OM INTERNATIONAL LEDRO MATCH RACE STARTED WITH THE OPENING CEREMONY

Sober, participated and followed by a rich buffet: the Opening Ceremony, held in the late afternoon at the clubhouse of the Associazione Vela Lago di Ledro, formally kicked off the twelfth edition of the OM International Ledro Match Race, an event valid as the sixth stage of the World Match Racing Tour, a circuit reserved for the best interpreters of one-on-one in a sailing.

During the ceremony, moderated by Mauro Melandri, the president of the AVLL, Giorgio Goggi, and the club’s councilor in charge of sport, Camilla Baruzzi, introduced the Regatta Officials, who will be coordinated by the Principal Race Officer, Fabio Barrasso, and by the Chief Umpire, Martin Clasen.

After the speeches of Luca Zendri, councilor for sport and tourism of the Municipality of Ledro, and Domenico Foschini, councilor of the Italian Sailing Federation for match racing, all the eleven skippers were introduced who, from 10 tomorrow morning, will give life to the first matches valid for the Round Robin which will promote the first four to the next phase of the event.

Protagonists of the OM International Ledro Match Race 2023 will be Eric Monnin (number 5, Switzerland), Damien Michelier, (8, France), Mati Sepp (13, Estonia), Rocco Attili (15, Italy), Jeffrey Petersen (16, USA ), Timothée Rossi (17, France) and Ted Blowers (18, England), Ruairi Finnegan (34, Iranda), Robert Mccutcheon (46, New Zealand), Martin Allix (79, France) and Vladimir Lipavsky (Israel).

Great satisfaction was expressed by the president of the Associazione Vela Lago di Ledro, Giorgio Goggi: “With today’s opening, a very important event begins for Ledro Lake: we have been organizing the OM International Ledro Match Race for twelve years now and we are proud to see it now is permanently included in the World Match Racing Tour calendar. It is a world-class circuit and this means that, over the next few days, there will be an international audience of sailing and match racing enthusiasts.

Once the OM International Ledro Match Race at the AVLL has concluded, there will be no time to rest, given that the EUROSAF Match Racing Women Open European Championship will already begin on June 27th, destined to end on the afternoon of the 30th.