Courtois Crowned Women’s European Match Racing Championship in Corfu

19th October 2022

Racing in the 2022 EUROSAF Women’s European Match Racing Championship in Corfu, Greece

Pauline Courtois and her ‘Match in Pink’ Normandie team from France have won the 2022 EUROSAF Women’s European Match Racing Championship in Corfu, Greece.

The event is stage 3 of the 2022 Women’s World Match Racing Tour.

Courtois and team beat Dutch skipper Renee Groeneveld 2-0 in a close first-to-two-points final in light winds.

After a wait ashore yesterday morning at the Corfu Sailing Club, the race committee doubted if there would be any breeze at all for the final day. Fortunately a light 2-4 knot southerly filled over the bay under the Old Fortress of Corfu to start the final and a shortened first-to-one-point Petit-Final.

Pauline Courtois and her ‘Match in Pink’ Normandie team from France have won the 2022 EUROSAF Women’s European Match Racing Championship in Corfu

Meeting in the Petit-Final were New Zealand’s Celia Willison/ Edge Racing and Margot Vennin/ Match Moiselles from France. After a near photo finish, Margot Vennin held the lead to clinch the single point, and 3rd place for the regatta.

As the quarter-finals and semi-finals had to be cut from the format due to the typically light winds on Saturday, the final standings for 5th -12th position were taken from the round robin qualifying stage;

EUROSAF Women’s European Championship 2022 – Final Standings

Pauline Courtois (FRA) - Match in Pink by Normandy Elite Team
Renee Groenevel (NED) - Dutch Match Racing Team
Margot Vennin (FRA) - Matchmoiselles
Celia Willison (NZL) - Edge Womens Match
Lea Vogelius (DEN) - Team Kattnakken
Sophie Otter (GBR) - Otter Racing
Juliet Costanzo (AUS) - Easy Tiger Racing
Ali Morrish (GBR) - Five by Five
Margot Riou (FRA) - APCC Women’s Sailing Team
Laurane Mettraux (SUI) - CER – Ville de Genève
Sofia Matsikidou (GRE)
Sara Edholm (SWE) - Team Sparkling Unicorns

Published in Match Racing, Women in Sailing

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