Chris Schmid | Sailing & Sports photography

Audi Medcup Barcelona: Best of Day 4

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:57:38 +0000

Last day of sailing here in Barcelona with a nice 15 knots of wind and huge waves! The victory comes to Artemis behind Emirates Team New Zealand.

Audi Medcup Barcelona: Best of Day 3

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:44:24 +0000

Good condition again today for the 4th day of the Audi Medcup stop in Barcelona. Tomorrow last day, we hope to have once again the same conditions.

Audi Medcup Barcelona: First photos

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:23:58 +0000

Nice conditions today in Barcelona with a wind of 12-15 knots. A wonderful weather to take sailing photos. So here it is the best photos from today, second day of race for the TP 52 at the Audi Medcup Régate Camper – Trophée Conde de Godó.

Swiss Swimming Juniors Ch/Ships

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:34:17 +0000

Fom the August 15th to 18th I’ll cover for the Swiss Swimming Federation the the Swiss Swimming Juniors Championships in Lancy, Geneva. Today Thursday it was a great sunny day and just fantastic to take outdoor swimming photos. So here we’re with the first photos of the day. Stay tuned for more photos on Saturday and Sunday.

Sunny day at the mountain

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:24:03 +0000

Summer is here, no doubt about it!!! With 35 degrees today in Geneva I did a nice walk at the mountain to take some fresh air and enjoy the nature waiting for the next Audi Medcup in Barcelona at the end of the month (July 23rd-25th). So I want to share with you some panorama shots that I did today waiting for the first photos of the Barcelona Audi Medcup!

Audi Medcup: Best of

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:34:56 +0000

The Audi Medcup finished today in Marseille. It was the Mistral which prevailed on the final day of scheduled racing. Out on Marseille’s Rade race areas the notorious winds whipped spumes of spray and kicked up a nasty swell. With gusts close to 40 knots it always seemed unlikely that the Marseille Trophy fleet would leave the dock in the Vieux Port.

Audi Medcup: Ashore shots

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:09:58 +0000

Lot of wind today in Marseille. The Mistral is blowing at consistently over 30 knots and the seas are big. So I took some dock shots of the teams preparing the stuffed this morning.

Audi Medcup: Coastal race!

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:26:27 +0000

After winning on this track for the second year in a row Quantum Racing could be justified in claiming ownership of one of the most spectacular race tracks there is on the Audi MedCup Circuit, the 36 miles circuit down along spectacular calanques limestone cliffs to Cassis and back.

Carrying a 1.5 points bounty the win their third of the Marseille Trophy so far, gives the 2008 Audi MedCup champions a lead of 4.5 points over Matador who stole third in the closing stages of a spectacular, exciting coastal race.

It was pure, distilled, classic Marseille. Winds peaked at nearly 25 knots with big seas to ride on the 10 miles downwind leg to the turning mark off Cassis, the scenic little town which lies in a quiet bay cut from the towering cliffs. On the downwind leg the sustained surfing action was quite simply as good as it gets, and on the return leg along the base of the cliffs, it is fantastic, powerful upwind sailing in flatter water.

Ad for Audemars Piguet

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:40:01 +0000

Yesterday was published in the Le Temps newspaper an ad of the Swiss brand Audemars Piguet to congratulate the wonderful victory of the Ladycat team at the Bol d’Or 2010 last Sunday on the Geneva lake. They used one of my images to illustrate their ad and the wonderful pink D35 catamaran of Ladycat.

Ladycat team wins Bol d’Or

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:46:25 +0000

A team led by women has won the Bol d’Or race for the first time. Europe’s largest sailing event, a race from Geneva to the other end of Lake Geneva and back, was won by Ladycat, which crossed the finish line at 03:00 Sunday, with Dona Bertarelli at the helm and Emmanuelle Rol as tactician.

Banque Populaire with Pascal Bidégorry crossed the line two hours later and the Saffram with avec Yann Guichard came in third, but by 06:00 only six boats had come in.

Light winds have hampered the race, which can vary from a shortest-ever time of about five hours to two full days for the leading boats.

Bertarelli, sister of Ernesto Bertarelli of Alinghi fame, races Ladycat during the Lake Geneva season with an international team of women sailors. Rol is a materials sciences student.

The boat was launched in 2007 and was used to support the World Heart Federation’s international campaign, Go Red for Women campaign to promote awareness of cardiovascular disease in women.

In April Ladycat announced its new partnership with mavietonsang, the Vaud regional blood transfusion service in Epalinges, to draw attention to the need for blood donors and the work of the group.