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| Detroit Cup 2009: Day 3 - Into The Semis | | Print | |
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September 5, 2009
Detroit, MI
We made the final four today at the
2009 Detroit Cup at Bayview YC, in Detroit, MI. We started the
day with the quarter finals, and wrapped up with one race in the semi-finals.
Waiting, With Coach Dave Perry, For The Boats To Come Back In
Photo: Joanna Tunnicliffe, Sept 2009
We sat for a couple hours this morning
as the consolation round finished up, and then we got down to the quarterfinals.
We were racing Reuben Corbett from New Zealand. We won the first
race pretty handily, but then dropped the second race despite him having
a penalty. We learned a lot from our mistakes in that race, and
came back to win the third and deciding race.
Debbie Checking For Weed On The Keel
Photo: Paul Tunnicliffe, Sept 2009
After coming in for a lunch break and
letting the 5th through 8th-placed-boats round wrap up, we headed back out
for the semis. Being the top seed we got to choose whom we went
up against in the semis. After having tried to figure out in the
past who to race, based on records, and having it back fire on us, we decided
that we would just pick the fourth seed, who turned out to be Keith
Swinton from Australia.
Making Sure Everything Will Run Smoothly
Photo: Paul Tunnicliffe, Sept 2009
We finished one race in the semi finals. Unfortunately we had a bit of a bad start and had to play catch up. Although we caught
up a lot on the second lap, but it wasn’t quite enough. We will
go out tomorrow first thing, and wrap up the semis. The series is a first-to-2-points
series, so we have our work cut out for us, but we are hungry for it.
You can check the results at the regatta website. I would like to thank Carmeuse and Gill for their sponsorship of our team for this event. Sail hard, Anna |
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Anna: "To achieve our goals, we need 4D's:
Dream, Desire, Dedication, Discipline"
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Olympic Gold Medalist, World Class Woman Laser Radial Sailor And Now World Class Women's Match Racer
Representing the USA, Anna Tunnicliffe won the Gold Medal in the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, China. Anna was the ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from April 9, 2008 to May 2010. She was voted 2009 & 2011 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. Now Anna, skipper of Team Maclaren, has teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's Match Racing and the team is currently ranked #1 in the ISAF WMR rankings.
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