ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship 2009

ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship 2009 - Lysekil, 28.Juli - 01.August 2009
www.lysekilwomensmatch.se - Übersicht

Tagesberichte siehe Menu unten
Fotos vom Lysekil Matchrace

Press Release Lysekil Women’s Match 27 July – 1 August ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship 2009

Lysekil, Sweden, July 29, 2009.
Getting Down to the Wire

The first Round Robin of the ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship has soon come to an end. After nine respectively eight sailed matches Anna Kjellberg of Sweden and Claire Leroy of France are leading the competition with only one loss each. With that score the two leaders as well as Swedish Marie Björling are definitely set for the quarterfinals..

The Swedish local Anna Kjellberg and French Claire Leroy have won all their matches today putting them on the top of the leaderboard. Three matches reindex for the World Champion Leroy and two for Kjellberg in the first Round Robin, but regardless of the result they are sure to make it to the quarterfinals. Marie Björling from Sweden lost one of four matches today and therefore stays closely behind on the leaderboard.

Today was filled with both joy and disappointment for the many Swedish spectators and fans as reigning champion of Lysekil Linda Rahm, ranked four on the ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Ranking, only won one of her matches today and will not make it to the quarterfinals.

Five teams will fight for the last three places to the quarterfinals. With today’s scoreboard it looks bright for the two Danish teams Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen and Camille Ulrikkeholm. The Danes are used to the boat type DS37 and have both sailed convincingly these first two days. The Australian teams with skippers Katie Spithill and Nicole Sauter, as well as American Sally Barkow also have a chance to proceed to the quarterfinals.

Result day 2: ISAF Women’s Match Racing World Championship (with ISAF women's match racing world ranking number):

Nine or eight sailed matches of 11 to sail in the first Round Robin
Claire Leroy (1) FRA 7-1 one match less Anna Kjellberg (10) SWE 8-1 Marie Björling (43) SWE 7-2 Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen (5) DEN 5-3 one match less Camilla Ulrikkeholm (13) DEN 5-4 Katie Spithill (2) AUS 4-4 one match less Sally Barkow (7) USA 4-5 Nicole Souter (8) AUS 4-5 Lucy Macgregor (3) GBR 3-5 one match less Linda Rahm (4) SWE 2-6 one match less Silke Hahlbrock (6) GER 2-6 one match less Christelle Philippe (19) FRA 0-9

ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championship 2009 / Lysekil Women's Match is with its 50 000 Euro prize purse the world’s biggest competition in women’s match racing.

Lysekil Women's Match is organised by Sailnet Lysekil AB together with Lysekil Yacht Club Gullmar.

index sponsors: Preem and Stena Bulk, with Carpe Diem Beds of Sweden, Concordia Maritime, Evidens and Sebago as partners and Lysekil as Host

City. Event dates: 27 July - 1 August. Web TV: Follow the racing live on web tv on the official web site: http://en.lysekilwomensmatch.se/

Photos: High resolution photos are available on the official web site. Please follow the link: http://www.lysekilwomensmatch.se/page/632/pressbilder2009.htm

TV Footage: Please contact Hannah Davis or Cliff Webb at 1080 Media Organisation Ltd, Tel: +44 (0) 207 371 7843, hdavis@1080media.org or cwebb@1080media.org . For more information regarding Lysekil Women’s Match please contact: Press Officer Josefine Ås, media@sailnet.se, +46 70 575 53 08 www.lysekilwomensmatch.se