The international elite has now gathered for this week’s races in Lysekil, which are part of the world’s largest match racing event for women with a prize purse of SEK 400,000. In addition to last year’s winner, another two Swedish women will participate with their teams. A total of 12 of the world’s foremost female match racing skippers will participate, including the current world champion Claire Leroy from France and Lotta Meldgaard Pedersen from Denmark, ranked number two by the International Sailing Federation. Preem Petroleum and Stena Bulk are the main sponsors of the popular summer event in Lysekil.
“For some time now, we have been supporting Linda Rahm, who won the competition last year here in Lysekil. In fact, we’re very much involved in the whole Rahm family and we were thus very pleased when Mattias Rahm triumphed in this year’s Match Cup Sweden in Marstrand. We are eagerly looking forward to this week’s races”, says Ulf G. Ryder, President and CEO of Stena Bulk...