Win Asian Games J/80 Match Race!(Incheon, Korea)- Singapore's sailors bagged their third gold medal at the Incheon Asian Games after the J/80 Match Racing team beat South Korea 2-0 in a best-of-three final on Wednesday afternoon.
The five-man crew of Maximilian Soh, Andrew Paul Chan, Russell Kan, Christopher Lim, and Justin Wong had reached the final after winning 15 of their 16 match races in the nine-team round robin preliminary stage. They then beat Malaysia 3-0 in a best-of-five final.
Commenting
on the team’s performance in Incheon, Dr Ben Tan, President of the
Singapore Sailing Federation said, “Our sailors were up against the big
boys of Asia, such as China, Korea, Japan, and they did Singapore proud.
The hard work of our sailors and the attention to detail of the support
team brought us this excellent set of results. Singapore Sailing will
continue to build on our breadth and depth so that we can continue to
deliver for Singapore.”Singapore's sailors now have three golds, two silvers, and two bronzes so far at the on-going Asian Games. The results of Match Race Finals were: 1st Singapore, 2nd Republic of Korea, 3rd Japan and 4th Malaysia.
Thanks must also go out to Red Dragon Yachts, the International J/80 One-design builder in China for their fantastic support and ensuring the delivery of new, evenly-matched J/80s for the regatta! Thanks for contribution from Chua Siang Yee. For more J/80 Asian Games sailing information
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