The 2010-2011 ISAF Sailing World Cup has already seen regattas in Melbourne, Miami, Palma and Hyères with fans, officials and sailors being treated to some expert sailing from the worlds finest.
The Netherlands' Marit Bouwmeester will sail in her home regatta in the 71 boat strong Laser Radial fleet. Bouwmeester, who is #1 in the ISAF Laser Radial Rankings, is third in the ISAF Sailing World Cup Standings and will be looking to rekindle her form of last year which saw her pick up the gold medal in Medemblik and the overall Laser Radial World Cup crown.
Sara Winther (NZL) who won the last two ISAF Sailing World Cup Regattas to top the Laser Radial Standings will not sail in Medemblik which opens the door for either Bouwmeester or Evi Van Acker (BEL) to take the top spot ahead of Skandia Sail for Gold and Kieler Woche.
Of the top ten in the Laser Radial Standings Veronika Fenclova (CZE) in sixth, Gintare Scheidt (LTU) in seventh, Dongshuang Zhang (CHN) in eighth and Annalise Murphy (IRL) in tenth are all set to sail in Medemblik.
In the Women's 470 just 31 boats are set to sail and of the top ten in the Women's 470 ISAF Sailing World Cup Standings only Tara Pacheco and Berta Betanzos (ESP) who are joint sixth place Henriette Koch and Lene Sommer (DEN) on 35 points and Ai Kondo and Wakako Tabata (JPN), eighth on 32 points, will sail in Medemblik. 2010 470 World Champions and silver medallists at Delta Lloyd, Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout (NED) will be looking for their first regatta medal of the season on home waters.
The Women's Match Racing competition has seen three different winners for the three regattas it has featured so far. Claire Leroy (FRA) won gold at the Rolex Miami OCR, Sally Barkow (USA) finished top in Palma and Lucy Macgregor (GBR) was victorious in Hyères. None of the previous winners will feature in Medemblik meaning there will be a fourth separate winner in Medemblik.
The Women's Match Racing field will include Anna Tunnicliffe (USA), Silja Lehtinen (FIN), Ekaterina Skudina (RUS), Stephanie Hazard (NZL) and Nicky Souter (AUS).
Thierry Schmitter (NED), Megan Pascoe (GBR) and Helena Lucas (GBR) occupy the top three places in the 2.4mR. They will sail in Medemblik.
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