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ISAF Sailing World Cup - Delta Lloyd Regatta - Day Two
The Opening Stage was completed on Day Two of the ISAF Sailing World Cup - Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, The Netherlands.

It was a very long day in Medemblik, during the second day of the Delta Lloyd regatta. As expected the wind remained light during the morning before dying totally. The faith and patience of the racing committee paid its dividend, the wind finally reappeared from the North West allowing for racing to resume.

It took all day to conclude the Match racing Opening series. Ekaterina Skudina and her team have been steadily improving since the start of the year. They have won all their matches in the Delta Lloyd regatta opening series and qualify into the Gold Round robin with Sofia Bekatorou from Greece, Anna Kjellberg (SWE), Lucy Macgregor (GBR), Anne-Claire Leberre (FRA) and Renee Goeneveld (NED). The teams qualified for the Repechage are: Ru Wang from China, Julie Bossard (FRA), Katie Spithill (AUS), Nicky Souter (AUS), Mary Rook (GBR) and Tamara Echegoyen (ESP).

The Match racing will start tomorrow morning at 9.30 am.

The wind is expected to start at 7 knots in the morning in to increase up to 17 knots in the afternoon.

To view the results, please click here.
Posted on May 27, 2010 by WIMRA Webmaster

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