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News from 1973

This article has some information taken from an old Contender Newsletter, written by Mike Beggs after the Worlds in Imperia in Sept. 1973.


Results of Wordls 1973 Imperia

67 participants from 12 nations, 7 different nations in the top 10. The top three were the same people in the same order as in the worlds 1972. Unfortunately, the results list only sail numbers, not names. The first eight were:

  1. KA 99
  2. K 160
  3. IR 1
  4. G 15
  5. KR 9
  6. G 4
  7. I 2
  8. G 17 


Committee members of the ICA

President: Freddy Gale, Hayling Island (previously Secretary)

Chairman: Jack Hollis, Brisbane 

Secretary: Mike Beggs, London