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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Ainslie, the three-time Olympic gold medalist and Team Origin helmsman, was in Auckland during the last weekend, racing in the NZ Match Racing Championships, where he finished second, after being beaten in the finals by his form teammate Dean Barker. The differences between match and fleet racing were the first issue touched in the interview but then moved to the Louis Vuitton Pacific series, the...
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Dean BARKER won his fifth New Zealand Match Racing Championship title, sweeping past triple Olympic gold medallist Ben AINSLIE 3-0 in the final.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Torben GRAEL and his crew on Ericsson 4 have streaked into the lead on leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race after perfectly playing their stealth card this morning.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Torben GRAEL and his crew onboard Ericsson 4 have sneaked back into the lead of leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race whilst Telefónica Blue have suffered another blow with a snapped daggerboard.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Dutch duo Mitch BOOTH and Pim NIEUWENHUIS have won the Aruba Heineken Catamaran Regatta for the second time.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Torben GRAEL and his all-star crew on Ericsson 4 have extended their advantage on the Volvo Ocean Race leaderboard after winning the race to the leg two scoring gate.
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Somewhere down in New Zealand, a bizarro world is born: A steady 15 to 18 knot breeze made the last day of the Club Marine National Keelboat Championships 2008 an intense battle between the top two crews, young Olympian Peter Burling and regatta-hardened Dean Barker from Emirates Team New Zealand. This is an Open Thread, because I'm hard at work on a poll-data rich diary that's taking me quiet some...
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Italian windsurfing legend Alessandra SENSINI and three-time Olympic gold medallist Ben AINSLIE of Great Britain confirmed their status as sailing heroes when they were announced as winners of the 2008 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
ISAF and Rolex are proud to announce that the female and male winners of the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2008 are Alessandra SENSINI and Ben AINSLIE.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Beijing Olympian Sally BARKOW of the USA swept aside reigning World Champion and world #1 Claire LEROY to win the Busan Cup Match Race in Korea, the first-ever ISAF Grade 1 women's match racing event held in Asia.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Brazilian skipper Torben GRAEL and his international crew from Ericsson 4 crossed the finish line at Cape Town on Sunday morning to win leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race, with second place going to PUMA, Ericsson 3 taking third and Green Dragon in fourth.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
At 13:10 UTC today, Ericsson 4 skippered by Brazilian Torben GRAEL obliterated the 24-hour record run for a monohull when the team recorded a run of 593.23 nautical miles during leg one of the Volvo Ocean Race.
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Italy's Giulia CONTI won the 2008 Rolex Osprey Cup - one of only two ISAF Grade 1 women's match racing events in the USA - held at the St Petersburg Yacht Club from 22-25 October.