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 what 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 entire final race and won ahead of Bobeck and Berntsson. The Canadian sisters Georgina and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance took bronze.
During the Olympic Games sailing off Marseille, France, last year, Bobeck took silver in 49er FX along 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 endeavor and Ebba Berntsson became Bobeck's new sailing partner. In the pair's first championship together, it was thus a World Championship silver.
