Four days of tense competition and a nail-biting final race on Lake St Moritz brought victory for the Italian team from Circolo Della Vela Bari (CVB) in the SAILING Champions League Final in St Moritz, Switzerland. The team from CVB claims the title ‘Best Sailing Club of the Year.’ Runner-up is the Swiss club from Société Nautique de Genève, ahead of Wassersport Verein Hemelingen from Germany who took the third place. Thirty-one yacht clubs representing 12 nations came to St Moritz to fight for the prestigious silver trophy in the SAILING Champions League Final 2018. For the second consecutive year, the silver trophy of the SAILING Champions League stays in Italy. The CVB from the southeast coast of Italy takes over the title from their fellow Italians from Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. Three moths after winning Semifinal 1 of SAILING Champions League in Porto Cervo, Simone Ferrarese, Valerio Galati, Corrado Capece Minutolo and Leonardo Dinelli claim the title. The Italians won in an extraordinary showdown between the top four teams who qualified through to the four-boat final. After seven flights of eight-boat races, it was the Swiss team, Société Nautique de Genève, who came through qualification at the top of the leaderboard. If the Swiss could win the first race of the finals, the ‘first-to-two-wins’ format for this competition would have made them the champions. In a very light-airs final race, it looked like the Swiss would indeed close out the regatta. The Germans, Norddeutscher Regatta Verein and Wassersport Verein Hemelingen, were parked on the far side of the final run, and it looked like the regatta was slipping away. But, a small gust from behind wafted the Italians past the Germans and the Swiss. As they crossed the finish line, all four boats were overlapped, but CVB won the race by only one meter and the SAILING Champions League 2018 after adding up the points. For the clubs on the podium, three main partners handed over special prices:
1st– Breitling: four watches of the model Superocean Héritage
2nd– DEDON: a deep sofa from the TIGMI collection
3rd– KRAFTWERK: one Nautic Tool Trolley equipped with tools and four Swiss army knives
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