Posted September 2006

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL COMPETITORS

Exchange of KIEL WEEK 2007 Race Schedule

From June 16^th to June 24^th, 2007 KIEL WEEK will celebrate it’s 125^th anniversary.  In this year the two parts of KIEL WEEK will be exchanged: from June 16^th to June 20^th, 2007 the races for the Olympic Classes will take place on Kiel Fjord, followed by the races of the International Classes in the second half of the week from June 21^st until June 24^th, 2007.

“This decision was made in favour of all participating competitors representing more than 50 nations” commented the KIEL WEEK Organising Committee (Jobst Richter, Thomas Ross, Sven Christensen) in co-operation with the City of Kiel and the four German Yacht Clubs integrated in the organisation. Reason for this rather vital but only once “swap” within the time schedule is the closeness with the ISAF Olympic Classes Worlds 2007, which will take place from July 2^nd until July 13^th, 2007 in Cascais/Portugal..

Similar support comes from the International Sailing Federation ISAF, the governing body of the sport of sailing. Secretary General, Mr. Arve Sundheim, commented: “We appreciate the flexibility, fair-play and cooperation of Kiel Yacht Club to advance the races for the Olympic Classes to the first half of KIEL WEEK 2007, thus enabling the top teams world-wide to participate in both major regattas. Consequently, the KIEL WEEK 2007 for the Olympic Classes will end on June 20^th, 2007, and the first race of the ISAF Worlds in Cascais is scheduled for July 2^nd, 2007.

Kiel Yacht Club and ISAF will arrange transport of boat material from Kiel to Cascais. Jobst Richter found already sponsors and partners who may assist in solving logistic problems, thus helping all competitors of the Olympic Classes as much as possible.

Further information: www.kieler-woche.de

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