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Capozzi and Team Win Sailing World Championships

Bayport's Debbie Capozzi and women's match racing team defeat Great Britain Dec. 20.

Bayport's and her team won the ISAF Sailing World Championships in women's match racing Dec. 20.

According to the article in the Miami Herald:

"Anna Tunnicliffe's (Plantation, Fla.), Molly Vandemoer (Stanford, Calif.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.) won the ISAF Sailing World Championships in women's match racing, defeating Great Britain's Lucy MacGregor in four straight matches."

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On Nov. 29, Sail World reported that Capozzi's team placed in the top two at the first qualifying regatta for the US Olympic team.

The three-woman team is set to to compete in final Olympic qualifier May 2012.

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