(05-31-2005) - Split, Croatia - Peter Gilmour (AUS), of Pizza-La Sailing Team became the new leader of the Swedish Match Tour leaderboard and the career victories list when he won the ACI H1 Match Race Cup. Gilmour and crew Rod Dawson, Mike Mottl, Kazuhiko Sofuku and Yasuhiro Yaji defeated Philippe Presti (FRA) 3-2 in a tightly fought series. Gilmour, with 112 points, overtook Ed Baird (USA), of Team Alinghi, for the lead of the 2004-'05 season. And Gilmour's seven career victories are tops on that list. Bertrand Pacé (FRA), of BMW Oracle Racing, placed third in the event, while Baird finished fourth. Pacé beat Baird 2-0 in the Petit Final.
"We've just been looking to improve on last year's performance," said Gilmour, 45 years old. "We weren't very happy with how we sailed the second half of last year. Now we've got two wins and a second in the last three events." Those finishes have put Gilmour in position to become the first repeat champion of the Swedish Match Tour. He leads Baird by 10 points (after trailing by 23 points at the beginning of May) with just one event to sail, the Swedish Match Cup (July 4-10).
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