Home win at women’s match racing tour

Danish skipper Camilla Ulrikkeholm and team made it a home win at the fifth stage of the 2024 Women’s World Match Racing Tour, securing the victory September 5-8 in Hellerup, Denmark. With ten teams from seven nations competing, Ulrikkeholm defeated fellow Danish finalist Lea Vogelius and team 3-0 in DS37 yachts.

After a break in competitive match racing for the last several years, Ulrikkeholm, a former winner of multiple women’s world tour events, marked her return to match racing in style with her crew of Sara Keir Wright, Line Mørfebjerg Fischer, Maria Juul, Louise Ulrikkeholm Bredvig, and Lærke Ilsø Nørgaard.

“We are lost for words … it has just been amazing to be back on the water and match racing and we are thrilled to have won the event,” commented Ulrikkeholm.

After Ulrikkeholm won the first two races, Vogelius led the third race to gain a three boat length over Ulrikkeholm, only for Ulrikkeholm to pass on the last downwind leg and secure the 3-0 score. Australia’s Brooke Wilson finished in 3rd place after winning her petit-final match against Sweden’s Martina Carlsson 2-1.

After qualifying into the quarter-finals, Carlsson and her crew of Klara Utterström, Amanda Ljunggren, Elin Sevedag, Ebba Berntsson and Hedvig Hedström defeated Julia Aartsen’s Team Out of the Box from the Netherlands in an impressive straight 3 wins, advancing the team to the semi-finals against Ulrikkeholm.

However, Ulrikkeholm and her crew’s superior experience in the DS37 match racing boats proved too much for the Beyond Racing team as Ulrikkeholm took three straight wins in the semis match. Carlsson then met Australia’s Brooke Wilson in the petit-final, leveling at 1-1 before Wilson and her Amphitrite Racing Team clinched the deciding race 2-1.

The Women’s World Match Racing Tour heads to Bermuda for its final stage of the 2024 season, the Bermuda Women’s Trophy (Oct. 28-Nov. 3) which will be staged alongside the 72nd Bermuda Gold Cup, the penultimate stage of the 2024 Open World Match Racing Tour. Both events are hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.

Final results
1. DEN Camilla Ulrikkeholm Klinkby
2. DEN Lea Vogelius
3. AUS Brooke Wilson
4. SWE Martina Carlssson
5. NED Julia Aartsen
6. FRA Julia D’Amodio
7. DEN Kristine Mauritzen
8. USA Bridget Groble
9. IRL Nicole Hemeryck
10. DEN Louise K Olesen

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