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World Sailing
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World Sailing is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee. As a result, an International Conference of Yacht Measurement was held in London in January and June 1906, at which the Metre Rule was developed. This group went on to adopt a formal Constitution after a meeting at the Yacht Club de France in Paris on 14 October 1907 which is seen as the date of the International Yacht Racing Union. On 5 August 1996, the IYRU changed its name to the International Sailing Federation, on 14 November 2015, ISAF changed its name to World Sailing. Competitive sailing regatta contain events which are defined by a combination of discipline, equipment, gender and these criteria are defined by the race purpose. The following are the disciplines, Fleet Racing – The commonest form of competitive sailing involving boats racing around a course. Match Racing – Two identical boats race against each other and this is one-on-one duel requires strategy and tactics. The first to cross the line wins. Team Racing – Two teams each of three boats compete against each other. Fast paced racing depends on excellent boat handling skills and rapid tactical decision making, offshore/Oceanic – Any offshore race over 800 miles, including races around the world. Speed Sailing - Is managed by World Speed Sailing Record Council Wave riding is common to board sports Both windsurfing and kiteboarding are experimenting with new formats, cruising – Can be a coastal day sail or a longer distance international journeys, it is the most commonly enjoyed sailing discipline. Common categories of equipment include the following dinghies, multihulls, keelboats sailing yacht windsurfers, kiteboarding, within these categories normally specific class or rating system are used. The majority of sailing events are events in which males and females compete together on equal terms either as individuals or part of team. Sailing has had female only World Championships since the 1970s to encourage participation, for the 2016 Olympics, compulsory mixed gender in the event will be added for the first time. Para sailing regattas for para sailors likewise follow the World Sailing rulebook with a change to permit things like powered adoptations. Strict classification requirements are enforced in the Paralympic Games for fair competition in Paralympic-class keelboats, the key documents under control of World Sailing are, Racing Rules of Sailing – The RRS Rulebook is updated on every Olympic year. The federation recognizes over 80 classes which are entitled to hold world championships. Offshore Racing Congress World Sailing Speed Record Council International Radio Sailing Association World Sailing is responsible for administration of the Olympic Sailing Regatta, Sailing has been a mainstay of the modern summer Olympic games since 1896, omitted only from the 1904 summer games in St. Louis
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World Match Racing Tour
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The World Match Racing Tour is an annual match racing tour and World Championship in the match racing event of sailing. The World Match Racing Tour has special event-status from the International Sailing Federation, the Tour awards over US$1.5 million in prize money, with points awarded at each event culminating in the crowning of the ISAF Match Racing World Champion. A US$500,000 overall prize pool for the Championship is now on offer, Tour events utilise the match race with racing taking place in identical supplied racing yachts which change for each event and which place a firm focus on teamwork and skill to win the race. Racing takes place close to the shore in order for the public to follow the races as if they were in virtual on-the-water stadiums. Media and television highlights coverage spans the globe, reaching millions of households in over 183 countries around the world, the World Match Racing Tour in its current format started in year 2001. However, many of its regattas started earlier, e. g. the King Edward VII Gold Cup in 1937 with American Briggs Cunningham as the first winner. During the mid-1990s, match racing receives greater interest and Fabergé, the series offered USD250,000 of prize money, the highest prize awarded in sailing regattas. To win the big prize – and the Fabergé egg, the competitor had to win three out of five regattas in Bermuda, San Francisco, New York, Lymington and Séte – the Brut Cup. In 1997, Russell Coutts and his Team Magic wins the Fabergé Egg, Brut left as a sponsor after that leaving the match racing series in a state of limbo. Swedish Match takes over as sponsors of the racing series in 1998. In 2000, the Swedish Match Tour gets the official match racing sailing series sanctioned by the International Sailing Federation, bertrand Pacé is the winner of the tour. In 2005, the first Asian event in the racing circuit – Monsoon Cup – is added. In 2006, Swedish Match Tour becomes the World Match Racing Tour, korea Match Cup joined the World Match Racing Tour in 2008. Great Britains Royal Jeweler’s, Garrard & Co created the World Match Racing Tour trophy in 2011, in 2012, ALPARI UK Ltd becomes title sponsor of the tour – renaming it as the Alpari World Match Racing Tour. This year Ian Williams bags his fourth tour-winning and world championship matching match-racing legend Peter Gilmour who announced retirement that year, the World Match Racing Tour has been sponsored since 2000. The title sponsorship enables the tours sponsorship name, there have been two sponsors since the tours formation
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Briggs Cunningham
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Briggs Swift Cunningham II was an American entrepreneur and sportsman, who raced automobiles and yachts. Born into a family, he became a racing car constructor, driver. He skippered the first victorious 12-metre yacht Columbia in the 1958 Americas Cup race and he was featured on the April 26,1954 cover of Time magazine, with three of his Cunningham racing cars. The caption reads, Road Racer Briggs Cunningham, Horsepower, Endurance and he became an early member of the Road Racing Drivers Club, an invitation-only club formed to honor notable road racing drivers. He was inducted into the Americas Cup Hall of Fame in 1993, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1997, Cunningham died in Las Vegas, of complications from Alzheimers disease, at the age of 96. In 1931 Cunningham was a member on the Dorade when it won the Fastnet race. He also invented the cunningham downhaul to increase the speed of racing sailboats and he continued in competition for 36 years. By 1940 he was building cars for others to race. His first race as a driver was with his Bu-Merc, a modified Buick chassis with Buick engine and Mercedes-Benz SSK body, some of his other hybrids involved Cadillacs, Chryslers, and Fords. Cunningham was one of the first to purchase a Ferrari Tipo 166 Corsa Spyder, in 1950 Briggs Cunningham entered two Cadillac cars for Le Mans, one a stock-appearing Sixty Special, the other a special-bodied sports car dubbed Le Monstre. They finished 10th and 11th overall, on December 31,1950 Cunningham participated in the 6-hour Sam Collier Memorial Race, the first automobile race held on the Sebring Airport race track, which was won by a Crosley HotShot. Cunningham finished 3rd in class and 17th overall in his Aston Martin DB2 Vantage LML/50/21,1955 was last year for the Cunningham marque of cars. The Internal Revenue Service rules of the time allowed such prototype low volume manufacturers 5 years to reach profitability before classifying the business as a non-deductible hobby. By 1956 Team Cunningham, which also fielded other marques, was described as a dominant force in SCCA sports car racing — a distinction the team retained for the next decade. The team traveled in a caravan with tractor trailer vans that contained the automobiles, mechanics and equipment and this contrasted with the typical arrival into the pits of a single race car on a trailer, and was described as impressive by driver Lake Underwood. The teams chief mechanic was Alfred Momo. Cunningham concentrated on automobiles, high-performance prototypes that he. A few, adapted for use, were personal vehicles. In 1952, Cunningham introduced the Continental C3 road car, production began in his West Palm Beach plant where his team of mechanics installed 331-cubic-inch Chrysler hemi V-8s in Cunningham C-2R racing chassis
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Swedish Match
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Swedish Match is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that makes snus, moist snuff, and chewing tobacco. These products are known as moist smokeless tobacco, the company also makes machine-made cigars, matches, lighters as well as razors, batteries, light bulbs and tooth picks. Swedish Match operates in nine countries, with 4,488 employees, the products are sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. The Swedish Match share has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, large cap segment, since 1996 and it is a constituent of the OMX Stockholm 30 and OMX GES Sustainability Sweden indices. In 2015, approximately 60 percent of the trades by number of shares were done at Nasdaq Stockholm,25 percent at Chi-X,11 percent at Turquoise, the group had total sales of 14,486 MSEK and an operating profit from product areas of 3,690 MSEK. Snus and moist snuff accounted for 35 percent of sales and 54 percent of Swedish Match’s operating profit, in 1992, the tobacco and lights operations were joined in the Procordia Group. Two years later, they were merged into an independent company named Swedish Match, Svenska Tändsticks AB In 1917, Ivar Kreuger founded Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget in Jönköping. It was a merger between Aktiebolaget Förenade Tändsticksfabriker and Jönköpings & Vulcans Tändsticksfabriksaktiebolag, a year later, STAB was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. In 1930, the company controlled 60 percent of the world’s match production and was the owner of match companies in 33 countries. Following the death of Ivar Kreuger in 1932, the structure in STAB changed. During 1938, STAB’s share of the world’s matchmaking fell to 20 percent, when the match market declined sharply in the 1950s, STAB looked for new business ventures and acquired more than 50 companies between 1968 and 1976. In 1980, Svenska Tändsticks AB changed its name to Swedish Match to create unity throughout the group, in 1988 the company was acquired by Stora AB and was sold two years later to Nederlight. After another two years, Procordia acquired Swedish Match, AB Svenska Tobaksmonopolet In 1915, the Swedish government founded AB Svenska Tobaksmonopolet and nationalized all Swedish tobacco production plants. The monopoly was introduced in order to give the government funds to finance the military defense. During the 1960s, the monopoly on production, import and sale of tobacco was abolished in Sweden, Svenska Tobaksmonopolet was converted to a new state-owned company named Svenska Tobaks AB. In 1971, the ownership of the group was transferred to Statsföretag, the Swedish National Wealth Fund. In 1989, Procodia was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, volvo acquired part of Procordia in 1990 and became the principal owner together with the Swedish government. To complement the business, Procordia, in 1992, acquired the match
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Monsoon Cup
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The Monsoon Cup is a yacht race in Malaysia, held in the state of Terengganu. The Monsoon Cup is an event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour calendar. It is also considered as the most formidable leg of the Tour. The match racing sport differs from other sailing disciplines in that the boats race one-on-one in supplied racing yachts, the yachts supplied for the Monsoon Cup are Foundation 36 type racing yachts. The Cup was first initiated by the former Malaysian Prime Minister, the Prime Minister thought the monsoon season should be used as an advantage to the state rather than being seen as a hurdle. The Monsoon Cup in 2011 was held at Pulau Duyong, Terengganu, in the year 2012, Monsoon Cup was the eighth and final event on the World Match Racing Tour 2012. Twelve of the best match racing teams met on the waters off Terengganu in Malaysia from 3 to 8 December 2012 to contest the event. The battle for the championship saw the top sailing teams in the world pitting their skills against each other in the last leg of the tour. The 2013 Monsoon Cup event will be held in the half of November. The main match racing event will occur on the 25th till the 30th of November, prior to the main event, the Malaysian Match Racing Championship which serves as a local qualifiers for a spot in the Monsoon Cup will be held from the 15th to 18 November. This sailing event has also ignited interest in racing and yachting in Asia and has also helped increase awareness of the prestigious Americas Cup. A majority of the participants in the Monsoon Cup are sailors that have or will be competing in the Americas Cup and has also participated by three times Olympic gold medalist. The success of the Monsoon Cup has also helped create the Korea Match Cup and spurred Singapore and Qingdao in China to be venues for the Volvo Ocean Race and Olympics respectively. The Malaysian Match Racing Championship, otherwise known as Liga Layar Malaysia, is an event where Malaysian based teams compete for the position in the Monsoon Cup. The event is an initiative to modernize the local sailing circuit with the aim of providing a platform for local sailors to learn, compete and eventually create world beaters for competitions. The match race is held on a round format in every state. A spin off from the Monsoon Cup is a sailing program called Belia Belayar. The program is aimed at providing an opportunity for youths above the age of 10, from schools in the Kuala Terengganu area, the participants would be mentored by competent F36 coaches
Bertrand Pacé (FRA)
Magnus Holmberg (SWE)
Peter Holmberg (USA)
Jesper Radich (DEN)
Peter Gilmour (AUS)
Ian Williams (GBR)
Adam Minoprio (NZL)
Taylor Canfield (ISV)
