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Canfield remporte le Chicago Grand Chelem (Slam)

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Chicago, IL (17 Août, 2014) - Le froid, le brouillard peuvent  avoir freiné les esprits des milliers de spectateurs présents à Chicago pour le "Air et Water Show", mais l'action sur l’eau fut très chaude pour la dernière journée de course du Chicago grand Slam.

Le brouillard du matin avec une visibilité mauvaise obligea le comité de course à reporter l’épreuve pendant environ une heure jusqu'à ce que les conditions soient suffisantes pour mettre en place le cadre  du parcours et démarrer les maths déterminant la 5e à la 8e place.

 Le vent de nord à 10-12 noeuds a commencé a se mettre en place.

Grâce à un positionnement courageux et avec un excellent timing, Pierre-Antoine Morvan et son Agglo Sailing Team Vannes prenait le meilleur sur Chris Steele avec un score de 3-0.

La ruse  mise en place hier par Steele  choisissant de venir de l'arrière dans les Quarts de finale ne fonctionna pas contre l'équipe française bien réglé.
Morvan a prévalu malgré une drisse de spi emmêlée sur leur dernièr passage à la porte sous le vent l’obligeant a naviguer au près avec le spi  fasseyant pendant environ une minute avant de l’affaler sur le pont.

Taylor Canfield et son US ONE  team ont  également dominé  leurs demi-finales, éliminant Sam Gilmour et son équipe Neptune Racing 3-0, pour rencontrer  dans une finale Royale le français, pendant que les représentants des anti-podes Steele et Gilmour jouaient la Petit-finale .

Dans le match un de la finale, Canfield et Morvan prennent le départ avec un mètres de distance, mais ensuite  le français choisissait la  gauche et Canfield la droite,  ce qui s’avérait le bon choix ce côté payant beaucoup et Canfield prenait  le commandant avec 10 longueur à la première marque  du haut. Morvan  trop en retard n’avait pas la possibilités de combler cette lacune et  Canfield remportait  le premier match.

En revanche, en  Petit-finale les coureurs sont restés ensemble tout au long de leur match, avec un résultat final déterminé que dans les dernières minutes de la dernière phase quand Steele a attaqué dans le dernier run, en essayant de rouler sur Gilmour, mais sans réussir à prendre le contrôle. Gilmour empannait alors  pour remporter le match.

Dans  le deuxième match, le vent est monté  et des vagues se sont gonflées pour atteindre et dépasser un mètre de hauteur,  rendant les pre-départ plus scabreux.

Canfield a de nouveau choisit  le côté droit, mais cette fois Morvan est allé avec lui. Canfield être sous le vent avait juste assez de place  pour virer et forcer les Français a partir à gauche, prenant ainsi  le contrôle.

Mais  à la marque haut, Morvan  prenait l’intérieur et réclamait de l’eau pour  contourner la marque, Canfield  ne répondait pas et récoltait une pénalité. Morvan était rapide restant à porté de son rival,  Canfield surfait sur la ligne, mais  était incapable de purger sa pénalité, Morvan remportait le 2ième match.

 En peite finale Steele  réussissait a égaliser avec Gilmour.

Dans le Match 3, Canfield a poussé Morvan dans les cordes pendant pré-départ,  celui -ci écopant d’une pénalité dans le dial-up initial peu après l'entrée, une deuzième pénalité alrs que Canfield l’avait bloqué contre le côté gauche du comité fut le coup de grace pour Morvanl qui ne fut ensuite jamais en en mesure de récupérer le retard des pénalités. Canfield  menait donc 2 -1.

Match 3 de la petite finale, Gilmour  passe  la ligne d'arrivée en tête, mais avec une pénalité en suspend de ¾ pour les dommages causés lors d'un match précédent.  Un quatrième match a été nécessaire pour décider de la troisième place.

Dans le quatrième , Canfield  forçait Morvan loffer, ce qu’il faisait insuffisament ou trop lentement écopant à nouveau d’une pénalité dans la phase de pré départ. Canflied n’avait ensuite plus qu’o contrôler et s’envolait vers sa troisième victoire consécutive à Chicago, victoire qui lui permmettra de prendre de l'élan pour la prochaine étape de l’Alpari World Match Racing Tour,.

«Ce fut l’épreuve la plus difficile du Grand Chelem qui s'est tenue à Chicago», a déclaré Canfield. «La compétition était vraiment difficile, avec quatre équipages dans le top 20 avec en plus les autres talents, cela aurait effectivement pu être une épreuve de grade 1. C'était un warm-up parfait pour nous  en prévision de l’épreuve du mois prochain ".

Dans le dernier match  de la Petit-finale, ce fut au tour de Steele d’écoper une pénalit et Gilmour de franchir la ligne d'arrivée en tête revendiquant la troisième place.

Les quatre épreuve de l’ US Match Racing Grand Chelem se déplace maintenant pour la 2 e année à Detroit et se tiendra à Bayview YC  du 21 au 24.Aout

Canfield wins Chicago Grand Slam

Chicago, IL (August 17, 2014) – The cold, foggy weather may have dampened the spirits of the thousands of Chicagoans arrayed on shore for the Air and Water Show, but the action could not have been hotter for the final day of racing at the Chicago Grand Slam.
The morning fog shut down visibility in the race area enough so that race managers postponed for about one hour until the conditions cleared enough to set up the course and start racing the Semi-Finals and Consolation round to determine 5th through 8th places. The northerly wind at 10-12 knots started building and shifting to the northeast to reach the low teens, with the accompanying sea state also progressing from choppy to lumpy to massively messy.
Through a combination of fearless positioning in the lumpy seas, excellent timing and fast pace, Pierre-Antoine Morvan and his Vannes Agglo Sailing Team first dispensed with their Semi-Final rivals Chris Steele and his 36° Below racing team quickly on a 3-0 score. The wiliness Steele showed yesterday in his come-from-behind victories in the Quarter-Finals was not working against the well-tuned French team. Morvan prevailed despite having a tangled spinnaker halyard on their last drop at the leeward gate of the last race, which kept the spinnaker up while going upwind for about a minute before it finally dropped to the deck.
Taylor Canfield and his US One team had a similar dominance in their Semi-Final matches, never giving rival Sam Gilmour and his Neptune Racing team from Australia a chance off the start line. US One won 3-0, setting themselves up for a Finals Battle Royale with the French, and an Antipodal Petit-Final between Steele and Gilmour.
In match one of the Final, Canfield and Morvan were rarely more than meters apart in the pre-start, yet after the split start with the French going left and Canfield headed right, the right side paid off big and Canfield took a commanding 10-length lead at the first top mark. Morvan had no opportunities to close this gap, so Canfield took the first point.
In contrast, the Petit-Final pair was tangled together throughout their match, with the final outcome determined only in the last few minutes of the last leg when Steele attacked on the run, trying to roll over the top of Gilmour, but unable to get well enough past to gain control. Gilmour then gybed for the finish and took the first point.
For the second match, the wind built into the higher teens, and waves rose to meet and exceed a meter in height, further amplifying the action in the pre-starts and around the course. Canfield at the start took the right, but this time Morvan went with him only a few lengths away. But Canfield being bow out to leeward had just enough edge to force the French to the left, and controlling the right now took the early lead.
But Morvan came back to at the top mark, and while entitled for room to round the mark, it was not given, so Canfield earned a penalty. Morvan was fast on the run, split with his rival at the gate, and came back at Canfield from the right to take the outright lead. A last late charge on the run at the finish had Canfield surfing across the line just ahead, but unable to claim with the win with the outstanding penalty still due.
Steele meanwhile managed to get ahead and stay ahead of Gilmour to even up their series.
In Match 3, Canfield kept Morvan on the ropes throughout the pre-start, even after Morvan copped a penalty in the initial dial-up soon after entry, with the coup de grace being when Morvan earned a second penalty while Canfield had him pinned against the side of the CMRC’s 80-foot houseboat regatta center. Never able to recover, the score now laid at Canfield 2 Morvan 1.
And in a close-fought match 3, Gilmour just passed Steele at the finish line, but could not claim victory because he was assessed a ¾ point penalty for damage caused in a prior match. So, only on 1.25 points, a fourth match was needed to decide the third place finisher in the event.
In the fourth flight, Canfield once again came out swinging, forcing Morvan into taking a penalty on a luffing incident, and then taking and extending on an early lead to win the match and the event. This is Canfield’s third consecutive victory in the Chicago Grand Slam, one that he says he will use to gain momentum towards his next major event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, next month’s Chicago Match Cup, where he will be defending champion.
“This was the most difficult of the Grand Slams held in Chicago,” said Canfield. “The competition was really tough, with four teams in the top 20 and all the other talent, this could have actually been a Grade 1 event. It was a perfect warm-up for us to the Tour event next month.”
In the last Petit-Final match, it was Steele’s turn to earn a penalty, one he could not shed to stop Gilmour from crossing the finish first and claiming third place overall. This was a remarkable comeback from a lack luster performance in the Round Robin, a tight battle to qualify in the Quarter-Finals, a 3-0 defeat suffered at the hands of Canfield, and a points penalty deduction that forced him to win not two but three matches.
The four event USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series now moves to the Grade 2 Detroit Cup, being held at Bayview YC on August 21-24.
Report by event media. Photo by Isao Toyama.
Event websiteResults
2014 USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series
Chicago Grand Slam: August 15-17
Detroit Cup: August 21-24
Knickerbocker Cup: August 28-31
Oakcliff International: September 4-7
Details: www.usamatchracing.com/2014
- See more at: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2014/08/17/canfield-wins-chicago-grand-slam/#sthash.MU45ZeU7.dpuf









Canfield wins Chicago Grand Slam

Chicago, IL (August 17, 2014) – The cold, foggy weather may have dampened the spirits of the thousands of Chicagoans arrayed on shore for the Air and Water Show, but the action could not have been hotter for the final day of racing at the Chicago Grand Slam.
The morning fog shut down visibility in the race area enough so that race managers postponed for about one hour until the conditions cleared enough to set up the course and start racing the Semi-Finals and Consolation round to determine 5th through 8th places. The northerly wind at 10-12 knots started building and shifting to the northeast to reach the low teens, with the accompanying sea state also progressing from choppy to lumpy to massively messy.
Through a combination of fearless positioning in the lumpy seas, excellent timing and fast pace, Pierre-Antoine Morvan and his Vannes Agglo Sailing Team first dispensed with their Semi-Final rivals Chris Steele and his 36° Below racing team quickly on a 3-0 score. The wiliness Steele showed yesterday in his come-from-behind victories in the Quarter-Finals was not working against the well-tuned French team. Morvan prevailed despite having a tangled spinnaker halyard on their last drop at the leeward gate of the last race, which kept the spinnaker up while going upwind for about a minute before it finally dropped to the deck.
Taylor Canfield and his US One team had a similar dominance in their Semi-Final matches, never giving rival Sam Gilmour and his Neptune Racing team from Australia a chance off the start line. US One won 3-0, setting themselves up for a Finals Battle Royale with the French, and an Antipodal Petit-Final between Steele and Gilmour.
In match one of the Final, Canfield and Morvan were rarely more than meters apart in the pre-start, yet after the split start with the French going left and Canfield headed right, the right side paid off big and Canfield took a commanding 10-length lead at the first top mark. Morvan had no opportunities to close this gap, so Canfield took the first point.
In contrast, the Petit-Final pair was tangled together throughout their match, with the final outcome determined only in the last few minutes of the last leg when Steele attacked on the run, trying to roll over the top of Gilmour, but unable to get well enough past to gain control. Gilmour then gybed for the finish and took the first point.
For the second match, the wind built into the higher teens, and waves rose to meet and exceed a meter in height, further amplifying the action in the pre-starts and around the course. Canfield at the start took the right, but this time Morvan went with him only a few lengths away. But Canfield being bow out to leeward had just enough edge to force the French to the left, and controlling the right now took the early lead.
But Morvan came back to at the top mark, and while entitled for room to round the mark, it was not given, so Canfield earned a penalty. Morvan was fast on the run, split with his rival at the gate, and came back at Canfield from the right to take the outright lead. A last late charge on the run at the finish had Canfield surfing across the line just ahead, but unable to claim with the win with the outstanding penalty still due.
Steele meanwhile managed to get ahead and stay ahead of Gilmour to even up their series.
In Match 3, Canfield kept Morvan on the ropes throughout the pre-start, even after Morvan copped a penalty in the initial dial-up soon after entry, with the coup de grace being when Morvan earned a second penalty while Canfield had him pinned against the side of the CMRC’s 80-foot houseboat regatta center. Never able to recover, the score now laid at Canfield 2 Morvan 1.
And in a close-fought match 3, Gilmour just passed Steele at the finish line, but could not claim victory because he was assessed a ¾ point penalty for damage caused in a prior match. So, only on 1.25 points, a fourth match was needed to decide the third place finisher in the event.
In the fourth flight, Canfield once again came out swinging, forcing Morvan into taking a penalty on a luffing incident, and then taking and extending on an early lead to win the match and the event. This is Canfield’s third consecutive victory in the Chicago Grand Slam, one that he says he will use to gain momentum towards his next major event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, next month’s Chicago Match Cup, where he will be defending champion.
“This was the most difficult of the Grand Slams held in Chicago,” said Canfield. “The competition was really tough, with four teams in the top 20 and all the other talent, this could have actually been a Grade 1 event. It was a perfect warm-up for us to the Tour event next month.”
In the last Petit-Final match, it was Steele’s turn to earn a penalty, one he could not shed to stop Gilmour from crossing the finish first and claiming third place overall. This was a remarkable comeback from a lack luster performance in the Round Robin, a tight battle to qualify in the Quarter-Finals, a 3-0 defeat suffered at the hands of Canfield, and a points penalty deduction that forced him to win not two but three matches.
The four event USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series now moves to the Grade 2 Detroit Cup, being held at Bayview YC on August 21-24.
Report by event media. Photo by Isao Toyama.
Event websiteResults
2014 USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series
Chicago Grand Slam: August 15-17
Detroit Cup: August 21-24
Knickerbocker Cup: August 28-31
Oakcliff International: September 4-7
Details: www.usamatchracing.com/2014
- See more at: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2014/08/17/canfield-wins-chicago-grand-slam/#sthash.MU45ZeU7.dpuf


Canfield wins Chicago Grand Slam

Chicago, IL (August 17, 2014) – The cold, foggy weather may have dampened the spirits of the thousands of Chicagoans arrayed on shore for the Air and Water Show, but the action could not have been hotter for the final day of racing at the Chicago Grand Slam.
The morning fog shut down visibility in the race area enough so that race managers postponed for about one hour until the conditions cleared enough to set up the course and start racing the Semi-Finals and Consolation round to determine 5th through 8th places. The northerly wind at 10-12 knots started building and shifting to the northeast to reach the low teens, with the accompanying sea state also progressing from choppy to lumpy to massively messy.
Through a combination of fearless positioning in the lumpy seas, excellent timing and fast pace, Pierre-Antoine Morvan and his Vannes Agglo Sailing Team first dispensed with their Semi-Final rivals Chris Steele and his 36° Below racing team quickly on a 3-0 score. The wiliness Steele showed yesterday in his come-from-behind victories in the Quarter-Finals was not working against the well-tuned French team. Morvan prevailed despite having a tangled spinnaker halyard on their last drop at the leeward gate of the last race, which kept the spinnaker up while going upwind for about a minute before it finally dropped to the deck.
Taylor Canfield and his US One team had a similar dominance in their Semi-Final matches, never giving rival Sam Gilmour and his Neptune Racing team from Australia a chance off the start line. US One won 3-0, setting themselves up for a Finals Battle Royale with the French, and an Antipodal Petit-Final between Steele and Gilmour.
In match one of the Final, Canfield and Morvan were rarely more than meters apart in the pre-start, yet after the split start with the French going left and Canfield headed right, the right side paid off big and Canfield took a commanding 10-length lead at the first top mark. Morvan had no opportunities to close this gap, so Canfield took the first point.
In contrast, the Petit-Final pair was tangled together throughout their match, with the final outcome determined only in the last few minutes of the last leg when Steele attacked on the run, trying to roll over the top of Gilmour, but unable to get well enough past to gain control. Gilmour then gybed for the finish and took the first point.
For the second match, the wind built into the higher teens, and waves rose to meet and exceed a meter in height, further amplifying the action in the pre-starts and around the course. Canfield at the start took the right, but this time Morvan went with him only a few lengths away. But Canfield being bow out to leeward had just enough edge to force the French to the left, and controlling the right now took the early lead.
But Morvan came back to at the top mark, and while entitled for room to round the mark, it was not given, so Canfield earned a penalty. Morvan was fast on the run, split with his rival at the gate, and came back at Canfield from the right to take the outright lead. A last late charge on the run at the finish had Canfield surfing across the line just ahead, but unable to claim with the win with the outstanding penalty still due.
Steele meanwhile managed to get ahead and stay ahead of Gilmour to even up their series.
In Match 3, Canfield kept Morvan on the ropes throughout the pre-start, even after Morvan copped a penalty in the initial dial-up soon after entry, with the coup de grace being when Morvan earned a second penalty while Canfield had him pinned against the side of the CMRC’s 80-foot houseboat regatta center. Never able to recover, the score now laid at Canfield 2 Morvan 1.
And in a close-fought match 3, Gilmour just passed Steele at the finish line, but could not claim victory because he was assessed a ¾ point penalty for damage caused in a prior match. So, only on 1.25 points, a fourth match was needed to decide the third place finisher in the event.
In the fourth flight, Canfield once again came out swinging, forcing Morvan into taking a penalty on a luffing incident, and then taking and extending on an early lead to win the match and the event. This is Canfield’s third consecutive victory in the Chicago Grand Slam, one that he says he will use to gain momentum towards his next major event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, next month’s Chicago Match Cup, where he will be defending champion.
“This was the most difficult of the Grand Slams held in Chicago,” said Canfield. “The competition was really tough, with four teams in the top 20 and all the other talent, this could have actually been a Grade 1 event. It was a perfect warm-up for us to the Tour event next month.”
In the last Petit-Final match, it was Steele’s turn to earn a penalty, one he could not shed to stop Gilmour from crossing the finish first and claiming third place overall. This was a remarkable comeback from a lack luster performance in the Round Robin, a tight battle to qualify in the Quarter-Finals, a 3-0 defeat suffered at the hands of Canfield, and a points penalty deduction that forced him to win not two but three matches.
The four event USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series now moves to the Grade 2 Detroit Cup, being held at Bayview YC on August 21-24.
Report by event media. Photo by Isao Toyama.
Event websiteResults
2014 USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series
Chicago Grand Slam: August 15-17
Detroit Cup: August 21-24
Knickerbocker Cup: August 28-31
Oakcliff International: September 4-7
Details: www.usamatchracing.com/2014
- See more at: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2014/08/17/canfield-wins-chicago-grand-slam/#sthash.MU45ZeU7.dpuf



 Overall placings
1. ISV Taylor Canfield
2. FRA Pierre-Antoine Morvan
3. AUS Sam Gilmour
4. NZL Chris Steele
5. SIN Maximilian Soh
6. USA Nathan Hollerbach
7. USA Donald Wilson
8. JPN Wataru Sakamoto
9. USA David Storrs
10. USA Dustin Durant
11. USA Steven Lowery
12. USA Christopher Poole
Final 1 2 3 4 5 W
Taylor Canfield Taylor Canfield, ISV 1 0 1 1
3
Pierre-Antoine Morvan Pierre-Antoine Morvan, FRA 0 1 0 0
1
Petit Final 1 2 3 4 5 W
Chris Steele Chris Steele, NZL 0 1 0 0
1
Sam Gilmour Sam Gilmour, AUS 1 -.75 1 1
2.25
Semi Final 1 1 2 3 4 5 W
Taylor Canfield Taylor Canfield, ISV 1 1 1

3
Sam Gilmour Sam Gilmour, AUS 0 0 0

0
Semi Final 2 1 2 3 4 5 W
Pierre-Antoine Morvan Pierre-Antoine Morvan, FRA 1 1 1

3
Chris Steele Chris Steele, NZL 0 0 0

0


TAYLOR CANFIELD
ISAF Ranking:002
ST. THOMAS YACHT CLUB
PIERRE-ANTOINE  MORVAN
ISAF Ranking:007
S.R.VANNES
DONALD WILSON
ISAF Ranking:020
CHICAGO MATCH RACE CENTER
SAM GILMOUR
ISAF Ranking:024
ROYAL FRESHWATER BAY YACHT CLUB YOUTH SQUAD
CHRIS POOLE
ISAF Ranking:028
SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB
MAXIMILLIAN SOH
ISAF Ranking:032
SAFYC
DUSTIN DURANT
ISAF Ranking:043
LONG BEACH YACHT CLUB
 
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Chicago, IL (August 17, 2014) – The cold, foggy weather may have dampened the spirits of the thousands of Chicagoans arrayed on shore for the Air and Water Show, but the action could not have been hotter for the final day of racing at the Chicago Grand Slam.
The morning fog shut down visibility in the race area enough so that race managers postponed for about one hour until the conditions cleared enough to set up the course and start racing the Semi-Finals and Consolation round to determine 5th through 8th places. The northerly wind at 10-12 knots started building and shifting to the northeast to reach the low teens, with the accompanying sea state also progressing from choppy to lumpy to massively messy.
Through a combination of fearless positioning in the lumpy seas, excellent timing and fast pace, Pierre-Antoine Morvan and his Vannes Agglo Sailing Team first dispensed with their Semi-Final rivals Chris Steele and his 36° Below racing team quickly on a 3-0 score. The wiliness Steele showed yesterday in his come-from-behind victories in the Quarter-Finals was not working against the well-tuned French team. Morvan prevailed despite having a tangled spinnaker halyard on their last drop at the leeward gate of the last race, which kept the spinnaker up while going upwind for about a minute before it finally dropped to the deck.
Taylor Canfield and his US One team had a similar dominance in their Semi-Final matches, never giving rival Sam Gilmour and his Neptune Racing team from Australia a chance off the start line. US One won 3-0, setting themselves up for a Finals Battle Royale with the French, and an Antipodal Petit-Final between Steele and Gilmour.
In match one of the Final, Canfield and Morvan were rarely more than meters apart in the pre-start, yet after the split start with the French going left and Canfield headed right, the right side paid off big and Canfield took a commanding 10-length lead at the first top mark. Morvan had no opportunities to close this gap, so Canfield took the first point.
In contrast, the Petit-Final pair was tangled together throughout their match, with the final outcome determined only in the last few minutes of the last leg when Steele attacked on the run, trying to roll over the top of Gilmour, but unable to get well enough past to gain control. Gilmour then gybed for the finish and took the first point.
For the second match, the wind built into the higher teens, and waves rose to meet and exceed a meter in height, further amplifying the action in the pre-starts and around the course. Canfield at the start took the right, but this time Morvan went with him only a few lengths away. But Canfield being bow out to leeward had just enough edge to force the French to the left, and controlling the right now took the early lead.
But Morvan came back to at the top mark, and while entitled for room to round the mark, it was not given, so Canfield earned a penalty. Morvan was fast on the run, split with his rival at the gate, and came back at Canfield from the right to take the outright lead. A last late charge on the run at the finish had Canfield surfing across the line just ahead, but unable to claim with the win with the outstanding penalty still due.
Steele meanwhile managed to get ahead and stay ahead of Gilmour to even up their series.
In Match 3, Canfield kept Morvan on the ropes throughout the pre-start, even after Morvan copped a penalty in the initial dial-up soon after entry, with the coup de grace being when Morvan earned a second penalty while Canfield had him pinned against the side of the CMRC’s 80-foot houseboat regatta center. Never able to recover, the score now laid at Canfield 2 Morvan 1.
And in a close-fought match 3, Gilmour just passed Steele at the finish line, but could not claim victory because he was assessed a ¾ point penalty for damage caused in a prior match. So, only on 1.25 points, a fourth match was needed to decide the third place finisher in the event.
In the fourth flight, Canfield once again came out swinging, forcing Morvan into taking a penalty on a luffing incident, and then taking and extending on an early lead to win the match and the event. This is Canfield’s third consecutive victory in the Chicago Grand Slam, one that he says he will use to gain momentum towards his next major event on the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, next month’s Chicago Match Cup, where he will be defending champion.
“This was the most difficult of the Grand Slams held in Chicago,” said Canfield. “The competition was really tough, with four teams in the top 20 and all the other talent, this could have actually been a Grade 1 event. It was a perfect warm-up for us to the Tour event next month.”
In the last Petit-Final match, it was Steele’s turn to earn a penalty, one he could not shed to stop Gilmour from crossing the finish first and claiming third place overall. This was a remarkable comeback from a lack luster performance in the Round Robin, a tight battle to qualify in the Quarter-Finals, a 3-0 defeat suffered at the hands of Canfield, and a points penalty deduction that forced him to win not two but three matches.
The four event USA Match Racing Grand Slam Series now moves to the Grade 2 Detroit Cup, being held at Bayview YC on August 21-24.

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