10th Match Race Germany with Star-Lineup

Match Race Germany
23rd till 28th of May 2007
Langenargen / Lake Constance
World Match racing Tour event (8th year)

The timing is just right, the entries of high caliber. When the first gun for Germany's one and only Grand Prix Match Race will be fired on 24th of May, more then a little bit of America's Cup air will be blowing as 12 of the world's best match racers assemble on the waters of Lake Constance/Southern Germany. The event will be held just between the semifinal and the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

The organisors expect at least 6-8 skippers oft he top ten in the ISAF rankings, and also 5 out of the top 8 of the World Match Racing Tour leaderboard. Amongst them the world number 1, Frenchmen Sebastian Col. The 29 year old helmsman of Areva Challenge is looking forward to compete and strengthen his number 1 spot, as well to improve in the tour rankings as well. Defending Champion and also recently the new Alinghi Match Racing Coach Peter Gilmour (3 times Match Racing World Champion/3 times Match Race German winner) will also return to Lake Constance to defend his title. The 2 German entries through qualifiers are Carsten Kemmling and a well known name in international Match Racing: Markus Wieser, who is planning a comeback to Match Racing in 2007.

"This is a very special year for us, we came a long way and want to continue in developing the event, the sport, and believe in a strong Match Racing future" states Co-organisor Eberhard Magg /Speedwave. Together with his partner Harald Thierer / Visioneo they are proud to be in the Champions League of Match racing as well as attracting more than 30.000 spectators every year, which at present is the biggest capacity crowd worldwide.

This achievement is also honored by the sponsors. Match race Germany, a Worldmatchracingtour event grew slowly and healthy. A new feature, and here we will present You with more features over the next months, is a match race exhibition tent, 400 squaremeters where sponsors present themselves but also entertainment, such as grinder contest, model AC yacht racing in a basin are planned. Of course the famous cultural programme will continue with concerts every night making the sail-and-tainment something to look for , not only for the spectators but as well for the competitors and umpires.

Match Race Germany is the only German stop oft he Worldmatchracingtour. Traditionally the event will be sailed over a public holiday from 23rd till 28th of May 2007. The yachts used will be Bavaria 35 Match, where 8 Yachts are available. Attractive prices as well as 20.000€ prizemoney are waiting for the competitors, and on top of that the tour's purse is 100.000€ plus a bonus prize from the tour partner BMW, a brand new BMW X 3.

Boatyard Speedwave Rudi Magg Gmbh with Eberhard Magg and Thilo Seeger, the sponsoring agency Visioneo with Harald Thierer and Bernhard Müller as well as the Yacht Club Langenargen under reigning president Michael Noeltge are forming Team Match Race Germany, the initiators as well as organisors of the Event!

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