Match Race, Adam Minoprio si conferma numero uno
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Match Race – Southampton – In seguito allo svolgimento della Monsoon Cup l’ISAF ha aggiornato le Ranking List internazionali di match race. I risultati degli ultimi appuntamenti di cartello hanno provocato diversi cambiamenti nelle classifiche.
Nella ranking Open, Adam Minoprio difende la propria leadership con determinazione dal solito Torvar Mirsky. Sale al terzo posto Damien Iehl, al miglior piazzamento in carriera, mentre scivola in quarta posizione l’ex numero uno Matheiu Richard. Quinto, davanti a Sebastien Col e Bjorn Hansen, è il due volte iridato Ian Williams.
Lontanissimi dalle piazze di vertice rappresentanti italiani: l’ex numero tre Paolo Cian, complice una stagione a fasi alterne, è ventiduesimo, mentre Francesco Bruni è un gradino più in basso.
In campo femminile, invece, si coferma la solita Claire Leroy, ormai da anni numero uno della graduatoria mondiale in rosa.
ISAF Match Race Open Ranking
1. Adam Minoprio, NZL
2. Torvar Mirsky, AUS
3. Damien Iehl, FRA
4. Mathieu Richard, FRA
5. Ian Williams, GBR
6. Sebastien Col, FRA
7. Bjorn Hansen, SWE
8. Ben Ainslie, GBR
9. Johnie Berntsson, SWE
10. Peter Gilmour, AUS
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22. Paolo Cian, ITA
23. Francesco Bruni, ITA
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MATCH RACE, ADAM MINOPRIO HOLDS FIRST SPOT
[Source ISAF] Newly crowned ISAF Match Racing World Champion Adam Minoprio of New Zealand maintains his hold on the top spot in the latest release of the Open ISAF World Match Race Rankings, as France’s Claire Leroy extends her four and half year unbroken run at #1 in the Women’s Rankings.
Adam Minoprio holds on to world #1 spot for the four consecutive release of the Open Rankings, no surprise after the young Kiwi skipper swept to victory at the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia, in the process securing the title of 2009 ISAF Match Racing World Champion. With three World Tour wins this year (the others came in Marseille and St Moritz), the World Championship title and the world #1 ranking, the 24 year old skipper of ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing ends 2009 at the very summit of the match racing world.
Behind Minorprio, World Championship silver medallist Torvar Mirsky stays in the world #2 spot, whilst 2009 ISAF Nations Cup winner Damien Iehl climbs up two places to a career-best ranking at #3. Completing the world top five is another French skipper, former world #1 Mathieu Richard, and 2007 and 2008 World Champion, Ian Williams of Great Britain.
The big mover at the top in this Ranking release is British triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie. After finishing as runner up in both the Monsoon Cup and Sunseeker Australia Cup (losing the finals to Minoprio and Mirsky respectively), the Team Origin skipper climbs 11 places in this Ranking release to enter the world top 10 for the first time at a career-best Match Race Ranking of #8. Just ahead of Ainslie is Bjorn Hansen of Sweden, who stays at #7 after scoring an impressive win at the ISAF Grade 1 Berlin Match Race.
Also on winning form is young Australian Keith Swinton, whose outstanding season continued with victory in Italy at the ISAF Grade 2 Trapani Match Cup. As a result, Swinton climbs five places to break into the world top 20 at #16 in this Ranking release.
At the ISAF Grade 2 Mumbai International Match Race, Mahesh Ramchandran showed why he’s his country’s top ranked skipper by scoring overall victory ahead of Farokh Tarapore. The win helps Ramchandran climb from #45 to #33 in this Ranking release, putting him just behind Brazilian skipper Henrique Haddad.
ISAF Match Race Open Ranking
1. Adam Minoprio, NZL
2. Torvar Mirsky, AUS
3. Damien Iehl, FRA
4. Mathieu Richard, FRA
5. Ian Williams, GBR
6. Sebastien Col, FRA
7. Bjorn Hansen, SWE
8. Ben Ainslie, GBR
9. Johnie Berntsson, SWE
10. Peter Gilmour, AUS
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