Rohart, Xavier (en)

France's Pauline Courtois, bronze medallist at the 2019 Women's Match Racing World Championships, on Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team took gold in emphatic style at this year's World Championships on home waters in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) has announced sailboat manufacturer RS Sailing as Official Partner of the WMRT Academy, the training and development initiative set up by the tour in 2020 to grow participation in match racing around the world.

Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes - Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain - won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred victory over Ian Williams's Team GAC Pindar.

As Phil Robertson's China One Ningbo and Torvar Mirsky's Mirsky Racing Team streaked out to 4-0 leads in their respective groups at the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship, it's hard to believe all of the skippers, including those two, who talked of being rusty coming into this regatta.

After a year in which too many regattas were postponed or cancelled due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the specter of International One-Design (IOD) sloops thrashing about Hamilton Harbour is welcomed by all associated with the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing Worlds, which begin tomorrow with gold and silver awaiting the winner at week's end.

World and event champions highlight a fleet adorned with accolades for the celebratory 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship, hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Oct. 26-30.

World Sailing has awarded the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) the 2021 Women's Match Racing World Championship following a decision to cancel the 2020 edition due to COVID-19.

Lucy Macgregor, with her Team Mac, sailed home to gold at Lysekil Women's Match to claim this year's Women's Match Racing World Championship 2019, her third consecutive world title.

In perfect sailing conditions, with winds between 10-14 knots, on the second day of competition at the Lysekil Women's Match / Women's Match Racing World Championship Lucy Macgregor showed why she is the two-time defending World Champion by winning 7 out of 7 matches.

After the first day of competition four teams are on equal points at the top of the leader board in Lysekil Women's Match, the 2019 World Championship. Johanna Bergqvist, Pauline Courtois, Anna ?stling and Claire Leroy all count four wins and one loss.