Match Race Europeans: Favourites for the final day: Team Monnin from Switzerland

On Monday a strong south-westerly wind challenged the twelve teams taking part in the European Match Racing Championship on Hamburg’s river Alster.
Only the best six teams qualified for the next round. The Polish crew broke their mast.

Monday, 2nd October - Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Sweden and Finland made their way into the next Round Robin easily. But the final run for the last empty space in the top six was highly competitive: The skipper of the Danish team, Peter Wibroe needed a victory against the Germans in their last race to be ranked before the Croatians. But Andreas Willim, who only won two out of ten matches so far, accelerated in his last race and gained the crown against the 21 years old Dane. And Team Croatia moved on to the next stage instead.

Eric Monnin (31) from Switzerland did not have to sail one single race on Monday. On Sunday he proceeded already to the next Round Robin with nine wins in eleven races. „We like to be in the favourites position”, he said.
“We sailed a lot in the last days and feel very comfortable with the boat now. But we hope, that on Tuesday the wind will not be that strong, because we are a little light weight”, said Monnin, who sails with his brothers Jean-Claude and Marc.
Although they scored nine victories in the first Round Robin, the counting starts from zero on the final day.

The following teams go in to the nexts stage

Moving on:
SUI Eric Monnin 9
SWE Björn Hansen 8
POL Marek Stanczyk 8
ITA Matteo Simoncelli 7
FIN Staffan Lindberg 7
CRO Dario Kliba 5

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