Women’s tour heads to Denmark

The fifth stage of the 2024 Women’s World Match Racing Tour heads to Denmark for the Women’s WMRT Denmark on September 5-8, hosted by the Royal Danish Yacht Club (KDY). Ten teams from seven nations will compete at KDY’s Rungsted venue in DS37 yachts. The Women’s World Match Racing Tour is the only all-women professional series in sailing, founded in 2022.

“It is our great pleasure for the Royal Danish Yacht Club to be hosting the Women’s World Match Racing Tour Denmark stage again for the third consecutive year,” commented Royal Danish Yacht Club Commodore Anne-Sofie Munk Hansen. “We are very proud to support the growth of women in sailing and we are honored to welcome the world’s top female match racing sailors to compete in Denmark this week.”

Finishing fifth at the Danish stage last year, Julia Aarsten from the Netherlands returns to Denmark with her ‘Team Out of the Box’ keen to secure a place on the podium, after reaching the semi-finals at the France and Sweden stages of the Tour earlier in the season.

Despite the 2023 defending event champion Anna Östling and the Wing’sSailing team from Sweden being unable to attend the event this year due to their Women’s America’s Cup commitments in Barcelona, the international teams will expect plenty of competition from four string Danish teams completing the skipper line-up.

Danish skippers Lea Vogelius, Camilla Ulrikkeholm, Kristine Mauritzen, and Louise Olesen and their respective crews are no strangers to the DS37 yachts designed for match racing, and based year-round at the Royal Danish Yacht Club. The largest boats used on the Women’s World Match Racing Tour, the DS37s allow up to seven crew however most teams will be sailing with six crew this week which will require strong teamwork.

Women’s WMRT Denmark 2024 Entries
1. Julia AARTSEN (NED) Team Out of the Box
2. Bridget GROBLE (USA) Bow Down Racing
3. Brooke WILSON (AUS) Amphitrite Racing
4. Kristine MAURITZEN (DEN) Those Seagulls
5. Julia D”AMODIO (FRA) Shark Caviar Team
6. Lea VOGELIUS (DEN) WOW Racing
7. Louise K OLESEN (DEN) Team Louise
8. Camilla ULRIKKEHOLM KLINKBY
9. Nicole HEMERYCK (IRL)
10. Martina CARLSSSON (SWE) Beyond Racing Team

Tour information – Race details – Facebook

Women’s World Match Racing Tour 2024
April 23-26 – Santa Maria Cup – Annapolis USA
May 2-5 – Casa Vela Cup – San Francisco USA
May 17-20 – Normandy Match Cup – Le Havre, France
July 1-6 – Nordea Women’s Trophy / Match Cup Sweden – Marstrand, Sweden
Sept. 5-8 – KDY Women’s Match Race – Skovshoved, Denmark
Oct. 28-Nov. 3 – Bermuda

A team’s Tour points total will be the sum of their best three (3) scores.

The team with the highest score at the end of the season will be 2024 Women’s World Match Racing Tour Champion.

2024 Notice of Tour: https://womenswmrt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WWMRT-2024-Notice-of-Tour.pdf

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour was launched in 2022 to continue the hugely successful legacy of the WIM Series (Women’s International Match Racing Series) providing a global match racing series for female sailors. The name of the series was re-launched as the Women’s World Match Racing Tour with its continued mission to expand and strengthen global match racing and promote opportunities for competitive women’s sailing at every level. The Women’s World Match Racing Tour is the world’s first and only professional sailing series for women providing a valuable pathway for aspiring female world champions in the sport of sailing. womenswmrt.com

Source: WWMRT