IFDS Disabled Sailing International Championship - New format debuts

10:54 AM Fri 17 Dec 2010 GMT

'AUS v ITA at 2010 IFDS BMR Worlds - Blind Match Racing' International Association for Disabled Sailing Click Here to view large photo

IFDS Disabled Sailing International Championship 2011. Royal Perth Yacht Club has now released the Notice of Race for the IFDS Disabled Sailing International Championship, 2011, Homerus Blind Match Racing. The event will be held on the Swan River from March 19 to 26 next year. In July, the International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) formally requested the International Paralympic Committee introduce blind match racing as a new discipline within the Paralympic Sailing Competition commencing in 2016. While this is yet to be confirmed, the IFDS Blind Match Racing Championship next March will be the first opportunity that teams have to ...

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by Hayden Swanson