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Zenith is proud to announce that Dona Bertarelli was named Female Sailor of the Year 2014
This weekend saw the SUI Sailing Awards ceremony take place at the Maison du Sport in Bern on Saturday 22nd November. Much to the audience’s delight, Dona Bertarelli was named « Female Sailor of the Year 2014 ». The acclaimed sportswoman, who has achieved multiple victories and sailing successes with her professional sailing team Spindrift racing, both with the D35 Ladycat and maxi trimaran Spindrift 2, is proud to sail under the colours of the Société Nautique de Genève and to convey Swiss sailing to the highest level on an international scale.
ZENITH, official timekeeper of Spindrift racing, is PROUD that Dona Bertarelli was named « Female Sailor of the Year 2014 » at the SUI Sailing Awards
Along with her partner, Yann Guichard, the renown French skipper, who recently finished second in the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe 2014, Dona founded Spindrift racing in 2011. This elite professional sailing team, which is based in La Trinité-sur-mer in south Brittany, represents their combined passion for the sea, sailing and competition. The team currently owns Spindrift 2, the world’s largest racing trimaran, Spindrift, a MOD70, and Ladycat, the D35 well known in Switzerland for its regular performances in the Vulcain Trophy circuit on Lake Léman. This summer, Ladycat won the the Bol d’Or Mirabaud with Dona at the helm. It was the second time that she achieved such a feat, and a particular highlight of the season.
Dona has also achieved a number of other successes, notably in offshore sailing, including winning the Rolex Fastnet Race and breaking the crewed record for the Discovery Route (Cadiz, Spain – San Salvador, Bahamas), both in 2013 onboard the maxi trimaran Spindrift 2.
An esteemed businesswoman and established sailor, Dona was previously nominated for this award back in 2010, following her first victory in the Bol d’Or Mirabaud. This year it is the first time that she has gone on to claim the award, the most prestigious of its kind in Swiss sailing, and a fitting representation of the years of hard work she has invested to build an impressive sports record to date.
Unable to attend the official ceremony in Bern last Saturday, Dona revealed her delight at receiving the award more than 6700km away in Guadeloupe, where she was attending the Route du Rhum prize giving. Her first reactions to the news, in a video message sent from Pointe-à-Pitre is available at: www.spindrift-racing.com
ZENITH MANUFACTURE
Founded in 1865 in Le Locle by visionary watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot, the Zenith Manufacture quickly became renowned for the precision of its chronometers, for which it has been awarded 2,333 chronometry prizes in just one and a half centuries of existence – the all-time record for pocket watches, marine chronometers and wristwatches alike. Made famous by the legendary El Primero calibre, an integrated automatic chronograph with a column wheel, launched in 1969, and whose high frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour ensures precision to a tenth of a second, the Zenith Manufacture has since created more than 600 movement variations. The Manufacture is rare in that today it is still located on the exact spot where its founder built the very first workshop.
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