SFWMRT at Busan Women’s World Match Race - Day Four
Saturday, November 1st, 2008Yesterday the top four sailed the semi-finals and we sailed against Sato for 5th.
In the first semi-final, Sally Barkow (USA) beat Susanne Ward (DEN) 3-0. And in the second semi-final, Claire Leroy (FRA) beat Katie Spithill (AUS) 3-0, thus setting up the Franco-American finals of Barkow vs. Leroy. The petit-finals will see Spithill vs. Ward.
In the lower places, we beat Sato (JPN) 3-0 to claim 5th and Tylinska (POL) beat Boyd (AUS) to take 7th.
Lower placings:
5th: Baylis (USA)
6th: Sato (JPN)
7th: Tylinska (POL)
8th: Boyd (AUS)
9th: Naik (IND)
10th: Li xue (CHN)
11th: Lim (KOR)
Our fifth place did earn us enough prize money to help defray most of our travel costs (even after the 27.5% !!! tax the Korean government is taking off the top), so that made our final finish position a little less disappointing.
For the finals today, Liz will be doing the live English commentary on the beach for the festival. It’s a pretty big deal here which is really cool.
The event web site is http://www.bsaf.or.kr/event_eng/event_01.htm has a lot of photos posted now. We have a bunch of photos as well and will try to post some soon on www.lizbaylis.com or on one of our Facebook pages.
Cheers,
Liz, Molly, Shala, Karen, and Sam
The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team