Germans Compete For Match Race Supremacy In Hamburg(Hamburg, Germany- Nov. 6-7)- How's this for a headliner- "BMW Yachtsport 2010. BMW ORACLE Racing wins the America's Cup, while the BMW Sailing Cup, the largest international amateur regatta series, enters its fifth season". The BMW Sailing Cup has evolved over the past 5 years, according to BMW Yachtsport, into "the biggest amateur sailing event in the world. A sporting challenge, team spirit and joy in sailing are just a few reasons why the BMW Sailing Cup is enjoying increasing popularity. Six J/80 sailing yachts are made available to amateur crews and each event can take up to 90 sailors in 18 equal strength teams for each regatta on the circuit." Add in world famous, gorgeous, sexy, Der Spiegel tabloid star and Olympic Gold Medal figure skater Katarina Witt, and you have an amazing feast for the eyes to savor over a few days of sailing on the famous Hamburg harbor.
Before
the Germany Final got underway on Friday, Hamburg was visited by
several celebrities and professional yachtsmen. After three races, TEAM
NORD with Ulrike Schumann, Niko Mittelmeier and Phillip Buhl were able
to celebrate their victory over Markus Weiser while stars like ultra-hot
ice-skater Katarina Witt were enjoying their first experience out on
the un-frozen water. The biggest winners, however, were the children--
10,000 Euros were raised for the World Childhood Foundation! That's a
cause for celebration and kudos to BMW Yachtsport Team for supporting
such an wonderful program!A noteworthy prelude to this event was Germany's Championship of Champions held the week before, the winner was- Markus Wieser. Germany's sailing elite met in Hamburg the previous weekend for the 31st Championship of Champions. Only German, European and world champions in Olympic and international classes are invited to this exclusive and historically unique regatta. European Dragon champion Markus Wieser and his crew of Matti Paschen and Eberhard Magg defeated 35 other teams on Hamburg's Alster to win the Championship of Champions for the first time.
In
the finale, which featured the top three teams, the BMW Yachtsport
Ambassador (Markus Weiser) and his crew produced two immaculate races to
leave the opposition in their wake: second place went to the team
skippered by Denmark's Sten Mohr, who was part of the afterguard in the
BMW ORACLE Racing team for the 32nd America's Cup and was at the helm of
the then Challenger of Record in the semi-final of the Louis Vuitton
Cup. German match race champion Stefan Meister came third."It is fantastic to win this important regatta for the first time," said Wieser. "We produced the best sailing in difficult conditions and with little wind, and were deserved winners. We won all the starts and always led coming to the first buoy. The fact that our crew is used to sailing in various boat classes, as well as in match and fleet races, really paid off. This versatility was the key to our success." Despite their good performance in Berlin, Wieser ran into the chainsaw of a top-class field in Hamburg; the most important sailing regatta in the capital region all year. For more BMW Yachtsport German sailing information English version of BMW Yachtsport.