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                                  RANKING  2003

Fonte : www.women.formulawindsurfing.org



2003 FW Women Cup final ranking
6 events / 2 discards...
53 women...



Year 2003 introduced a large number of newcomers to international formularacing. Six events of 2003 Women Cup gathered 53 competitors on the rankinglist. With the Silvaplana event being cancelled, six out of seven plannedevents took place. One of the regatta was organized in Squamish (B.C.Canada) which enabled American women to join Women Cup. All of theorganizers who hosted women this year distinguished themselves by makingsure women racing was just as attractive as men's, which included suchactions as scheduling races in favour of women fleet starting first andrunning silver fleet racing. The growing number of females at the start linechanged their races - from being just a small add to the men's - into asecond part of a show. Racing of both fleets was very well visible tospectators on the beach and there was no major interferering betweenwomens/mens competitors during races. This all created the unique atmosphereof this years formula racing. The silver fleet system proved again to beright solution aimed on opening racing to formula newcomers. As a result ofwomen developement 25 females took part in 2003 Women Camp in the Lake Gardaand 18 took part in PWA race event in Leba, which was not part of Women Cup.Since the idea of Women Cup was born the avarage number of females whoparticipate at formula events has been gradually increasing with thestandart of 18 racers at each of big events this year. This is a significantchange comparing to appearance at the events couple years ago.


The winner of the 2003 Women Cup Dorota Staszewska (Starboard/Gaastra)scored 5 out of 6 wins, loosing the last event of the year and the Worldtitle to Christine Johnston (Starboard/Gaastra) who participated only in tworanked events, which placed her out of top ten. Cosistency was showed byGerman Chrsitine Becker (Starboard/Gun Sails) who finished second in oneevent and twice third and Verena Fauster of Italy (Starboard/Gaastra) withtwo seconds and two fourth places.The dominating brands this year wasStarboard and Gaastra with top twenty ratio:

Starboard 16 out of 20
Gaastra 14 out 20



Comments by the winner Dorota Staszewska

"It was another very succesfull year for me although I didn't win the finalrace and the World title. I guess it is a sign for me, all the girls and allthose interested in women racing that our competition becomes more and morechallenging, fleet is rapidly growing and the level of racing is constantlyincreasing. I am particulary happy to have "exported" Women Cup overseas,which has helped to promote formula racing outside of Europe. I would liketo thank all of the organizers of this years events who treated us likequeens and helped tremendously to promote formula. I hope that 2004 bringsanother dozen of new girls and we'll see some more events on othercontinents. I would like to thank my sponsors for letting me perform at thevery top: Starboard, Gaastra, Deboichet, Billabong and most of all Era andVolkswagen. I will keep pushing all the girls and try to win again next yearand, even though the European and PWA titles feel great, I will do my bestto fight back the World title. As a member of FW Committee I will continueto work for the class with great hope for its further development."



18th November '03