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Fireball Worlds 2010 - Title won with two races to go

Sailing

9:37 PM Thu 6 May 2010 GMT

'2010 Fireball Worlds fleet' Peter Marshall

Chips Howarth and Vyv Townend (GBR) won both races today, and have won the Fireball World Championships for the second year running. There are still two races scheduled to be sailed on Friday, May 7, but Howarth and Townend have been so commanding in their performance that it is now impossible for any other boats to catch them. Of the eight races sailed so far, the British duo have won six of them, finishing third in the other two. Two races were sailed today off the Barbados Yacht Club at Carlisle Bay, Barbados, West Indies under sunny skies and winds ...

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by Noah Purves-Smith