{"id":204,"date":"2011-10-10T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T11:39:15","slug":"torvar-mirsky-wins-in-bermud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yachtracing.biz\/life\/2011\/10\/torvar-mirsky-wins-in-bermud\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirsky Wins Back to Back WMRT Events."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mirsky<\/a><\/p>\n

The World Match Racing Tour<\/a> will once again go down to the wire, with at least 3 teams still in contention for the title of World Champion. The Argo Group Gold Cup set up the showdown, with The Wave Muscat<\/a> Match Racing Team skippered by Australian Torvar Mirsky taking their second win in as many events.<\/p>\n

The final was a thrilling 5-set match between Mirsky’s Racing Team and Sweden’s Johnie Berntsson. A win in the petit final for Francesco Bruni over Phil Robertson means just over six points now separate the trio of Ian Williams, Bruni and Mirsky with only the Monsoon Cup to go.<\/p>\n

Mirsky is looking strong. After a few career distractions early in the year, this is perhaps his best chance of winning the World Match Racing Tour. The core team around him are all sailing well, due to high level competition in other series like the Extreme Sailing Series and America’s Cup<\/a> World Series.<\/p>\n

Mirsky was knocked out of the 2010 Gold Cup in the quarter-finals by Berntsson and more than avenged for that defeat this year. He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are over the moon with winning two titles in a row. We\u2019ve never done that well in Bermuda and we\u2019ve never had many Tour wins so this is fantastic, we\u2019re really on a roll. I\u2019m so proud of the way the team sailed this week, everyone just knew what they were doing on board and we felt comfortable and confident. Johnie really tested us in the final which made for some great sailing.<\/p>\n

We are now close to Ian in the points and we have a big chance for the world title so we\u2019ll be fighting for it! Hopefully we can keep on this roll and win in Malaysia too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Berntsson, who picked up 22 points for his win here to give his season a huge fillip, commented:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re disappointed but it was a great performance overall. The finals were really tight and we felt like it could have gone either way. We collected too many penalties though and lost the last pre-start and that really cost us. Torvar did a great job and was tough to beat so congratulations to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe in an hour we\u2019ll be happy but right now we\u2019re really disappointed because we came so close to winning. We\u2019ve got a 3 year aim to finish on the podium so we\u2019re progressing well towards that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy to get an automatic invite to Malaysia. That was our goal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overall Championship Standings \u2013 after 7 stages<\/h2>\n
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  • 1 Ian Williams (GBR) Team GAC Pindar \u2013 106pts<\/li>\n
  • 2 Francesco Bruni (ITA) Bruni Racing \u2013 100pts<\/li>\n
  • 3 Torvar Mirsky (AUS) The Wave Muscat \u2013 99.8pts<\/li>\n
  • 4 Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing \u2013 78.8pts<\/li>\n
  • 5 Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Mekonomen Sailing Team \u2013 75pts<\/li>\n
  • 6 Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team \u2013 74pts<\/li>\n
  • 7 Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team \u2013 73.2pts<\/li>\n
  • 8 Jesper Radich (DEN) Adrian Lee & Partners \u2013 71.2pts<\/li>\n
  • 9 Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team \u2013 69.6pts<\/li>\n
  • 10 Phil Robertson (NZL) WAKA Racing \u2013 64.4pts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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