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| ALL SKIPPERS READY FOR MATCH CUP SWEDEN |
A record-sized crowd between 35,000 and 40,000 turned out on a glorious Day 5 of the Swedish Match Cup. (Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)
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All skippers are now ready to sail in the World Match Racing Tour’s Match Cup Sweden in Marstrand, July 2-8. Today the two last places, 15 and 16, were filled with two top, Nordic sailors from the America’s Cup. The final two skippers are Sweden’s Mattias Rahm, strategist and second helmsman onboard Victory Challenge, and Denmark’s Jesper Radich, from the Spanish boat Desafio Español.
”We are happy to have 16 top ranked skippers, among them seven Scandinavians, this will guarantee that this year’s World Match Racing Tour event will be both extremely competitive and of the highest sailing quality, says Erik Centerwall, GKSS, Match Cup Sweden’s Sports project manager.
Mattias Rahm, 34 year old sailor from Torslanda, Sweden, has been one of the key people with Swedish Victory Challenge during the America’s Cup pre-event Acts in 2005 and 2006, and during the Louis Vuitton Cup. He was appointed strategist onboard during pre-races and as second helmsman during the Louis Vuitton Cup. Mattias is the brother of Stefan Rahm, Victory Challenge’s tactician.
Mattias has four World Championship medals, two gold in E-dinghy, silver and bronze in the 470 and European Championship gold also in the 470. Mattias also participated in the Sydney Olympics 2000. Since then he has been skipper and strategist with Magnus Holmberg in Match Racing and with Victory Challenge.
Jesper Radich started his Match racing career in 1996 in the Danish Championship, resulting in an honourable fourth place. In 2001 he started sailing on the World Match Racing Tour full time and in the 2002-2003 season was crowed Tour Champion. Jesper has participated in Match Cup Sweden several times, regularly appearing in the quarter finals. He is part of the Spanish America’s Cup challenge, where he helped take Desafio Español to the Semi finals in Louis Vuitton Cup.
Match Cup Sweden in Marstrand, July 2-8, is the largest sailing event in Sweden. The long term event concept carries three main parts, the World Match Racing Tour, entertainment and public event and a high end corporate seminar, Corporate Event Marketing Forum. The initiative comes from Brandspot, which in sports cooperation with GKSS arranges Match Cup Sweden, the eighth stage of the 2007 World Match Racing Tour.
Ian Williams, Great Britain
Peter Gilmour, Australia
Eric Monnin, Switzerland
Jenny Axhede, Sweden
Sebastien Col, France
Gavin Brady, New Zealand
Björn Hansen, Sweden
Magnus Holmberg, Sweden
Claire Leroy, Frankrike, France
Malin Millbourn, Sweden
Simon Minoprio, New Zealand
Eugeniy Neugodnikov, Russia
Mathieu Richard, France
Johnnie Berntsson, Sweden
Jesper Radich, Denmark
Mattias Rahm, Sweden
For information about Match Cup Sweden
Malin Flink, Press manager Match Cup Sweden
Tel: +46 70 751 10 50
E-mail: malin@brandspot.com
Web: www.matchcupsweden.com
For information about the World Tour
Yvonne Reid
Tel: +44 1590 679613
E-mail: yreid@f10marketing.com
Web: www.worldmatchracingtour.com
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Newsletter - September 2008
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