Three-times J-24 European Champion, Ian Southworth, has won the Omega Bahrain Match Racing championship, held at the Bahrain Sailing Club, Al Jazira beach.

The event, raced in matched J-24s, was delayed for one day as 25-mph winds unexpectedly blew across the course area. The cause was the Shamal – a local warm air breeze that blows in from Iraq toward the island of Bahrain .