Meet world's best match racing skippers | Megan Thomson

Editor’s note:

The 2023 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) Shenzhen•Bao'an Final and World Bay Area Regatta is in full swing. Twelve of the world’s best match racing skippers from nine countries are competing in the final through Sunday. The winner of the event will be crowned 2023 Match Racing World Champion and take home a share of the US$200,000 purse. Between intense training and matches, the skippers are giving us interviews, talking about their training, their goals and their observations during their visit to Shenzhen.

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2023世界帆船对抗巡回赛深圳•宝安总决赛暨世界湾区帆船赛如火如荼。来自九个国家的12位世界顶级水平的帆船赛事船长和船队，在宝安区大铲湾、欢乐港湾等水域，展开对全球总冠军荣誉、20万美元总决赛奖金的激烈竞争，给本地居民呈现一场近距离、高竞技、强对抗，观赏性极强的顶级帆船比赛。在紧张的训练和比赛间隙，12位船长们接受了我们的采访，畅谈赛前训练，比赛目标以及他们在深圳的所见所闻。

Video by Liu Xudong

Megan Thomson（梅根·汤姆森）

World Sailing Ranking 世界帆联排名：NO.15

Leaderboard of World Match Racing Tour 世界帆船对抗巡回赛排名：NO.14

Nationality 国籍: New Zealand 新西兰

Team 队名：Two Point Zero Racing

Crew 队员: Leo Takahashi, Nicholas Heiner, Niall Malone

A video message from Megan Thomson shot before she comes to Shenzhen.

Megan Thomson (born March 10, 1998) and her RNZYS Performance Programme team 2.0 Racing have been one of New Zealand’s premier match racing teams for the past few years. The 2.0 Racing team campaigned throughout the 2022 World Match Racing Tour’s US Grand Slam and was impressive against some of the world’s best open Match Racing teams. In 2022, Megan and her team competed on the newly launched all-female Women’s World Match Racing Tour finishing in 5th place from 26 teams. She also finished in 5th place at the 2022 Open Match Racing World Championship in Sydney. In 2023, her team finished an impressive 3rd place on the Women’s World Match Racing Tour, before returning home to New Zealand to win the 2023 Women’s Match Racing Championships. Megan is the only female skipper in the 2023 WMRT Final Shenzhen Baoan.

Megan Thomson（1998年3月10日出生）和她的帆船赛队在过去几年里一直是新西兰顶级比的对抗赛船队之一。2.0帆船赛队队在2022年世界比赛巡回赛的美国大满贯比赛中全程征战，并在与世界上一些最好的公开赛车队的比赛中留下了深刻印象。2022年，梅根和她的团队参加了新推出的全女子世界帆船对抗巡回赛，在26支车队中获得第5名。她还在悉尼举行的2022年世界帆船对抗巡回公开赛上获得第五名。2023年，她的赛队队在女子世界帆船对抗巡回赛中获得了令人印象深刻的第三名，随后返回新西兰，赢得了2023年女子比赛锦标赛的冠军。梅根是2023年WMRT决赛深圳宝安唯一的女队长。