Foto copyright Chris Cameron/ETNZ
Santi en el traveller, Ben Ainslie al timón y pegado a sus espaldas Ian Percy a la táctica. Un racimo de medallas en el Team Origin.
Fuente info Team Origin
TEAMORIGIN PREVIEW TO LOUIS VUITTON TROPHY AUCKLAND REGATTA: SAILING TEAM LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
ISSUED THURSDAY 4TH MARCH
TEAMORIGIN have now been down in Auckland since 22nd February and are in the final throes of preparation for the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland Regatta. Training days take place on Sunday 7th and Monday 8th March and racing starts on Tuesday 9th March. The initial round robin happens between Tuesday 9th March until Monday 15th March, followed by 2-3 days elimination rounds, semi’s and then the Louis Vuitton Finals on Sunday 2st March.
TEAMORIGIN released today their sailing team line-up for the event as follows:
#1 Bow Matt Mitchell, NZL
#2 Mid Bow Matt Cornwell, GBR
#3 Mast Julien Cressant, FRA
#4 Pit Craig Satterthwaite, NZL
#5 Grind 1 Mark McTeague, AUS
#6 Grind 2 Pawel Bielecki , POL
#7 Mid Grind Chris Brittle, GBR
#8 Trim Up Mike Mottl, AUS
#9 Trim Down Andy Hemmings, GBR
#10 Main Chris Salthouse, NZL
#11 trav/strategist Santiago Lange, ARG
#12 Helm Ben Ainslie, GBR
#13 Tactician Iain Percy, GBR
#14 Navigator Ian Moore, GBR
#15 Strategist Andrew Simpson, GBR
#16 Runner Mike Sanderson, NZL
#17 Runner/pit assist Anthony Nossiter, AUS
Spare/rotation Name
#18 Grinder David Carr, GBR
#19 Trimmer Christian Kamp, DEN
The Match racing team of Ben Ainslie, Iain Percy, Mike Mottl, Zac Hurst, Julien Cressant and Matt Cornwall are this week competing in the Omega Match racing event and headed up the leaderboard after day one with 6 wins and 2 losses. There was no racing today due to too much wind. Racing resumes tomorrow.
The eight teams lining up for the LV Trophy event are:
Emirates Team New Zealand, NZL
All4One, FRA/GER
Mascalzone Latino, ITA
Azzurra, ITA
Synergy, RUS
Artemis, SWE
TEAMORIGIN, GBR
Aleph, FRA
Follow Racing:
Racing can be followed on www.teamorigin.com (we will post a live blog during racing, a link to enable you to watch racing online and will also issue daily updates, photos, videos and news from the team. Sky Sports in the UK will show the daily highlights programmes – we will post times when we have them.
