71st Richardson Trophy - VanTol in sudden death final

12:44 AM Mon 11 Oct 2010 GMT

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71st Richardson Trophy final day. In an exciting one-match sudden-death Final, Bayview YC's Chris VanTol and his crew of John VanTol, Michael Hoey, Will Cyr and 14-year-old Austin Colpaert have won the 71st edition of the Richardson Trophy, sailed this year at the Chicago Match Race Center (CMRC). This event, first sailed in 1912, is emblematic of match race supremacy on the Great Lakes, and is considered second only to the America's Cup in being the longest continuously held match race competition in the world. 'I give full credit to my team for getting us around the race course cleanly,' ...

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