Top win marks Courts’ return
PA Auckland The Olympic yachtsman, Russell Coutts, returned to the competitive arena to win the Fisher Stove champion-of-cham-ions regatta in Auckland on Sunday. Coutts, an Olympic Finn Class gold medallist, won the five-heat contest against the best field in its six-year history. Since 1984, Coutts has switched from the Finn class, racing through the 1985 season in a Flying Dutchman. He did not compete in the recent Olympic regatta in Auckland, however, because hoped-for campaign funds from the Sports -Foundation arrived almost two years late. Disconcerted by a lack
of hometown support for his planned Olympic comeback, Coutts dropped the Dutchman idea and joined the BNZ America’s Cup campaign as the tactician aboard KZ3. Olympics, though, could still be a possibility. This week-end’s win was a way for Coutts to say he’s back. “I was depending on some backing as an Olympic medal prospect,” he said. “I had asked for $lO,OOO and got $l5OO, so we were pretty determined to do well this week-end.” Coutts completed the five-heat series, sailed in Noelex 255, with two firsts, two fifths, and a sixth placing for a minimum point tally of 31.7.
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