canadian sisters Georgina and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance took bronze.
"The start in the final was decisive. Spain made a super start and after that, it was difficult to match", says Berntsson.
First championship
During the Olympic Games sailing outside Marseille, France, last year, Bobeck took silver in 49er FX together with Rebecca Netzler. The duo had previously, among other things, taken a World Championship gold together.
In September this year, Netzler chose to end her Olympic campaign and Ebba Berntsson became Bobeck's new sailing partner. In the pair's first championship together, it was thus a World Championship silver.
