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FINAL
RANKINGS
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1. BERTRAND
PACE
1. (FRA, Team
France)
2. PETER GILMOUR
1. (AUS)
3. MAGNUS HOLBERG
1. (SWE, Victory
Challenge ?)
4. JES GRAM-HANSEN
1. (DEN)
5. GAVIN BRADY
1. (NZL, Oracle
BMW Racing)
6. MATHIEU RICHARD
1. (FRA)
7. MATHIAS RAHM
1. (SWE)
8. KELVIN HARRAP
1. (NZL, Team
NZ)
9. STAFFAN LINDBERG
1. (FIN)
10. MATE ARAPOV
10. (CRO)
11. FRANO BRATE
10. (CRO)
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PAST
WINNERS
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2003 - JESPER
RADICH
2001 - (DEN)
2002 - PHILIPPE PRESTI
2001 - (FRA)
2001 - DEAN BARKER
2001 - (NZL)
2000 - DEAN BARKER
2001 - (NZL)
1999 - STEN MOHR
2001 - (DEN)
1998 - ANDY BEADSWORTH
2001 -
(GBR)
1997 - PETER GILMOUR
2001 - (AUS)
1996 - RUSSEL COUTTS
2001 - (NZL)
1995 - PETER GILMOUR
2001 - (AUS)
1994 - PETER GILMOUR
2001 - (AUS)
1993 - PETER GILMOUR
2001 - (AUS)
1992 - CHRIS DICKSON
2001 - (NZL)
1991 - RUSSEL COUTTS
2001 - (NZL)
1990 - PAUL CAYARD
2001 - (USA)
1989 - PAUL CAYARD
2001 - (USA)
1988 - CHRIS DICKSON
2001 - (NZL)
1987 - HAROLD CUDMORE
2001 -
(GBR)
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Bertrand Pacé and his Team France
crew - consisted of Benoit Briand (headsails),
Tanguy Carriou (mainsail), Fabrice Levet (tactics
and pit) and Romain Troublé (bow) –
have won the 18th annual ACI HTmobile Cup,
an event of the Swedish Match Tour.
Pacé defeated Peter Gilmour’s
Pizza-La Sailing Team 3-0 in the final that
was plagued by light and extremely shifty
winds.
Pacé won the first flight outright.
In the second flight he came from behind when
the wind shifted 180 degrees during the race.
Gilmour got a penalty on Pacé in
the third flight pre-start, but the Frenchman
was able to extend far enough ahead in the
light conditions to perform his penalty turn
at the finish line and claim the championship
while Gilmour was still some eight lengths
behind.
Gilmour’s second place finish was enough
to clinch the Swedish Match Tour Championship
for 2003-’04. Gilmour and his Pizza-La
crew – Rod Dawson (mainsail), Mike Mottl
(headsails), Kazuhiko Sofuku (bow) and Yasuhiro
Yaji (pit) – have totaled 117 of a possible
150 points.
In an amazing display of consistency,
they have placed in the top four at all six
Swedish Match Tour events.
Gilmour has won two events, but he has placed
second in the last two events. He lost to
Russell Coutts at the Toscana Elba Cup two
weeks ago. And he placed fourth at the Congressional
Cup in April, after winning the round robin.
In the petit final, Sweden’s Magnus
Holmberg and the SeaLife Rangers crew defeated
Jes Gram-Hansen’s Team Denmark 2-0.
Results
Finals : Bertrand Pacé def. Peter Gilmour
- Bertrand Pacé def. Peter Gilmour
- Bertrand Pacé def. Peter Gilmour
Petit Final : Magnus Holmberg def. Jes Gram-Hansen
- Magnus Holmberg def. Jes Gram-Hansen - Jes
Gram-Hansen def. Magnus Holmberg
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Bertrand Pacé and Team France will
meet Peter Gilmour and the Pizza-La Sailing
Team tomorrow in the finals of the ACI HTmobile
Cup, the sixth event on the Swedish Match
Tour 2003-’04.
Pacé defeated Team Denmark’s Jes
Gram-Hansen 3-0 in one semifinal match, while
Gilmour beat Sweden’s Magnus Holmberg
and the SeaLife Rangers crew, 3-1, in the
other semifinal contest.
"Tomorrow is sure to be exciting,"
said Pacé in preview of the final.
"Gilmour is very tough. I think there’ll
be a lot of Y flags flying."
Gilmour, the overall leader of the
Swedish Match Tour Championship Leaderboard,
is a four-time champion of the ACI Cup, having
won in 1993, ’94, ’95 and ’97.
Pacé, winner of the inaugural
Swedish Match Tour in 2000, has never won
the event.
"Bertrand hasn’t been doing
a lot of match-racing this year," Gilmour
said. "He’s the up and coming new
boy while we’re the old sages."
Today’s events at the 18th annual
ACI Cup were slow to start. A third consecutive
windless morning meant the race committee
issued another shoreside postponement.
Today, however, the lack of wind meant
the cancellation of the final seven flights
of the round robin, and the scores for Flights
1-4 and 12-15 had to be recalculated. But
that had little consequence on the four teams
that advanced to the semifinals.
Semifinals Results
Flight 1 : Bertrand Pacé def. Jes Gram-Hansen
- Peter Gilmour def. Magnus Holmberg
Flight 2 : Bertrand Pacé def. Jes Gram-Hansen
- Magnus Holmberg def. Peter Gilmour
Flight 3 : Bertrand Pacé def. Jes Gram-Hansen
- Peter Gilmour def. Magnus Holmberg
Flight 4 : Peter Gilmour def. Magnus Holmberg
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Frenchman Bertrand Pacé remains
the overall leader at the ACI HTmobile Cup,
an event of the Swedish Match Tour, but three
other crews are hot on his transom, just one
victory behind.
Pacé won the only match he sailed
today to move to 11-2 overall. But the crews
led by skippers Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), Magnus
Holmberg (SWE) and Peter Gilmour (AUS) all trail
by one victory. And Gavin Brady (NZL) is just
two wins in arrears.
With two victories today, Gram-Hansen
moved into second overall. His 10-3 record is
one loss better than Holmberg’s and Gilmour’s
10-4 marks. Gram-Hansen had his second round
bye in Flight 12, while Holmberg and Gilmour
haven’t had theirs yet.
Gram-Hansen, who has two fifths and an
eighth in the last three years of this event,
opened this year’s account with two losses,
but since has gone 10-1. Today he defeated Kelvin
Harrap and Mattias Rahm in two wire-to-wire
wins.
Light winds hampered the efficient race
committee work that has been a staple of the
first two days of the 18th annual regatta. The
winds were from the west/southwest, and blowing
3 to 6 knots.
The race committee issued a shoreside
postponement this morning instead of the scheduled
10:50 a.m. warning signal. The postponement
lasted until 2:15 p.m., when they finally took
to the water and the first attention signal
was made at 2:45 p.m.
ACI HTmobile Cup Standings
(After 15 of 22 scheduled flights)
1. Bertrand Pacé (FRA, Team France),
11-2
2. Jes Gram-Hansen (DEN), 10-3
3. Magnus Holmberg (SWE), 10-4
4. Peter Gilmour (AUS), 10-4
5. Gavin Brady (NZL, Oracle BMW Racing), 9-5
6. Mathieu Richard (FRA), 7-6
7. Mattias Rahm (SWE), 5-8
8. Kelvin Harrap (NZL, Team New Zealand), 5-9
9. Staffan Lindberg (SWE), 3-11
10. Mate Arapov (CRO), 3-11
11. Frano Brate (CRO), 2-12
Round Robin Two - Results
(Flights 14 & 15)
Flight 14 : Jes Gram-Hansen def. Kelvin
Harrap - Bertrand Pacé def. Mathieu
Richard - Magnus Holmberg def. Frano Brate
- Gavin Brady def. Staffan Lindberg - Mate
Arapov def. Peter Gilmour
Flight 15 : Jes Gram-Hansen def. Mattias Rahm
- Mathieu Richard def. Kelvin Harrap - Gavin
Brady def. Magnus Holmberg - Mate Arapov def.
Frano Brate - Peter Gilmour def. Staffan Lindberg
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