First CII World Championship sailed in separate male and female fleets

'Start line - Byte CII World Championships 2010'    Matias Capizzano © All Byte regattas, and not just the World's, are sailed as an open event. However, as this was an important qualifier, it was decided to split the fleet to avoid any possible chance of a sailor being prejudiced. This raised the question of who should be declared the World Champion as both male and female have won in the past. The level of sailing was so high in both fleets that declaring one or the other was out of the question. In fact, the elapsed times of the winners of the male and female fleets for each race were examined and an interesting statistic emerged. In three of the races, the females beat the males around the course by 1, 1 and 2 minutes. In four of the races the males beat the females by 1, 1, 2 and 2 minutes. In the two remaining races the times were the same. After 5 hours and 6 minutes of actual race time by the winners, the total difference was two minutes in the men's favour. An on-the-spot decision was made by the Class, with the approval of all present, to award the Permanent Trophy jointly in 2010! Battleship - Byte CII World Championships 2010 -  Matias Capizzano ©   Airborne during the Byte CII World Championships 2010 -  Matias Capizzano ©   by Byte Class - 5:46 PM Sun 11 Apr 2010 GMT Click here for printer friendly version Click here to send us feedback or comments about this story. If you want to send this story to a friend, please use link below http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=98077 Based on your current download speed Sail-World has delivered large images (660 pixels long side.)  If you would like to see only small images (300 pixels long side) click here .  For medium sized images (500 pixels long side) click here .  If you would prefer to see text only (without pictures) click here Click for further information on Byte Class International Association Byte CII - single handed dinghy Byte Class Events Byte Events 2010 CII World Championship Related News Stories: 30 Apr 2013  Australia’s first Byte Regatta 08 Mar 2013  UK Byte Nationals 01 Mar 2013  The next amazing singlehanded class, the Byte CII 21 Feb 2013  2013 Byte C2 World Champs & Youth Olympic Games Open Qualifier 06 Dec 2012  Nanjing 2014 spots up for grabs at Byte CII and Techno 293 Worlds 2013 29 Oct 2012  The Byte CII moves towards Youth Olympics 2014 04 Jun 2012  Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games equipment selection announced 11 Dec 2010  10 NA and Caribbean countries already signed for YOG Qualifier 09 Jul 2010  Scuttlebutt's video of the week 19 Apr 2010  $1 CII Charters at CORK 2010

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