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Singapore wins Trofeo Marco Rizzotti in Venice

by SingaporeSailing on 27 May 2008
SingaporeSailors: Russell Kang, Luke Tan, Daniella Ng, Rachel Lee and Darren Choy SingaporeSailing
Singapore, fielding three of the sailors who won silver at last year's IODA World Championships’ team racing event, were utterly invincible at the first major team racing event of 2008 winning all 22 of their matches. Belgium came in second followed by Italy in third place.

The second Singaporean team, made up of a group of younger sailors, finished in eighth position. Eighteen teams from twelve nations participated including USA, Puerto Rico, Austria and Sweden.

SINGAPORE TEAM 1
Darren CHOY
Russell KANG
Rachel LEE
Luke TAN

SINGAPORE TEAM 2
NG Sue Shen
Kimberly LIM
Andrew TANG
Nathan TANG

Coach – Fernando ALEGRE
Team Manager – Joanna NG

Darren Choy, Russell Kang, Rachel Lee, Luke Tan and Andrew Tang will represent Singapore at the forthcoming IODA World Optimist Sailing Championships in Turkey from 14 to 25 July 2008.
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