Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships - Notice of race published

3:20 PM Fri 7 Jan 2011 GMT

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Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships - The event will take place in Fremantle, Western Australia and will feature 1300 athletes competing across ten events. For the first time in 2012, sailing will introduce women?s match racing at the Olympic Games and the discipline will join the nine fleet racing events to contest their world championship in Perth. Racing is scheduled to take place from 3 to 18 December. As well as hosting the battle for World Championship glory, Perth 2011 is the principal qualification regatta for the sailing events at the London 2012 Olympic Games where 75% of the ...

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