I think we pulled through with some good boat handling earlier this week and I’d like to credit the crew for that! Tomorrow it’s going to soften off so there’s definitely more exciting match racing to come.”ĭespite plenty of experience sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, Thomson said “it’s still anyone’s game.” “All the points look close so we’re taking it one race at a time. “It will be a nail-biting day tomorrow to get to the quarter-finals and I think it will be pretty tough,” said Thomson. Skipper of New Zealand’s 2.0 Racing, Megan Thomson knows there’s an exciting challenge ahead. Tomorrow (Saturday 12 November), six teams will fight for the four remaining quarter final spots and will go head to head with the top ranked teams, however Courtois, the current four time world champion, will be hard to beat. Teams continued to battle rain and low cloud, but it didn’t hinder the front-runners Pauline Courtois (FRA, Match in Pink), Celia Willison (NZL, Edge Women’s Racing) and Sweden’s Anna Östling (SWE, Wings Racing), all likely to make their way to the quarter-finals tomorrow, with Megan Thomson (NZL, 2.0 Racing) just one race away from the securing her team a spot.Īnna Östling (SWE) and the WINGS Team of Anna Holmdal, Annika Carlunger, Annie Saeedfar Wennergren, Linnéa Wennergren Yesterday, the teams flew through day one in challenging conditions, with 11 flights completed and nine hours on the water.ĭefying the weather gods, all 14 teams again took to the water at 1600 hours local time today, this time west of the Harbour Bridge where the conditions were more settled but still providing about 15 knots of east-northeast conditions. New Zealand lived up to its late spring reputation of ‘it’s never like this here’, delivering at least three seasons in one day and a postponement on land due to heavy weather passing through Auckland. The event is the final stage of the 2022 Women’s World Match Racing Tour.įrom blue skies, to squalls and rain, then finally a break in the weather, it was another gripping day on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour for the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship.

Auckland (11 November, 2022) World no.1 Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink team from France lead the qualifying round at the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship after two days of racing in challenging conditions on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour.

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