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FROM THE EDITOR


Welcome to the second edition of Match Racing 360°, the voice of the international match racing community. We’ve had some great feedback from the first issue; feature ideas, photos and comments, and we hope we’ve built the second edition even more to your liking than the first.This will be 2011’s final issue and we’re turning our thoughts to the end of the season. We have all the news and results from the global match racing circuits as national and regional titles are decided. And there’s an in-depth feature on the upcoming finale of the World Match Racing Tour at the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia. We look at who’s delivered this season, who has fallen short and, most important of all, who’s going to win it.


A definite over-achiever in any review of 2011 would be the Chicago Match Race Center – we take a look at a long list of achievements put together in a very short time in our ‘Venue Profile’. The quadrennial Olympic cycle is also reaching its endgame, and we check in with Finland’s Pre-Olympic Match Race gold medallists in our ‘Team Profile’. By way of contrast, our ‘Match Racer of the Moment’ is right at the start of his career - 19 year-old Mark Lees has just hit 70 in the ISAF rankings. And the last word will go to ‘Guest Columnist’ Dong-Young Kim, who explains how he’s building the sport of match racing towards a new future in Korea.


We hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to get involved by sending us your match racing news and ideas!


Editor Match Racing 360°


CONTENTS


04 — Newsround Bite-size nibbles of news from the


global match racing circuit 06 — Monsoon Cup:


Where Champions are Made Match Racing 360° takes a closer


look at the World Match Racing Tour as it approaches its season finale in Malaysia after a season of thrills, shocks and surprises


10 — The Year Ahead World Match Racing Tour CEO,


Jim O’Toole, offers a snapshot into what his team are working on in the ‘close- season.’


12 — Center Stage America’s new Mecca for aspiring


match racers, we look at what the plans are both on and off the water for the Chicago Match Race Center


14 — Technical Corner Phil Robertson of WAKA Racing talks


through an incident in Qualifying at STENA Match Cup Sweden


15 — Team Profile: Going for Gold Finland’s Silja Lehtinen and her


match racing team have put themselves in the frame for a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics


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17 — Match Racer of the Moment Match Racing 360° meets Britain’s


young gun, 19 year-old RYA Youth National Match Racing Champion Mark Lees


18 — Polaroid Pinboard All your photos from on the water


19 — Flashback Up Close and Personal: Umpires take to the water Match racing but not as we know it. That was until the 1988 Congressional Cup when the advent of on-the-water umpires changed the sport forever…


20 — Results Who won what in the world of match


racing over the last few months?


21 — Calendar Upcoming events on the global match


racing scene


22 — Guest Columnist The Next Frontier Korea’s new dawn in match racing is the brainchild of one man. Dong- Young Kim talks to Match Racing 360° about his motivations and vision for the future of the sport in Korea


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