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DIT are student matchrace champs

20th April 2010
DIT are student matchrace champs
AFter 28 races this weekend in Howth, it was the DIT team skippered by Marty O'Leary that came out on top at the Irish University Sailing Association Student Matchracing nationals. Trinity college came in second, with University of Limerick in third.

The winners will now go on to represent Ireland at the World University Match Racing Championships to be held in Gaze, Crete in July. The event is sailed J24s and Flor O'Driscoll, winner of last year's Volvo Dun Laoghaire regatta, has kindly offered to make his boat available for the team to train on in the run up to the event.

The next event on the Irish Match Racing Tour is the Dublin Open on May 8/9.

More details of all events will appear on www.matchracing.ie

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