Linda Rahm Wins Tróia Portugal Women’s Cup

(From the Troia Portugal Women’s Cup web site: www.portugalwomenscup.com)

The Swedish Linda Rahm won the Tróia Portugal Women’s Cup,organized by Sun Sailing team and sponsored by Turismo de Portugal and Troiaresort, which ended today in Tróia. The crew won 13 matches and was defeated only twice in the three Round Robins.

The British Lucy MacGregor, current European Champion, reached the 2nd position with 10 wins and 5 losses.

Julie Bossard, France, was 3rd after, yesterday, have been almost perfect. The French team reached the podium, as a result of the excellent adaptation to strong wind.

The North American Sandy Hayes finished in 4th place (7 V-8D), while Rita Gonçalves managed to achieve its goal of improving the 6th in 2007. The champion of Portugal was 5th overall (5V-10D).

Caroline Béjar, Brazil, got the 6th place, adding only 2 wins in 15 disputed. Despite the presence in the team, of 470 Olympic medallist in Beijing 2008, Isabel Swan, the Brazilian crew never managed to adapt to the race course of Tróia.

Due to light wind, today was only possible to do 3 flights of Round Robin 3, which prevented the competition to reach the semi-finals and final

Final Results

* Skippers Victories/Defeats
* 1. Linda Rahm(SUE) 13V/2D
* 2. Lucy McGregor(GBR) 10V/5D
* 3. Julie Bossard(FRA) 8V/7D
* 4. Sandy Hayes(EUA) 7V/8D
* 5. Rita Gonçalves(POR) 5V/10D
* 6. Caroline Béjar(BRA) 2V/13D