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3 September 2005, 06:11 pm

LEROY Wins Another

Women Trentino Match Race 2005

Lake Ledro, Trentino, Italy

Claire LEROY (FRA) has won the ISAF Grade 1 Women Trentino Match Race on Lake Garda, Italy, defeating 2004 ISAF Women's Match Racing World Champion in the final.

In the semi-finals LEROY went down in the first match to Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN but came back to take the second and third matches and thus her place in final.

BARKOW meanwhile gave herself the same challenge after losing to Lotte MELDGAARD-PEDERSEN (DEN) in the first of their semi-final matches before going on to win the next two.

Ranked at number one in the world, LEROY despatched Sally BARKOW 2-0 in the final whilst Lotte MELDGAARD-PEDERSEN (DEN) dealt the same fate to Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN (NED) in the battle for third.

Competing at her first ISAF graded match racing event Ekaterina SKUDINA (RUS) should be pleased with a strong performance, more usually seen out on the Yngling circuit, SKUDINA finished seventh overall, ahead of sailors ranked in the top 20 of the ISAF World Match Race Rankings.

Final Results

Position	Helm	Nation
1	Claire LEROY	FRA
2	Sally BARKOW	USA
3	Lotte MELDGAARD PEDERSEN	DEN
4	Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN	NED
5	Christelle PHILIPPE	FRA
6	Anne-Claire LE BERRE	FRA
7	Ekaterina SKUDINA	RUS
8	Sandy HAYES	USA
9	Lindar HARSJO	SWE
10	Charloota THORELIUS	SWE
11	Undine HOPSCH	GER
12	Ines MONTEFUSCO	ITA

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