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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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