Monsoon Cup, il ritorno di Gilmour
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[singlepic=1034,250,170,,left]World Match Racing Tour – Terengganu – Si è conclusa con la vittoria di Peter Gilmour l’edizione 2008 della Monsoon Cup. Il timoniere australiano, che per alcuni mesi ha coordinato il Comitato Organizzatore dell’evento, è tornato al successo in un Grado 1 superando in finale il neozelandese Adam Minoprio, astro nascente del match race internazionale, per tre a uno.
Gilmour e il suo Yanmar Racing Team avevano conquistato il diritto di disputare la finalissima contro Torvar Mirsky, eliminato in semifinale con il punteggio di tre a zero. Un duello che non ha saputo regalare emozioni analoghe a quelle generate dalla semifinale tra Adam Minoprio e Ian Williams che a Terengganu si è confermato campione del mondo.
Soddisfatto del secondo trionfo consecutivo ottenuto nel World Match Racing Tour e provato dai cinque match disputati contro Minoprio, Ian Williams ha ceduto il terzo posto a Mirsky che, nella finalina di consolazione, si è imposto per due a zero.
Partecipazione agrodolce per Paolo Cian. Lo skipper partenopeo, numero tre del mondo, non è riuscito a ripetere nel secondo turno quanto di buono fatto vedere nel corso del Round Robin ed è stato eliminato da Adam Minoprio già ai quarti di finale con un passivo di tre a uno.
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ELATED GILMOUR KING OF THE MONSOON CUP
[singlepic=1035,250,170,,left][Monsoon Cup Press Release] King of the 2008 Monsoon Cup for the second time is Peter Gilmour and his Yanmar Racing Team. Challenged on every part of the race course through four very tough races, Gilmour and his team of Yasuhiro Yaji, Rod Dawson, Thierry Douillard and Kazuhiko Sofuku, are deserved winners of the 2008 Monsoon Cup.
After several months of leading the Monsoon Cup event management team, Gilmour then had to turn around and focus his energies on the competition. It is a testament to the skills of this sailor that he was able to make the seamless move from Race Advisor to successful skipper.
“I feel very elated. It has been a long few months for us to pull the event together and then the deck was pretty well stacked against me for doing well here. I have tremendous crew here, which kept me concentrating, kept me sailing. They are not too hard on me when I make basic mistakes like running into committee boats and just keep me rolling along. Clearly we were very lucky to be in the final. We probably did not deserve to be on the race course, but here we are and we won the final. The result is great for 2009. We look forward to going on the tour and being a part of all that. It is very exciting,” a clearly delighted Gilmour said.
Gilmour had a tough trip to the top, finishing tied on five wins with Sebastien Col, Magnus Holmberg and Ben Ainslie at the end of the round robin series. On a count-back Gilmour went through to the quarter finals where he raced Col, winning his semi final place after five hard and at times, controversial matches.
The semi final for Gilmour was an extraordinary situation where his opponent was 22-year-old Torvar Mirsky, a one-time match racing student of Gilmour’s. It was a battle of wits, skill and experience which saw Gilmour dominate the matches to win 3-0.
2008 ISAF Match Racing World Championship
Ian Williams has taken out the 2008 ISAF Match Racing World Championship ahead of Sebastien Col (French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge) in second place and Mathieu Richard (French Match Racing Team/French Spirit) in the third.
Petite finals
In the Petite Final Torvar Mirsky (Mirsky Racing Team) and recently anointed Match Racing World Champion, Ian Williams (Bahrain Team Pindar), took to the water to redress their semi final losses as they both refocused and looked to finish third in the event. A tough battle ensued between the two with Mirsky dominating both matches to take out third place Monsoon Cup honours.
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