(St. Moritz, Switzerland)- Twenty-four yacht club teams are set to fight for the title “Best Sailing Club of the Year“ and the prestigious silver trophy in the SAILING Champions League Final 2019, due to take place in St. Moritz on 15 to 18 August. After a long summer of qualification battles, it’s crunch time. We’ve witnessed champagne sailing in Palma de Mallorca and in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, and tricky conditions and very light winds in St. Petersburg, Russia as the teams fought tough battles in the matched fleets of one-design J/70 class sailboats- the world’s most popular sportboat.
From the overall 20 nations represented in SAILING Champions League 2019, only ten nations made it into the final: Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland. The Australian team from Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron enters the competition for the first time. Also, among the finalists is the German team from Bodensee-Yacht-Club Überlingen that won their ticket as the winner of this year’s Youth SAILING Champions League at Kiel Week in late June.
VIP guests, partners and journalists have the opportunity to take part in a Sailing Experience or a motorboat ride on Lake St. Moritz and to meet the sailors personally at “meet and greets”.
The SAILING Champions League is supported by a number of key partners: Juvia, KRAFTWERK, DEDON, Badrutt’s Palace, Breitling, St. Moritz Tourism, Graubünden, DKSH, SAP and Marinepool.
Livestream and results by SAP SAILING
The final two days of racing on Saturday and Sunday will be live broadcasted by SAP SAILING from 12:00 hrs (GMT) on, with expert commentators providing blow-by-blow analysis of the racing, aided by the detail provided by SAP Sailing Analytics. The SAP Sailing Analytics provide 24/7 additional statistics and data for sailors, fans, spectators and media like GPS tracking, real- time analysis, live leaderboard combined with 2D visualization. You can find all results on sapsailing.com. Sailing Photo credits: SCL/Sailing Energy. For more J/70 SAILING Champions League information