Women’s Match Racers Into The End Game

London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition - Weymouth and Portland, Great Britain

The Women’s Match Racing Quarter Finalists have been decided after the Round Robin threw out some great racing.

Australia’s Olivia Price / Nina Curtis / Lucinda Whitty ended the Round Robin undefeated with 11 victories. She sailed a great final race to overcome Rita Gonçalves / Mariana Lobato / Diana Neves (POR) sealing the perfect record.

Price will face Renee Groeneveld / Annemieke Bes / Marcelien Bos-De Koning (NED) in the first Quarter Final after the Dutch match racers squeezed ahead of Stephanie Hazard / Jenna Hansen / Susannah Pyatt (NZL) for the final spot.

Russia’s Ekaterina Skudina / Elena Oblova / Elena Syuzeva, Spain’s Tamara Echegoyen / Sofia Toro / Angela Pumariega and America’s Anna Tunnicliffe / Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer / Debbie Capozzi all finished on eight wins each but with Skudina defeating both she finishes second whilst Echegoyen finished third having overcome Tunnicliffe.

Skudina will meet World #2 Lucy Macgregor / Annie Lush / Kate Macgregor (GBR) in the second Quarter Final, Echegoyen will go up against Claire Leroy / Elodie Bertrand / Marie Riou (FRA) and Tunnicliffe has to face 2012 World Champions Silja Lehtinen / Silja Kanerva / Mikaela Wulff (FIN).

All the teams have two days off to recharge the batteries before the Quarter Finals on 7 August.

Follow all the action on the ISAF Olympic Live Blog which will bring competition updates and instant reactions to the action on the race course. Fans can check in and ask our media team questions to get the very latest information. The blog will start one hour before racing each and every day of the competition.

Complete Results: www.sailing.org/olympics/london2012/results_centre.php

Follow all the action on the ISAF Olympic Live Blog which will bring competition updates and instant reactions to the action on the race course. Fans can check in and ask our media team questions to get the very latest information. The blog will start one hour before racing each and every day of the competition.

ISAF Olympic Website: http://www.sailing.org/olympics/london2012/home.php

You can also follow live @WIMRA on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WIMRA for live updating exclusively of the women’s match racing.

(Edited by WIMRA from the ISAF Website)