150 professional photographers representing 29 nations entered the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2022 photo competition. Today we reveal the top 20 images.
Twenty yacht racing photographers representing twelve nations reach the final phase of the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award. Their pictures, selected by the international jury, will be exhibited next week at the Yacht Racing Forum in Malta.
The top 20 include some of the world's most prominent yacht racing photographers, active all over the world. The overall winner of the 2022 edition is one of them.
He / she will be announced and celebrated, with all the winners of the competition, on Monday November 21 in front of the sports’ leading personalities from all over the world during the Yacht Racing Forum evening reception at Malta’s National Aquarium.
Three prizes will be awarded to the winners: the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image Award (main prize), selected by the international jury, the 'Public Award', based on the number of public votes cast on the Internet and the 'Delegates Award’ based on votes from participants at World Sailing’s annual conference and the Yacht Racing Forum.
Prize giving
The prize giving will take place on Monday 21 November at 9:00 pm during the Yacht Racing Forum evening reception at the Malta National Aquarium. It will be live streamed live on Facebook.
Top 20 photographers (in alphabetical order) :
| Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award | Public award |
Georgy Akimov Christian Beeck Patrick Blom Christian Bonin Pierre Bouras Peter Brøgger Joao Costa Ferreira Robert Deaves Felix Diemer Robert Hajduk Rod Harris Suellen Hurling Valery Isaenko Mélanie Joubert Anton Makhanov Nico Martinez Martina Orsini Kristina Ryaguzova Eike Schurr Szymon Sikora | Georgy Akimov Christian Beeck Peter Brøgger Alex Carabi Tom Coehoorn Felix Diemer Rod Harris Suellen Hurling Valery Isaenko Gilles Martin-Raget Nico Martinez Rob Migliaccio Aiste Ridikaite Anya Semeniouk Giovanni Tesei Igor Tkachenko Brigi Török Osman Uğur Douglas Wake Aitor Zarraga Goiri |