Danish Open Match Race

source: Flemming Vitus

The official entry list for the 2007 Danish Open, the 10th event in the World Match Racing Tour 2006/2007 season, is complete, and it is an impressive list of skippers and crews who have accepted the invitation to sail at the event. The Danish open will take place out from Skovshoved Harbour, north of Copenhagen, from the 8th of August until the 12th.

Among the eleven confirmed skippers are last year’s winner and runner up (Sebastian Col and Jesper Bank respectively); the ISAF Match Race ranking list is represented by skippers placed 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11 and 16 and the World Match Racing Tour is represented by skippers placed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 in that ranking. Six of the skippers have been involved in the 32nd America’s Cup, so there is no doubt that this will be a very exiting event to follow. The 12th and final entry is reserved for the winner of the Danish Open Qualification event held off Middelfart, Denmark on August 4th – 5th. August.

Apart from earning valuable points for the World Match Racing Tour ranking the sailors will also compete for the $60,000 prize purse. The final event of World Match Racing Tour will be the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia where the official ISAF Match Race World Champion will be crowned.

The following skippers will compete in Danish Open 2007:
Ian Williams
Mathieu Richard
Sebastién Col
Paolo Cian
Björn Hansson
Staffan Lindberg
Jesper Bank
Peter Wibroe
Phillipe Presti
Sten Mohr
Jesper Radich

For more than 10 years the Royal Matchrace Center, the Royal Danish Yacht Club and Skovshoved Yacht Club have been organizing international match race events at Skovshoved Harbour – just north of Copenhagen.

Skovshoved Harbour is the perfect venue where the racing takes place just a few yards from the spectators that in their thousands line the Harbour pier and fill the many stands set up for the occasion. A large VIP hospitality facility fully caters for the many guests invited by the sponsors.

Altogether the spectators, guests and sailors are treated to the particularly relaxed and friendly atmosphere that makes the Danish Open such a special and well supported event.

Racing begins Thursday August 9th with a Round Robin followed by semifinals on the Saturday and the final on Sunday August 12th.