Helly Hansen

The gold in Match Cup Sweden went to French sailing star and Helly Hansen athlete, Claire Leroy. But the victory did not come easy. Young uprising Swedish sailor Anna Kjellberg really showed skill and spirit in the Finals series. Reigning Women's World Champion Claire Leroy and her HH Mermaid Sailing Team showed why they've dominated the women's game for nearly two years now, taking the top women's prize at Match Cup Sweden Saturday. In an otherwise all-Swedish field of Semi-Finalists, Leroy is the first non-Scandinavian to win this event. The team is always wearing Helly Hansen from top to toe when sailing! -This feels great. The team has done so well and Claire Leroy is a really experienced sailor. Tonight we are going to party!- the happy home skipper said. Clare Leroy continued: -It was really important for us to win the event, because the story of the team began here in 2003. We received an invitation to do the event, and I want with some friends of me. We did a bad result, but we did really good matches. So, we said that probably we had to build something serious, because we think that we could do something and win the event. So, we did, and since then you know the story. Since 2005 there hadn't been any women's event, so this year when they asked us to come for the women's match cup we accepted, and we said that this year we have to win this event. We had a big training in Sweden in june with the french men team, Linda Rahm, Jenny Axhede and some other teams. So we were more confident with the boat. During the race, we had a good Round Robin, we lost 2 matches. We arrived 2nd of the Round Robins . We had close matches, but we did some mistakes... After during the semifinal, we were very concentrate, we take good start. You know it was a day like when everything is easy... Linda Rahm did a good job, but we won 3 wins at 0. Afterwards we sailed against a local girl, the surprise of this event. Anna Keelberg. We had close matches, and all the public was in favour of them but we had the french open team, and they encouraged us a lot. And we won 3 Matches at once. That's really cool!-