The contestants’ list has been published for the match race Sailing Season of Sverdlovskaya Oblast Opening/NPO Komatek Prize (the grade 4 of ISAF). The regatta is a qualifier for the match race Sails of the White Nights/Congress Palace Cup and is held in Yekaterinburg. The citizens of Yekaterinburg – Sergey Musikhin, Aleksey Stupka, Valeria Pospelova, Vyacheslav Frolov, Sergey Katayev, Kirill Luzin and Andrey Kochnev – are to compete with Ivan Biryukov from Miass, Pavel Zimin from Saratov, Aleksandra Reshetova from Moscow, Vadim Korukov from Novouralsk, and Aleksandr Kompaniets from Samara. The qualification will last till May, 20.

 

The regatta Sails of the White Nights/Congress Palace Cup is a part of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour – world leading professional sailing tour. It embraces three continents, featuring 9 championships which got the Special Event status of ISAF. Currently it’s the only racing series in identically supplied boats since the America’s Cup organizing this kind of race.

The World Tour Qualifier (WTQ) is a path for skippers who are aiming to compete in the ISAF World Match Racing Tour.

This year the winner of the Sails of the White Nights/Congress Palace Cup will be invited to participate in the Match Race France – a WMRT stage taking place in Marseilles (France) from 24 to 29 of September.

 

В Балтийском информационном агентстве прошла пресс-конференция, посвященная нескольким событиям в мире парусного спорта Санкт-Петербурга. В ней приняли участие заместитель председателя Комитета по физической культуре и спорту Администрации Санкт-Петербурга Павел Белов, начальник сектора физической культуры и спорта Администрации Петроградского района Маргарита Храмова, командор СПбРСОО «Яхт-клуб Санкт-Петербурга» Владимир Любомиров, генеральный директор СК «Парусник» Олег Чугунов, генеральный директор ФГБУ «Государственный комплекс «Дворец конгрессов» Виктор Чирков, директор Государственного музея истории Санкт-Петербурга Александр Колякин и директор регаты «Паруса Белых ночей – Кубок Дворца Конгрессов» Наталья Федорова.

Источник артезианской воды «Госпожа Природа» существует очень давно. Но на регате «Паруса Белых ночей – Кубок Дворца конгрессов» его открыли недавно. У этой компании, которая призвана напоить и спортсменов, и сотрудников оргкомитета, есть главное – доверие клиентов. А уже в дополнение к нему – многочисленные награды, завоеванные продукцией на престижных выставках. Качество воды «Госпожа Природа» контролируется на протяжении всего производственного цикла, вода в прозрачных бутылях попадает к месту назначения точно в указанный срок, благодаря современному дизайну оборудования «Госпожа Природа» становится неотъемлемой частью интерьера.

Во всём этом мы успели убедиться на регате «Паруса Белых ночей – Кубок Дворца конгрессов» 2011 года. Дружим мы с «Госпожой Природой» и на предстоящих соревнованиях.

 

 

In St. Petersburg in the beginning of June traditionally sails are rife and rampant. The races take place in the historical centre of one of the most beautiful cities of the world; the citizens have already grown fond of the competition between the world strongest yachtsmen who come to the Northern Capital for the International Match Race “The Sails of the White Nights. Congress Palace Cup”.

In 2012 the regatta «The Sails of the White Nights. Congress Palace Cup» entered the list of the regattas timed to the centenary of the Russian Yachting Federation.

A century ago a really historical event took place: on March, 14, 1912 the Russian Sailing Racing Union was established. It was that day when Admiral Ivan Konstantinovich Grigorovich, the Naval Minister, signed the charter of the new sports organization.

The Union was created under the influence of the International Yacht Racing Union and the Baltic Yacht Clubs Union, and the stimulus were the Olympic Games in Stockholm. Apropos, there in the 10-meter class the Russian yachtsmen (Esper Beloselsky, Ernest Brashe, Nikolay Pushnitsky, Alexander Rodionov, Philip Shtraukh, Iosif Shomaker, Karl Lindholm) won their first bronze medal.

Since 1991 the Russian Yachting Federation became the successor of the Russian Sailing Racing Union. Today, as hundred years ago, the Russian Yachting Federation is a part of the International Sailing Federation; now it’s also a part of the EuroSAF and a member of all the nine International Olympic Yacht Classes Associations, as well as International Class Associations.

 

 

The 15th General Assembly of the European Sailing Federation, which took place in the city of Limassol (Cyprus), focused great attention on match-racing. The Executive Committee of the Federation has always emphasized the significance and prospects of this type of sailing races. In this connection, a new Match Racing Subcommittee of the Events Committee was sanctioned. It will be headed by Yana Dobzhitskaya, the representative of The Russian Yachting Federation. Oleg Ilyin and Yana Dobzhitskaya were appointed commissioners of the EuroSAF for the two main match-racing events of the season – men’s and youth European Championships.

The delegates of the Assembly discussed possibilities of preserving the classes which drop out of the Olympic program. Danish delegation made a suggestion of creating European Women’s Match Racing Tour per sample of the World Tour and European Cup. The idea was supported by the majority of the delegates, as well as ISAF representatives.

A short presentation on international match-racing tradition of Saint-Petersburg was introduced by Natalia Fedorova and Yana Dobzhitskaya. The delegates of the General Assembley voted unanimously for the Open European Match Racing Championship 2013 being hold in St. Petersburg as a part of the international regatta ‘The Sails of the White Nights’.

 

 

 

The Opening of a summer sailing season of Ekaterinburg will be held traditionally in May, the first sailing regatta - Opening of a season of sailing of Sverdlovsk region on NPO KOMATEK prizes (ISAF Grade 4 match race event), May 17 - 20, 2012. This event will be a qualifier for "Sail of White Nights – The National Congress Palace Cup 2012" (ISAF Grade 2 Match race event) which will take place in St. Petersburg from June 5 to June 10, 2012.

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