 Ainslie with his Trophy IslandStats.com
In the Argo Group Gold Cup finals match today, the three time Olympic gold medal winner (one silver), Ainslie (GBR) took the finals 3-1. He has finally etched his name on the coveted King Edward VII Gold Cup along with a host of match race sailing legends. Ainslie and Team Origin also take home the first place prize purse of $50,000. Ainslie sailed for Team Origin with his crew of Matt Cornwell, Iain Percy, and Christian Kamp.
Rogala led from start to finish in the ignored by some media Junior Gold Cup, Rogala had nine first place finishes out of 13 races, Bermuda’s Owen Siese finished second, with Axel Munkby from Sweden finishing 3rd and Bermuda’s Kalin Hillier finished in 4th place.
When he was down 0-2 Minoprio made it a match and pulled a classic match racing maneuver to gybe on the approach to the finish, get a luffing overlap Ainslie and push him away from the pin end of the finish line. Minoprio was barely able to turn away from Ainslie and make it back to the line first for the win. But Ainslie was on his game today and that one win wasn't enough.
Adam Minoprio (NZL), ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing skipper, and his team of Tom Powrie, David Swete and Nick Blackman took second place. Minoprio is the top skipper in the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) rankings and was second in the World Match Racing Tour going into the Argo Group Gold Cup. He is back on top of the Tour rankings now and headed for the World Match Racing Championship at the Monsoon Cup with $20,000 in his pocket for coming second.
Ian Williams (GBR and Eric Monnin (SUI) matched up earlier in the Petit Finals. For winning two races out of two, Williams took third place in quick order and his $10,000 prize while Monnin stands in fourth and has a check for $7,000.
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