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Optimist North American Championship - And the winner is

by Opti on 5 Jul 2010
Christopher Williford, Duncan Willford (second) and Conner Harding (third) - IODA North American Championship International Optimist Dinghy Association (IODA) http://www.optiworld.org/

Optimist North American Championship 2010.

Christopher Williford from USA has just been crowned North American Champion 2010. Christopher sailed consistently throughout the event, finishing among the top ten sailors in all 12 races except for an OCS in race 8; and this is the second time he is awarded the trophy.


He was first overall in last year's North American Championship held in Republica Dominicana. But this time Christopher was not 'alone' on the podium since his twin brother Duncan was second overall. USA had more to celebrate, as accompanying the Willifords was Conner Harding, another USA sailor.

The USA domination of the top five was only interruped by Matias Dyck from Ecuador, who had been second during most of the event but did not have such good results today and could not take advantage of the second discard. Among the girls, Caterina Romero from Peru did remarkably well in all the races and earned a ninth overall and first girl.

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The prize giving was held today at the premises of CORK, after which dinner was served. The sailors spent most of the dinner time 'doing business' with their fellow competitors exchanging their uniform T-shirts and jackets.

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