World Match Racing Tour leaderboard is the closest it has ever been

World Match racing Tour trophy © WMRT

2009 ISAF Match Racing World Champion Adam Minoprio and his team stepping up to claim the Argo Group Gold Cup last week, has caused the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) leaderboard to be closest it has ever been going into the final event of the annual championship, the Monsoon Cup.

While it is no great shock that topping the leaderboard is five time ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar crew, after last week's showdown on Bermuda's Hamilton Harbour when the British skipper was knocked out in the Quarter Finals, finishing in lowly seventh place, two teams are now nipping at his heels.

Meanwhile Swedish skipper Bjorn Hansen and his Nautiska Racing team finished third, while Taylor Canfield's US One team - a past winner of the Argo Group Gold Cup, and making a late charge in the World Match Racing Tour this year - also did well, coming home fourth, losing the Petit Final to Hansen.

So going into the Monsoon Cup teams get to count their top three results of the season so far. However while other results can be discarded in the overall annual championship scoring, their Monsoon Cup result cannot.

This, combined with points scored at the event being weighted with a 1.5x co-efficient, means that inevitably there is a tense conclusion to the season's final event. But this time the Monsoon Cup will be properly the World Match Racing Tour 'Season Finale,' given the Argo Group Gold Cup leaderboard shake-up which has left Williams leading Hansen by two points and with Canfield a further three points astern.

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