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POINTS RACE TIGHTENS ON WORLD TOUR LEADERBOARD
After a spectacular and highly competitive event last week in Marstrand at Match Cup Sweden, the race for points towards the World Championship has tightened on the World Match Racing Tour leaderboard. After four stages completed, Ian Williams (GBR) and his Team Pindar remains in the lead, but that ...
MATTIAS RAHM WINS MATCH CUP SWEDEN
Despite the first cloudy day in a week of otherwise beautiful sunny weather, thousands of spectators still braved the chill to watch local favourite Mattias Rahm (SWE) win his first Match Cup Sweden finale. He and his Stena Bulk Racing Team of Oscar Angervall, Johan Barne, Daniel Björndal, and Fredr...
CLAIRE LEROY WINS WOMEN’S EVENT IN MATCH CUP SWEDEN
Reigning Women’s World Champion Claire Leroy and her team showed why they’ve dominated the women’s game for nearly two years now, taking the top women’s prize at Match Cup Sweden today. In an otherwise all-Swedish field of Semi-Finalists, Leroy is the first non-Scandinavian to win this event. ...
Holmber, Mirsky, Rahm and Richard progress to semi-finals
In an example of the Apprentice beating the Master, 22-year old Torvar Mirsky (AUS) and his Mirsky Racing Team has defeated four time ISAF Match Racing World Champion and America’s Cup veteran Peter Gilmour (AUS) and his PST Team to advance to the Semi-Final stage here at Match Cup Sweden. Their fir...
Quarter finalists finally emerge at Match Cup Sweden
The phenomenally warm and sunny weather has persisted here in Marstrand, bringing out an estimated 35,000 spectators today to watch the final flights of the round robin in Match Cup Sweden. As the crowd lounged in swim suits on the outcrops overlooking the race area, 12 teams fought hard to determin...
Holmberg on his way to quarter finals
After four sailing victories today Magnus Holmberg is on his way to a spot in the quarter finals in Match Cup Sweden. In hot summer sun and weak winds, twelve of the world's best Match racing sailors in the world sailed seven matches the second day of the world championship race in Match racing....
Swede Mattias Rahm leads after day one at Match Cup Sweden
Under sunny skies and a perfect 12-15 knot westerly breeze, Mattias Rahm and his Stena Bulk Racing Team got the jump on a highly-competitive 12-team field here in Day One of Match Cup Sweden, winning all of their first three matches in this fourth stage of the World Match Racing Tour. Exhibiting smo...
Sensational Anna and unbeatable Jenny to semi finals
All three Swedish ladies secured their spots in the semi finals of Match Cup Sweden, Women class. Jenny Axhede showed her unbeatable class winning all her seven matches, while 23 years young Anna Kjellberg made a sensational breakthrough in the international sailing world, winning five matches. Lind...
World Tour leaders ready for Marstrand
Twelve of the world’s best match race skippers are confirmed to do battle next week in Match Cup Sweden, the fourth stage of the World Match Racing Tour. Included among these are the first seven currently topping the Tour leaderboard, with racing scheduled to commence for the Open division on 1 July...
Team Pindar extend lead
Besides the live TV, tens of thousands of spectators, and $300,000 the largest prize money payout to date, competing teams at last week’s Korea Match Cup in Gyeonggi, South Korea have also benefited from gaining more points on the World Match Racing Tour leaderboard towards the 2008 World Champions...
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