December 21, 2023: the 1st Professional Sailing League's Regatta was held on December 16-21 in the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Krai.

The competition has been fairly considered to be outside-the-box. All stars of the Russian sailing, more specifically the top-4 athletes of every sailing category (according to the list of those qualified for the 2024 national team), were allotted to twelve random quads in MX700, a category of dinghy that had been unfamiliar for the majority of the participants. The coaches of all the teams were also drawn at random.

The team that won the race. © Yelena Razina

Alisa Yeschenko, an athlete from Taganrog, won a gold medal as a member of her quad. Despite unsteady wind, the quad enjoyed a clear advantage over the competitors by finishing the regatta with a ten-point lead.

We congratulate Alisa Yeschenko, her teammates Mikhail Ushkov, Nikita Kodanev, Marina Fyodorova, and coach Mikhail Dubina and wish them every success in their further career, as well as new victories and major achievements.

The team that won the race with Alisa Yeshenko on the far right. © All-Russian Sailing Federation

In May 2022 Alisa Yeschenko finished third at the 2022 Open Sailing Cup of Belarus. In August 2022 Alisa Yeschenko won the main trophy in the Olympic class of the Laser Radial at the 2022 Russian Sailing Cup, a bronze at the 2022 Russian Olympic Sailing Cup and most recently another bronze at the Black Sea Regatta.

In March 2023 Alisa Yeschenko won a bronze medal at the 2023 Russian Olympic Sailing Cup "Sochi Regatta." Most recently, she won a gold medal at the All-Russian Sailing Championship.