Ekaterina Skudina Wins Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden
Running in conjunction with the World Match Racing Tour event is ‘Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden’.A surprise scenario developed for the women’s semi- final. The young 23 year old currently sitting at top of the official ISAF world rankings, Lucy Macgregor (GBR), was knocked out by Renee Groeneveld (NED) who sits 12 positions below Macgregor in the rankings. The 23 year old Dutch sailor was then joined in the final by European Women’s Champion, Ekaterina Skudina (RUS), who successfully defeated, Katie Pellew née Spithill.Stena Match Cup Sweden became one of the earliest match racing events to establish a women’s class back in 1999 and as a result Sweden has grown a strong national following for this ladies sport. The crowds lining the rocks watched a sunlit, emotional final where Skudina down two points took her situation square on and drove Groenenveld into a miscalculated premature start taking the final score to a nail biting 3-2.
The Russian beauty fought off Groenenveld to be Queen of ’2010 Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden’. This comes as a blow to Groenenveld who also missed out closely on Olympic qualification for Beijing 2008 in the Yngling class which her adversaries then went on to win silver in.
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Women’s Stena Match Cup Sweden Winners
1st Ekaterina Skudina (RUS)
2nd Renee Groenenveld (NED)
3rd Lucy Macgregor (GBR)
