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Windsong
Racing Yachts Press Room
23 November 2004
TEAM SHOSHOLOZA ARRIVE BACK IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER SWEDISH MATCH TOUR IN JAPAN
Team Shosholoza arrived back in South African waters today after competing in the Nippon Cup in Japan - stage 4 of the Swedish Match Tour Championship.
Team Shosholoza skipper and head of the Windsong Racing Yachts consortium, Geoff Meek and SA America's Cup crew members finished eighth overall in the Nippon Cup, a Swedish Match Tour event, held in Tokyo, Japan.
The South Africans beat Japan's top three match racing skippers plus a German skipper Sven-Erik Horsch, who like Meek is new to the Swedish Match Tour, the world's leading professional sailing series.
Participation in the event is by invitation only to America's Cup skippers and it is only since South Africa entered her maiden bid for the 32nd America's Cup in 2007 earlier this year that Meek has been included in the high profile line up. The team raced in the Portuguese leg of the Tour in July.
A total of 12 top skippers were competing in Japan on identical Yamaha 30 yachts.
The Nippon Cup was won by the USA's Ed Baird. His victory gives him the overall lead in the Swedish Match Tour Championship so far, a position previously held by New Zealander Russell Coutts. Coutts has won the America' Cup three times and skippered the Swiss Team Alinghi challenge to victory in Auckland last year. Second was Gram-Hansen (Den), third Dean Barker (NZL) and fourth (Peter Gilmour (AUS).
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Team Shosholoza from left:
Guido Verhovert, skipper Geoff Meek, Alex Runciman and Marc Lagesse.
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