China’s Qingdao added to World Match Racing Tour 18/06/2010 |
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The ISAF World Match Racing Tour series has added the Chinese venue of Qingdao to its schedule.
The five-year deal will see the first ‘Qingdao Match Cup’ take place from October 19-24 this year and will have a total prize fund of $500,000.
The event will use 10 brand new Beneteau First 40 yachts and will help maintain the 10-venue format which was proposed earlier in the year.
“The ability of the City of Qingdao to organise a stage of the WMRT in such a short amount of time [four month period] was something we analysed carefully,” said WMRT president Peter Gilmour.
“As both a competitor and organiser I am delighted to see that the penultimate stage of the 2010 Tour will be simply outstanding as the City Of Qingdao is now ready for the Tour.”
Qingdao hosted the sailing events during the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was also the venue for the Clipper and Volvo Ocean Race.
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