Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brasil – In an anticlimactic fifth and final match where a dying breeze found rival Bjorn Hansen (SWE) on the wrong side of a huge shift, Italian Paolo Cian and his Team Shosholoza managed to navigate through the zephyrs and win the 2008 Brasil Sailing Cup. For their efforts, Cian and his crew of Pierluigi Fornelli, Antar Vigma, Pierluigi De Felice, and Teva Plichard won the top prize of US$36,000 of the $150,000 total purse in this first event of the 2008 World Match Racing Tour.
Final Results:
1. Paolo Cian – $36,000
2. Bjorn Hansen – $21,000
3. Ian Williams – $18,000
4. Magnus Holmberg – $15,000
5= Torvar Mirsky – $13,500
5= Mattias Rahm – $13,500
7. Pierre Antoine Morvan – $10,500
8. Peter Wibroe – $9000
9. Adam Minoprio – $7500
10. Henrique Haddad – $6000
11. Juan Grimalidi
12. Daniel Glomb
Filed under: News | Tagged: Cian, World tour
