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Wendy Tuck is the first woman to win a round the world yacht race<\/p>\n
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Wendy Tuck has became the first woman to win a round the world yacht race after leading her Sanya Serenity Coast team to clinch victory in the Clipper 2017-18 Race.<\/p>\n
Second place overall went to British sailor Nikki Henderson, 25, skipper of the yacht Visit Seattle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s about being a woman. It\u2019s just do what I do. But I am very proud and even prouder of my team,\u201d said Wendy who is from Sydney. \u201cThey are the ones that did all the work and considering many had never sailed before, what they have accomplished is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Level playing field<\/p>\n
The Clipper Race trains non-professionals to be ocean faring sailors.<\/p>\n
The event was established in 1996 by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to sail solo, non-stop around the world.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThere has never been a round-the-world sailing race where the leading skippers are women.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have men and women competing together in sport on a level playing field is very special.\u201d<\/p>\n
40% of Clipper Race crew have no previous sailing experience before signing up and undergoing a compulsory four weeks of training.<\/p>\n
Aground<\/p>\n
In total, 712 people representing 41 different nationalities and from all walks of life have taken part in the 40,000 nautical mile Clipper 2017-18 Race, the event\u2019s eleventh edition.<\/p>\n
The race has not been without incident however. In October 2017 the yacht Greenings ran aground hours after the start of the third leg from Cape Town, South Africa, to Fremantle, Western Australia.<\/p>\n
The yacht suffered substantial damage deemed too extensive for it to continue in the race.<\/p>\n
And in November 2017, GREAT Britain crew member Simon Speirs drowned after falling overboard during a headsail change. An investigation into why his safety tether failed is ongoing.<\/p>\n
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